CIA running covert op against the White House looks to be line of attack

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Mon Oct-24-05 11:41 AM
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CIA running covert op against the White House looks to be line of attack

from the right. Rush Limbaugh is using this defense :tinfoilhat: and I came across it in this article: http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/front2453666.3305555554.html

Of course they ALWAYS conveniently fail to mention that it was Cheney himself who requested the CIA provide it's views on the defense intelligence agency report in question. They also fail to mention that Wilson was an expert in Uranium ore and African countries which is why he was the ideal person to send. And why go after Wilson if it was the Director of Counter Proliferation who dispatched Wilson at Cheney's request? It's real easy to rip this theory apart.

Here is a sample of the desperation they are in:

Wilsongate: Did CIA run a covert op against an elected president?

By Cliff Kincaid
Cliff.Kincaid@aim.org
ACCURACY IN MEDIA
Saturday, October 22, 2005
The media version of the CIA leak case is that the White House illegally revealed a CIA employee�s identity because her husband, Joseph Wilson, was an administration critic. But former prosecutor Joseph E. diGenova says the real story is that the CIA �launched a covert operation� against the President when it sent Wilson on the mission to Africa to investigate the Iraq-uranium link. DiGenova, a former Independent Counsel who prosecuted several high-profile cases and has extensive experience on Capitol Hill, including as counsel to several Senate committees, is optimistic that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will figure it all out.

DiGenova tells this columnist, �It seems to me somewhat strange, in terms of CIA tradecraft, that if you were really attempting to protect the identity of a covert officer, why would you send her husband overseas on a mission, without a confidentiality agreement, and then allow him when he came back to the United States to write an op-ed piece in the New York Times about it.�

That mission, he explained, leads naturally to the questions: Who is this guy? And how did he get this assignment? �That�s not the way you protect the identity of a covert officer,� he said. �If it is, then Porter Goss is doing the right thing in cleaning house� at the agency.

If the CIA is the real villain in the case, then almost everything we have been told about the scandal by the media is wrong. What�s more, it means that the CIA, perhaps the most powerful intelligence agency in the U.S. Government, was deliberately trying to undermine the Bush Administration�s Iraq War policy. The liberals who are anxious for indictments of Bush Administration officials in this case should start paying attention to this aspect of the scandal. They may be opposed to the Iraq War, but since when is the CIA allowed to run covert operations against an elected president of the U.S.?

Continued at: http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/front2453666.3305555554.html

Be sure to write Cliff and tell him he is full of shit at: Cliff.Kincaid@aim.org