White House outs CIA official by mistake

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  1. PapaG

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    She worked at Foggy Bottom when she was "outed." She drove there from the suburbs. She had a Foggy Bottom parking decal on her car window. Why do you think Armitage was never charged? It's because Plame wasn't actually covert (although she may have had that label ... I've seen the delays of the federal government in changing a person's status), many people knew she worked at Foggy Bottom, and there were dozens of witnesses to refute the "outing." Instead, it became a way to try and indict Karl Rove, but he was too smart to fall into a perjury trap, so they had to settle on Scooter Libby after Tim Russert died. Russert couldn't have contradicted his own prior testimony, since he was dead. So, it was Libby's word against a dead man's word.
     
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    What does this have to do with the fact that Republicans gave the secret Libyan "Ambassador" his job title only to create their Outrage of the Day?
     
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    The law requires that someone deliberately and knowingly outed an operative. It doesn't seem Armitage did it deliberately. Or Fitzgerald couldn't prove it.

    Plane travelled overseas multiple times a year under cover. Decal on her car or not.
     
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    I question your reasoning on all of this nonsense.

    http://m.state.gov/md197696.htm

    If it ain't the acid, is it senility?
     
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    You don't mind if I quickly dismiss your every post by calling you a rich man everytime, do you?
     
  6. Denny Crane

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    I didn't quickly dismis your post. It was so incredible a claim that I had to go find Hillary's speech at the real world ambassador's swearing in ceremony.

    The simpler explanation is grounded in fact. Hillary and Obama's foreign policy was a disaster and a drag on Obama's chances to beat Romney. So they lied their asses off to cover up their incompetence.

    Nobody should have been stationed in Lybia. Every other sane nation pulled their people from a clearly dangerous situation. After using US force to overthrow the Lybian govt. and choose the successor, it was even more embarrassing that we created a lawless place instead of bringing moderate friendly people to power.
     
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    Moderate friendly people? In Libya? Are you suggesting we forcibly move them all from some other nation?
     
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    No. I suggest we should have never gotten involved in the first place. It was none of our business.
     

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