Valerie Plame, Valerie Plame, Valerie Plame. Keep saying that name and don't take your eye off the topic, disclosing the name of a CIA agent.
That is the strategy being utilized by the Democrats to continue their manufactured news story of Valerie Plame, the CIA agent "outed" purportedly to discredit her husband, Joe Wilson. Once again, the DNC and the media (now with the help of the Senate) are reshaping the argument to be the disclosure of the name of a CIA agent instead of focusing on what the issue was from the beginning; Joe Wilson.
From the beginning the goal of this exercise was two-fold; to discredit Bush and to avoid disclosing why Joe Wilson was sent to Niger. Joe Wilson, was a diplomat who was in Niger in the 1970's, as a career diplomat his was offered the prestigious assignment as Ambassador to Gabon under Bush Sr. He returned to Niger in 1999 on a CIA fact finding mission, at the request of his wife. He was recommended, again at the request of his wife, to explore the rumors of yellow cake sales to Iraq. Wilson was chosen because of his knowledge of the country, over a quart century on the past, not because he has any experience in WMD or terrorism; that would be his desk bound wife who was retired from the field.
During the original Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into his trip to Niger Wilson reported a much different story than he is now, and both of those accounts differ from his official CIA debriefing when he returned from the trip. His book also contains information easily debunkable, such as Cheney picked him for the mission. Wilson’s position on that team, was to repudiate the other two members of the team who were experts and actually filed a written report when they returned.
Valerie Plame was not "outed" to discredit her husband, and in truth her name would have been forgotten had the DNC and anti-war movement not invented the issue of identifying a covert agent. She and her husband were regulars on the DC social circuit, she was hardly unknown, and anyone who cared about Joe Wilson or Valerie Plame knew of her position in the CIA. The story of Plame's outing was created to discredit the administration.
The Valerie Plame was outed gambit was not a Bush administration plan, it was created by the antiwar movement and DNC to discredit the Bush administration. It actually helped to give credit to Joe Wilson’s lies by making a martyr of his wife by spinning the disinformation that she was endangered by a GOP scheme to discredit him. Besides if she was really worried about being disclosed she would do more to protect her identity. You don’t file multiple lawsuits, appear on TV, write books, and pose for the camera in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee if you were truly covert at one point and fear for your life. When real covert agents appear before the SIC they do so in closed chambers in disguise or behind a screen, they stay covert.
And you'll never hear Joe Wilson at the trial. He has changed his story so may times they cannot have him in a position where people can connect all of the dischordant lies. They need to keep him buried.
Added 3/16/07:
One more thing before I let this go, (although I don't promise it will be the last time I mention Plame) she claims she never suggested her husband be on the team that went to Niger. That is in direct conflict to sworn CIA testimony in Scooter Libby's perjury case. When will Waxman convene hearings to determine who is telling the truth? Either Plame or the other CIA agent is lying, and they both testified under oath. Presidents have been impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice, Waxman has an obligation to seek the truth and determine who is lying.
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