CIA's Tenet was 'furious' over leak, Chuck Schumer says

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CIA's Tenet was 'furious' over leak, Schumer says (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1449003/posts)
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The Buffalo (NY) Times ^ (http://www.freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050723/1063162.asp) | July 23, 2005 | Douglas Turner</small>


WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., revealed Friday that two years ago he discussed the blown cover of CIA operative Valerie Plame with then CIA director George Tenet and that Tenet "was furious." Tenet promptly called the Justice Department to demand an investigation into who in the Bush administration leaked Plame's identity to columnist Robert Novak, Schumer said at a hearing held by House and Senate Democrats.

Novak revealed Plame's identity in July 2003 in a column in which he said she played a key role in having her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, sent to Niger to investigate reports that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had tried to buy materials for a nuclear weapon there.

The Democratic panel heard from five former CIA operatives who said the disclosure of Plame's classified identity was a breach of the law that forbids government officials from revealing the identity of an undercover intelligence officer and a violation of trust that has harmed America's intelligence-gathering capabilities.


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[aaron11]

:bsflag:

[Warlady]

I will bet money this is a lie.

[DoctorDoom]

If it came from the sneering lips of Chuckie S, it's a lie by definition. The RATs are self-destructing. We should sit back with our popcorn and watch the fun.

[Warlady]

I am. But I prefer a glass of wine or a salty dog and peanuts.

[Naturalized-Texan]

Plame was NOT an undercover agent and hadn't been for more than 5 years.

Again with emphasis:

Plame was NOT an undercover agent and hadn't been for more than 5 years.

[Venus de Smilo]

I will bet money this is a lie.

That's my take, too.

If Tenet was mad, my bet it was about someone in his department authorizing an unqualified pol be sent because he's the spouse of a pro-'rat employee and then allowed to publish a story about it, plus lie and say it was the VP who requested it.

Don't forget Bush kept tenet on when most said he should have been fired.

I also don't think Schemer would have withheld the conversation this long if it was true.

[Venus de Smilo]

I also see the 'rats are now releasing - or, rather recycling - statements made by Larry Johnson, former CIA and State Department official. Only thing is, he made the statements two years ago. In view of the this and the tenet thing, it looks like the 'rats are going back to the well of nasty comments made about the administration from a couple years ago when it was thought Rove did it and did it out of malice.

[DesertFox]

Well, you know what the man said:

Lies and the lying liars who tell them.





Wait. That one was of their guys.