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White House mistakenly identifies CIA chief in Afghanistan

Helix said:
completely different area of the world, and a different situation. we could stay in Afghanistan for one hundred years and still not be able to make it into a stable democracy. they have to do that themselves, and we need to fix our crumbling infrastructure and come up with a different energy model.
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Any nation can be conquered.
 
j-mac said:
Not to mention what Maggie already pointed out...Where's the accountability? Who will get fired for this? Anyone?
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Who was fired for outing Valerie Plame? nobody. :doh

 
apdst said:
Novack confirmed that it was Armitage that told him about Plame, not Libby. Why wasn't Armitage EVER questioned?
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He was questioned. There is something you folks don't get. Fitzgerald wasn't looking for the first person who leaked her identity, he wanted to know all of them and why they did it. He apparently was satisfied with Armitage's answer.

FITZGERALD: That's the way this investigation was conducted. It was known that a CIA officer's identity was blown, it was known that there was a leak. We needed to figure out how that happened, who did it, why, whether a crime was committed, whether we could prove it, whether we should prove it.

And given that national security was at stake, it was especially important that we find out accurate facts.​
 
 
shrubnose said:
Get back with us in thirty years and tell us how the GOP is doing after the ongoing demographic change in the USA hits it full force like a tidal wave.
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It has already hit in TX and Hispanics aren't the brainwashed liberals you want them to be. TX still is a Conservative state with a large percentage of Hispanics voting for conservative principles rather than govt. dependence, massive govt. spending, and high debt
 
Conservative said:
The difference to me of course are the results and results matter except to a liberal. This is the most incompetent Administration in history and that is saying something. There isn't one economic result that Obama has that is better than Bush and his foreign policy accomplishments are a disaster.
The only thing he has going for him in the eyes of liberals is that he is transforming America into a European socialist economy and destroying our military.[
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And there isn't a damn thing that the losers on the right can do to stop him.
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shrubnose said:
Conservative said:
The difference to me of course are the results and results matter except to a liberal. This is the most incompetent Administration in history and that is saying something. There isn't one economic result that Obama has that is better than Bush and his foreign policy accomplishments are a disaster. /QUOTE]




And there isn't a damn thing that the losers on the right can do to stop him.
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We shall see in November. Want to wager on the outcome? What is it about high debt, high dependence, high unemployment, low economic growth that keeps people like you i the liberal camp?
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apdst said:
Any nation can be conquered.
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i don't feel that it's in the best interest of our nation to devote those kind of resources to occupy Afghanistan long term.
 
pbrauer said:
The two situations are quite different, the outing of the CIA agent in Afghanistan was done by mistake. The outing of Valerie Plame was done on purpose, but at the time the didn't know she was covert. They wanted to embarrass Joe Wilson.
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How would outing that his wife worked for the CIA "embarrass" him? Is having a spouse employed by the CIA embarrassing?
 
pbrauer said:
Oh, she was an agent, Patrick Fitzgerald said she was at the press conference the day Libby was indicted.
Transcript of Special Counsel Fitzgerald's Press Conference
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I am sure she was in harm's way going to work at the CIA daily. Again, if you believe what you believe why don't you condemn what the Obama Administration did in Afghanistan? Why is it that when anything happens in the Obama Administration you resort to finding something similar in the Bush Administration as if that justifies the action now?
 
Verax said:
More straw men, I don't support Obama in everything he does. American brought up Valerie Plame playing the victim card on the first page before anyone even said anything. You guys do this in every thread, you lay down every card before anyone even responds and then spend pages throwing a fit about every unfair meme you can muster. It's ludicrous.
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Oh please! :roll: Cry me a river of crocodile tears....I suppose liberal progressives NEVER play the victim.....:lamo
 
Conservative said:
It has already hit in TX and Hispanics aren't the brainwashed liberals you want them to be.
TX still is a Conservative state with a large percentage of Hispanics voting for conservative principles rather than govt. dependence, massive govt. spending, and high de
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That's right now. Come back in thirty years and tell us how the GOP is doing in Texas.
 
Helix said:
i don't feel that it's in the best interest of our nation to devote those kind of resources to occupy Afghanistan long term.
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Until the Taliban provides refuge to a terrorist army that murdered three-thousand Americans.
 
shrubnose said:
That's right now. Come back in thirty years and tell us how the GOP is doing in Texas.
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Aw, yes, so little faith in the American people who are already tired of liberalism with Obama. Guess high debt, high unemployment, high govt. dependence, and low economic growth aren't as popular as you seem to believe
 
pbrauer said:
He was questioned. There is something you folks don't get. Fitzgerald wasn't looking for the first person who leaked her identity, he wanted to know all of them and why they did it. He apparently was satisfied with Armitage's answer.

FITZGERALD: That's the way this investigation was conducted. It was known that a CIA officer's identity was blown, it was known that there was a leak. We needed to figure out how that happened, who did it, why, whether a crime was committed, whether we could prove it, whether we should prove it.

And given that national security was at stake, it was especially important that we find out accurate facts.​
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He was never questioned.
 
tres borrachos said:
How would outing that his wife worked for the CIA "embarrass" him? Is having a spouse employed by the CIA embarrassing?
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They were saying the reason he got the job to go to Niger was because his wife recommenced him.
 
apdst said:
Until the Taliban provides refuge to a terrorist army that murdered three-thousand Americans.
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there will always be terrorists, and not just in Afghanistan. it's time to rebuild our own country.
 
shrubnose said:
That's right now. Come back in thirty years and tell us how the GOP is doing in Texas.
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LOL !!

Well you guys have that.

Texas in 30 years.

Way to stay positive
 
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