Plame book criticizes Bush, journalists

[sabra]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON - Former CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose 2003 outing touched off a White House leak scandal, said journalists hid behind the First Amendment after allowing themselves to be exploited by the Bush administration.

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She offers harsh words for President Bush, whom she assails for administration "arrogance and intolerance." She also said criticism of her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, was a "dress rehearsal" for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth effort that impugned Sen. John Kerry's war record during his unsuccessful quest for the presidency in 2004.

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Some of the details Plame had planned to offer, including discussion of her CIA career and her job responsibilities, are redacted in the book. Sometimes that means whole pages of blacked-out text. The CIA objected to the publication of this material and Plame lost a court fight to include them. CIA employees have to clear their writings with the agency.

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Plame has kind words for Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who led the leak investigation and forced several journalists to testify about their sources. She said she didn't understand why "well-meaning but self-righteous talking heads" decried that effort.

"It was the Pentagon Papers or Watergate turned on its head," she writes, adding, "These reporters were allowing themselves to be exploited by the administration and were obstructing the investigation. It didn't make much ethical sense to me."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071017/ap_on_go_ot/cia_leak_book_1

[SpiralHawk]

1. "reporters allow themselves to be exploited" Fer sure, because

there are damn few real journalists left, mainly we have corporate symp propaganda pimps working for The Man and The Buck

[Missy Vixen]

2. So much for the parties here

who insisted that the Wilsons were angry with Patrick Fitzgerald.

>Plame has kind words for Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who led the leak investigation and forced several journalists to testify about their sources. She said she didn't understand why "well-meaning but self-righteous talking heads" decried that effort.

"It was the Pentagon Papers or Watergate turned on its head," she writes, adding, "These reporters were allowing themselves to be exploited by the administration and were obstructing the investigation. It didn't make much ethical sense to me."<

If anyone knew what he was up against, it would be them.

Julie
still president for life of the PFEB

[Igel]

6. Ah, an ex-CIA agent

doesn't see why journalists and the press improperly argued for their own 1st Amendment rights instead of taking her side.

Some comments and attitudes are just too, um, characteristically spooky.

[G_j]

3. Plame criticizes Bush, media for leak scandal

Source: msnbc


Plame criticizes Bush, media for leak scandal
Uncovered CIA agent writes new memoir about spy flap fallout

Updated: 7:38 p.m. ET Oct 17, 2007
WASHINGTON - Four years after her CIA cover was blown in a newspaper column, Valerie Plame is settling scores with the Bush administration, Republican lawmakers and the journalists involved in the White House leak scandal.

Plame writes about the leak, the fallout and the perjury trial of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby in her memoir, “Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House.” The book is to be released Monday, but The Associated Press purchased it early.

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Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21352252/

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4. K & R

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5. K&R