Republican Spin...propaganda

[MellowOne]

A friend sent this to me in email. Leave it to the repubs to try and find a way to cast doubt on someone else in an attempt to wiggle out of the Rove scandal.


With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...

Thursday, July 14, 2005 10:48 p.m. EDT
John Kerry Outed Undercover CIA Agent

Sen. John Kerry, who called for Karl Rove to be fired over allegations that he revealed the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame, outed a genuine undercover CIA agent just this past April - even after the Agency asked that his identity be kept secret.

Kerry blew the cover of CIA secret operative Fulton Armstrong during confirmation hearings for U.N. ambassador nominee John Bolton.

Questioning Bolton, Kerry asked: "Did Otto Reich share his belief that Fulton Armstrong should be removed for his position?" - according to a transcript excerpted by the New York Times.
"The answer is yes," the top Democrat continued.
In his response to Kerry, Mr. Bolton did his best to maintain the agent's confidentiality, reverting to the Armstrong's pseudonym.
"As I said," he told Kerry, "I had lost confidence in Mr. Smith, and I conveyed that."

Two years earlier, Armstrong had been identified in news reports on his dispute with other officials over intelligence involving Cuba. But he was operating in a different capacity and his identity wasn't secret at the time.

more....

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/7/14/225202.shtml

[txindy]

1. Already debunked.

Consider the 'news' source and dump it.

[emulatorloo]

2. discredited LONG AGO - Even Michelle Malkin says this is false

Send this to your nitwit "friend:"

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

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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.

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[emulatorloo]

3. So did you get your friend straightened out? EOM

[MellowOne]

4. Thanks all.

She's an extreme Bush supporter so we "debate" all the time. I sent her the article.

[NYCGirl]

5. Here's more debunking of that myth:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200504120007