When a member of the Bush administration leaked to columnist Robert Novak that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent, he was engaging in a time-honored tradition of character assassination (Plame's husband) and the promotion of a patent falsehood (yellowcake uranium) for political ends (the Iraq [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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This is so bad when people are exposing the CIA. They are very important people and they need their identity disclosed.
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When the Bush administration leaked to columnist Robert Novak that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent, this was so bad. How can you risk someones life like this. Nobody should ever know when sonebody is a CIA agent. These risk their lives for us and then some bone head blows your disguise. This guy should be prosecuted.
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This book looks like a great read. There are so many instances in todays news of ‘rumour’ distributed as fact. It will be interesting to read how this is not a recent phenomenon -
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