tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13399968.post112170313192315658..comments2023-07-11T07:09:53.687-05:00Comments on EverybodyHasOne: Spin and DryLogicalOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12433467931180993693noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13399968.post-1121957796689016112005-07-21T09:56:00.000-05:002005-07-21T09:56:00.000-05:00I suppose the only people that could say that with...I suppose the only people that could say that with certainty is the CIA and I believe their policy is not to publicly respond to those kinds of questions. So like much of this case, we don't yet know all the details, but if she wasn't a covert agent, why did the CIA ask Novak not to use her name?<BR/> http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/01/blitzer.novak/<BR/><BR/>At this point we have to assume that if she wasn't someone who the CIA wanted to protect, there would have been no crime and the investigation would have stopped many months ago. The CIA would at some point have to confirm her status to the Special Prosecuter or again, there would be no case and the investigation would have stopped. <BR/><BR/>We know that Karl Rove confirmed that Plame worked for the CIA and he didn't want his name associated with that information. Your final paragraph proves my point. If Valerie Plame's work at the CIA was such common knowledge, why didn't Scott McClellan just stand up and mention it at one of his daily briefings? Why did Karl Rove have to leak it? And why, when this furor started, didn't he just stand up and say "Yes, I spoke with Novak and Cooper, but my comments were not illegal because Plame wasn't undercover". Maybe he didn't know for sure. And if he didn't, his leak violated his security clearance agreement and he shouldn't have said anything. The actions of Rove and the Bush White House are the proof that there was at least the probability of a crime and Rove's secrecy and silence is damning evidence that he knows he was doing something wrong if not illegal.<BR/><BR/>Maybe he can't be convicted, but what he did was wrong and he should pay.LogicalOnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433467931180993693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13399968.post-1121868989339642722005-07-20T09:16:00.000-05:002005-07-20T09:16:00.000-05:00Please post the link that proves Plame was a cover...Please post the link that proves Plame was a covert agent. There are lots that claim it or alllude to it, but there is no proof. Even her husband Wilson admitted that at the time Novak wrote his story she was not covert.<BR/><BR/>No covert, no crime.<BR/><BR/>Kindof like outing George Bush for working in the executive branch of government. Shhhhhh. Did I say that?All_I_Can_Standshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13706352699628789787noreply@blogger.com