Remember Valerie Plame? The “covert” CIA agent that liberals are so SURE was outed by Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby? Liberals, when losing any foreign policy argument continue to bring that up to this very day because, liberals like to ignore the facts.
Far be it for me to try and confuse liberals WITH the facts.
Okay…not so far be it.
Here are the facts regarding the outing of Plame…
First of all…Valerie Plame was NOT a covert agent. She was, in fact, very well known as a CIA agent working on nuclear counterproliferation.
Her “outing” wasn’t outing at all and neither Libby nor Cheney had a single thing to do with it.
It was, in fact, Richard Armitage, then the Deputy Secretary of State who was giving background to Bob Novak who was, at the time, writing a column regarding the Bush 2003 State of the Union speech and it was Novak who asked, off handedly, why it was that Joseph Wilson, a liberal and harsh critic of Bush 43 had been sent to Niger by the CIA to investigate what Bush had referred to as Iraq’s intention to purchase yellowcake uranium FROM Niger.
Armitage responded…“you know his wife works at the CIA, and she suggested that he be sent to Niger.”
Novak connected the dots using a ‘Who’s Who” and Wilson’s own bio and wrote about it in his column.
Those are the facts…not conjecture as Armitage himself later confirmed Novak’s version of the meeting but liberals, as they are all too eager to do, still hold up Scooter Libby and Cheney as the culprets in outing the non covert Plame and always point to the fact that Libby was convicted of it.
That also is a fabricated bending of the truth as Libby was NOT convicted of outing Plame…
Libby was convicted of perjurt in his testimony before the house select committee investigating the outing which leaves the question also brought up by liberals…”Well, if LIBBY didn’t do it…why has nobody else ever been convicted OF it???”
As Valerie Plame was NOT a covert agent…no law was broken.
Well…that sets the stage for Obama’s outing of the CIA station chief in Afghanistan.
There was the leader from behind, engaging in some ass covering for the VA scandal by making a surprise visit to Afghanistan over the weekend to tell them how much he appreciates our veterans and, as is nearly always the case, the white house circulated a list of the dignitaries in attendance.
ON that list was the title of “Station Chief – Afghanistan” and the corresponding name to go with it.
DOH!!!!!
So much for trying to cover his ass huh?
“Station Chief” is the title of the head of CIA operations for a given area…in this case…Afghanistan and few in the assembled press were aware that we still HAD a CIA station in Afghanistan.Karzi WAS aware of it apparently but he may well not have known that a certain Mr.X (the CIA Afghanistan Station Chief) was heading it up. If THEY didn’t know before…they do now.
As soon the press starting buzzing about the title and name, the white house officials collectively (as socialists do) crapped their knickers and began gathering up all the handouts and replacing them with a list SANS that particular name and title but, alas…it was too late.
Here’s the difference between Plame and Mr. X” in Afghanistan. Plame was NOT covert…Mr. X was.
WAS but most likely not anymore because HIS name was circulated to the PRESS and quite possibly forwarded to few foreign members of the 4th estate who also got a gander at the list before it was gobbled up by a bunch of sweating white house buffoons.
No doubt this will be blamed on some poor, low lever schmuck…whoever is the official List of Dignitaries Czar under the Dictator but that doesn’t ease the fact that the list, originally compiled by the military was handed off to the white house, low level notwithstanding, and nobody checked it. The White House press office just handed it out to the press and the press then sent it out to what is referred to as the pool report by Scott Wilson of the Washington Post before HE heard the buzz and brought it to the attention OF the white house.
By the time the white house came to the realization they had outed a covert CIA agent…Twitter was burning up citing the mistake.
#Ohcrap.
Mr. X is now outed and of little use to the gathering of intel thanks to nobody from the white house paying one lick of attention to details and will, more than likely, be recalled. In fact, the CIA op in Afghanistan may well have gathered ITS last piece of intel altogether but, there are other possible ramifications.
The corrupt Karzai could well order all U.S. troops and diplomats OUT of Afghanistan over this resulting in a speedier takeover by terrorists and Jihadis who have BEEN planning on setting up THEIR tents at the end of this year, as that is when Obama told all our enemies we’d be hitting the dusty trail.
