Re: WHY Did Scooter Libby Lie?

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:49:16 GMT, Omega <omega.d21@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:32:26 -0500, Wanderer <southerncross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
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>|> |Bob Novak not only outed Valerie Plame but also the CIA cover
>|> |corporation that she and other CIA NOCs worked at: Brewster Jennings.
>|> |
>|> |The White House wanted Brewster Jennings shut down.
>|> |
>|> |Why?
>|>
>|> it would be interesting if the courts would rule whether Valerie Wilson was a
>|> covert agent. As I understand the 1982 law, she was not.
>|
>|Her status was classified. You seem stuck on the concept of covert
>|agent. She had been a covert agent and as a resource that was trained
>|with a great deal of US money might have been used as such again.
>|So somehow it was okay to blow her cover and the front she worked for
>|and ALL the contacts she and they made? Please explain your reason
>|for suggesting it was quite ok to out her, in some more detail.
>|
>
>Proof? She listed her employer as the CIA on her tax returns and on FEC forms
>when she gave money to political candidates.
>
>Covert agents do not work directly for the CIA. They work either for another
>agency (ie the State Dept is common) or for a dummy corporation. There is no
>way to trace their connection back to the CIA.
>
>All Libby had to do is give a reporter a copy of her FEC (election commission)
>report and it would have been straight forward.
>
>Besides, she has violated the Hatch Act which forbids political activities by
>members of the CIA, NSA, FBI and Secret Service.
>
>
LOL, You know nothing about the CIA.
Thumper
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>go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or your arms ... May your
>chains set lightly upon you. May posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
> - Samuel Adams

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  • Re: DIRTY AIR AMERICA!
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