Larry Johnson - counterterrorism head under GWHB - is mad!!

[grasswire]

Larry C. Johnson, former CIA agent and head of counterterrorism at the State Department under George Herbert Walker Bush, is railing against the WH leak. He's steaming mad. This is one of Poppy's own!

Here's his bio:

Mr. Johnson has analyzed terrorist incidents for a variety of media including the Jim Lehrer News Hour, National Public Radio, ABC's Nightline, NBC's Today Show, the New York Times, CNN and the BBC. Mr. Johnson has authored several articles for publications, including Security Management Magazine, the New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. He has lectured on terrorism and aviation security around the world, including the Center for Research and Strategic Studies at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France. He represented the U.S. Government at the July 1996 OSCE Terrorism Conference in Vienna, Austria.

From 1989 until October 1993, Larry Johnson served as a Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He managed crisis response operations for terrorist incidents throughout the world and he helped organize and direct the US Government’s debriefing of US citizens held in Kuwait and Iraq, which provided vital intelligence on Iraqi operations following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Mr. Johnson also participated in the investigation of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103. Under Mr. Johnson’s leadership the U.S. airlines and pilots agreed to match the US Government’s two million-dollar reward.

From 1985 through September 1989 Mr. Johnson worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. During his distinguished career, he received training in paramilitary operations, worked in the Directorate of Operations, served in the CIA’s Operation’s Center, and established himself as a prolific analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence. In his final year with the CIA he received two Exceptional Performance Awards.

Mr. Johnson is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security. He taught at The American University’s School of International Service (1979-1983) while working on a Ph.D. in political science. He has a M.S. degree in Community Development from the University of Missouri (1978), where he also received his B.S. degree in Sociology, graduating Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1976.


When I get a transcript of his quotes today, I'll copy here. In the meantime, watch for more erosion of Poppy's CIA.

[Brucey]

1. Fantastic job, he said he is ashamed to be a repug!

[Malikshah]

2. He was on PBS tonight--Lehrer news hour

Spitting nails--

He did not mince words and said what had to be said in no uncertain terms.

The gentleman spkng for the Center for Excellence in Journalism spoke of journalistic ethics in a good way--but in the end--to both--Novak didn't have a leg to stand on for reporting the name.

It was good interviewing and good news reporting.

[scarletwoman]

3. That was a FANTASTIC segment!

"Ashamed to be a Republican"!!!! Oh yeah, he is OUTRAGED!

Looking forward to reading the transcript -- but in the meantime, folks can listen to the audio RIGHT NOW!

Go to: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/newshour_index.html -- Scroll down to In the Shadows, and click on "realaudio".

Listen to this guy -- the Novak/Bush apologists DON'T HAVE A LEG TO STAND ON!

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[ShaneGR]

5. Thanks for the link

That guy was pissed. What's most interesting is his revealing that she was, and has been, an undercover agent for the last 30 years. The guy even said they were in the same class!

[Closer]

4. Yes

It was an awesome segment. That man is MAD AS HELL and he needs to be on as many news outlets as possible in the coming days.

I think someone on here said he was "spitting nails" tonight - perfect description.


He was especially hitting hard on Novak. It was a site to see and hear for sure.

[elfin]

6. Thanks

Heard him speak about two years ago - a VERY bright guy. Pegged him as a "traditional" Republican - not a neocon.

Will watch the replay later thanks for the alert.

I think he represents a large number of the intel community - not just speaking for himself.

Wilson's publicity blitz is paying off - and now the Kay non report is due - bad news for Flyboy all around.

[Nlighten1]

7. Here is what he said.

This not an alleged abuse. This is a confirmed abuse. I worked with this woman. She started training with me. She has been under cover for three decades. She is not as Bob Novak suggested a "CIA analyst." Given that, i was a CIA analyst for 4 years. I was under cover. I could not divulge to my family outside of my wife that I worked for the CIA unti I left the Intelligence Agency on Sept. 30, 1989. At that point I could admit it. The fact that she was under cover for three decades and that has been divulged is outrageous. She was put undercover for certain reasons. One, she works in an area where people she works with overseas could be compromised...

For these journalists to argue that this is no big deal... and if I hear another Republican operative suggesting that, well, this was just an analyst. Fine. Let them go undercover. Let's put them go overseas. Let's out them and see how they like it...

I say this as a registered Republican. I am on record giving contributions to the George Bush campaign. This is not about partisan politics. This is about a betrayal, a political smear, of an individual who had no relevance to the story. Publishing her name in that story added nothing to it because the entire intent was, correctly as Amb. Wilson noted, to intimidate, to suggest taht there was some impropriety that somehow his wife was in a decision-making position to influence his ability to go over and savage a stupid policy, an erroneous policy, and frankly what was a false policy of suggesting that there was nuclear material in Iraq that required this war. This was about a political attack. To pretend it was something else, to get into this parsing of words.


I tell you, it sickens me to be a Republican to see this.

-Larry Johnson, a former counter-terrorism official at the CIA and the State Department.

[Bushfire]

8. Thanks for the info

appreciate it, and appreciate the GOP starting to eat their own.

[SaintLouisBlues]

10. Good reporting

Johnson also said that even if Plame were to have been "only" an analyst, that would still be an undercover position, as many people
begin as analysts and go on to work in the field.

Novak and his ilk act as if outing CIA analysts is fine and dandy.

The CIA would have no one to promote if only James Bond-style
agents warrant identity protection.

Hell if I worked there as chief bottlewasher, I would not want anyone to know. People have been shot just for driving into work in Langley.

[grasswire]

11. I remember that vaguely

There was a shooting outside the campus, wasn't there? I remember driving on the GW Parkway that day after the dustup.

[TheBlob]

9. Kick

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