Comments on: Let’s go through this again http://www.virtualthought.net/2006/04/06/lets-go-through-this-again/ My Clever Tagline™ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:59:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Kristin http://www.virtualthought.net/2006/04/06/lets-go-through-this-again/#comment-487 Kristin Thu, 04 May 2006 13:35:47 +0000 http://www.virtualthought.net/2006/04/06/lets-go-through-this-again/#comment-487 And now this shows up in the news: http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002462623 Somehow I just don't feel any sympathy for this woman and her husband. This "leak" really did her career a world of good, didn't it? And now this shows up in the news:

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002462623

Somehow I just don’t feel any sympathy for this woman and her husband. This “leak” really did her career a world of good, didn’t it?

]]> By: David http://www.virtualthought.net/2006/04/06/lets-go-through-this-again/#comment-398 David Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:47:28 +0000 http://www.virtualthought.net/2006/04/06/lets-go-through-this-again/#comment-398 I think even that corroboration breaks the law since any government entity (employees, say) had to keep her identity confidential. That's the core of it. And, yeah, it's absolutely politically motivated on both sides! That's what makes me so sick of all this... I think Plame's husband did the right thing (Iraq did not purchase "Yellocake" from Niger and we had to know) but then this whole thing devolved into some political mess where we're really showing our best characteristics. / = I think even that corroboration breaks the law since any government entity (employees, say) had to keep her identity confidential. That’s the core of it.

And, yeah, it’s absolutely politically motivated on both sides! That’s what makes me so sick of all this… I think Plame’s husband did the right thing (Iraq did not purchase “Yellocake” from Niger and we had to know) but then this whole thing devolved into some political mess where we’re really showing our best characteristics. / =

]]> By: Kristin http://www.virtualthought.net/2006/04/06/lets-go-through-this-again/#comment-392 Kristin Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:42:03 +0000 http://www.virtualthought.net/2006/04/06/lets-go-through-this-again/#comment-392 I understand what your saying, but my point is how do we know that the reporter didn't find out about Plame another way and only corroborate it with the aide? I can't imagine that any story for the press is done linearly. Information is collected over a period of time. I just can't be that outraged when her supposed 'secret' status was not all that secret after all. Exactly what was illegal here? Maybe I just don't understand the whole chronology of events that led up to Plame's outing in the news. The other thing you have to remember that so much of this is politically motivated. Plame's husband was no fan of the Bush Administration. He pushed the issue when it wasn't headline news...and guess what? It became headline news! How is this keeping his wife safe? I understand what your saying, but my point is how do we know that the reporter didn’t find out about Plame another way and only corroborate it with the aide? I can’t imagine that any story for the press is done linearly. Information is collected over a period of time.

I just can’t be that outraged when her supposed ‘secret’ status was not all that secret after all. Exactly what was illegal here? Maybe I just don’t understand the whole chronology of events that led up to Plame’s outing in the news.

The other thing you have to remember that so much of this is politically motivated. Plame’s husband was no fan of the Bush Administration. He pushed the issue when it wasn’t headline news…and guess what? It became headline news! How is this keeping his wife safe?

]]> By: David http://www.virtualthought.net/2006/04/06/lets-go-through-this-again/#comment-384 David Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:11:56 +0000 http://www.virtualthought.net/2006/04/06/lets-go-through-this-again/#comment-384 It's a matter of the source and scale. Who're you going to believe in matters of super secret spy stuff: someone's neighbor or the aide to the Vice President of the United States? How many more people listen when the aide talks than the neighbor? It's that kind of thing that makes the leak things news... IMHO. ( = I try to be very concious of the whole "security vs. liberty" debate so I'm not sure that the CIA should be disappearing agents or people who know about them... so that's my first solution out the window. I don't know what else to do, though... It’s a matter of the source and scale. Who’re you going to believe in matters of super secret spy stuff: someone’s neighbor or the aide to the Vice President of the United States? How many more people listen when the aide talks than the neighbor? It’s that kind of thing that makes the leak things news… IMHO. ( =

I try to be very concious of the whole “security vs. liberty” debate so I’m not sure that the CIA should be disappearing agents or people who know about them… so that’s my first solution out the window. I don’t know what else to do, though…

]]> By: Kristin http://www.virtualthought.net/2006/04/06/lets-go-through-this-again/#comment-375 Kristin Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:13:04 +0000 http://www.virtualthought.net/2006/04/06/lets-go-through-this-again/#comment-375 I go with your last statement. I read somewhere that Plame's own neighbors knew she worked for the CIA. And then she goes overseas as some innocuous wife of a diplomat? Yeah, right. As if anyone with any sense couldn't figure out she was still employed for the CIA when in Africa. If her neighbors knew, then why is this whole 'leak' thing any kind of news? To me, it is no news at all. I go with your last statement. I read somewhere that Plame’s own neighbors knew she worked for the CIA. And then she goes overseas as some innocuous wife of a diplomat? Yeah, right. As if anyone with any sense couldn’t figure out she was still employed for the CIA when in Africa.

If her neighbors knew, then why is this whole ‘leak’ thing any kind of news? To me, it is no news at all.

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