okie wrote:We can do without your fictitious labels, Advocate. I would have hoped you would have learned the folly of that upon being on the receiving end of like accusations on the immigration threads?
The Valerie Plame case is a political issue, not entirely a case of outing an agent. I would have hoped you could have figured that out by now. I am just as interested in protecting classified information and the identity of agents, but I happen to see this case as involving a different angle and different people to blame. Further, intent is a big item here, which has never been demonstrated, nor has her covert status been demonstrated in a court of law.
Further, this case serves to illustrate an inconsistent interest by leftists in the integrity of the CIA and classified information, an interest that is not demonstrated in other cases, such as Sandy Berger, Bill Clinton, etc. etc. In the case of leftists, it is clearly a case driven by the hatred of George Bush, not an interest in the classified information. If it is, it is suddenly a new interest in my opinion.
You seem to infer that a fact doesn't exist unless it is established in court, which is silly. Moreover, how does a court establish a fact? Further, courts are often wrong; e.g., the OJ, Blake, and Jackson cases.
I don't see where the Berger, Clinton, et al., situations are similar to the Plame matter. There is no similarity, but it is just your typical way of of muddying the facts. Moreover, one would have to be knee-jerk, mindless, Bushite to defend or apologize for the administration's actions in Plame.
