Brit Hume just said Kerry revealed the identity of a CIA agent!!

[proud2BlibKansan]

What will they think of next?

[jim3775]

1. Huh?

What was the context?

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. They were talking about Rove

and they brought up Kerry leaking someone's identity (to his credit, Hume said Kerry did it 'inadvertently'). Then one of the other puundits mentioned Sandy Berger.

[DRoseDARs]

2. Maybe he can make some money of it like he thought of for London...

:sarcasm:

[Mass]

3. Brit Hume is late

Boston Herald had this one last week.

[rzemanfl]

8. And???? n/t

[Mass]

16. This is the same story about the Bolton hearings

and Kerry giving the name of an agent (except that this name is in clear on the CIA website and therefore he was not giving anything).

But the right has been using that again and again to say that Rove did not do anything, even if it has been debunked previously.

[rzemanfl]

24. Oh, that one, these mothers lie so much it overwhelms the brain

sometimes. Thanks.

[jsamuel]

4. DISTRACTION DISTRACTION DISTRACTION

Crap, take down the real ones in order to protect the fakers...

[rzemanfl]

5. Who, when, how? Or is this pure unadulterated bullshit without

a shred of substantiation?

[thinkingwoman]

9. pure unadulterated

boy cow manure.

[girl gone mad]

18. I don't know all of the details, but,,,

the wingnuts have been talking about this one for a couple of weeks.

Apparantly, Kerry was reading from a document during some senate hearings and read the agent's name aloud.

It's just a ploy to distract.

Edited to remove some inaccurate information.

[Eric J in MN]

23. This is garbage about a CIA officer who was already listed as such online.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4131911&mesg_id=4131971

[LSparkle]

6. WHAT?

This is ridiculous -- it's like a schoolyard: "Well, CLINTON STARTED IT!"

And, BTW, the last time I checked JOHN KERRY ISN'T IN THE WHITE HOUSE! Why do they think this has ANY bearing on what Rove did to protect his lameass boss?

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. fumes never disappoints, does he?

"Special Report" is the most unintentionally funny program on cable.

[kliljedahl]

10. He mentioned the name

Minutes after Dick Lugar did & months after the agent had already been outed. It's a fact, but only part of the facts. Don't listen to Shit Fume.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[teach1st]

11. Send Brit to Michelle Malkin's site..

.maybe he'd believe a fellow righty

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/002056.htm

DID SENATORS BLOW A CIA AGENT'S COVER? NO.
By Michelle Malkin · April 11, 2005 11:46 PM

Mentioned this question briefly in the Boltonblogging post below. There's plenty to criticize John Kerry for, but this isn't one of them. The Associated Press now asserts that both Sen. John Kerry and Sen. Richard Lugar "may have blown" a CIA agent's cover during the Bolton hearings. (Lugar mentioned the name in his opening statement; Kerry dropped the name during questioning.)

Well, did they or didn't they blow it? Don't just rely on AP. Arms Control Wonk , the blog of Research Fellow Jeffrey Lewis at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, provides four previous media citations of the agent's name--all which make public reference to the agent, Fulton Armstrong, and the specific intelligence controversy at issue--dating back to September 2002.

So, how come the AP reporter wrote this?

Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., both mentioned a name, Fulton Armstrong, that had not previously come up in public accounts of the intelligence flap.

And how will all of these newspapers that picked up the AP story square the reporter's assertion with those previous media citations?

Update: The Washington Post also ran AP's story.

[dogday]

12. The Freaking Republicans have 4 pages of

the Democrats who inadvertently released classified information, I guess on the floor of the Senate. They will try anything....

[Nite Owl]

13. They always say things like

that to make it into a 'see they do it too'. This was old news and not the same at all. Don't recall the whole story.

[Bluzmann57]

15. BOOM!

That was Hume's head exploding. They are getting more desperate by the day and have to think up insanity like this. What next? Clinton's penis was a secret spy for Finland or something?

