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Wednesday, October 01, 2003 Storm warning There may be a mighty big storm brewing, somewhere over Washington, well actually directly over the Whitehouse. Already wreaking havoc in the blogosphere — and on the move — so far there are stories in the Washington Post & the NY Times. Even Fox news has picked it up, although I hear they haven't quite got their spin right (but hey, give em time). All the info and links to blogs with more in-depth coverage are at Tom Tomorrow, including this summary of the story: At CIA Director George J. Tenet's request, the Justice Department is looking into an allegation that [Bush] administration officials leaked the name of an undercover CIA officer to a journalist, government sources said yesterday. The operative's identity was published in July after her husband, former U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, publicly challenged President Bush's claim that Iraq had tried to buy "yellowcake" uranium ore from Africa for possible use in nuclear weapons. Bush later backed away from the claim. The intentional disclosure of a covert operative's identity is a violation of federal law. The officer's name was disclosed on July 14 in a syndicated column by Robert D. Novak, who said his sources were two senior administration officials. Here's my understanding of all this: basically the allegation is that Bush's government outed a CIA operative for the purpose of discrediting her husband. Her husband was disputing George W's "Iraq has uranium" line. The administration officials were trying to imply that CIA operatives are inclined to be suspicious of anything, so no wonder the husband was raising doubts about the uranium claim. In the process they endangered the CIA operative's life and probably destroyed her ability to do her job, as well as breaching national security and breaking their own security laws. posted by Jojo | 9:10 AM Monday, September 29, 2003 Just when they were doing so well Breaking news from the SMH Online's IT section: Blogs - the latest web craze - are springing up everywhere these days. Including the inevitable definition — saved as autotext for use in all future blog related articles, I hope — Short for weblogs, blogs are online diaries penned by folks eager to share their thoughts, feelings or everyday lives with the rest of us. BTW — is Slashdot a "blog"? I thought it was a news site, in fact the biggest IT news site on the www. posted by Jojo | 1:43 PM |
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