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#40952
The CIA’s top officer in Kabul was exposed Saturday by the White House when his name was included on a list provided to news organizations of senior U.S. officials participating in President Obama’s surprise visit with U.S. troops.

The disclosure marked a rare instance in which a CIA officer working overseas had his cover — the secrecy meant to protect his actual identity — pierced by his own government. The only other recent case came under significantly different circumstances, when former CIA operative Valerie Plame was exposed as officials of the George W. Bush administration sought to discredit her husband, a former ambassador and fierce critic of the decision to invade Iraq.

White House bureau chief Scott Wilson. Wilson said he had copied the list from the e-mail provided by White House press officials. He sent his pool report to the press officials, who then distributed it to a list of more than 6,000 recipients. The CIA claims as a result the Agent and his family are in real danger.

In the last two years, the identities of at least three CIA station chiefs in Pakistan have been exposed by Obama Administration. In one case, a CIA officer became a target of death threats after his cover was blown, forcing the agency to rush him out of the country.
Remember the uproar for months in the media, Senate and House when Plame's name was leaked and she was just in an administrative position in D.C., The White House just exposed the name of the top undercover agent in Afgan, let's see how the media, Senate and House react to this!
#40956
Valerie was a fairly good looking blonde, and she married an ambassador (Wilson).

The CIA paid for her to get two master's degrees.

When exposed, Valerie posed for magazine covers, and wrote her memoirs, and her husband wrote about about his own -- equally tedious and pompous -- life.

So Valerie and her husband cashed in royally and, when last heard of, were idling away their early retirement on the taxpayer's dime in Santa Fe.
#40998
Another example of selective outrage from the left. Valerie Plame's (someone who walked in the front door of CIA headquarters every morning and worked at a desk) name gets mentioned in a column by Robert Novak and the resulting witch hunt, where the left tried to lynch Karl Rove and Dick Cheney, resulted in the conviction of Scooter Libby (who had nothing to do with anything). Obongo's stupidity blows the cover of a real covert operative, putting the man's life in grave danger, and.......nothing. Consistency can never be expected from the idiots on the left.
#41005
Senator Barack Obama joined with 24 Democrats led by Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), demanding the Republican-led Congress undertake an investigation into the Plame scandal pointing out that President Bush's special counsel in the Plame case was not enough. Between 2003 and 2007, Patrick Fitzgerald led a criminal investigation into allegations that someone in the Bush administration had leaked Plame's identity. The investigation ultimately resulted in the criminal conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff Scooter Libby. Senator Harry Reid demanded Vice President Cheney himself step down explaining whether it was due to incompetence or done on purpose the act was so severe that just holding a Chief of Staff accountable was not acceptable.
Unlike Valerie Plame making her cocktail party tour, the CIA Station Chief in Afghanistan is at actual risk, crickets from the Democrats on the exposure of the CIA Chief in Afgan.
#41007
Another example of selective outrage from the Right. Republicans at the highest level make a calculated criminal exposure of an agent as pay back against a troublesome political enemy and the reactionaries have no problem with it.
But when a stupid mistake is made by some underling of Obama they expect everyone to crucify the President as though it is the end of the world. Has the agent been taken hostage or killed? Nope.
But johnforbes doesn't care about Cheney's betrayal for purely partisan political reasons. He's just offended that the victims weren't destroyed by the betrayal. Insipid is still here telling us the criminal betrayal was nothing while pretending Obama is guilty of something terrible, a mistake he may be ultimately responsible for but had nothing to do with and which nobody has claimed was criminal. The Right can't differentiate between criminal behavior and a dumb mistake. They don't care, the crime is okay with them but a mistake is the end of the world. Meanwhile, they expect the Left to be outraged at Obama for something he likely had nothing to do with. To them, it's much worse than a criminal conspiracy by a sitting Vice President.
Consistency can never be expected from the idiots on the Right.
#41013
But when a stupid mistake is made by some underling of Obama
First of all how would an underling have an undercover CIA Agent's name, second of all who said it was mistake? If it was an underling who had the undercover CIA Agent's name who leaked it to him/her? There was no damage to Plame she had a name plate on her door in D.C. at her office where she was in an administrative role at the CIA, this guy is an actual undercover agent in Afgan on a mission, Obama said not enough was done to punish those who let Plame's name be known, Kerry and Reid called for the VP to step down...now it's a stupid mistake by an underling because it happened by Obama and his people???
#41014
johnforbes once again can't refute a word I say so he can only post witless 'humor' instead.

john has neither the education nor life experience to argue against the things I post.
john's hat size is equal to Brian Wilson's waist due to his unfortunate hydrocephalic condition.
But to be fair, fat heads run in john's genetic line. It's not his fault he's a moron.
#41019
^^^^^^^Well, that explains johnforbes' staggeringly stupid political commentary.
He can't be bothered to read and simply regurgitates what his handlers tell him.
Thus john's idiotic support of any lie RealTool posts and likewise his utter inability to refute a single thing I post.
#41042
There are many monuments to me, and my taut, tan body is not even yet deceased.

And, speaking of Clownhicker, I saw a dried apricot just today which looked precisely like the skin on Clownhicker's face.

Clownhicker uses Clint Eastwood's facial cream, which promises -- and delivers -- the same smooth skin you see with Tommy Lee Jones and Clint.
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