Leak of CIA officers leaves trail of damage - Plame betrayal won't go away

[TacticalPeek]

Posted on Fri, Oct. 10, 2003

Leak of CIA officers leaves trail of damage
By Warren P. Strobel
Knight Ridder Newspapers

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Training agents such as Plame, 40, costs millions of dollars and requires the time-consuming establishment of elaborate fictions, called "legends," including in this case the creation of a CIA front company that helped lend plausibility to her trips overseas.

Compounding the damage, the front company, Brewster-Jennings & Associates, whose name has been reported previously, apparently also was used by other CIA officers whose work now could be at risk, according to Vince Cannistraro, formerly the agency's chief of counterterrorism operations and analysis.

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But intelligence professionals, infuriated over the breach and what they see as the Bush administration's misuse of intelligence on Iraq, vehemently disagree.

Larry Johnson - a former CIA and State Department official who was a 1985 classmate of Plame's in the CIA's case officer-training program at Camp Peary, Va., known as "the Farm" - predicted that when the CIA's internal damage assessment is finished, "at the end of the day, (the harm) will be huge and some people potentially may have lost their lives."

"This is not just another leak. This is an unprecedented exposing of an agent's identity," said former CIA officer Jim Marcinkowski, who's now a prosecutor in Royal Oak, Mich., and who also did CIA training with Plame.

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"The bottom line is, she's lost her career," said former classmate Marcinkowski.

As a CIA officer operating overseas, "There's only one entity in the world that can identify you. That's the U.S. government. When the U.S. government does it, that's it," he said.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/6984705.htm


More details in article. Knight-Ridder gracefully withholds some identifying info.

This story will simmer until a goose in cooked. :)

[candy331]

1. I look

forward to cooked goose, the sooner the better.

[calimary]

2. Call the TOLL FREE Capitol Hill Switchboard 1 (800) 839 - 5276

FIRST THING MONDAY MORNING!!! They'll transfer you, free, to anybody's office in the House and Senate. Use this number to demand a special prosecutor!!!

Also, look in www.congress.org - in the directory, for ANYBODY's info in the House and Senate - their local AND Washington office numbers, fax numbers and email-snailmail addresses. WE HAVE TO KEEP MAKING A STINK ABOUT THIS!!!

PLUS: Check with www.takebackthemedia.com - for listings of all media outlets and contact information. I know it's extra work, and it doesn't pay anything. But if we don't do it, who will? And what will happen if we don't? Are you prepared to risk that?

[Spazito]

3. Maybe around Thanksgiving, it will be cooked goose instead of...

roast turkey. To have this start to blow up one year from the election would be perfect!

[RC]

6. No, the timing for the Blow-up is for 1 year from right now.

One has to get things setup first. bu$h&co could see the inside of a federal prison for 10 to 20.

[kanrok]

4. We're fast approaching the holiday season

Perhaps Beaujoulais with your cooked goose? Sounds good to me.
:toast:

[TacticalPeek]

5. We will remember to spill some wine for Plame's fallen soldiers.

To Justice.

:toast:

[Hubert Flottz]

7. How much does it cost to train a fighter pilot who deserts ........

because he can't pass a piss test? Bush said he doubts if the leaker will EVER be caught! I'd say it was either Bush or KKKarl who gave the order to toast that spy! We know that someone in the WH is NOT a patriot! You see how far Bush went because Saddam crossed Daddy Bush!

[Beetwasher]

8. More Bombshells Are Coming

Do not be discouraged by the lull in coverage. The CIA will not let this die. There will be more bombshell revelations at appropriate times.

[xultar]

9. Novak being asked to give it up!

James C. Moore Asks Robert Novak to Spill the Beans on Karl Rove

....Journalists in Texas are, not surprisingly, convinced that Mr. Rove gave you Ms. Plame's identity. We know how he works. Reporters in high-profile positions in Texas were constantly leaked information by Mr. Rove, and it always served his political or professional goals. In some cases, Mr. Rove used spurious rumor in attempts to try to destroy business competition, and even the reputations of former friends who had somehow aggrieved him. In Washington, Mr. Rove's motivations for such a leak were clear.

And now, Mr. Novak, the resolution of this crisis is in your hands. Think about your country, not your career. Give up the leaker, and retire, ending your journalism career with the same honor you brought to your profession, before you made this terrible misstep.

Sincerely,

James C. Moore
Co-author of "Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential"



The entire article can be found at the below url
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/10/08_moore.html

[newyawker99]

10. Hi xultar!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: