Republicans Piss Off the CIA
Please feel free to view the entire letter a group of former CIA agents sent to Congress by clicking on this link. This letter has just become public. The important thing to note here is the following:
"The Republican National Committee has circulated talking points to supporters to use..."
The letter then goes on to discuss "talking points" the Republican National Committee has submitted to its members and examples of how those lies are being used in the media. The letter then goes on to say:
"These comments reveal an astonishing ignorance of the intelligence community and the role of cover. The fact is that there are thousands of U.S. intelligence officers who "work at a desk" in the Washington, D.C. area every day who are undercover. Some have official cover, and some have non-official cover. Both classes of cover must and should be protected."
The point here is, the RNC isn't worried about the damage they're doing to the intelligence community with these bogus comments. They only care about the political damage this Rove scandal is causing them. Just like their alleged "support for the troops" this is yet another example of Republican hypocrisy. I don't feel this way about all Republicans but I have to admit, I've never seen a bigger bunch of scumbags than those folks at the top, running that party. They all ought to be ashamed of themselves. The letter effectively is summed up by this paragraph:
"Our friends and colleagues have difficult jobs gathering the intelligence, which helps, for example, to prevent terrorist attacks against Americans at home and abroad. They sometimes face great personal risk and must spend long hours away from family and friends. They serve because they love this country and are committed to protecting it from threats from abroad and to defending the principles of liberty and freedom. They do not expect public acknowledgement for their work, but they do expect and deserve their government’s protection of their covert status."
UPDATE: At a Congessional hearing this afternoon, the point was driven home by these comments:
"What has suffered irreversible damage is the credibility of our case officers when they try to convince an overseas contact that their safety is of primary importance to us," Jim Marcinkowski, a former CIA case officer, said.
"Each time the political machine made up of prime-time patriots and partisan ninnies display their ignorance by deriding Valerie Plame as a mere paper pusher or belittling the varying degrees of cover used to protect our officers or continuing to play partisan politics with our national security, it's a disservice to this country," he added.
"The Republican National Committee has circulated talking points to supporters to use..."
The letter then goes on to discuss "talking points" the Republican National Committee has submitted to its members and examples of how those lies are being used in the media. The letter then goes on to say:
"These comments reveal an astonishing ignorance of the intelligence community and the role of cover. The fact is that there are thousands of U.S. intelligence officers who "work at a desk" in the Washington, D.C. area every day who are undercover. Some have official cover, and some have non-official cover. Both classes of cover must and should be protected."
The point here is, the RNC isn't worried about the damage they're doing to the intelligence community with these bogus comments. They only care about the political damage this Rove scandal is causing them. Just like their alleged "support for the troops" this is yet another example of Republican hypocrisy. I don't feel this way about all Republicans but I have to admit, I've never seen a bigger bunch of scumbags than those folks at the top, running that party. They all ought to be ashamed of themselves. The letter effectively is summed up by this paragraph:
"Our friends and colleagues have difficult jobs gathering the intelligence, which helps, for example, to prevent terrorist attacks against Americans at home and abroad. They sometimes face great personal risk and must spend long hours away from family and friends. They serve because they love this country and are committed to protecting it from threats from abroad and to defending the principles of liberty and freedom. They do not expect public acknowledgement for their work, but they do expect and deserve their government’s protection of their covert status."
UPDATE: At a Congessional hearing this afternoon, the point was driven home by these comments:
"What has suffered irreversible damage is the credibility of our case officers when they try to convince an overseas contact that their safety is of primary importance to us," Jim Marcinkowski, a former CIA case officer, said.
"Each time the political machine made up of prime-time patriots and partisan ninnies display their ignorance by deriding Valerie Plame as a mere paper pusher or belittling the varying degrees of cover used to protect our officers or continuing to play partisan politics with our national security, it's a disservice to this country," he added.
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