Almost everyone knows bullshit when they hear it or read about it. Right now the media is consumed with it over the disclosure in the press that Valerie Plame, wife of a former Bush Administration diplomat Joseph Wilson, was an undercover employee of the CIA. Sometime after the CIA was created, a federal law made it a crime to disclose the name of a CIA undercover agent. An undercover agent is a long-winded name for a spy.
The history of the USA is such that most citizens are opposed to our government having domestic spies, but have no objection to having spies on foreign shores. No matter what you think about spies, most people agree with the law making it a crime to reveal our spies. So the USA Special Prosecutor is investigating this situation and will hopefully bring an indictment(s) to whoever outed Valerie Plame. Fairly straightforward story, but now comes loads of bullshit.
A few years ago the Bush Administration sent Mr. Wilson to Africa to produce new evidence that Niger was aiding Saddam Hussein in the development of a nuclear weapon. Wilson’s report came back negative. He found nothing old or new to support the administrations claims (yes that is still disputed by Vice Pres. Dick Cheney). After that, a journalist tells us that Wilson’s wife; Valerie Plame is a CIA undercover agent. Later it is alleged that the journalist got this information from source(s) high up in the Bush Administration to punish Joe Wilson for his failure to agree with President Bush that Niger was helping Saddam Hussein developing a nuclear weapon. Then it oozes out that Valerie Plame did work for the CIA, but she was never a spy. Well if she never was a spy, then why is she an undercover agent who works for the CIA in or about Washington, D.C. I will not take it any further, because to do so will only compound the basic elements of this bullshit story, namely: Saddam was not developing a nuclear weapon, and the CIA made a mockery out of federal law to protect our spies by saying Valerie Plame was an undercover agent when she was no such thing.
The history of the USA is such that most citizens are opposed to our government having domestic spies, but have no objection to having spies on foreign shores. No matter what you think about spies, most people agree with the law making it a crime to reveal our spies. So the USA Special Prosecutor is investigating this situation and will hopefully bring an indictment(s) to whoever outed Valerie Plame. Fairly straightforward story, but now comes loads of bullshit.
A few years ago the Bush Administration sent Mr. Wilson to Africa to produce new evidence that Niger was aiding Saddam Hussein in the development of a nuclear weapon. Wilson’s report came back negative. He found nothing old or new to support the administrations claims (yes that is still disputed by Vice Pres. Dick Cheney). After that, a journalist tells us that Wilson’s wife; Valerie Plame is a CIA undercover agent. Later it is alleged that the journalist got this information from source(s) high up in the Bush Administration to punish Joe Wilson for his failure to agree with President Bush that Niger was helping Saddam Hussein developing a nuclear weapon. Then it oozes out that Valerie Plame did work for the CIA, but she was never a spy. Well if she never was a spy, then why is she an undercover agent who works for the CIA in or about Washington, D.C. I will not take it any further, because to do so will only compound the basic elements of this bullshit story, namely: Saddam was not developing a nuclear weapon, and the CIA made a mockery out of federal law to protect our spies by saying Valerie Plame was an undercover agent when she was no such thing.
posted by Pat Crotty at 7:32 PM
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