[rzemanfl]

29. Sweden, checking out the wax jobs on the bikini team. n/t

[glitch]

17. Does that mean Rove is as bad as Kerry?

:sarcasm:

Maybe we should sick the swift boat liars on him.

[Eric J in MN]

19. Debunked. He's referring to Fulton Armstrong.

Fulton Armstrong's bio was already online:

"Fulton Armstrong, National Intelligence Officer for Latin America, National Intelligence Council
Fulton T. Armstrong was appointed National Intelligence Officer for Latin America on 1 June 2000. Previously Mr. Armstrong served as Chief of Staff of the DCI Crime and Narcotics Center (CNC). Prior to that, he served two terms as a Director for Inter-American Affairs at the National Security Council (1995- 97 and 1998-99) and as Deputy NIO for Latin America (1997-98).

Mr. Armstrong began his government career in 1980 as Legislative Assistant and Press Secretary to US Representative Jim Leach. In 1984-95, he served as analyst, political-economic officer, and manager specializing in Latin America in the both the intelligence and policy communities.

Prior to joining government, Mr. Armstrong worked four years as a reporter, editor, and translator in Taiwan. He earned his B.S. in Linguistics and Spanish at Georgetown University in 1976. He is fluent in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.

National Intelligence Council website"

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:lQZQdWRCrWYJ:schema-root.org/region/americas/north_america/usa/government/intelligence_officers/fulton_armstrong/+%22Fulton+Armstrong%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[noamnety]

20. mediamatters has the lowdown, as usual

http://mediamatters.org/items/200504120007

The agent he supposedly "outed" was listed as an intelligence officer for the CIA on official government websites months before Kerry mentioned them, as well as being on a 2001 conference schedule put out by the National Intelligence Council, as an intelligence officer that reports to the director of Central Intelligence.

[MissB]

21. I thought he was blaming it on the Clenis.

??

[emulatorloo]

22. TOTAL BS -- EVEN MICHELLE MALKIN SAYS IT IS BS -- see post above

[RagAss]

25. Brit Hume is preaching to the Cretins....

[Coexist]

26. that's old news, and its false - read this

http://talkleft.com/new_archives/010338.html
<snip>
At least one right wing blog is suggesting Sens. John Kerry and Richard Lugar blew the cover of a CIA operative referred to as "Mr. Smith" at today's Senate Hearing. The person they referred to was Fulton Armstrong.

Only Fulton Armstrong has been a publicly identified intellgence officer for years. He was the CIA's national intelligence officer for Latin America. Kerry didn't out anything. Even the story about him being forced out of the CIA has been in the media. From Salon:

[sonicx]

27. Wingnuts tried this months ago and it's still not true

"Tell a lie enough..."

[imenja]

28. this has been around since last week

when the Boston Herald reported it. Rush had a long list of Dems he accused of outing CIA agents. Their lies aren't picking up traction.

[KoKo]

30. OKAY! John Kerry...go out there and BLAST 'EM! .......n/t

[tridim]

31. Bush "won", when will the Repukes "move on" and "get over it"

:P

[Ksec]

32. Clinton is to blame.....

Just more of the same, only now theyre using another fallguy.

I love watching Bushpigs squirm/

They have tried everything.

[Canuckistanian]

33. So, when wil Brit Hume resign?

He told an obvious falsehood that he should have checked before he reported it.
He should repudiate his source and resign.

[ochazuke]

34. Still not revealed...

Brit Hume's sense of shame.

[nevergiveup]

35. I sense an aura of desperation

[MidnightWind]

36. Oh--wait--there's more!

A visit to the Faux website provides this bit of information. Hannity & Colmes tonight will be focusing on the following: "Was Karl Rove set up?" :puke:

[Dawgs]

37. Typical. They did the same thing regarding Iraq...

It's like a cycle. We're now up to 'the Democrats do the same thing' excuse.