Valerie Plame

Ex-CIA agent lies that she was outted by Bush Admin. Media perpetuates the lies for years. Plame's husband (Joe Wilson) wrote discredited articles about Saddam (Iraq) trying to secure yellowcake (WMD's) from Niger, and her name came up. Since she wasn't an active CIA agent, no crime was committed, and no one was prosecuted. Joe and Valerie lied that they were wronged. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 2015-12-21

 

Alt-People

Left	Right
Valerie Plame - she was outted by the Bush Admin (Scooter Libby), it was a dirty political hit that ruined her career, and it was a crime.	It was Richard Armitage that leaked it by accident (he admitted it), he was being asked about it by a reporter because of Valerie's husband (Joe) politicizing his role for the CIA (which he got via his wife), but since she was already retired from the field it had no impact on her CIA career and was no crime (nobody was charged/convicted).

Facts

• Colin Powell knew the source of the leak (his Deputy Richard Armitage), yet he obstructed justice and withheld the information from the President and let a Politically Charged investigation continue for 2 years
• Libby was not convicted of leaking Plame’s identity, he was unfairly convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice by a politically-charged investigation by Patrick Fitzgerald
• Plame/Joe Wislon are repeat liars. She worked for the CIA as a Liar (Spy). Her ad for her book, and media tour has claimed she was outted by Bush Admin (Scooter Libby), it was a political hit that ruined her career, and it was a crime. We Know it was Richard Armitage (he admitted it), it was an accident, but since she was already retired from the field it had no impact on her CIA career and was no crime.

Anti-Semite

           Main article: Valerie Plame/Anti-Semite

While Plame was front page News when she's making false allegations against Bush administration, when the claims are disproven, then it's only worthy of back page retractions. When it is discovered she's a raging anti-semite, the media doesn't think it's newsworthy at all, and buries the lede. If you don't know she's a bigot, then it shows either the failure of you to be informed, or of the media to inform you. Once the backlash hit, she tried to claim it was just a mistake because she was multitasking and texting at the same time. Plame watchers pointed out, that she must be busy a lot, as she'd tweeted similar anti-Semitic articles/views for years.

Saddam and yellowcake

           Main article: Valerie Plame/Saddam and yellowcake

==Context== In late 2002, the Bush administration was soliciting support for a policy of military force to Saddam to comply with U.N. regulations once and for all, or else. In his January 2003 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush did a 5,400 word speech, laying out an ultimatum to Saddam and a justification for war. It included dozens of reasons for the war, from WMD's to failing to comply with various U.N. resolutions, and so on -- but it also contained the following 16 words (vetted by the CIA), "The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa". The anti-Bush fanatics locked on to those 16 words, and ignored the rest. And in a logic-defying move, seemed to figure that if they could prove that the Brits or Americans were wrong on Saddam trying to get yellowcake, that it meant Bush was wrong for listening to the CIA and world's intelligence on everything else. It doesn't, but that's part of why Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame is such a big deal. Yellowcake 🗒️ Note: The Italians had documents that "proved it". Those later turned out to be forged, and FakeNews pretended it mattered ("see, it was all based on a forgery"). However, while the French and Italians believed those docs, the Brits and Americans did not consider it trustworthy, so they were not in the U.S./British assessments behind the 2003 State of the Union address. The people that bring up the Italian doc forgery are distracting either by ignorance or malicious obfuscation. 🗒️ Note: The British later had the Butler Report that did an investigation and concluded that the British intelligence was right, Saddam had sought the Uranium, and this had NOT been based on the forged documents. The U.S. had similar investigations (Senate, FBI, etc.), that all came to the same conclusions, and agreed that Wilson's editorials were wrong. In 2004, The Financial Times did a full report that concluded the same thing as everyone else; multiple European intelligence services were independently aware of possible illicit trade in uranium from Niger between 1999 and 2001 (which was not based on the forged Italian papers). Bush had understated things as it wasn't just the British that thought Saddam was going after Uranium. The British, American, French, Italian, and other intelligence agencies all had some evidence (mostly circumstantial and hearsay) that Iraq / Saddam had been negotiating to buy yellowcake (unprocessed Uranium-ore) from Niger. They all agreed that Saddam was seeking WMD's, and the Uranium, but for different reasons and sources. One of those smear merchants was Joseph C. Wilson (Valarie Plame's man-wife). Joe had gone on a "fact finding mission to Africa" and penned a series of critical op-eds starting in The New York Times in March 2003 which he explained the nature of these documents and the government's prior knowledge of their unreliability for use in a case for war, then implied this was why we'd gone to war. Everything about that was wrong: the U.S. had not based the war on the falsified Italian documents, they'd based it on our own intelligence as well as the Brits. On top of that Wilson's mission confirmed to the CIA that Saddam had gone after Uranium, and he would only do that if he had an active WMD program. So Joe's belief was that Iraq failing to get the deal for Uranium proved that there was no WMD program. But the CIA (and thus the Bush administration), believed it proved the exact opposite. As one British foreign official explained it to the Independent: “Niger has two main exports—uranium and chickens. The Iraqi delegation did not go to Niger for chickens.” So the CIA didn't care if one diplomat (Joe Wilson) didn't think they could get the uranium out, they saw confirmation that they were still trying to get it. FJW People forget that this whole mess was because Wilson's articles drew attention to him... and his wife. In reporters investigating Joe Wilson, they stumbled on Valerie's name. But she was not active, so no crime was committed, no matter who leaked it, and it was not Bush revenge (as the leftist media and their tools repeated), it was Joe's incompetence that got the ball rolling. Oh, and Joe's analysis in the NYT was wrong all along, meaning all their readers were misinformed tools of far left. And that Joe Wilson (or Valerie's) claim that the Bush administration outted his wife as retaliation for his dissent, have both been proven completely false. Since Wilson's erroneous article was part of a larger smear campaign by the media against Bush/Blair, it put pressure on the Administrations to release (declassify) more evidence/documents to support their points. But it was a losing battle, anything they didn't declassify was part of a conspiracy, and since all intelligence assessments have evidence for and against, the media could report the against (ignore the for case, or the conclusions) and mislead their readership. The left also attacked Bush at the time for declassifying things and being too open. (Seriously). Robert Novak 🗒️ Note: The 1982 "Intelligence Identities Protection Act" is the law makes it a federal crime to knowingly reveal the identity of a CIA agent who has conducted covert roles overseas within five years of the disclosure. To violate this law, the person who disclosed the agent’s identity must have been aware that the agent was “covert” at the time of the disclosure. Valerie had not been active within 5 years, she wasn't a field agent, and know one suspected she was. Valerie and Joe lied that she was outted and that it was a crime. They mislabeled Scooter Libby as the leak. And the far left media repeated it so often, that many of their readers believe she was wronged. Shortly after Wilson's op-ed, Robert Novak revealed the identity of Wilson's wife (CIA analyst Valerie Plame) in an article "Mission to Niger". The "Plame affair" or "CIA leak scandal" ensued as a result of the "unauthorized disclosure" of her identity. This became another spun scandal by the anti-Bush left; "The Administration leaked her name as retaliation against Joe Wilson for his honest Whistle-Blowing". Only all this is demonstrably false. It wasn't a scandal and no crime was actually committed by outting her. Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA Officer was not a secret. She was an officer and not an active field agent. Since she was not active, and no one knew, the law against naming field agents didn't apply. And Novak had found out about Valarie through the book "Who's who in America" Novak had gotten details of her role from the CIA and others, and was asked not to mention her name. Novak had gotten confirmation of her from Scooter Libby by asking something along the lines of, "I heard Wilson's wife is in the CIA, and that's how he got to go to Niger in the first place", and Libby said "oh, you know about that". and "that's what he'd heard too". Since neither knew she had once been agent, this was not a crime. Scooter hadn't leaked the info, he accidentally confirmed it. But for it to have been a crime, she would have had to have been an active agent, on an assignment, which she was not. The only reason she was outted at all, was because her nitwit Husband drew attention to her, by going to Niger, writing an erroneous report, and drawing that attention. Novak detailed all this at the time, as NOT being a scandal, and his sources and what happened -- but the myth of some big scandal continued to grow, along with independent investigation by the Democrats to find the source of this non-existent leak, over a non-existent crime.

