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Yeah, duh, I’ve known this about her for several years.  The woman was amazing.  She not only served in the OSS, she served in the fucking China Burma India Theatre, with all that humiditiy and malaria and funk.  She was married to a U.S. diplomat to France, who also happened to be one of her compatriots in the OSS.  and enrolled at Le Cordon Bleu because she hated sitting around doing nothing as a diplomat’s wife, and excelled despite the fact that the instructors resented her being an American and a woman, and ignored her.  She cooked for President Eisenhower, IIRC.  The woman kicked ass.

She could bring home the bacon,
Fry it up in a pan,
In more ways than one!

Without an honest exchange of ideas, how can a mind grow?

Next thing ya know your gonna tell us that some hot movie star chick and a piano player invented a way to manipulate radio frequencies between transmission and reception to develop an unbreakable code so that top-secret messages could not be intercepted and because of that we won the war.

Telling one lie or even consistently lying about one subject…doesn’t make you a liar…

robert108 on May 18, 2009 at 03:23 pm

“You have absolutely no reason, none, to trust our word or our actions at this point.”

Titular gop Head Mr. Steele

Spies are very rarely the people you would expect them to be.

I read of Julia Child’s involvement with OSS some years ago, I’ll try to dig that book out of the stacks.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

A true patriot.  They come in all stripes and colors.

Communism is evil

Spies are very rarely the people you would expect them to be.

A true patriot.  They come in all stripes and colors.

Telling one lie or even consistently lying about one subject…doesn’t make you a liar…

robert108 on May 18, 2009 at 03:23 pm

“You have absolutely no reason, none, to trust our word or our actions at this point.”

Titular gop Head Mr. Steele

This information was put out by NPR in 2002.  Not to put down Julia Child or her work (public or secret), but aside from being married to a diplomat who was an active OSS operative, the extent of her activity was to help devise a shark repellant for mines.

Funny one, RBB!
But she wasn’t a spy, but a paper pusher.

Without an honest exchange of ideas, how can a mind grow?

RebTex you’re __________________ and _____________ besides being_____.

Telling one lie or even consistently lying about one subject…doesn’t make you a liar…

robert108 on May 18, 2009 at 03:23 pm

“You have absolutely no reason, none, to trust our word or our actions at this point.”

Titular gop Head Mr. Steele

RBB
I see your “____________” & imply that you’re a __________,a _________, & a bit of a ____________.

Without an honest exchange of ideas, how can a mind grow?

RBB,

Come on, bob….you could have picked a better example than that. The only thing she was interested in was her own self-promotion. She’s a fluffy, disdainful creature and couldn’t wash dishes for someone like Child.

Her appeal was just denied, too, by the way. Loser.

The future ain’t what it used to be…..

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I don’t know if you nutters know who Michael Hayden is but he thinks Valerie Plame was a covert agent.

Telling one lie or even consistently lying about one subject…doesn’t make you a liar…

robert108 on May 18, 2009 at 03:23 pm

“You have absolutely no reason, none, to trust our word or our actions at this point.”

Titular gop Head Mr. Steele

Hey RBB, how is that Plame lawsuit going, by the way?

Oh that’s right . . . DISMISSED, yet again.

Oh, and the prosecution for blowing Plame’s supposed cover?

Non-existent!

No toys for you on Fitzmas.

I didn’t think you would know who Hayden is.

Must be nice for you nutters living in a fact free world.

Telling one lie or even consistently lying about one subject…doesn’t make you a liar…

robert108 on May 18, 2009 at 03:23 pm

“You have absolutely no reason, none, to trust our word or our actions at this point.”

Titular gop Head Mr. Steele

Hayden is the CIA director, RBB.

Gee, I even blogged about it way back when.

http://www.willisms.com/archives/2006/05/lt_general_mich.html

You were saying, RBB?

“SEATED at the Washington Gridiron dinner March 31, I was interrupted by a man crouching at my feet who was dressed Air Force formal with the four stars of a full general. It was CIA Director Michael Hayden, who complained to me profanely that my column had misrepresented him in the Valerie Plame Wilson case. Denying he favors Democrats, Gen. Hayden indicated to me he had not authorized Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman to say Plame had been a “covert” CIA employee, as he claimed Hayden did, but only that she was “undercover.”

