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November 18, 2005
All Roads Lead Back to the CIA
With Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s case against Scooter Libby in serious jeopardy as a result of Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward’s bombshell revelation, it may finally be time to clear the media driven “scandal” out of way. As Libby’s legal team contacts Washington reporters to inform them that they might be called to testify as to “what they knew about Joe Wilson’s wife and when they knew it,” it is likely more of them will be coming forward to confess what many have believed for some time: Plame was not covert and no crime was committed by anyone at the White House in relation to this matter.
Perhaps when the Fitzgerald’s case completely crumbles, he will drop the charges and return to Chicago. Then the Congress can begin the overdue investigation into Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame and the Central Intelligence Agency. The trail begins with Wilson and his wife, but the road leads back to Langley. In fact, when other leak investigations begin that put reporters who published classified information on the spot, all roads will lead back to the bumbling bureaucracy that has become a political entity.
The CIA has been in declines for years, being undermined and politicized by the Clinton administration. It has become so ineffective in the intelligence game that the only thing it has been able to uncover recently is the location of the best Beltway cocktail parties. In lieu of its mission to thwart plots against the United States and its interests from foreign enemies, the agency trained its sights on the Bush administration. It has waged a jihad against the President and his conduct of the war on terror.
Clinton and his team purged or otherwise drove career agents from the intelligence service until all that remained were political creatures, but ideology is only part of the equation. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 exposed the CIA’s total ineffectiveness. The Wilson-Plame affair is a case study of the sorry and dangerous state of the organization responsible for America’s first line of defense.
Democrats have revealed their mid-term election slogan, attacking Republicans for a “culture of corruption, cronyism and incompetence.” But is it the CIA’s botched operation against the White House is the epitome of that mantra.
The selection of Joe Wilson for the mission to Niger is a prime example of cronyism, as it has been established that his wife, Valerie Plame suggested him for the job. Incompetence is evident at every turn. Wilson’s report was so irrelevant that it didn’t merit a written report. Plame’s area of expertise is reported to be weapons of mass destruction, but the agencies intelligence in that field has been virtually non-existent. The CIA was clueless as to whether Saddam Hussein had WMDs or not. The agency’s foolhardy choice of Wilson and its failure to have the publicity-seeking gasbag sign a non-disclosure agreement demonstrates a profound lack of competence.
Finally, the cover-up of these facts is the corrupt aspect of the affair. A whistleblower from the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) sent a memo to the White House documenting how an outspoken opponent of the President’s policy toward Iraq was chosen to gather information requested by the Vice President’s office. I was the first and maybe the only journalist to confront Wilson about this document and its contents. He issued a bald-faced denial during our October 2003 interview. The CIA tried to discredit the memo in a leak to Walter Pincus at the Washington Post that appeared in a December 2003 article. In July 2004, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence confirmed the accuracy of the document and chastised Wilson for his dishonest and misleading statements.
The CIA requested the investigation into the “leak” of Plame’s name as part of the effort to hide its own political operation. Wilson whined that his wife’s “covert” identity hade been blown but the CIA’s claim, made public as part of the indictment against Libby was that Mrs. Wilson only had a “classified” role with the agency. This is a far cry from the “covert” status Democrats and their Old Media amplifiers have been wailing about for two years. Ultimately, it will be determined that Plame’s association with the agency was not a secret at all.
In the meantime, the rogue element either still within or now outside the CIA is engaged in full-throated disclosure of classified information that threatens America’s war on terror. The Washington Post has recently published stories that appear to be gleaned from detailed volumes about the agency’s global counterterrorism methods of operation. These are treasonous activities being facilitated by reporters. The damage will be far more profound than naming a third-rate analyst and should be dealt with swiftly and severely.
Posted by jeffgannon at November 18, 2005 11:03 AM
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