washingtonpost.com — The founder of the company, the SITE Intelligence Group, says this premature disclosure by WH tipped al-Qaeda to a security breach and destroyed a years-long surveillance operation that the company has used to intercept and pass along secret messages, videos and advance warnings of suicide bombings from the terrorist group's communications network.
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rangerjoe8999Oct 9, 2007
Plame was not outed by the WH, you need to get your facts straight.
divisiblebyzeroOct 9, 2007
The same reason they've got independent contractors in Iraq. They don't have as many rules.
opiniastrousOct 10, 2007
Dugg down for misleading title. This was a leak, and it could have been by anybody with access to it. The submitter, iching, has made a massive inference that the leak was from the White House in order to achieve political gain (rather than from someone in government who did not understand the wider picture, or say, had links to the press) and unjustifiably stated that inference.I'm a facts man, thank you very much.
groundhogboyOct 10, 2007
Did you even look at the transcript? It's obviously 9/6/07. Secondly, whose to say that she didn't have it translated at the same time that she gave it to them and that's the date on the transcript.
closedcaptionOct 10, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14533384/site/newsweek/page/2/">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14533384/site/newsweek ...</a>"But officials at the White House also told reporters about Wilson's wife in an effort to discredit Wilson for his public attacks on Bush's handling of Iraq intelligence. Karl Rove confirmed to Novak that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA, and days later offered the same information to Time reporter Matt Cooper. The inquiry into the case led to the indictment of Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. Armitage himself was aggressively investigated by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, but was never charged. Fitzgerald found no evidence that Armitage knew of Plame's covert CIA status when he talked to Novak and Woodward. The decision to go to the FBI that panicky October afternoon also may have helped Armitage. "
swift2Oct 10, 2007
Thank you. The righties are so flipped out about this, they deny the truth over and over.I saw a show on C-Span: a number of judges who have handled high-profile cases. The judge from the Libby trial, nominated by Reagan, said it right out: Patrick Fitzgerald was the most professional prosecutor he's ever seen.
vicujozobenaxodOct 10, 2007
So far on Digg it's been Fox's fault, ABC's fault, and now this is the White House for "political purposes". Wonder how long it will take before it's those damn "neocons".