Republican Senator: Covert Agents Are Fair Game

[realFedUp]

(Sen. Pat Roberts is the head of the Senate Intelligence committee
and doesn't know what covert means????) more on the lack
of Pat's intelligence at: www.americablog.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/25/politics/25leak.html?oref=login

July 25, 2005
Senate Panel to Examine Use of Cover by U.S. Spies

By SCOTT SHANE

The Senate Intelligence Committee will conduct hearings on American spy agencies' use of cover to protect the identities of intelligence officers, the committee chairman said on Sunday.

The chairman, Senator Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas, said on the CNN program "Late Edition" that the committee was "going to go into quite a series of hearings in regard to cover." The practice of intelligence cover has come under scrutiny during the investigation of the disclosure of the C.I.A. employment of Valerie Wilson, who had worked under cover for the agency for 18 years before being publicly identified as a C.I.A. operative in 2003.

"You cannot be in the business of outing somebody" working under cover, Mr. Roberts said. He said, however, there were questions about the depth of Ms. Wilson's cover, because she had been based at the Virginia headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency at least since 1997.

"I must say from a common-sense standpoint, driving back and forth to work to the C.I.A. headquarters, I don't know if that really qualifies as being, you know, covert," Mr. Roberts said. "But generically speaking, it is a very serious matter."

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[ironman202]

1. what a pluperfect asshole...eom

[realFedUp]

2. Senator=Intelligence

isn't always true.

[sakabatou]

9. Senate Intelligence: a new oxymoran

[grytpype]

3. Republican = Traitor.

It's that simple. They put their loyalty to their Mongoloid Leader ahead of everything else including America.

[fooj]

4. Accountability. We need accountability.

This man is not fit to hold the office of an American Senator.

Peace.

[realFedUp]

5. This administration has proved it's not fit

for duty.

[Sparkly]

6. "I don't know if that really qualifies as being, you know, covert"

"I don't know."
"I don't know."
"I don't know."

This seems to be their new mantra on a whole lot of things lately.

[LittleClarkie]

7. If I understand her role correctly

People knew she worked for the CIA. That wasn't the covert part. They didn't know what she did exactly, or at least what they thought she did was not what she was actually doing. This looks to me like smoke and mirrors. It's not the point. Shame on these unAmerican bastards.

Or am I not understanding correctly.

[realFedUp]

10. Who knew she worked for the CIA?

The Bushies? Friends and neighbors (their lawyer for instance)
thought she worked as a consultant for
the cover business. As the CIA agents said during
the Waxman/Durbin hearing was that there aren't degrees
of covertness, even behind a desk. She had a cover
business that dealt with finding knowledge of WMD and her
outing by this administration has cost the cover
of that business and anyone attached to it. Whether
it's meant lives also, we'll never know.

The people at the top of this administration knew
better than to blow the cover of an agent and an operation.
It's called treason.

[bvar22]

8. sniff....sniff ...I smell a

WHITEWASH

"I don't know if that really qualifies as being, you know, covert"--Republican Sen Pat Roberts :puke:

If you watched the Conyers Hearings last week, you already know that EVERYONE WORKING FOR CIA IS OFFICIALLY COVERT!
There is NO DEGREE of "covertness"!

Even Plames next door neighbors were shocked to learn that she was an agent!
It wasn't just Plame that was exposed, her entire Front Company and international network was exposed for petty partisan Republican politics! This was TREASON most vile. Those trying to spin this issue are also damaging the National Security of the US for petty political purposes!

(WOW, alliteration!..."Petty (Partisan) Political Purposes") :P

[Goblyn]

11. I sent him a scathing email over this interview.

In a nutshell, I was disgusted to see him blur the lines on this issue, and with his position on the intelligence committee, was even more shocked and disgusted. And I reminded him he works for the American people, not GW bush.

[Hobarticus]

12. Pat Roberts is a fucking idiot...

You're either under cover, or you're not. There's no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

If he swapped parties, I'd throw him back.

[babylonsister]

13. That sounds fishy, Hobarticus, but I agree! nt