Taguba wrote:paleocon wrote:More Bush Derangement Syndrome! Plame was never "outted" as she was not a covert operative when a former member of the government disclosed that she worked for the CIA. The facts are so obvious in this case that the utter fabrications constantly presented by liberal shills makes my stomach churn. But, facts mean nothing to Marxists.

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She was "not a covert operative" ?? Riddle me this Paleocon: If she was NOT a covert operative then :
1. Why did the CIA instigate an investigation on the OUTING OF A COVERT CIA AGENT ( they just forgot to ask what her job was or did they forget to look in her personel file?? LOL)
2. Why did the DOJ accept the case of the OUTING OF A COVERT CIA AGENT (did they also just forget to ask her, her employer, or check her file??LOL)
3. Why did John Ashcroft recuse himself from the case of OUTING A COVERT CIA AGENT instead of just throwing it in the trash? (did he also just forget to ask ANYONE "what is her job description?" .
4. Why did the Justice department hire independant prosecutor and call a grand jury to look at the facts of OUTING A COVERT CIA OFFICER ( they must have also forgotten to ask that one simple question that would have stopped the investigation of OUTING A COVERT OFFICER in its TRACKS!! LOL)
5. why did PAT FITZ investigate the OUTING OF A COVERT CIA AGENT
6. why did Libby lie if she was NOT ad COVERT CIA AGENT
makes sense now that we now that Bush was the initial leaker. which makes all the lemmings innocent of leaking the name and thanks to Nixon, when the pres leaks classified info, it , by deffinition, becomes de-classified.
What "facts" did i miss ??
You missed the fact that Valerie Plame sat at a desk at CIA Headquarters at Langley AFB. She was not covert and had not been for over 5 years, plus what Bush declassified was not anything to do with Valerie Plame.
The CIA is loaded with Clintonistas and that is why they made it look like they were investigating the "Outting of a Covert Agent." Nothing ever came of their big investigation because Valerie Plame was not covert, she was a desk jockey. They were trying to take down the Bush Administration.
The DOJ did not have a case in court on the Outting of a CIA Agent. They had an investigation. Pat Fitgerald was a Special Prosecutor who convened a Grand Jury not on the Outting of a CIA Agent but on the politics of the Bush Administraiton. Yes, he investigated it because he was trying to bring down the Bush Administration. However, he also knew that she was not Covert.
John Ashcroft recused himself and then resigned because he had provided the President with a false white paper regarding intelligence on Saddam Hussein.
The Trial was based on charges of perjury by Scooter Libbey to the Grand Jury not related to the Outting of a CIA Agent. Scotter Libbey testified numerous times and apparently said things that conflicted with other things he said in previous testimony.
The person who threw Valeria Plame's name out in the open was Richard Armitage, not anyone in the Bush Administration that Fitzgerald was trying to take down and it did not matter because Valerie Plame was not covert. If she had been covert, Richard Armitage would have been tried for releasing her name.
This entire fiasco was the left's attempt to bring down Bush and his Administration. It was a travesty of justice because Fitzgerald knew pretty much from the get-go about Richard Armitage and he was trying to dig up something, anything to get Bush. Scooter Libbey was the best they could do.
Your premise that all of this was all because of the outting of a covert agent is wrong and your assumptions that she was indeed a covert agent who was wronged because she was outted is totally fallacious. Not one single person was convicted of outting her because she was not covert.
In reality, it is Valerie Plame and her husband who should have been tried. She set him up to go on a fact finding mission for the CIA to determine if Saddam was trying to buy yellow cake from Nigeria. He never bothered to write a report on it and then he lied about it later.
You people on the left hate Bush so much and it really is pathetic since he's not a real conservative and he sides with the left more times than any of us would ever wish to see. You really do need to seek therapy.