Treason by members of our own government happens a lot more than we know.
I’ll give this to nihilists like Jack Murtha, Harry Reid, and Jim McDermott, at least they’re blatant about it.

We have met the enemy, and it’s our own State Department.

Valerie Plame’s occupation was one of the worst kept secrets in Washington. One of the places she was “outed” was on Page 5710, 2003 Edition of “Who’s Who in America”. Doesn’t say what her profession is, but “covert” agents aren’t supposed to have their name in print.

Actually, by 2003 she was assigned as a desk jockey at the CIA and hadn’t been “covert” since 1992.
As a matter of fact, her loser husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, introduced her to everyone they met as his “CIA wife”.

A month before conservative columnist Bob Novak published her name, disclosing her postion as a WMD analyst at the CIA, an interview with then U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, was conducted by none other than Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward. During the exchange, Armitage explained that he already knew about her because Wilson ‘was calling everybody’, i.e. reporters and everyone else who would listen. Looks like Joe had a hand in his wife’s “outing”.

Joe Wilson became unhinged after the discovery of his lies and contrasting statements before and after Plame arranged his trip to Niger. He’s a has-been with a serious woulda/coulda inferiority complex, who used his wife to prop up his waning career.

Based on that extensive experience, she’s managed to found a prominent leak organization, achieve steering group leadership in another, and pen assorted Op-Ed primers on proper government processes.

Seems to me she can’t possibly be much of an expert or have had any significant scope, just based on the limited time available. Moreover, this smacks of the general tactic of putting a know-nothing front man with limited experience forward as a stalking horse–Scary Larry[Johnson] as a CIA insider (on the basis of four years of low-level CIA work), J Wilson IV as a WMD expert (on the basis of one 10-day “mission” to Niger)–while actual experts provide inconclusive classified information that’s impossible to defend without [more] major security exposure. ”

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2008/01/republicans-san.html#comment-99828696

Approaching it from the cui bono perspective, she’d appear to be either a rabid Dem partisan who doesn’t care about national security, or someone who actively supports the jihadists, with a history of false accusations. In any event, a statement from her that serves to discomfit the Administration, or the US government in general ought, in my opinion, to be presumed false until corroborated by a disinterested source.

there was some Iraqi/jihadist involvement in OKC; very quickly they dropped that position; and they assign other persons who think similarly ‘Conspiracy Theorists, neo-cons, fascists, et al. As to Grossman, his first big post was in

Islamabad, Pakistan in the late 70s

(near the Kahuta nuclear reactor)He appears in page 100-101 of the Douglas Frantz book on the AQ Khan

networks; the “Nuclear Jihadist” on an inspection tour of the plant. Interestingly, that anecdote is not linked in the book’s index; which is odd considering the news value of that particular item or not; for

this particular event was in 1978-79. Before Brezinski made that back channel to Saudi General Intelligence

and Pakistani ISI that favored the

Jamaa’ti/Salafi/Wahhabi groups like Hekmatyar’s HizbIslam, MaulviYounis Khalis (father of the Taliban) and Raisul Sayyaf)from whence Bin Laden formed his AQ cadres. Mind you this was before the Soviet invasion.

But it’s all swell spin.

I’d recommend that folks read the allegations for themselves, as reported by the UK Sunday Times, the American Conservative, Vanity Fair and so many others.

Again, links to most of that coverage, along with our own contributions and exclusives on this story are available here:

http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=58

Your efforts to discredit, Clarice, are unfortunate and rather transparent. If there was nothing to her charges, then it seems unlikely the Bush Admin would have invoked the State Secrets Privilege for an unprecedented five years.

Which do you think is most likely?

According to some media accounts, Edmonds made additional allegations relating to the September 11 terrorist attacks and the allegedly inappropriate reaction by other FBI linguists to those attacks. However, Edmonds never raised those allegations to the OIG, and we did not investigate them in our review. Rather, we understand that staff from the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission) interviewed Edmonds regarding these claims. Our review focused on the allegations made by Edmonds to the OIG, particularly Edmonds’ allegations regarding the FBI’s handling of the concerns about the co-worker, her allegations about inappropriate practices in the language program, and her allegation that the FBI retaliated against her for raising those allegations