Toonces, look oooooouuuuuuutttt!

Heartwarming to see the sudden concern among lefties for the CIA and its protocols.

There is no one at this site who thinks it’s okay to expose the secret identities/employment/cover of the nation’s spies or to put their lives in jeopardy through such exposure. Any suggestion to the contrary is simple false.

“the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent’s intelligence relationship to the United States”

Well, one problem I see is that if an agent is a “covert agent” under the statute in the first place, then almost BY DEFINITION there is an assumption that the US is concealing that relationship–why else would the agent be covert, for God sakes.

By including that requirement, it almost creates the possibility that there are some covert agents where the US is not taking “affirmative measures” to conceal the relationship(thus, no violation of the statute), and other situations where the US IS taking affirmative measures to conceal such relationship. So what does ‘”affirmative measures” and isn’t it intuitive that if one is ‘covert” the US is ALWAYS taking affirmative measures to conceal, by classifying the agent as covert in the first place.

The point is, the language of the statute is poorly drafted, fcreating ambiguities and making prosecutions difficult.

I hold no quarter for Toensing, but i’m an attorney–and ambiguities in sttautes create problems. Has anyone gone back to see if there is any legislative history on these issues?

Heartwarming to see the sudden concern among lefties for the CIA and its protocols.

Yeah baby, I’m feeling the love now—-

HotFlash @ 196
theExile @ 183
SP (at work) @ 131
The part of Toensing’s testimony that stood out to me the most was when she said something along the lines of “she listed the cover company Brewster Jennings on her tax returns! How covert was she trying to be?”

My response was to have an embolism and yell at my TV, “what do you think ‘cover company’ means, you moron?” Unfortunately I don’t recall anyone giving her a richly deserved smackdown for that one.
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Being not a RePuke Valerie probably filled out her tax returns HONESTLY also!
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Aren’t people’s tax returns confidential? How did Valerie’s W-2 get to be public knowledge? That’s a leak I have not seen addressed. Should be criminally actionable, or at least the hell should be investigated out of it.

and the Exile @234. You arent going to like this, then: Valerie’s W2 forms (the ones from Brewster Jennings) were shared by 2 ‘Senior White House Officials’ with Bob Novak “of all people.” This has been mentioned a few times. Someone suggested a referral to the IRS IG (with an annotated copy of Anatomy of Deceit) was in order. oops. lunchtime is definitely over.

So this is the win-win moment….

Let the Reformation of the Operations (or the fun) begin!!!