Bush's Latest Treason, Redux

On PBS Newshour two nights ago, retired CIA agent Larry Johnson was interviewed
on the matter of his former co-worker's public "outing." What he said merits
repeating, at length:

"Let's be very clear about what happened. This is not an alleged abuse. This
is a confirmed abuse. I worked with this woman. She started training with me.
She has been undercover for three decades, she is not as Bob Novak suggested
a CIA analyst. She was put undercover for certain reasons. One, she works
in an area where people she meets with overseas could be compromised. When you
start tracing back who she met with, even people who innocently met with her,
who are not involved in CIA operations, could be compromised. For these journalists
to argue that this is no big deal (shakes head). If I hear another Republican
operative suggesting that well, this was just an analyst... fine, let them go
undercover. Let's put them overseas and let's out them and then see how they
like it. I say this as a registered Republican. I'm on record giving contributions
to the George Bush campaign. This is not about partisan politics. This is about
a betrayal, a political smear of an individual with no relevance to the story.
Publishing her name in that story added nothing to it. [Novak's] entire intent
was correctly as Ambassador Wilson noted: to intimidate, to suggest that there
was some impropriety, that somehow his wife was in a decision making position
to influence his ability to go over and savage a stupid policy, an erroneous
policy and frankly, what was a false policy of suggesting that there were nuclear
materials in Iraq that required this war. This was about a political attack.
To pretend that it's something else and to get into this parsing of words, I
tell you, it sickens me to be a Republican to see this."
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So, the symantics are clearly laid dead: not an analyst, not an alleged leak, not an Ambassador with an agenda.
Just simply a Ceasar and his court thinking nothing of the plebians in the service of the crown - expendable for shytes & giggles.