Plame to Couric: "All The Intelligence Services In The World That Morning Were Running My Name"

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: TV Newser

Friday, Oct 19
Wilson to Couric: "All The Intelligence Services In The World That Morning Were Running My Name"

In her first interview since her CIA cover was blown, Valerie Plame Wilson tells Katie Couric, "It turns out the President is not a man of his word." Plame Wilson's 20-year career with the CIA ended when her name was leaked to the press. In the interview with Couric, to air on 60 Minutes this Sunday, Plame Wilson blames the president for not firing the leaker. Something he promised to do.

About the day her name was made public, Plame Wilson tells Couric: "I can tell you all the intelligence services in the world that morning were running my name through their databases to see, did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?"

"(The leak is) very serious. It puts in danger, if not shuts down, the operations that I had worked on. Only the CIA knows the full extent of the damage. There was a damage report done by the CIA. I never saw it. I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask them how they're doing, although I would have liked to," says Plame Wilson.

This is Plame Wilson's first interview for her book, Fair Game, which CBS News notes, is published by Simon & Schuster, an arm of CBS Corp. The first live interview with Plame Wilson is Monday morning on the Today show....

Read more: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/cbs/wilson_to_couric_all_the_intelligence_services_in_the_world_that_morning_were_running_my_name_69389.asp#more

[robinlynne]

1. why Katie Couric for goodness sakes?

[formercia]

2. Didn't you know?

Katie has sworn off Navy SEALS and is going into political rehab.

[dflprincess]

5. Spies rock!

n/t

[Supersedeas]

12. i doubt that

[formercia]

14. Silly Wabbit.

It's satire.

[alfredo]

20. She's had her fill of seamen.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Commander AWOL not a "man of his word"???

I am shocked, shocked,shocked, I tell you - shocked

[Uncle Joe]

9. I thought that was the greatest understatement

of the 21st century, SpiralHawk.

[0rganism]

4. "walk the cat backwards" -- how many agents did we lose as a result?

It's not like the intelligence services just ran Plame-Wilson's name and saw if they got hits! They checked her contacts, and the people her contacts contacted, and so on down the line. Anyone who worked at all with Brewster-Jennings was tainted. Probably anyone in her first circle and most of the people in her second circle and some much further along were flagged for additional surveillance, lost security clearances, and I don't even want to speculate what else.
:scared:

Meanwhile, Cheneybush just stood there smirking as our primary middle-east intelligence apparatus got the purge. But why would the current administration care about intelligence anyway? Reliable information and accurate analysis have turned out to be more of a hindrance than an asset to their ambitions, and by compromising the whole structure, they essentially wrote themselves a blank check to do whatever the hell they wanted.
:mad: "war president" my ass! Cheneybush are TRAITORS pure and simple.

[kestrel91316]

6. I call it treason. They sold this nation out to the corporatists

who virtually run the world now. But it's treason all the same.

[lovuian]

11. it was treason and it took America into a war falsely

a preemptive strike on a Nation and lies lies lies

[MadMaddie]

23. Thank you. I have been saying the * cabal has committed

Treason for a long time.

Now that Plame is officially makeing her story public...maybe now All of the 70% of anti-war folks will really understand what this administration has done.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. Indeed. Thanks for your post, Organism. nt

[midnight]

8. What I don't understand is how the CIA allowed this information

to be leaked?

[0rganism]

10. How could they have prevented it?

What could they have done, assassinated Novak and the entire VP staff?

As the Decider might opine, the CIA "serves at the pleasure of the president" in this regard. They carry forth their operations at his discretion and for his (and, ostensibly, the nation's) benefit, and should he wish to expose his own covert agents, there are precious few methods available to prevent it.

[formercia]

13. Brewster Jennings was deliberately exposed

because they were about to find out about the role of Halliburton in the Khan nuclear proliferation network during the 1980's at a time when Dick Cheney was CEO.

[flyarm]

15. you bet!! that is what it was all about!! covering cheney's filthy ass! eom

[formercia]

16. On edit

Cheney started there as CEO in 1995.

That should have been 1990's

[crazylikafox]

17. BINGO.... go to the head of the list.....

[formercia]

18. The Libyan connection

So why was Libya so eager to get rid of their nuclear program that the Khan network worked so hard to build up.
Perhaps it was due to Dick Cheney's effort in lobbying to have sanctions removed while head of Halliburton,or was there something more sinister involved?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/17/22429/1711

-snip--

There is dark talk that people have disappeared. And when I say people -- I mean sources who Brewster Jennings CIA agents were running. Imagine that a Brewster Jennings NOC operating in Libya cultivated a source in the Libyan military, and was frequently seen in the company of this Libyan military official. Well I've been hearing dark talk that people such as that Libyan military official are missing.

If this is true, you can bet it's in the CIA damage assessment report on the Plame matter. And you can bet Fitzgerald knows about it.

Which could mean people like Rove and Libby might be in for a criminal sentence along the lines of what is typically reserved for people like Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen.

There's a lot more of this story yet to be told. The potential seriousness of this matter could go well beyond even the darkest speculation.

--snip--

[formercia]

19. Dick Cheney has a long history

which is about to come back and bite him in the ass...

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E6D81F3AF934A15754C0A9669C8B63

During his early years as a White House official and member of the House, Dick Cheney, the expected Republican vice presidential candidate, consistently opposed unilateral American sanctions against nations including Iran, Cuba and South Africa.

--snip--

After he became chief executive of Halliburton, Mr. Cheney joined members of the United States Chamber of Commerce and pro-trade groups under the rubric of USA-Engage. The lobby led a failing effort to block the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act, which bars American investment in those oil-rich countries. Halliburton is also a member of the board of the National Foreign Trade Council, a lobbying group that recently won a victory in the Supreme Court, which struck down a Massachusetts state law imposing state-level sanctions on companies doing business in Myanmar, formerly Burma.

Mr. Cheney's company has already done business in countries still facing American sanctions, including Libya and Iraq, the enemy Mr. Cheney helped vanquish in the gulf war.

''Our government has become sanctions-happy,'' Mr. Cheney said in his 1998 speech.

[Doctor_J]

21. Why does a Bush-loving war cheerleader like Whoric get the interview?

:eyes:

[formercia]

22. Maintaining control of the process.

The boys can't let that Genie out of the bottle.

[Major Hogwash]

24. Touche.

Not only that, but they redacted a lot of what Plame Wilson wanted to say in her book.

That's reason #43 of Major Hogwash's Top 100 reasons to read her book.