And what of those who have seen what cannot be unseen? All those members of the press and all those who received the original pool report?
IF Obama leaves Mr. X in place…those journalists become the targets for Taliban and al-Qaeda operatives who would just LOVE to know exactly who Mr. X really is and that puts Mr. X and the reporters ALL in danger.
As I said…this outing of a covert CIA Station Chief will be pinned on some bottom rung minion but…SHOULD it be? That’s the question and for the answer…we must look at the REAL reason it happened in the first place.
Remember when Bush 43 made a surprise trip to Baghdad for Thanksgiving in 2003? He left with but a small handful of reporters, flew into Baghdad, served Thanksgiving dinner and left. That was it.
Obama on the other hand…made HIS “surprise” visit to Bagram AF Base in Afghanistan for one reason and one reason only…A desperate attempt to make HIMSELF look good in front of the troops as the VA book cooking scandal was engulfing him.
He had the press…grandstands set up…his podium…props standing behind him and a prepared speech. He also invited every dignitary he could think of there to make him look and feel important and relevant.
Karzai gave Obama the finger and didn’t even show up to meet him as he jogged down the steps of Air Farce and while one might be want to pat Karzai on the head for his judgment of Obama’s character, I can give you yet another reason for the snub.
According to reports, the Afghanistan Station Chief has, over several years, hired local gang members from Kabul to act as “Counterterrorist Pursuit Teams” and THEY have been souring relations between the Afghan army, locals Karzai’s corrupt government and the United States.
So…was the outing what the lapdog media is calling it, “an embarrassing gaffe” or was it, let’s say, deliberate to get the Station Chief out of there publically to repair strained relations?
We may never know but it seems more likely that had Obama wanted Mr. X OUT of Afghanistan, all he needed to do was send a plane to get him. One thing though is nearly certain…as soon as our troops pull out…those 3000 or so “Counterterrorist Pursuit Teams” will be folded into the regular Afghan army and it’s better than a fair bet they’ll be spilling more of OUR secrets than garnering intel on our enemies.
There IS one more very important question here…why are Obama and his white house tying themselves in knots, opening an internal investigation into this matter considering the name of Mr. X has been available via Google searches for YEARS???
Back in 2004, the MILITARY selected one of their own, Gregory Vogel, to become the Station Chief in Kabul and it seems, he never left that post. Vogel, if that is indeed who was outed, was not covert years ago so…what changed? Had Obama led Karzai to believe he had shut the operation down and Vogel was gone? Had Vogel recently been made covert for some reason? Is there a gun running scheme going on in Afghanistan as there was in Libya?
Obviously SOMETHING changed with Vogel’s status and whatever that something IS, is what Obama is now reeling from or…is this simply another diversionary tactic to take our attention off of Benghazi…the IRS…the VA…NSA, Obama training Syrian “rebels” (al-Qaeda…remember?) and any number of other scandals that are closing in on him?
Hmmmm…Outing a covert CIA operative that was never really covert and then making a federal case out of it…now where have we heard THAT before???
Allow me to connect the dots…Rahm Emmanuel said, “Never let a crisis go to waste,” and Cloward/Piven (straight from Alinsky) Strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis.
And who better to help carry it all out than his very own lapdog media???
Starting to get the picture?
The bottom line facts are these…
Valerie Plame was never outed as she was not a covert CIA op and neither Cheney nor Scooter Libby nor George W. Bush had anything to do with it however…
Mr. X… (Gregory Vogel?) The” COVERT CIA Station Chief in Afghanistan” WAS “OUTED” due to Obama’s narcissism and incompetence and desperate need to divert the topic of discussion.
I’d invite liberals to chew on THAT for a while but I know they’ll just wash it down with Kool Aid.
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good post craig. The main thing wrong with the clown in the oval office is that he is on the wrong side of the desk. But when we look at the alternative “President Biden”, ok I just felt a cold foboding shudder run up my spine.