Conclusion

So what we know is:

• Valerie Plame -

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👁️ See also

• Iraq War - Disagree with American policy or bumbling implementations of that policy. Be anti-war. Just be honest and consistent
• Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11 - The war on Islamic terror didn't start on 9/11 and wasn't about Osama Bin Laden, they were symptoms of something bigger.
• Preemptive War - Iraq was the first preemptive war except for all the others.
• Legality of Iraq war - No war is legal or illegal, there's only moral or immoral -- and all wars are immoral (some just more than others).
• Give it more time... - Some have said we should have waited for France or the U.N. to change their minds, or for sanctions to work...
• Violence never solved anything - Some say war/violence is wrong or that it never solves anything. It ended many wars and most mass murderers just fine.
• Bush lied - Bush didn't lie: the world's intelligence disagreed on specifics, but all agreed that Saddam was trying to get WMD's.
• Valerie Plame - Ex-CIA agent lies that she was outted by Bush Admin. Media perpetuates the lies for years.
• Quotes/Iraq War - Leftists want to pretend they had nothing to do with the Iraq War. History (and these quotes) begs to differ.
• Muslims can't do democracy - Muslims aren't capable of a successful democracy".
• Iraq/Set a date for withdrawal - Some claimed we should set a hard date and pull out of Iraq. That's stupid. Never telegraph your moves to the opposition.
• America made Saddam - During the mid 2000's it was popular among the dim of wit, and big of mouth, to claim that Saddam was created by America.
• Iraq is because of Israel-Palestine - Israel/Palestine is a convenient scapegoat for all problems in the middle east. But only rubes buy it as the root problem.
• Iraq is because of oil - All the time I hear people say that the U.S. invaded Iraq because of oil, money, or some other dumber reason. Oil is not a dumb reason.
• The U.S. targeted innocents - I’m flabbergasted that such stupidity is ever said, let alone how often I’ve heard it repeated.
• Iraq War Costs - Everything comes with costs, action or inaction. The price of war, the price of peace.
• Patriot Act - The 2002 version doens't bug me, what it might devolve into does. (Is it a slippery slope).
• Halliburton - NYT invented “evil conspiracy” to pay off a company for cheating us. The rubes believed it.
• Guantanamo - The left made a big deal about Guantanamo, where we had the right to treat people far worse than we did.
• Abu Ghraib - Abu Ghraib was one small group of U.S. Soldiers that something bad things, were caught and punished quickly.
• Security in Iraq - Militarily Iraq was one of the greatest successes in the history of mankind. Sociologically? We'll see.
• Americans are imperialists - People that say Americans are imperialists don’t understand America (or what imperialism means).
• Iraq's impact on Terrorism - Poverty doesn't cause terrorism; totalitarianism and a lack of control does.
• We should have done nothing - Of course we can’t know if doing nothing is ever the better choice or not. But we can look at some facts.

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• https://thenewamerican.com/the-truth-about-the-valerie-plame-case-finally-emerges/
• https://www.thebulwark.com/reminder-valerie-plame-is-lying-scooter-libby-did-not-out-her/
• http://www.factcheck.org/article222.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum_tubes
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake_Forgery
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_memo

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