Re: Blaming the victim? was: Re: from jms: too damned much stuff

>>On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 00:31:22 -0400, Rob Perkins wrote
(in article <3kcfpeFtpgj7U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

> Amy Guskin wrote:
>
>> How is it "a tempest in a teapot" to reveal the identity of a covert
>> operative, risk the lives of her contacts, ruin the time and money invested
>> in a cover company that has now been exposed, and rendered useless, and
>> risk
>> the lives of the contacts, agents, and operatives who used and worked with
>> that now-revealed cover company?
>
> I think some analysts at CIA also get covers. I know one, and naturally
> I don't know what his work is, but from his personality I'm pretty sure
> he's never going to be in the field. He explained to me that he has a
> cover, and his whole family as well, for occasions when they travel
> overseas.
>
> Were his cover to be revealed, I think they'd simply construct a new one
> for all of them. No big deal. But Plame or the press or whoever have
> made that totally impossible, plastering her picture all over Vanity Fair.
>
> I'm still in the tempest-in-teapot camp on this one, personally. Of all
> the things to fill the news, when we've still got *real problems* to
> work out, this has to be one of the silliest I've ever seen.<<

You call it silly, I call it treason. Even Bush Sr. regards it as treason.

If someone in a foreign country with connections to illegal activities or
terrorist cells or the military (or anything else on which we might require
intelligence) was known to have done business regularly with your friend at
his cover company, and your friend's company was revealed to have been a CIA
cover company, how much do you think that foreign contact's life is worth?
You have to follow these things through to their natural conclusion. Besides
the loss of resources and income from this leak, the true extent of the loss
of life will likely never be known.

Amy

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