Remember when real Treason was a bad thing? Not the Fake Ann Coulter “if you support Medicare you are committing treason” type stuff, but actual treason, as in revealing covert CIA agents identities. In yet another IOKIYAR example, we have this
Rush Limbaugh:
“ Let me give you some facts about this. Karl Rove asked to testify. He is not a target as it stands now. But even at this, the AP writes, it writes it this way: "In an 11th-hour legal maneuver, fraught with risk, Rove struck a deal with prosecutors to testify for a fourth and probably final time in the investigation into the leak of the identity of CIA officer,
Valerie Plame, whose identity was known by everybody before all this anyway." I added that last part to make the story true and factual and more complete.
The Moonie Times:
she was by all accounts working under very light cover for the CIA, as evidenced by the fact that numerous neighbors were aware that she worked for the agency.
The New York Posts Deborah Orin:
There was no charge in the indictment involving outing a covert agent, hence no covert agent was outed
Mary Matalin, talking with legendary racist Don Imus:
What's the crime here? Everybody in town knew that, and who outed her was her husband -- "my wife, the CIA wife" and all this stuff.
FOX News “senior judicial analyst” and legendary Clinton hater (but they enver mention that part) Andrew P. Napolitano:
Without naming names, I will tell you that at least one of my Fox News colleagues told me that he was present at a party where she was introduced as "my CIA operative wife."
Fox News John Gibson:
And we actually know that's happened. Joe Wilson has introduced his wife as "my CIA wife."
FOX News Tony Snow:
She wasn't a covert agent. She wasn't compromised.
AND now we have the
inconvenient truth:
Feb. 13, 2006 issue - Newly released court papers could put holes in the defense of Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, in the Valerie Plame leak case. Lawyers for Libby, and White House allies, have repeatedly questioned whether Plame, the wife of White House critic Joe Wilson, really had covert status when she was outed to the media in July 2003. But special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald found that Plame had indeed done "covert work overseas" on counterproliferation matters in the past five years, and the CIA "was making specific efforts to conceal" her identity, according to newly released portions of a judge's opinion.