The Unasked Question about the Plame Affair
With all the discussion about whether or not Rove was the one who outed Plame, there seems to be something that gets missed. First, the Democrats and Moonbats at the New York Times chide the White House for being silent on the Rove issue, but they leave out the fact that the special prosecutor they demanded asked them to keep quiet so he can do his job. More front page lies from the newspaper of record.
Rove isn’t the target, it appears he didn’t do anything illegal, and there is indication that Plame isn’t even a covert agent considering her frequent trips to Langley.
What does remain unasked is why did the CIA sent a retired ambassador with no known investigative experience, no particular expertise in WMD, with a known bone to pick with the Administration before such a trip, who had been forced into early retirement at 48 (when the earliest retirement age is 50), who is clearly a partisan, and the trip was the idea of the man’s wife who he certainly made no attempts to hide her name or their marriage?
As an aside, once again, most the world knows that a good deal of our espionage takes place out of the embassies. No foreign government would seriously consider the wife of an ambassador as being a safe individual to have discussions with. She’d be suspect in any country she stepped foot in if that countries intelligence agency had any.
After the Senate investigated the matter it found out that Wilson was a liar, and that after “drinking sweet mint tea and meeting with dozens of people” (as he himself put it), he didn’t even bother to file a report. Even the claims made by Wilson have been exposed as lies.
All of that aside, why did the CIA endorse a trip of a left-wing partisan hack at the request of his wife to do a hatchet job against the President of the United States which ended up peddling lies? And why hasn’t intelligence reform addressed that issue? Several serious studies of the issue by in the US and overseas have indicated that Bush was correct about Saddam’s desire for yellowcake. What broke down to send a less-than-stellar ex-foreign service officer who has unexplained money to go on a CIA funded trip to hatchet the President?
If Kerry were President and the same thing happened the other way around, heads would be rolling and the NYT would have front page coverage of the bloodbath.
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