Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Confirmed: Plame exposure damaged US tracking of Iranian nukes

When the White House outed Valerie Plame as a CIA officer, she was closely involved in tracking nuclear development in Iran. Her exposure severely damaged American knowledge of Iran's nuclear activities. Raw Story reports that this was stated on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews Monday evening (May 01, 2006) by MSNBC correspondent David Shuster. Raw Story provides the following (Caps in the original):
INTELLIGENCE SOURCES SAY VALERIE WILSON WAS PART OF AN OPERATION THREE YEARS AGO TRACKING THE PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS MATERIAL INTO IRAN. AND THE SOURCES ALLEGE THAT WHEN MRS. WILSON'S COVER WAS BLOWN, THE ADMINISTRATION'S ABILITY TO TRACK IRAN'S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS WAS DAMAGED AS WELL.
It should interest every American that the Bush administration is running directed polygraphs of CIA employees and that the CIA had fired one officer, Mary McCarthy, for contacts with members of the press. Yet they have protected Karl Rove who has admitted telling Reporters Bob Novak and Matt Cooper that Valerie Plame (wife of Joe Wilson) was a CIA officer.

Why does Rove still have a job? Why is he out of prison? Why is the White House stonewalling the Fitzgerald investigation? The conclusion has to be that Bush does not give a damned about U.S. security or Intelligence, as long as he can provoke his God-ordained wars with Middle Eastern countries. Then, while a few Republicans seem to be getting quietly restive at the White House antics, the utter lack of action from the Republican Congress clearly establishes that the entire national Republican Party supports Bush and the White House in this.

Were the actions of Rove, Cheney, Libby and Bush treason against the United States? What can America do when the White House itself is a nest of traitors? Everyone seems to be tip-toeing around these questions, hoping they will go away. But they aren't going away.

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