Advocate wrote:Okie said: "Ticomaya almost always scopes out an issue and figures it out for what it is, and this thread is no exception, concerning the Wilsons, who by the way I hope they are happy with their books and movies. Good riddance from the CIA."
That is the anti-Plame statement of yours that I consider sickening. She was a valued employee (secret agent) of the CIA, and it is truly disgusting to have you denigrate her.
I'm sorry not everyone agrees with you on this. As you and everyone else, I also make judgements based on the information available. My judgements of this affair stem from one important root, that being how I judge the character of the personalities involved. Based on the information that I have collected, I have had to conclude that the Wilsons have not been very honest about their conduct in this affair, and Joseph Wilson himself was not honest about his so-called work in Niger. Further, their conduct following, such as the Vanity Fair affair demonstrated that these people were much more than interested in intelligence work. So to begin with, I was suspicious of their character and their motives.
I admit I don't know this couple personally, and I am sorry we can't agree, but I think they were part of a political move from the CIA against the administration, which angered me, and we have no need for political games in the CIA. They are there for intelligence work, not politics. It was neither the job nor the place for Joseph Wilson to either know, or think he knew everything about yellowcake in Niger. It was not his job to write op-ed pieces. His job was to give the information to the CIA, and then with the rest of the information unknown to Wilson could be fed up the line. If anyone should have disputed yellowcake in Niger, it should have been the head of the CIA. I still don't have a clue why Wilson should have thought he knew anything conclusive about it.
We have plowed this ground over and over, but I firmly believe the Wilsons were political operatives, and we have no room for that nonsense in the CIA. I can't speak for Ticomaya, but I think his opinion is similar. We may not be in the majority on this issue, but there is a sizeable percentage of people that agree with our general theory on it, that is of the people that are very familiar with it, and I would guess that does not include a large percentage of the people nationwide.