At the Gridiron, Hayden made similar points with Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the House Intelligence Committee’s ranking Republican; Republican lawyer Victoria Toensing, an expert in national-security law; and White House Counsel Fred Fielding. Yet, 10 days later, the CIA and its director asserted to me that the wife of Bush critic Joseph Wilson indeed had been “covert.” The designation could strengthen erroneous claims that she came under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.

Nobody ever will be prosecuted under the act for revealing Mrs. Wilson worked for the CIA. But Hayden has raised GOP suspicions that he is angling to become intelligence czar - director of national intelligence - under a Democratic president. While Hayden proclaims himself free of politics, his handling of the Plame case is puzzling.”
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04122007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/cia_chiefs_plame_games_opedcolumnists_robert_d__novak.htm

Without an honest exchange of ideas, how can a mind grow?

Statement of Rep. Henry A. Waxman
Chairman, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Hearing on Disclosure of CIA
Agent Valerie Plame Wilson’s Identity and White House Procedures for Safeguarding
Classified Information
March 16,2007

I have been advised by the CIA that even now, after all that has happened, I cannot disclose
the full nature, scope, and character of Ms. Wilson’s service to our nation without causing serious
damage to our national security interests.

But General Hayden and the CIA have cleared these following comments for today’s hearing.

During her employment at the CIA, Ms. Wilson was under cover.

Her employment status with the CIA was classified information prohibited fiom disclosure under Executive Order 12958.

At the time of the publication of Robert Novak’s column on July 14,2003, Ms. Wilson’s CIA employment status was covert.

This was classified information.

Ms. Wilson served in senior management positions at the CIA, in which she oversaw the work of other CIA employees, and she attained the level of GS-14, step 6 under the federal pay scale.

Ms. Wilson worked on some of the most sensitive and highly secretive matters handled by the CIA.

Ms. Wilson served at various times overseas for the CIA.

Without discussing the specifics of Ms. Wilson’s classified work, it is accurate to say that she worked on the prevention of the development and use of weapons of mass destruction against the United States.

In her various positions at the CIA, Ms. Wilson faced significant risks to her personal safety and her life.

She took on serious risks on behalf of her country.
Ms. Wilson’s work in many situations had consequences for the security of her colleagues, and maintaining her cover was critical to protecting the safety of both colleagues and others.

The disclosure of Ms. Wilson’s employment with the CIA had several serious effects.

First, it terminated her covert job opportunities with CIA.
Second, it placed her professional contacts at greater risk.
And third, it undermined the trust and confidence with which future CIA employees and sources hold the United States.

This disclosure of Ms. Wilson’s classified employment status with the CIA was so detrimental that the CIA filed a crimes report with the Department of Justice.

As I mentioned, Ms. Wilson’s work was so sensitive that even now, she is still prohibited from discussing many details of her work in public because of the continuing risk to CIA officials and assets in the field and to the CIA’S ongoing work.

Some have suggested that Ms. Wilson did not have a sensitive position with the CIA or a position of unusual risk.

As a CIA employee, Ms. Wilson has taken a life-long oath to protect classified information, even after her CIA employment has ended.

As a result, she cannot respond to most of the statements made about her.

I want to make clear, however, that any characterization that minimizes the personal risk Ms. Wilson accepted in her assignments is flatly wrong.

There should be no confusion on this point.

Ms. Wilson has provided great service to our nation and has fulfilled her obligation to protect classified information admirably.

We are confident that she will uphold it again today.

That concludes the characterizations that the CIA is permitting us to make today.

Telling one lie or even consistently lying about one subject…doesn’t make you a liar…

robert108 on May 18, 2009 at 03:23 pm

“You have absolutely no reason, none, to trust our word or our actions at this point.”

Titular gop Head Mr. Steele

At least it’s good to see that they finally got their story worked out & straight.

Without an honest exchange of ideas, how can a mind grow?

Thank you.

I accept your acquiescence.

Telling one lie or even consistently lying about one subject…doesn’t make you a liar…

robert108 on May 18, 2009 at 03:23 pm

“You have absolutely no reason, none, to trust our word or our actions at this point.”

