Joe Wilson and Richard Armitage Maybe Guilty of Violating the National Securities Act By Outing Plame

Okay folks. If I was gullible enough to believe this story from CBS, the network which ran with Bill Burkett's faked up memo about President Bush failing to fulfill his Air National Guard duties; the network which employed Dan "The Liar" Rather for 20 some-odd years; and if I was to believe Raw Story and if I was to believe Valerie Plame Wilson, a proven liar; a woman who committed perjury during her testimony before a Congressional investigating committee, then it appears to me that there is actionable criminal behavior in the so-called "outing" of Valerie Plame. Problem is that we all know that it was both Joseph Wilson, himself and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage who committed the crime, and not anyone in the White House.

So...it's time for the Attorney General's office to begin an investigation of Joseph Wilson and Richard Armitage on charges they violated the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.

CBS confirms 2006 Raw Story scoop: Plame's job was to keep nukes from Iran

Muriel Kane and Dave Edwards
Published: Saturday October 20, 2007

CBS News has confirmed, in advance of a 60 Minutes interview with outed CIA agent Valerie Plame to be run this Sunday, that Plame "was involved in operations to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons."

"Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons," Plame told 60 Minutes. Plame also indicated that her outing in 2003 had caused grave damage to CIA operations, saying, "All the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases" to see where she had gone and who she had met with.

RAW STORY first revealed Plame's Iran mission and the damage done to CIA operations by her outing in a February 13, 2006 story by Raw investigative editor Larisa Alexandrovna, titled "Outed CIA officer was working on Iran, intelligence sources say." In that article, Alexandrovna wrote:

According to current and former intelligence officials, Plame Wilson, who worked on the clandestine side of the CIA in the Directorate of Operations as a non-official cover (NOC) officer, was part of an operation tracking distribution and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction technology to and from Iran.

Speaking under strict confidentiality, intelligence officials revealed heretofore unreported elements of Plame's work. Their accounts suggest that Plame's outing was more serious than has previously been reported and carries grave implications for U.S. national security and its ability to monitor Iran's burgeoning nuclear program. ...

Intelligence sources would not identify the specifics of Plame's work. They did, however, tell RAW STORY that her outing resulted in "severe" damage to her team and significantly hampered the CIA's ability to monitor nuclear proliferation. ...

The individual in the CIA responsible for initiating the investigation into what became known as "Plamegate" was Stanley Moskowitz, CIA Director of Congressional Affairs.

In his January 30, 2004 letter to Rep. John Conyers, Jr., (D-MI) who had queried the Director of Central Intelligence in an earlier letter of September 29, 2003, "regarding any contacts the... Agency (CIA) has had with the Department of Justice (DoJ) to request an investigation into the disclosure earlier that year of the identity of an employee operating under cover [Valerie E. Wilson, aka Valerie Plame]," he writes that, after an internal inquiry into the matter, the CIA made a referral to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for investigation of "possible violation of criminal law concerning the unauthorized disclosure of classified information."

[From Wikipedia]

Just an observation...and question:

How curious. Why would he contact Conyers, the ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee rather than the Republican Chairman of the Committee? Is it possible that Mr. Moskowitz was sympathetic to Conyers' call for impeachment and had a personal agenda against President Bush?

Anyway, we know for a fact that Armitage was Novak's source for the information,yet he was basically ignored during the investigation of the White House and "Scooter" Libby. We also know as I cited in my article linked to above, that Wilson had already "outed" his wife to Nicholas Kristoff of the New York Times well before the Novak article was even written, yet again there has been no investigation of Joseph Wilson for criminal behavior.

Bob Woodward knew Valerie Plame's identity, again from Richard Armitage, a month before Novak's article and before Wilsons New York Times Tale of Lies, "What I Didn't Find in Africa", published in The New York Times on July 6, 2003.

On February 12, 2007, Woodward testified in "Scooter" Libby's trial as a defense witness. While on the witness stand, an audiotape was played for the jury that contained the interview between Armitage and Woodward in which Plame was discussed. The following exchange is heard on the tape:

“WOODWARD: But it was Joe Wilson who was sent by the agency. I mean that's just —
ARMITAGE: His wife works in the agency.
WOODWARD: Why doesn't that come out? Why does —
ARMITAGE: Everyone knows it.
WOODWARD: — that have to be a big secret? Everyone knows.
ARMITAGE: Yeah. And I know Joe Wilson's been calling everybody. He's pissed off because he was designated as a low-level guy, went out to look at it. So, he's all pissed off.
WOODWARD: But why would they send him?
ARMITAGE: Because his wife's a [expletive] analyst at the agency.
WOODWARD: It's still weird.
ARMITAGE: It — It's perfect. This is what she does she is a WMD analyst out there.
WOODWARD: Oh she is.
ARMITAGE: Yeah.
WOODWARD: Oh, I see.
ARMITAGE: Yeah. See?
WOODWARD: Oh, she's the chief WMD?
ARMITAGE: No she isn't the chief, no.
WOODWARD: But high enough up that she can say, "Oh yeah, hubby will go."
ARMITAGE: Yeah, he knows Africa.
WOODWARD: Was she out there with him?
ARMITAGE: No.
WOODWARD: When he was ambassador?
ARMITAGE: Not to my knowledge. I don't know. I don't know if she was out there or not. But his wife is in the agency and is a WMD analyst. How about that [expletive]. [From Wikipedia]

So now we have this "new" allegation coming from the "Truth in Broadcasting Experts" at CBS. If-and I do mean if-there is any substance to these claims, then it would appear that Joe Wilson and Richard Armitage are responsible for much of the trouble we are having with Iran. By blowing Valerie Plame's cover, these two men, for Democrat Party political advantage, they have endangered Israeli and American lives and security.

Time for Joe Wilson to "pay the piper." Perhaps he can take "Scooter" Libby's place in prison.

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