New Twist in Plame Case (CBS Video)

[CatWoman]

A portion of a State Department memo written two years ago and now at the center of the CIA leak controversy was classified, meaning that leaking it could be a crime. Gloria Borger reports.

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?channel=eveningnews

[annabanana]

1. he he he

Oh what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive...

[CatWoman]

2. looks like it's gonna be perjury

[jsamuel]

34. at least perjury

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

35. Dissemination of classified information is more than just perjury

I should know-- I had a top secret codeword clearance while in the military, and secrecy was drummed into my group from the first day of training.

It's at the level of espionage.

Can you say "firing squad"? :rofl:

[tjdee]

3. Didn't JimmyJeff have a copy of that memo?

We all know he's a *real* reporter....

[flyarm]

20. he talked about the memo

but don't know if he actually had a copy

[sandnsea]

4. You can't see me

But I am all

:party:

:bounce:

:woohoo:

:applause:

and most definitely:

:popcorn:

[CatWoman]

6. LOLOL

Me, too!!!

[Octafish]

5. Oh yeah. Washington McPost talked about it...

...glad CBS is on the ball, heh heh.

Plame's Identity Marked As Secret

Memo Central to Probe Of Leak Was Written By State Dept. Analyst

By Walter Pincus and Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, July 21, 2005; A01

A classified State Department memorandum central to a federal leak investigation contained information about CIA officer Valerie Plame in a paragraph marked "(S)" for secret, a clear indication that any Bush administration official who read it should have been aware the information was classified, according to current and former government officials.

Plame -- who is referred to by her married name, Valerie Wilson, in the memo -- is mentioned in the second paragraph of the three-page document, which was written on June 10, 2003, by an analyst in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), according to a source who described the memo to The Washington Post.

The paragraph identifying her as the wife of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV was clearly marked to show that it contained classified material at the "secret" level, two sources said. The CIA classifies as "secret" the names of officers whose identities are covert, according to former senior agency officials.

Anyone reading that paragraph should have been aware that it contained secret information, though that designation was not specifically attached to Plame's name and did not describe her status as covert, the sources said. It is a federal crime, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, for a federal official to knowingly disclose the identity of a covert CIA official if the person knows the government is trying to keep it secret.

CONTINUED...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/20/AR2005072002517_pf.html

[CatWoman]

7. Hi, Octafish

It appears that I have to fight you to the death for UTUSN's affections

:hi:

:D

[Octafish]

12. Hi, CatWoman!

No need for fighting.

There's plenty of UTUSN to go around...



... so he says!

PS: Hey, UTUSN! Just joking, Bro-there.

PPS: He is a great guy, CatWoman! Please know if you two are happy, I'd never step in the middle.

[CatWoman]

15. why the hell not?

Let's have a UTUSN Sandwich :D

chock full of chunky goodness :D

[warrens]

8. I REALLY hate to say this

I am dreaming of that fat fuck being frogmarched into Marion and locked down for 50 years. But Secret does not mean the same as Top Secret and I am sure they have 20 more levels that we don't know about. As far as I know, that file should have been called something like TOP SECRET, EYES ONLY, NO COPIES, or something. Bolton evidently got the file and gave it to Powell, who gave it to Bush on AF1, who called Cheney, who called Scooter and Rove who then alerted the press. If Fitzgerald can prove that, we get a whole new government and some amusing prisoners racking their metal cups against the bars, screaming, "fuck ya, ya screws. I got a trust fund that can buy and sell ya, ya lousy screws."

[Octafish]

14. Nothing to Sneer at.

LOL! We must be having the same dream.

[blm]

21. Ewwwwwww....Octafish....THAT is too creepy.

.

[Octafish]

33. Sorry, blm. Here's Smirk, the antidote.

Sorry. I meant anti-something:



HERE's the antidote for the BFEE:

[BrklynLiberal]

9. Closer and closer to reality...

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. Is the wet spot

a new touch? I never noticed it before. LOL.

[BrklynLiberal]

18. Someone improved the original. Don't know who did it.

[BuyingThyme]

11. Made me smile.

[DanCa]

13. So it didn't go away

Hah the power of the internet. Wonder what the President do next.

[spanone]

16. I bet Karl lied to the grand jury.

and they caught him.

[CatWoman]

17. well, in order to take Al Capone down, they had to go thru the back door

Rove has done so much harm and evil to people.

I'd like to see him go down by ANY MEANS NECESSARY!!

[BrklynLiberal]

19. Isn't it dangerous to use terms like "back door" with this crowd?

[CatWoman]

24. lolololol

did I ever tell you that I was raised in Brooklyn?

Bedford-Stuyvesant, Hancock Street, between Reid and Halsey :hi:

[BrklynLiberal]

27. Hey! Don't know the neighborhood intimately, but sure am familiar

with the area...and have heard the street names.
I live near Coney Island.

PS Have I mentioned how much I like your winking cats?..and Trinity's 'attitude'

[CatWoman]

28. get out!! small world!!!

my sister lives near Coney Island, too!!!

when I visit, I will MOST DEFINATELY look you up!! :hi:

[BrklynLiberal]

29. You better PM me when you are coming to town!!!!

I actually live in Seagate which is at the tip of Coney Island.

[Maccagirl]

31. My brother lived in Seagate in the 70's

On Neptune Ave. He was stationed at Ft. Hamilton at the time.

[BrklynLiberal]

39. That is wild. Seagate is very small. I lived on Neptune Ave until 2 years

ago. I lived in Seagate since 1982.

[spanone]

22. Check out Olbermann right now!!!!

The Plame memo was clearly marked 'Top Secret'

[CatWoman]

23. NOT TO BE SHARED, ESPECIALLY WITH FOREIGNERS!!!

[spanone]

25. This is deep doo doo.

[w13rd0]

26. Kind of like the "Iraq War Plan"...

...Cheney showed to Bandar before Powell ever saw it, eh?

[immoderate]

30. Long time coming.

These guys have been so greasy slippery. But now....

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

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--IMM

[Booster]

32. A question that's been bugging me since this info came out is,

why did they even have a memo re: Plame anyway; there must be hundreds if not thousands of people in the CIA, so why was the memo in re: to Plame? My guess is the CIA got wind of what they were planning on doing and decided to cover their own butt. Whatcha think?

[CatWoman]

36. I heard it explained

that after Wilson's op ed was published, the State Dept. issued it as a sort of "cya".

Several people/organizations kept telling Bush there was no Saddam/Niger link

[hang a left]

38. I heard it that way kind of.....

except is was while Wilson was shopping his story they had a work up done on him.

[blondeatlast]

37. Malicious intent from the get-go on the part of Rove, Libby, etc.

If the CIA does that kind of stuff, they put the nation at risk as their agents lose confidence.

It's a cover-up alright, but it's the WH doing the covering.

[brettdale]

40. kick

kick