Bolton outed Valerie Plame?

[cynatnite]

Bolton Requested 10 Names in Spy Reports

WASHINGTON - Thousands of times a year, spy agencies provide government officials with the names of Americans who appear in intelligence reports. John R. Bolton made only 10 such requests.

Still, they have become a central issue in his nomination to be ambassador to the United Nations.

Intelligence agencies are only rarely allowed to monitor U.S. citizens. When agencies intercept information about an American, intentionally or otherwise, the person's identity is usually protected or the data is destroyed.

Bolton asked 10 times for the identities of U.S. citizens or companies whose names were removed from transcripts of classified intelligence intercepts captured by the National Security Agency. Bolton, whose nomination to become U.N. ambassador has been blocked by Senate Democrats, was the State Department's chief arms control official at the time.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050628/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/intelligence_naming_names

[LightningFlash]

1. Yep....

Bolton and his goons under order from Rove, basically requested the names of at least 10 CIA agents and operatives....Joe Wilson was on the hitlist.

So the wifey had to go down. :wow: :wow: :crazy:

[cynatnite]

2. That's the first thing I thought when I saw the headline

makes perfect sense.

[Imagevision]

3. I believe it was Rove or Cheney

[jaysunb]

4. I think he did, but

how does that tie to this article ?

[Jane Austin]

5. If he is confirmed UN Ambassador

Does he get diplomatic immunity for somethng like outing Plame?

[adnelson60087]

I don't believe DI extends to treason...

or acts done before you're an ambassador.

[adnelson60087]

9. I don't believe DI extends to treason...

or acts done before you're an ambassador.

[jsamuel]

11. DI applies to foreigners in the US, not US diplomats in the US

[Jane Austin]

15. Well, knowing this crowd, they'll extend it to Bolton.

n/t

[medeak]

6. scooter libby

[JDPriestly]

12. But where did Scooter get the info?

[Occulus]

7. Anyone else exactly SURPRISED by this, if true?

*crickets*

[jsamuel]

8. This must be why the Dems want the info and the WH will not give it.

[cynatnite]

10. Recess appt

Bush has this option, but I've read he doesn't want to use it because it would weaken bolton considerably in the eyes of the UN.

It also seems like bush is now backed into a corner if it's true that bolton outed Valerie.

[H2O Man]

13. John Hannah and David Wurmser

apparently have been identified as two of the leakers. They are mid-level White House officials; Wurmser worked as special assistant to Bolton. Mid-level officials would not know Plame's identity without being informed by a high-level official. Further, they would not be in a position to make the decision to leak her identity "without authority from a higher level. They would have been instruments, not the makers, of decisions." (Wilson; page 445)

[LightningFlash]

14. Ray McGovern has a great book on this.....

It's pretty obvious what kind of corruption got spewed out here on this one.