Ranking CIA Turning On Bush - Call for Ouster of "Traitor"

[leveymg]

Intelligence Officers: Can We Trust Our President?
by SusanHu
Sat Jul 16th, 2005 at 07:22:04 PDT
Front-paged at BoomanTribune.com.
Also see, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/16/10224/0748

Longtime intelligence colleagues have joined to ask the ultimate question:

Can the intelligence community trust our president?

The longtime colleagues -- Brent Cavan, Jim Marcinkowski, Larry Johnson, and Jane Doe -- "presented the following statement at a hearing on Capitol Hill in October 2003."

Writes Larry Johnson, a former (senior) C.I.A. and U.S. State Dept. intelligence analyst -- this morning, July 16, 2005, at his blog No Quarter http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/07/the_intelligenc.html --

In light of the latest White House sanctioned assault on Valerie Plame and her character, our <2003> testimony remains relevant and accurate.
My notes: As I read this, I feel the deep caring and passion that these four have for each other and Valerie Wilson. I also feel the deep anger -- grief, really -- that they have experienced since this mess broke out in 2003, without abatement because the White House refuses to stand by its word, or even stand at all for anything resembling integrity and the protection of its key intelligence employes.

"In light of the latest White House-sanctioned assault on Valerie Plame and her character ..."

SNIP

Brent Cavan and Larry Johnson worked as analysts in the Directorate of Intelligence. Jim Marcinkowski and Jane Doe were case officers and served overseas. Jane Doe's real name is not being used because she was involved in counter terrorism operations and could be at risk if her identity were divulged.
We've got each other's back. ...

The undercover group's 2003 statement continues:

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It is because of this bond of trust that the authors of this piece and two other colleagues, all former intelligence officers, appeared on ABC's Nightline to speakout on behalf of the wife Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a sensitive undercover operative outted by columnist Robert Novak.

The Ambassador's wife (we decline to use her name) is a friend who went through the same training with us. We acknowledge our obligation to protect each other and the intelligence community and the information we used to do our jobs.

We are speaking out because someone in the Bush Administration seemingly does not understand this, although they signed the same oaths of allegiance and confidentiality that we did.

SNIP

Beyond supporting Mrs. Wilson with our moral support and prayers we want to send a clear message to the political operatives responsible for this. You are a traitor and you are our enemy.

You should lose your job and probably should go to jail for blowing the cover of a clandestine intelligence officer.

You have set a sickening precedent. You have warned all U.S. intelligence officers that you may be compromised if you are providing information the White House does not like.

A precedent, as one colleague pointed out during our brief appearances, allows you to build out a case based on previous legal actions and court decisions. It's a slippery slope if it lowers the bar.

Ambassador Wilson's political affiliations are irrelevant. Political differences serve as the basis for the give and take of representative government.

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[EVDebs]

1. I remember reading Sy Hersh's Price of Power and Nixon did it too

He gave away the existence of a clandestine operation (I think it was a spy plane's intelligence in the Far East if I recall) in a TV statement and intell types jaws hit the floor. What do you do when the Cmdr-in-Chief pulls a stunt like that ?

In any event, the saner elements within the CIA have always had to fight the wingnuts. I just wish that members of E Clampus Vitus instead of Skull and Bones ruled Washington DC.

[meow2u3]

11. What is E Clampus Vitus?

Never heard of it. Please let us know.

[EVDebs]

13. This DU post has a link you might find interesting !

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4118461

[Cha]

2. It's really good to read this

aspect of the treason by a US white house adviser.

Everyone possible needs to support Valerie..as the pundits and republicans are trying to assassinate her character. Her and her husband's, Joe Wilson.

[TahitiNut]

3. "You are a traitor and you are our enemy."

Yep. :thumbsup:

[Oversea Visitor]

5. Sometime people are too dumb to uderstand

what is happening...
Rove the Cook.....shit salad with rice topping sprinkle with rum favourite of bushwhack dicks.

[sojourner]

7. if i wuz preznit i wud wury if CIA sed that - hek ev'n if i wuzn't i wud

[Jim Sagle]

8. I doan tink duh preznit wud udder stand whut u sed.

;-)

[sojourner]

9. LOL!!!

:toast:

[Old and In the Way]

4. Republicans put Party before country.

Isn't it obvious to everyone?

[laststeamtrain]

6. Yep. More and more so everyday...

...politics over statesmanship, corporation over country. They, or this particular virulent strain of them, care more for the quarterly profit/loss statements than the country and the people.

[klyon]

10. they believe the ends justify the means

as they ignore the ends and the means and everything in-between
also values and ethics have no place since we were attacked you know,
just some skewed morals

KL

[GetTheRightVote]

12. It is a very sad day in this country's history when Agents come out

to protect their own against their own government.
Traitors, all of them who support Rove's & Libby's actions or those who have acted in similiar ways.

:kick: