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Bullshit! Fitzgerald has specifically disavowed any such statement, and done so explicitly. “Let me say two things. Number one, I am not speaking to whether or not Valerie Wilson was covert. And anything I say is not intended to say anything beyond this: that she was a CIA officer from January 1st, 2002, forward. I will confirm that her association with the CIA was classified at that time through July 2003. And all I’ll say is that, look, we have not made any allegation that Mr. Libby knowingly, intentionally outed a covert agent. We have not charged that. And so I’m not making that assertion.”
It’s not saying she was the day before, either. In fact, no real argument can be made that she was covert since she came back to Langley in 1997 married Wilson and had kids. To be “covert” specifically means that the CIA needs to be active in generating a cover for you and you have to serve abroad in the last five years since the CIA is specifically precluded from operating within the US in this manner. Neither occured. Her cover was blown first by Ames, than by marrying Wilson, then by Wilson’s editorial.
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Like **Hamlet ** shows, even moderates see that and conclude the left is still more closer to the truth, your feeble mind telling you this proves your point is the amusing thing.
That is indeed what an artful dodger does, stick in a definition and claim a clear Pyhrric victory.
And you think moving from saying “covert” to “classified” makes it better? What I do remember is that her classified status involved Iran, but the funny thing here is that you have to use the word cover any how to describe what was blown.
That is your bullshit, Armitage telling abut the classified/covert Plame might have been the origin of all this, but then ignoring the “pure” coincidence that other administration members contacted the press to confirm (the now painfully doubtful)) evidence of Iraq seeking to get Uranium from Nigeria shows idiocy.
What Wilson was reporting was the whole truth that the current information was unreliable for use in a case for war, and at that time the administration was talking about mushroom clouds, even talk of Iraq seeking (not getting) nuclear material was critical to continue fooling the American people into war. Wilson was telling the administration it was foolish to be certain, what I do think it happened was that blowing the classified status of Valerie was not the main focus, the focus was (and still is) the control of the media, the blitz the administration did and the level of control they have was exemplified by the sorry spectacle of finding members of the mainstream media in bed with the administration when they were supposed to investigate it.
Such media then posted as news what in reality was speculation from the administration and then people like Cheney jumped to say rags like the New York times printed news supportive of the cause of war independently from the administration, ergo the administration was correct, and so the rest of the mainstream media followed.
The outing of Valerie Plame was a price the administration was willing to pay for continuing the control of the media. Deluded sea monster fool, the mendacity I talk about is related to the maneuvers made to make a slam dunk of the war, Valeria Plame is collateral damage that has come to bite the administration in the ass.
Gee you find a bit of Fitzgerald differentiating between covert and classified, and still Fitzgerald (a republican) decided to prosecute, it is a bit of correction that does not help you with the fact that your Wilson quote was said with the intension to lie.