DEM CONGRESS: House Committee Reiterates Request for Documents Related to Plame-Wilson Disclosure

[L. Coyote]

Committee Reiterates Request for Documents Related to Plame-Wilson Disclosure
Friday, May 11, 2007
Administration Oversight, Disclosure of CIA Agent Identity
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1311


Chairman Waxman and Rep. Davis send a letter to CIA Director General Hayden reiterating their request for documents relevant to the Committee's investigation of the unauthorized disclosure of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson.
Documents and Links

* Letter to CIA Director General Hayden - http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070511154657.pdf

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1. arrest them, don't send them letters! obstruction of justice

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2. VIDEO: Hearing Examines Exposure of Covert CIA Agent Valerie Plame Wilson's Identity

Hearing Examines Exposure of Covert CIA Agent Valerie Plame Wilson's Identity
Friday, March 16, 2007
Disclosure of CIA Agent Identity
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1205


VIDEO of the Hearing - http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1245

The Oversight Committee held a hearing on whether White House officials followed appropriate procedures for safeguarding the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson. At the hearing, the Committee received testimony from Ms. Wilson and other experts regarding the disclosure and internal White House security procedures for protecting her identity from disclosure and responding to the leak after it occurred.

Witnesses

* Ms. Valerie Plame Wilson, former employee, Central Intelligence Agency
* Dr. James Knodell, Director, Office of Security, The White House
* Mr. Bill Leonard, Director, Information Security Oversight Office, National Archives and Records Administration
* Mr. Mark Zaid, Attorney
* Ms. Victoria Toensing, diGenova & Toensing, LLP

Documents and Links

* Letter to Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald - http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070308134201-02108.pdf
* Response Letter from Patrick Fitzgerald - http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070314180406-55978.pdf
* Topic: Disclosure of CIA Agent Identity - http://oversight.house.gov/investigations.asp?Issue=Disclosure+of+CIA+Agent+Identity
* June 13, 2006: Rep. Waxman Calls for Public Accounting of Rove’s Actions in CIA Leak Case - http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1067
* November 09, 2005: Questions and Answers about White House Security Clearances - http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=962
* July 22, 2005: Former Intelligence Officials Testify About Damage Caused by Outing of Covert CIA Agent - http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=898
* Chairman Waxman's Opening Statement - http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070316172636-89494.pdf
* Chart: Disclosures of Valerie Plame Wilson’s Classified CIA Employment - http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070316173308-19288.pdf

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3. New Evidence of Security Problems at the White House

Investigation Home Page Disclosure of CIA Agent Identity
http://oversight.house.gov/investigations.asp?ID=115

On July 14, 2003, columnist Robert Novak wrote an op-ed that appeared in the Chicago-Sun-Times, the Washington Post, and many other major newspapers publicly identifying Valerie Plame -- the wife of Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson -- as a covert CIA agent. Mr. Novak's column cited "two senior administration officials" as the source of the information. (Source: Robert D. Novak, The Mission to Niger, Chicago-Sun Times .)

Monday, April 23, 2007
New Evidence of Security Problems at the White House - http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1264

Current and former employees of the White House Security Office have reported to Chairman Waxman that there was a systemic failure at the White House to follow procedures for protecting classified information. According to the security officers, the White House regularly ignored security breaches, prevented security inspections of the West Wing, and condoned mismanagement of the White House Security Office.

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4. Why?

Wasn't the request iterated enough the first time? Stop fucking requesting and start making demands that you back up with contempt citations! Geez!

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5. ART 101: "If you paint a good picture of a cow, you don't have to write 'cow' under it" Sam Irwin

Or was that Political Science 101?

Drip, drip, drip, ... dawb, dawb, dawb ...

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6. this is your last chance to produce the documents

or we'll be forced to give you your absolutely last chance to produce the documents - after that it will be a absolutely final last chance


screw the last chances - supoena, indict, convict and impeach

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7. Counting Down: Subpoena, indict, convict and impeach

Remember when Nixon was stonewalling Congress.
Remember when the WA Post said of the Watergate hearing "This is boring?"

By comparison, this is a 13 ring circus, with hundreds of clowns, lots of pickpockets, caged chimps, a big tent cheering loudly, no net under the high wire, and a train wreck of elephants.

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9. Plame v. CIA: A Dust-Up Over Dates

Plame v. CIA: A Dust-Up Over Dates
By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts
Friday, June 1, 2007; Page C03
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/01/AR2007060100010.html


Valerie Plame and her publisher filed suit yesterday against the CIA, its director, Michael Hayden, and Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, charging that they are wrongly blocking her from disclosing certain details of her agency career in her forthcoming memoir.

The details in question? The exact dates of Plame's federal service, which the intelligence agency claims are classified . . . though, hold on to your hats, because we're about to spill the beans: She joined the feds on Nov. 9, 1985, and served for 20 years 7 days. .........

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10. Sentencing for Dummies - The fate of I. Lewis Libby

Has Libby Learned Nothing?
by Elizabeth de la Vega and Tom Engelhardt
TomDispatch
http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=11071

Former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega has been writing about the case of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame for this site since the summer of 2005. The story itself began back in July 2003 with a New York Times op-ed by Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, that called into question one of the many exaggerations, fabrications, and manipulations with which the Bush administration took a fear-filled and cowed Congress and a fear-filled populace on a bum's rush to its war of choice. ....

This Tuesday, Vice President Cheney's former right-hand man, I. Lewis Libby, is to receive legal justice for his role in covering up these activities. ...

Sentencing for Dummies - The fate of I. Lewis Libby
by Elizabeth de la Vega

If the memorandum filed by defense attorneys in anticipation of former top White House adviser I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's June 5 sentencing is any indication, it appears that Libby – one of the highest White House officials ever convicted of a felony – has learned precisely nothing from his trial and conviction on charges of false statements, obstruction of justice, and perjury.

Libby's lawyers admit – because they have to – that their client, a man with three decades of executive-level federal government service, disseminated classified information about the status of CIA Agent Valerie Plame Wilson in response to public criticism of the Bush administration by her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson. They nevertheless insist that this, at best, reckless (and, far more likely, intentional) act is not only not illegal, but not even wrong.

Unfortunately for Libby, this in-your-face position also has a certain shoot-yourself-in-the-foot quality. ...........