Treason Isn't Comedy
It's true that the Libby trial is showing just how tawdry a bunch runs this country. Hopefully, in view of the Marx brothers level of their operations, it won't be lost in idiocy that They Committed Treason.
The outing of a covert agent results not only in the loss of a source of intelligence, this one being an agent concerned with WMD, but often in the loss of life by her/his contacts.
When a covert agent is publicly exposed, the contacts are also endangered, and are at the least rendered ineffective for future use. Ms. Plame's contacts in the Middle East, where her husband had served often, were at the least known to be no longer trustworthy by anyone who might have passed information on to them, information that could have helped us keep tabs on nuclear development for our safety's sake. Our national safety is compromised by these actions.
Saying that it was working to increase security these clowns outed some one who actually was, and made us less secure.
A good rundown of the developments to date at WaPo points out that the mission failed, at the White House, to divert attention from the weakness of its arguments for war.
So we begin to understand why the White House was worried about the CIA in the summer of 2003: It feared the agency would breach the wall of silence about the claims regarding weapons of mass destruction. Robert Grenier, a CIA official who was the agency's Iraq mission manager, told colleagues that he remembered "a series of insistent phone calls" that month from Libby, who wanted the CIA to tell reporters that "other community elements such as State and DOD" had encouraged Wilson's Niger trip, not just Cheney.
The bottom line? Grenier was asked in court last week to explain the White House's 2003 machinations. Here's what he said: "I think they were trying to avoid blame for not providing [the truth] about whether or not Iraq had attempted to buy uranium." Let me say it again: This trial is about a cover-up that failed.
We went to war on the strength of the arguments this bunch manufactured out of less than whole cloth, and they committed treason trying to build up their fictions.
Incompetence is a mild description of this episode.
These are criminals, working against the best interests of the country they scrabble to lead. They belong in prison, not in high office.
How did this country manage again to elect burglars?
The outing of a covert agent results not only in the loss of a source of intelligence, this one being an agent concerned with WMD, but often in the loss of life by her/his contacts.
When a covert agent is publicly exposed, the contacts are also endangered, and are at the least rendered ineffective for future use. Ms. Plame's contacts in the Middle East, where her husband had served often, were at the least known to be no longer trustworthy by anyone who might have passed information on to them, information that could have helped us keep tabs on nuclear development for our safety's sake. Our national safety is compromised by these actions.
Saying that it was working to increase security these clowns outed some one who actually was, and made us less secure.
A good rundown of the developments to date at WaPo points out that the mission failed, at the White House, to divert attention from the weakness of its arguments for war.
So we begin to understand why the White House was worried about the CIA in the summer of 2003: It feared the agency would breach the wall of silence about the claims regarding weapons of mass destruction. Robert Grenier, a CIA official who was the agency's Iraq mission manager, told colleagues that he remembered "a series of insistent phone calls" that month from Libby, who wanted the CIA to tell reporters that "other community elements such as State and DOD" had encouraged Wilson's Niger trip, not just Cheney.
The bottom line? Grenier was asked in court last week to explain the White House's 2003 machinations. Here's what he said: "I think they were trying to avoid blame for not providing [the truth] about whether or not Iraq had attempted to buy uranium." Let me say it again: This trial is about a cover-up that failed.
We went to war on the strength of the arguments this bunch manufactured out of less than whole cloth, and they committed treason trying to build up their fictions.
Incompetence is a mild description of this episode.
These are criminals, working against the best interests of the country they scrabble to lead. They belong in prison, not in high office.
How did this country manage again to elect burglars?
Labels: Dirty Tricks, Iraq War
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