Titular gop Head Mr. Steele

RBB
No problem.
I just hope she correctly marked all those raw DNA samples she took.

/Ok…I’m just kidding

Without an honest exchange of ideas, how can a mind grow?

Oh, if Henry Waxman says it, case closed!

Hey RBB, where are the indictments for blowing Plame’s cover?

Oh that’s right, they don’t exist!

Ken, I know you aren’t the best reader and that a long post confuses you, so I will give you the important bits…sound OK?

OK!

•  …General Hayden and the CIA have cleared these following comments for today’s hearing.

•  During her employment at the CIA, Ms. Wilson was under cover.

•  At the time of the publication of Robert Novak’s column on July 14, 2003, Ms. Wilson’s CIA employment status was covert.

•  This disclosure of Ms. Wilson’s classified employment status with the CIA was so detrimental that the CIA filed a crimes report with the Department of Justice.

•  I want to make clear, however, that any characterization that minimizes the personal risk Ms. Wilson accepted in her assignments is flatly wrong.

•  That concludes the characterizations that the CIA is permitting us to make today.

Telling one lie or even consistently lying about one subject…doesn’t make you a liar…

robert108 on May 18, 2009 at 03:23 pm

“You have absolutely no reason, none, to trust our word or our actions at this point.”

Titular gop Head Mr. Steele

Yeah . . . okay, where are those indictments, RBB?

Is Hayden a Justice Department lawyer?

Why no, no he isn’t.

Thank you.

I accept your acquiescence.

Telling one lie or even consistently lying about one subject…doesn’t make you a liar…

robert108 on May 18, 2009 at 03:23 pm

“You have absolutely no reason, none, to trust our word or our actions at this point.”

Titular gop Head Mr. Steele

Acquiese what, RBB?

Those indictments . . . where are they?

CIA fact:

At the time of the publication of Robert Novak’s column on July 14, 2003, Ms. Wilson’s CIA employment status was covert.

From the dismissal:

Because the Wilsons have failed to state constitutional … claims for which relief may be granted and failed to exhaust their administrative remedies as required … we affirm the judgment of the district court dismissing the Wilsons’ amended complaint in its entirety,” the court said.

Re: They need better lawyers
They haven’t finished up with other avenues of redress.

Telling one lie or even consistently lying about one subject…doesn’t make you a liar…

robert108 on May 18, 2009 at 03:23 pm

“You have absolutely no reason, none, to trust our word or our actions at this point.”

Titular gop Head Mr. Steele

Ken,
please pay no attention to RBB.
You see, sometimes old people have this condition called Alzheimer’s Disease.
Symptoms of this debilitating and invariably fatal illness include but are not limited to: loss of short term memory, belligerence, speaking in non sequiturs, inability to conform to social mores, an inclination to wander aimlessly, and a severe propensity to live in the past.
Such people are, sadly, prisoners of their own minds, and there is very little that can be done for them other than to make them comfortable in their declining days as they slowly wind down and stop.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday, liberals are the reason why.

rbb is stupid because he’s a leftie.  Lefties lie about their real agenda in this country(not in China, though), and because they are “feelers” rather than thinkers, they fall for an ideology that assuages their feelings.
rbb is just another “useful idiot” for the commie cause.

If govt control of the economy were the way to go, the Soviet Union would be the richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world.

Thanks to Obama, America remains the only country where it is illegal to drill our own oil!

true, i was trying to be kind.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday, liberals are the reason why.

108 is stupid because he’s a rightie.  Righties lie about their real agenda in this country (not in China, though), and because they are “thieves” rather than thinkers, they worship profit over people.
108 is just another “useful idiot” for the fascist cause.

Telling one lie or even consistently lying about one subject…doesn’t make you a liar…

robert108 on May 18, 2009 at 03:23 pm

“You have absolutely no reason, none, to trust our word or our actions at this point.”

Titular gop Head Mr. Steele

Little kid “originality”; you’re at your own level, rbb.
You lefties are the fascists; conservatives believe in individual independence.

If govt control of the economy were the way to go, the Soviet Union would be the richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world.

Thanks to Obama, America remains the only country where it is illegal to drill our own oil!

108 is stupid because he’s a rightie.

Says the dimbulb who says that historical inaccuracies are “technically true”!

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