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There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood. ~ Paul Bourget…

Followed by MANY words. Sure glad you didn’t “try.” You couldn’t use enough words to make Roberts not guilty of exactly what he is charged with — he failed his duty to exercise prompt oversight.

The defininitions and classifications that the CIA uses are not at all important, in a criminal case.

The people who WROTE the law, protecting CIA agents’ identities, say that the law THEY WROTE was NOT violated in the Plame case.

Thank you for sweetening my day.

If you say a covert CIA agent is not covert… you can twiddle all the words you want…

Some accuse liberals of making morality ‘relative’. I say making the truth relative far more dangerous.

Those two have NO credibility at all!

Let’s hope Roberts will get swept away with the rest of the Republicans who have failed us these past eight years.

What the CIA says does NOT matter!

The LAW in question has specific requirements. Those legal requirements stand alone, the CIA “status” does not matter.

The CIA has no authority to determine if any law was brokent.

Plame was NOT outside the United States in the 5 years prior to the Novak column.

Beyond that, in order to violate the law in question, you must KNOW that you are violating the law.

Hard to prove, when dealing with a desk-job employee who has such a high profile husband!

Again, the entire Plame thing is a FARCE!

Testimony Of Rep. Henry Waxman:
“Ms. Wilson was a covert employee of the CIA. We cannot discuss all of the details of her CIA employment in open session.

I have met with General Hayden, the head of the CIA, to discuss what I can and cannot say about Ms. Wilson’s service…. I have been advised by the CIA that even now, after all that has happened, I cannot disclose the full nafure, scope, and character of Ms. Wilson’s service to our nation without causing serious damage to our national security interests.

But General Hayden and the CIA have cleared these following comments for today’s hearing.

During her employment at the CIA, Ms. Wilson was under cover.
Her employment status with the CIA was classified information prohibited from disclosure under Executive Order 12958.
At the time of the publication of Robert Novak’s column on July 14,2003, Ms. Wilson’s CIA employment status was covert.”

Source: http://oversight.house.gov/Documents/20070316104030-43341.pdf

http://russp.us/Plame.htm

President Bush appointed a Special Prosecutor to investigate the matter, and thus began one of the most ridiculous episodes in American history. The original conspiracy theory was absurd on its face and has been debunked, but the “mainstream” media has kept most of the American public ignorant of several absurdities that have permeated this case from start to finish. For at least six reasons, the Plame episode was and is a farce.

Reason #1: Plame was not a covert agent when the “leak” occurred
The “mainstream” media routinely refer to Plame as a former “covert” or “undercover” agent, but they almost always conveniently neglect to mention that she had not been one for several years prior to the so-called “leak.” When the “leak” occurred, Plame was working openly at a desk job at CIA headquarters and had been for over five years. Whether or not she was “officially” categorized as covert by the CIA bureaucracy is essentially irrelevant.

Common sense suggests that once an agent works regularly at CIA headquarters, the agent is no longer useful for long-term, high-priority covert work. The law that was supposedly broken sets the threshold at five years, and Plame had exceeded that threshold for not working an extended undercover assignment in a foreign country. Hence, the law about “outing” a covert agent simply did not apply.

The law also requires that the leak be intentional, which is very difficult to prove under any circumstances. When the “outed” agent had been working openly at a desk job at CIA headquarters for several years prior to the “outing,” malicious intent is almost impossible to prove. And when the agent is married to a high-visibility public figure, forget about it.

Victoria Toensing and Bruce W. Sanford wrote in the Washington Post:

“As two people who drafted and negotiated the scope of the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act, we can tell you: The Novak column and the surrounding facts do not support evidence of criminal conduct.”

http://russp.us/Plame.htm

The entire legal case against Libby should have been dropped:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021601705_pf.html

Joe Wilson admitted, in a Senate Hearing, that he LIED in his Op-Ed piece! There is no way that Joe Wilson could possibly know about the “forged documents” he mentioned in his Op-Ed, prior to the time that Wilson gave his oral (not written, another Wilson lie) “report” to the CIA upon his return from Niger.

Plame was NOT “undercover” — the CIA saying Plame was “undercover” is like the police chief saying that a police shooting was justified prior to an investagation of the matter.

The CIA does NOT have the power to bring criminal charges against anyone. The CIA does not have the authority, even, to give a legal opinion on the matter.

NO ONE was charged with “outing” Plame.

Those who claim that Plame was “outed” have absolutely nothing to back that up, other than non-binding, non-controlling opinions of non-qualified public officials.

Again, the CIA is NOT qualified to determine if a criminal law was violated.

The case was referred to a competent legal authority, the Independent Prosecutor. The Independent Prosecutor never charged ANYONE with “outing” Plame.

Besides, a very good case can be made that Joe Wilson “outed” his wife, Plame! (But she was not covert, anyway, she had not been outside the United States in the 5 years prior to the Novak story so she was NOT covered by the law in question.)

This administration seems to think that it is accountable to no one. Time to shorten the leash.

Double dipping, Jwink??

So if I and my (imaginary) husband are working for the same company…say the USPS (he’s a carrier & I work in the REC)…we’re double dipping?

Do you have a photo of Reagan on the wall and have regular worship services?

Pat Roberts is a sneasel, a combination snake/weasel.