Information on Plame in memo was extra-Top Secret

[geek tragedy]

Per Keith Olbermann and John Harwood from the WSJ:

Memo was classified as Top Secret!

Plame section had special designation TS: NSF--Top Secret: Do not Share with Foreign Nationals

[Jacobin]

1. WSJ?!?!?! This story gets weirder and weirder

[geek tragedy]

2. They're the ones who broke the memo story earlier.

NSF is a big time super secret designation.

[Jacobin]

4. Losing track of the twists and turns of this thing

I just know that the WSJ is one of the biggest enablers of the criminal cabal in charge of the government. Worse than the Moonie Times

[sonicx]

9. i disagree. Moonie Times is worse...

In addition to their wingnut columnists, their reporting sucks and clearly bias most of the time.

[Jacobin]

10. Hard to distinguish on the editorial page

I remember the editor being interviewed after Enron crashed and he was asked about corruption in corporate management. He attributed the fall of Enron to the 'business cycle'..
:eyes:

It doesn't get much worse than that

[Shakespeare]

3. While the WSJ editorial board (and page) is very conservative...

...the rest of the paper is very even-handed, and some of the best reporting you'll find in a mainstream paper.

[Jacobin]

5. Used to subscribe until they started trying a coup d'etat with Clinton

over a blow job.

The editorial board is like the Moonie Times. They must be freaking out over the WSJ reporters

[BlueWolff]

6. Rove is BURNT TOAST LMAO

It is happening friends....The Chimps brain is going down...where and how we don't know...but he is going down!!!!!!

[Skittles]

11. he'll still run his dirtly work for bush from wherever he lives

but his stench is permeating the entire bush operation

[flyarm]

12. how about for a penetary for 10 years?? n/t

[Skittles]

13. I LIKE YO' STYLE FLYARM

:hi:

[BuyingThyme]

8. Yes, the editors exonerated Rove last week.

And now the lackeys are taking a turn.

[NancyG]

16. It's true that the rest of WSJ people are not conservative

On a cross-country Amtrak trip, I was seated in the dining car with an editor from the WSJ. I asked the same question about the conservative leanings of the paper. He said that it was only the editorial staff and the rest of the paper was quite liberal. He was, for sure.

[lovuian]

7. This is more than Plame this is Brewster & Jennings all the way!!!

Rove and Libby are so cooked and so are their Bosses!!!

Bush was there with all of them!!!

I'm betting on Colin Powell squeeling!!!

[writes2000]

14. Yes, we cannot forget Brewster & Jennings. It's the knockout punch.

[Pithy Cherub]

17. Powell has a bone to pick with Cheney & Rumsfeld.

The fight is going to spillover on Bush...Bolton was another Powell shot across the bow when Powell spoke to Voinovich privately regarding how awful Bolton was. Powell knew directly it was a Cheney appointment.

Pottery Barn Rules are back in play...
It doesn't absolve Powell of his UN performance, but hey let the elephants trample each other! They have to clean it up!

Powell to cheney: How do ya like me NOW...

[noamnety]

15. Ok, there is no "Extra" Top Secret

and no NSF. It was either S/NF or TS/NF. (NF usually pronounced NOFORN)

This Extra Top Secret is like getting information on "super double secret background."

I don't blame the OP, I blame KO and his guest who were happily butchering acronyms.

[Octafish]

18. Plame and Brewster, Jennings & Assoc were TOPS at fighting WMDs.

From what I've read and heard:

Cheney and Turd Blossom believed destroying Wilson's wife would put an end to the bureaucracy's opposition to their insane work. They were wrong. There are too many good people in government, officials with INTEGRITY.

Plame and her network worked to stop the spread of nukes out of the former Soviet Republics. She, working undercover for the brass plate company BJ&A developed a network of contacts and agents working in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Blowing her cover blew up the network and endangered the lives of all involved, as well as most anyone who came in contact with her and the company in the many nations they did "business." Gee. It was about as important an assignment as there is -- tracking the spread and stopping the flow of WMDs.

Perhaps if there's a trial, they'll beg for mercy: "I didn't know she was a CIA agent." In front of an honest judge or jury, it won't matter. Outting Plame and her Org severely damaged the national security of the United States.

Bad news for Rove and Cheney and Bush, too. Great news for the country. It's good to out TRAITORS.