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CIA PROMPTS INVESTIGATION OF
WHITE HOUSE TREASON

TWO MEMBERS OF VENGEFUL, POWER-ABUSING
BUSH REGIME BLEW COVER OF CIA EMPLOYEE

GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH ON OFFENDERS:
"THEY ARE THE MOST INSIDIOUS OF TRAITORS"

WASH POST: SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL SINGING

KARL C. ROVE SUSPECTED AS CULPRIT

WILL ASHCROFT SEEK TO COVER UP THE SCANDAL?

WASH POST: BUSH "HAS NO PLANS TO ASK" STAFF IF
THEY REVEALED NAME OF UNDERCOVER CIA OFFICER

White House Denies Rove Exposed Identity of CIA Operative --The White House
today dismissed as "ridiculous" the suggestion that Karl Rove [coupmeister and
dirty trickster] senior adviser to Dictator Bush, had illegally disclosed the
identity of an undercover C.I.A. officer, as the F.B.I. opened an investigation
into the case. At the same time, the White House rejected growing calls from
Democrats for the appointment of a special outside counsel to determine whether
someone in the regime had disclosed the officer's identity in an effort to
punish criticism of its Iraqi intelligence by the officer's husband.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/printer_093003A.shtml

The Most Insidious of Traitors
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Tuesday 30 September 2003
"Even though I'm a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing
but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of
our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors."
-- George Herbert Walker Bush, 1999
Karl Rove, senior political advisor to George W. Bush, is a very powerful
man. That is not to say he has never been in trouble. Rove was fired from the
1992 Bush Sr. campaign for trashing Robert Mosbacher, Jr., who was the chief
fundraiser for the campaign and an avowed Bush loyalist. Rove accomplished this
trashing of Mosbacher by planting a negative story with columnist Bob Novak. The
campaign figured out that Karl had done the dirty deed, and he was given his
walking papers.
Demonstrably, Rove is back in the saddle again. The January 2003 edition of
Esquire magazine carried an article by Ron Suskind which quoted comments from
John DiIulio, a domestic policy advisor to the White House who had just retired
from his post. On October 24, DiIulio had sent a letter to Suskind describing
what he had seen while working for the Bush administration. The meat of the
letter described an administration far, far more interested in raw political
triangulation and ruthless spin than in actual policy and government
functionality. Some excerpts from DiIulio's letter:
"Some are inclined to blame the high political-to-policy ratios of this
administration on Karl Rove...some staff members, senior and junior, are awed
and cowed by Karl's real or perceived powers. They self-censor lots for fear of
upsetting him, and, in turn, few of the president's top people routinely tell
the president what they really think if they think that Karl will be brought up
short in the bargain. Karl is enormously powerful, maybe the single most
powerful person in the modern, post-Hoover era ever to occupy a political
advisor post near the Oval Office."
Even a casual political observer would have trouble missing the fact that
this is one of the sharpest political outfits ever to reside in the Oval Office.
Bush's team is a unified wall, cemented to their message-of-the-day, and they
have done very well for themselves because of this. All of this can be laid at
the feet of Karl Rove, the senior political advisor to George W. Bush. According
to DiIulio, the preeminence of political considerations within this
administration is so complete that any and all policy considerations or
contemplation of actual issues are not so much in the back seat as they are in
the trunk below the spare tire and the jack. This, again, can be laid at the
feet of Mr. Rove.
All of Washington and the country has been buzzing for the last few days
over a report that the CIA has asked the Justice Department to investigate the
White House regarding a matter of important national security. The wife of a
former ambassador named Joseph Wilson, it has been alleged, was 'outed' as an
active CIA agent to columnist Robert Novak by this White House in an act of
political revenge.
Joseph Wilson was the man dispatched to Niger in February of 2002 by the
CIA, after Vice President Dick Cheney asked CIA to figure out whether there was
any substance to the charge that Iraq was attempting to procure uranium "yellow
cake" from that nation for the purpose of starting a nuclear weapons program.
Ambassador Wilson went, investigated, and returned eight days later to state
flatly that the evidence was garbage. He has claimed since that his analysis was
one of three intelligence reports debunking the Niger story. Ambassador Wilson
told this to Cheney's office, the CIA, the State Department, and the National
Security Council. Despite the fact that Wilson made it clear that these
allegations were untrue - it was revealed that the 'evidence' to support the
Niger uranium charge was a pile of crudely forged documents - George W. Bush
used the Niger uranium evidence dramatically in his 2003 State of the Union
address.
In July, Ambassador Wilson went very public, criticizing the White House for
using evidence to support war that they knew was patently false. One week later,
Robert Novak reported that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative. As
it turns out, two senior White House officials cold-called six different
journalists and informed them of Valerie Plame's status as a CIA agent,
according to an anonymous administration official quoted by the Washington Post.
None of the journalists ran the story. That same administration official was
quoted about these revelations as saying, "Clearly, it was meant purely and
simply for revenge." Joseph Wilson likewise charges that this act was done as an
act of revenge for his vocal criticism of George W. Bush and the
administration's actions leading up to the Iraq war. Specifically, he views Karl
Rove as being possibly involved in, or at least condoning, the cutting down of
his wife.
The facts of this story are singularly grotesque. Taken at the top layer,
you have a White House that appears perfectly willing to go after the family
members of its critics. Valerie Plame's career is destroyed, period. The act
itself displays a level of viciousness that is dangerous to the functioning of
this, or any, democracy.
Peel the second layer and you discover the rank illegality of it all.
Section 421 of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 reads as
follows:
"Whoever, having or having had authorized access to classified information
that identifies a covert agent, intentionally discloses any information
identifying such covert agent to any individual not authorized to receive
classified information, knowing that the information disclosed so identifies
such covert agent and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to
conceal such covert agent's intelligence relationship to the United States,
shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both."
The third layer is where the darkness truly lurks, and where the deadly
importance of this situation lies. Valerie Plame was not simply an analyst or a
data cruncher. She was an operative running a network dedicated to tracking any
person or nation that might try to give weapons of mass destruction to
terrorists. That sentence deserves to be written twice. She was an operative
running a network dedicated to tracking any person or nation that might try to
give weapons of mass destruction to terrorists.
The Bush administration pushed very hard the idea that America is in danger
from WMDs being placed into the hands of terrorists. This was one of the central
arguments behind the war in Iraq. Yet in order to protect Bush's political
standing, a couple of "administration officials" blew Valerie Plame, and by
proxy her network, completely out of the water in an attempt to shut her husband
up. In short, in order to protect Bush from the ramifications of using fake
evidence to support his war, this White House destroyed an intelligence network
that was protecting us from the threat posed by chemical, biological, and
nuclear weapons.
We are less safe now that Valerie Plame is no longer performing this vital
task, and the members of her network are in mortal danger of being revealed and
destroyed. Beyond that, we are facing a level of hypocrisy that shatters any and
all previously known boundaries. This administration ginned up a war in Iraq
based upon manufactured evidence and wildly overstated threats, all of which was
painted over with rhetoric about defending the country from terrorists and
weapons of mass destruction. The fate of Valerie Plame, and her network, shows
without doubt that the moral standing of this administration is as empty as
Saddam Hussein's WMD cache.
In Ambassador Wilson's words, "Naming her this way would have compromised
every operation, every relationship, every network with which she had been
associated in her entire career. This is the stuff of Kim Philby and Aldrich
Ames."
The current spin from administration defenders within and without the
mainstream media is that Valerie Plame was only an analyst, and not an
operative. This, somehow, is supposed to lessen the blow of an administration
willing to attack the families of its critics. Yet the characterization of Plame
as an analyst is factually incorrect. For one, Robert Novak himself indicated
that she was an operative in the original report that birthed this scandal.
"Wilson never worked for the CIA," wrote Novak, "but his wife, Valerie Plame, is
an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction."
Ray McGovern, who was for 27-years a senior analyst for the CIA, further
confirms the status of Plame within the CIA. "I know Joseph Wilson well enough
to know," said McGovern in a telephone conversation we had today, "that his wife
was in fact a deep cover operative running a network of informants on what is
supposedly this administration's first-priority issue: Weapons of mass
destruction."
McGovern further elaborated on the damage done when such an agent has their
cover blown. "This causes a great deal of damage," said McGovern. "These kinds
of networks take ten years to develop. The reason why they operate under deep
cover is that the only people who have access to the kind of data we need cannot
be associated in any way with the American intelligence community. Our
operatives live a lie to maintain these networks, and do so out of patriotism.
When they get blown, the operatives themselves are in physical danger. The
people they recruit are also in physical danger, because foreign intelligence
services can make the connections and find them. Operatives like Valerie Plame
are real patriots."
Mr. Rove has done this kind of thing before, specifically using Robert Novak
in that one notable attempt to cut down Mosbacher. Rove is a disciple of the
undisputed heavyweight champion of political assassins, Lee Atwater, and has
often reached into a deep bag of dirty tricks to accomplish his political ends.
He knows no ideology beyond power, and has no bones about using it to wreak
havoc on anyone who gets in his crosshairs. The Esquire article about DiIulio
finds him recounting a singular Rove moment, as he overheard a conversation
happening in another room: "Inside, Rove was talking to an aide about some
political stratagem in some state that had gone awry and a political operative
who had displeased him. I paid it no mind and reviewed a jotted list of
questions I hoped to ask. But after a moment, it was like ignoring a tornado
flinging parked cars. 'We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We
will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him!'"
Guess who was doing the cursing and threatening.
One last bit of inside baseball. When the Niger scandal erupted, the Bush
administration went out of its way to blame the CIA for the mess, despite the
fact that the CIA, along with the entire intelligence community, had been cut
out of the loop by Don Rumsfeld's Office of Special Plans. The OSP, and its pet
Iraqi Ahmad Chalabi, became the source for all of the information regarding
Iraq's weapons capabilities, and a number of intelligence insiders have publicly
blamed that group for the preponderance of highly erroneous data about Iraq. For
the Bush administration to completely usurp the CIA by depending solely on data
manufactured by the Office of Special Plans, and then to turn around and blame
CIA when the OSPs data did not turn out to be true, is as insane as it is
laughable. Yet this is what they have done. The CIA's calling for this
investigation is nothing more or less than the Agency defending itself, proving
out the oft-repeated warning that one scapegoats the CIA at their mortal peril.
Also, the fact that this data came to the Washington post from a White House
official means that another Deep Throat may have just been born.
The White House has denied the allegation, and promises a full
investigation. A great many people find it laughable to believe this White House
is capable of investigating itself, and are demanding an independent
investigation. A quick look at the White House telephone logs will reveal who
called whom, and when. It may well be the case that Rove was not involved; there
are several administration officials - Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Rice,
Card - along with a constellation of administration associates and media
mouthpieces, who had a vested interest in shutting Ambassador Wilson's mouth.
The White House phone logs will be revelatory. If this administration fails to
hand those logs over, they will stand in taint of high treason.
J'accuse.

William Rivers Pitt is the Managing Editor of truthout.org. He is a New York
Times and international best-selling author of three books - "War On Iraq,"
available from Context Books, "The Greatest Sedition is Silence," available from
Pluto Press, and "Our Flag, Too: The Paradox of Patriotism," available in August
from Context Books.

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