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Institutional rivalries and political loyalties have fostered an intelligence officer's resentment against the governme nt. Suddenly, an opportunity appears for the agent to undercut the natio nal leadership. A vital question of intelligence forms the core justific ation for controversial military actions by the current leaders. If this agent can get in the middle of that question, distort that information and make it public, the agent might foster regime change in the upcoming election. They can't purposely distort gathered intelligence, go public with secret information or use their position or information to manipulate domestic elections or matters without risking their job or jail. The agent realizes her spouse can go out on behalf of the spy agency, can distort information, go public with classified information and use all this spy-agency-sponsored material and credentials to try to pull down t he current government, and it is all perfectly legal. Suppose the spouse adds just one more brilliant, well-aimed lie: claim yo ur foremost political opponent put the spouse up to the trip. As your sp ouse uses your agency's name to mount attacks, your enemy may fall into your trap. Will your enemy suffer your spouse's lies or take the bait an d try to clarify his non-role? If he tells the press he didn't hire your spouse, the press will demand to know, "Then who did?" Instead of you violating secrecy laws, it is your victim who is guilty be cause he tried to set the record straight. It sounds unbelievable, a fiction, perhaps to be called "To Sting a King. This is the story behind Valerie Plame, Joe Wils on and the Bush administration. And it appears that Plame and Wilson wil l get away with the biggest sting operation ever. No one seems to care that our intelligence agency has crippled our presid ent. Recall the dozens of times the Washington Post and The New York Times c arried his lies on the front page, above the fold. The conclusive story discrediting Wilson was buried 6 feet deep, back by the obituaries. To the media, it doesn't matter that the Senate Select Committee on Intel ligence says Wilson lied about what he did and with whom he met while in vestigating Iraqi attempts to purchase "yellowcake" uranium. To the media, it doesn't matter that the CIA says what Wilson did actuall y find supported that Iraq was attempting to buy the uranium a direct contradiction to Wilson's public claims. To the media, it doesn't matter that he claimed the vice president assign ed him to the uranium investigation when we all know now it was his wife . Some absurdly claim that Plame had nothing to do with her husband's polit ical activities against President Bush. Plame could not have done what Wilson did and gotten away with it. Wilson could not have done what he did without Plame giving him a way to do it. We can't let the CIA become the domestic dirty tricks shop, with Republican and Democratic agents each trying to pull d own their opposing presidents. Any family member of a CIA agent tapped to help out must live by the same rules regarding information disclosure and domest ic political manipulations as those imposed on the agent. If the family member fails to live by those rules, the agent is terminated. But who ever thoug ht that the flexibility given to CIA agents would be misused to destabil ize a US president? Zell Miller is a former Georgia governor and US senator.
View Replies To: Jewels1091 Thanks for posting, I didn't see it earlier today. Now if only t his article would be discussed on the Senate Floor, read into the senate record, and someone take action on it.
Any family member of a CIA agent tapped to help out Must first join the CIA, take the training, and be selected for some futu re mission. The current employee who recommends a spouse should be immed iatly cashiered.
View Replies To: Jewels1091 "But who ever thought that the flexibility given to CIA agents would be m isused to destabilize a US president? I think some people have feared this for decades, and worse. Wasn't it JF K who vowed to 'scatter the cia to the wind"? When he was assassinated t here was a lot of talk about the cia being involved.
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