It seems that all the major media outlets are falling for the easy republican talking point that there is no problem for Rove, because Wilson (and his report were discredited) by many, many wise men. What does this talking point ignore? That Valerie Plame's cover as a CIA operative was compromised, and by doing so all the operations and operatives she had worked with and groomed to feed information back to CIA about actual Weapons of Mass Destruction (and or components, precursors, transactions and anything related) were terminally and completely fucked from then until forever. Who knows if people lost their lives, livihoods and of course confidence in being able to cooperate with CIA never knowing whether or not their contributions to our National Security will be sold down the river by a petulant partisan politician.
Nice job on the whole keeping our country safe morons. What's next, blue state flypaper?
posted by Jo Fish on 07.18.05 at 10:55 AM
Comments:
Someone has pointed out that the CIA has done a damage - assessment analysis of the Plame leak (it's apparently SOP): how much damage they sustained overseas, what operatives have been compromised, etc.
The spec is that the results are not good, i.e., that damage was done; otherwise, the WH would have leaked it by now.
posted by: fbg46 on 07.18.05 at 01:03 PM [permalink]
Their talking points are crap. Two salient points stand out like daggers for this WH: 1) The WH retracted those 16 infamous words that Wilson felt compelled to rebut and they have stayed retracted. 2) Regardless of Wison's credibility, which is under attack-falsely, a CIA agent was outed, classified info was wrongly disclosed. The WH cannot make these two points go away.
posted by: mando on 07.18.05 at 07:58 PM [permalink]
Sir,
Since you're a member of the Rocky Top Brigade, I'm hoping you might know something about what's happened to the South Knox Bubba........
"Game over"??!!??
Plus, the RTB Lounge link is toast.
If SBK has decided not to post any more, that's sad.......
