Outing Valerie Plame aided our enemies

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AN EXCERPT:

Between Armitage's dishonorable act and Novak's dishonorable act were a string of other dishonorable acts, including an executive order by President Bush empowering Vice President Cheney to declassify classified information, which Cheney did, thus allowing Libby to shop Plame's identity around in hopes of finding a journalist willing to smear Wilson through his wife. With Libby's information confirming Armitage's original tip, Novak willingly blew Plame's cover.

In so doing, he didn't put Plame at personal risk, because she was not overseas at the time. But he did irrevocably damage her mission - and put those human "assets" at risk.

You see, al-Qaeda and its ilk rarely try to kill CIA agents - or anyone else who can fight back. What these cowards do is kill people who have worked with U.S. agents.

You can imagine the conversation: "Hmm, that Valerie Plame who visited here turns out to be a CIA agent. Didn't she hang out at Hamid's coffee shop a lot?"

Next day, Hamid's body turns up, along with the bodies of his wife and family, all of whom were tortured to death before his eyes.

That's the way our enemies play the game. That's why we train brave men and women like Valerie Plame so America can fight back.

The outing of Plame may have been technically legal, as the commutation of Libby's sentence undoubtedly was. But our supreme law, the U.S. Constitution, still defines treason as giving aid and comfort to our enemies in time of war.

http://test.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_6316023

[rosesaylavee]

1. Exactly - why is this SO VERY HARD

for the freepers to understand? Where is the complication here? Scooter and Cheney and Armitage and all the corporate media whores who participated in this project to destroy Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame are TRAITORS. They have aided the enemy.

[Cosmocat]

8. Cause ...

it ain't their team ... Their team is the republican party, nothing else matters ...

[proud patriot]

2. The corperate media seems to aviod this aspect

it's very irritating to me ...

bush commuted a sentence of an individual who lied to
cover up for a criminal who helped our enemies.

[Cosmocat]

9. It agitates me to NO end ...

I have seen a couple dozen MSM pieces on the the libby get out of jail free card, and EVERY time the media frames it as part of the debate on how the war got started ... EVERY TIME, subtly letting it get washed with the supposed "debate" over how the war got started ...

No, it isn't ... It is about the WHITE house outing a god darned CIA agent, bad enough in and of itself, but a CIA agent in charge of freakin nuclear counter proliferation ...

I about want to smash my TV every time I see it ...

[Frustratedlady]

3. I still don't understand why Armitage and Novak didn't get some time...

So, they came forward and told what they knew. They had an "oops" moment and broke the law. Well, yeah, but....

I suppose we can tell our kids they don't have to worry about breaking the law, as they can admit it (when they are about to be found out) and go scott free.

When is the Plame/Wilson civil trial? I sure hope it gets underway soon.

[FourScore]

4. I wish we could find out if anyone lost their life

because of thesse criminals.

[Ian_rd]

6. I don't get this either - why didn't Fitz go after Armitage?

I can appreciate why he didn't go after Novak - Novak squealed on his source immediately and publishing the info is not a crime, but I don't understand why Armitage got a pass from Fitz for leaking an agent's identity.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Don't forget the cost to the taxpayer for destroying Brewster-Jennings.

[Spazito]

7. Excellent column!

Thank you for posting it.

The writer has gone to the crux of the case and it is: treason was committed.