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Adventurer
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 Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:02 pm Post subject: Second Witness Reveals Much In Plame Leak Controversy |
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Second Witness Reveals Much In Plame Leak Controversy
Former CIA covert agent Valerie Plame Wilson. Photo courtesy AFP.
by Laura Heaton
UPI Intelligence Correspondent
Washington (UPI) March 26, 2007
Despite the hype surrounding the first public appearance by Valerie Plame Wilson last week, the testimony that was most indicting of the Bush administration's handling of the CIA leak controversy came not from the former CIA agent but from the second witness: a White House official responsible for carrying out internal White House investigations.
James Knodell, director of the Office of Security at the White House, testified that in the weeks following the leak of Plame's identity as a covert officer at the CIA, the White House never undertook an internal investigation to locate the loose cannon in its midst.
Knodell testified for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that there was neither an internal White House report about the possible security breach, nor an investigation to identify the source of the leak of classified information, nor any sanctioning of White House staff to ensure that additional information wasn't leaked.
In the immediate aftermath of the CIA leak, President Bush acknowledged the need to find the source.
Speaking to reporters a day after the Department of Justice announced its investigation Bush said, "If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of. ... I welcome the investigation."
If the president claimed to support an investigation, why did the White House not conduct one as it is obligated to do by various executive orders protecting classified information? It's a simple question an even more obvious answer after hearing Knodell's testimony.
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Second_Witness_Reveals_Much_In_Plame_Leak_Controversy_999.html |
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Octavius Hite
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Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Hey Moron, haven't you heard from our resident Cold Warrior, Jinju, this story is over. Its all about Anna Nicole and Sanjai (American Idol) now. God you lefties just don't know when to quit. Its dead, lets move on, we have irrelevant BS to talk about instead. |
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ED209
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Octavius Hite wrote: |
| Hey Moron, haven't you heard from our resident Cold Warrior, Jinju, this story is over. Its all about Anna Nicole and Sanjai (American Idol) now. God you lefties just don't know when to quit. Its dead, lets move on, we have irrelevant BS to talk about instead. |
Sanjai not still on it is he? |
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Hater Depot
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Bush never said there would be an internal WH investigation, right? He just said he "welcome[d]" some unspecified investigation. I always that quote was referring to the FBI and I remember many people at the time asking why he didn't just sit his staff down and demand to know whodunnit. I don't really see this as any kind of revelation or very big story. |
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jinju
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
| Bush never said there would be an internal WH investigation, right? He just said he "welcome[d]" some unspecified investigation. I always that quote was referring to the FBI and I remember many people at the time asking why he didn't just sit his staff down and demand to know whodunnit. I don't really see this as any kind of revelation or very big story. |
Because guess what, it isnt. |
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Adventurer
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:06 am Post subject: |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
| Bush never said there would be an internal WH investigation, right? He just said he "welcome[d]" some unspecified investigation. I always that quote was referring to the FBI and I remember many people at the time asking why he didn't just sit his staff down and demand to know whodunnit. I don't really see this as any kind of revelation or very big story. |
The thrust of the argument is that Bush didn't really demonstrate that he cared about the leak regarding a CIA agent's identity who was revealed in a very partisan manner just as the government fired some lawyers who were investigating the government. Every time the government doesn't like someone has to say like Wilson or government lawyers, they black ball them. That should be an issue. I think it is serious business and means the government doesn't want to be held accountable for a breach in the public's trust. Anyway, the polls show most Americans don't approve of Bush or trust his administration. Gonzalez's latest false statements obviously reduced that trust even further probably. |
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Hater Depot
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:12 am Post subject: |
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| I should have been more clear... I see the whole episode as a big deal but this particular bit doesn't seem like news to me. |
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EFLtrainer
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:46 am Post subject: |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
| Bush never said there would be an internal WH investigation, right? He just said he "welcome[d]" some unspecified investigation. I always that quote was referring to the FBI and I remember many people at the time asking why he didn't just sit his staff down and demand to know whodunnit. I don't really see this as any kind of revelation or very big story. |
it's important because it shows one simple thing: they didn't need to investigate who had done it; they had. His testimony speaks volumes. |
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