A White House Smear Campaign (hanging the CIA agents out to dry)

[UpInArms]

http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=821


excerpt:

Soon after Wilson disclosed his trip in the media and made the White House look bad. the payback came. Novak's July 14, 2003, column presented the back-story on Wilson's mission and contained the following sentences: "Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate" the allegation.

Wilson caused problems for the White House, and his wife was outed as an undercover CIA officer. Wilson says, "I will not answer questions about my wife. This is about me and less so about my wife. It has always been about the facts underpinning the President's statement in the state of the union speech."

So he will neither confirm nor deny that his wife--who is the mother of three-year- old twins--works for the CIA. But let's assume she does. That would seem to mean that the Bush administration has screwed one of its own top-secret operatives in order to punish Wilson or to send a message to others who might challenge it.

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[madfloridian]

1. It's mostly blank where the article should be.

Hmm...mm

[GAspnes]

2. that *is* odd

double 'hmmmmm'

[ameriphile]

5. You'll find the full article, and others, here:

http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames

[UpInArms]

6. thanks for posting a link that works!

don't know what happened to the one I put up :shrug:

[Peachhead22]

3. Screwed her?

More like put her life in danger!

[madfloridian]

4. Found Novak's article at another site.

http://www.intellivu.com/main.asp?brand=webcenter.intellivu.aol.com&fnum=142

Is this the same one?

[wabeewoman]

7. I love how Novak writes as fact

"The CIA's decision to send retired diplomat Joseph C. Wilson to Africa in February 2002 to investigate possible Iraqi purchases of uranium was made routinely at a low level without Director George Tenet's knowledge." but later admits his source is senior administration officials. Wonder what it pays now to be a white house whore and why the newspapers think that warrants publication....