Valerie Plame on how the intelligence community really feels about Trump

[saidsimplesimon]

https://www.yahoo.com/katiecouric/valerie-plame-intelligence-community-really-feels-trump-184654567.html

Valerie Plame on how the intelligence community really feels about Trump
Katie Couric 20 hours ago
By Sarah B. Boxer
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But there is almost no one in this country who has faced the consequences of a warring intelligence community and White House than former CIA officer Valerie Plame.
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In an interview with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric, Plame says that many of her former colleagues have been wrestling with how to handle this administration.
“I have to tell you, after the election, there was grave concern over: ‘What now?’” says Plame. “The question was, for them, do we stay with our jobs, or do we quit? What is the moral, ethical thing to do?… Because there is no coherent strategy. I think there is a high level of apprehension.”
Plame says that even before the Comey fallout, she knew of people in the intelligence community left their jobs due to President Trump’s election, in part due to fear that he would politicize the CIA. “I think everyone there would rather chew off their right arm than be accused of putting in any sort of partisan analysis [or] political overtones to what they were doing.”
Couric asked Plame if she thinks that President Trump or his team colluded with the Russians during the 2016 U.S. election.

Interview content with videos at the link above

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. We have to remember, Rove and cheney and the rest committed treason outing her

The GOP simply arent patriots, this is a fact we must deal with.

[saidsimplesimon]

2. Yes, I remember

The interview and article cover a bit of this:

In 2003, when working as a covert operative specializing in nuclear proliferation research, Plame’s true identity was unmasked when administration officials leaked her name to the press. Plame’s husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson, had been one the most vocal critics of the Bush administration’s claim that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction — a claim that was the basis for invading Iraq. When Plame’s cover was blown, it was widely believed that senior White House officials had done it in retaliation.

“If you had a chance to talk to Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, Richard Armitige, Karl Rove — the people who discussed your name with members of the press — if you had a chance to be face-to-face with them today, what would you say?” asked Couric.

“I’d probably ask them: ‘What were you thinking?’” smiles Plame. “‘I was working on the very thing you said was so important: our primary national interest. And you undermined my true CIA identity for your partisan agenda.’ And I don’t think they’d have a very good answer for that.”

[angstlessk]

3. OMG! This is Yahoo, so I expected comments to be in trumps favor..

..boy was I wrong!

[saidsimplesimon]

4. thanks angst

Selective sharing on my part, I have always admired Valerie Plame and her husband Joe Wilson for their selfless acts of patriotism, and service to the American people.

[mr_lebowski]

5. The Russian Bots must have the day off ...