Everyone please Email Crossfire about Traitor Novack

[Carl21014]

Look at the incredible gall of this guy! He seems to pick and choose when to hide behind his journalistic standards.

Insider Leaks to Reporters Spread as CIA Turns Wary on Iraq

By E&P Staff

Published: September 29, 2004 11:00 AM EDT

NEW YORK Conditions in Iraq appear to be deteriorating so badly that CIA officials are now leaking to reporters left and right, signaling a new dynamic in press coverage of the war. Columnist Robert Novak noted this on Monday in a column titled, "Is CIA at War With Bush?"

The latest example: today's Washington Post, which includes a lengthy article by veteran war-at-home watchers Dana Priest and Thomas E. Ricks, based mainly on anonymous insider comments. They explain that many interviewed would only talk anonymously, "either because they don't have official authorization to speak or because they worry about ramifications of criticizing top administration officials."

Priest and Ricks write, "A growing number of career professionals within national security agencies believe that the situation in Iraq is much worse, and the path to success much more tenuous, than is being expressed in public by top Bush administration officials, according to former and current government officials and assessments over the past year by intelligence officials at the CIA and the departments of State and Defense.

"While President Bush, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and others have delivered optimistic public appraisals, officials who fight the Iraqi insurgency and study it at the CIA and the State Department and within the Army officer corps believe the rebellion is deeper and more widespread than is being publicly acknowledged, officials say."

"People at the CIA 'are mad at the policy in Iraq because it's a disaster, and they're digging the hole deeper and deeper and deeper,' said one former intelligence officer who maintains contact with CIA officials. 'There's no obvious way to fix it. The best we can hope for is a semi-failed state hobbling along with terrorists and a succession of weak governments.'

"'Things are definitely not improving,' said one U.S. government official who reads the intelligence analyses on Iraq.

"'It is getting worse,' agreed an Army staff officer who served in Iraq and stays in touch with comrades in Baghdad through e-mail. 'It just seems there is a lot of pessimism flowing out of theater now. There are things going on that are unbelievable to me. They have infiltrators conducting attacks in the Green Zone. That was not the case a year ago.'"

On Monday, columnist Novak criticized the CIA and Paul Pillar, a national intelligence officer. Novak said comments Pillar made about Iraq during a private dinner in California showed that he and others at the CIA are at war with the president. Pillar had not spoken for the record, but Novak published his remarks and name anyway., noting that he is "no covert operative."

Novak also charged that "the CIA bureaucracy wants a license to criticize the president....without being held accountable."

In their article on Wednesday, Priest and Ricks quote a CIA official saying, "I'm not surprised if people in the administration were put on the defensive. We weren't trying to make them look bad, we're just trying to give them information. Of course, we're telling them something they don't want to hear."

And an Army staff officer told the two Post reporters, "They keep telling us that Iraqi security forces are the exit strategy, but what I hear from the ground is that they aren't working," he said. "There's a feeling that Iraqi security forces are in cahoots with the insurgents and the general public to get the occupiers out."


My Email to CrossFire
Robert Novack is a traitor to his country for political purposes.

On Monday, columnist Novak criticized the CIA and Paul Pillar, a national intelligence officer. Novak said comments Pillar made about Iraq during a private dinner in California showed that he and others at the CIA are at war with the president. Pillar had not spoken for the record, but Novak published his remarks and name anyway., noting that he is "no covert operative."

I think Mr. Novack got confused and flushed his excuse for not revealing which White House staffer outed CIA agent Valerie Plame.

Maybe Mr. Novack forgot in the first instance he didn't protect the identity of the "Covert Agent", he protected the traitor to our country who was committing a felony by revealing the identity of Ms. Plame. Then Mr. Novack assisted that traitor by putting the "Covert Operatives" name in his column.

Since Mr. Novack is willing to abandon journalistic principles to protect sources when it benefits the GOP, perhaps he can abandon those same principles for the benefit of our country, and help put the traitor who outed Ms. Plame behind bars.

Since Mr. Novack has no principles I already know what his answer will be, but perhaps CNN can show some integrity and at least point out the incredible hypocrisy of Mr. Novack.

Carl Smith

[molly]

1. Novack is nuts and looks like an owl

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2. the bright side...

The CIA has successfully rigged countless elections abroad. Perhaps it is time to "insource" those skills.

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3. Also (second post in this thread)

I know two analysts for the "company." At a party a while back, I asked one what he made of the whole, "blame the CIA" thing the White House was putting out. His reply was classic:

Maybe if we had presented it to him in coloring book form he would have understood it.

[othermeans]

4. ROFL I knew the CIA had a sense of humor

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5. Both of the people I know

are flaming liberals.

[DemWitch]

6. Right now Noval thinks he is untouchable

and can get away with murder because he has Karl Rove's hand up his ass playing puppetmaster. What Novka fails to understand, is that when the chips begin to fall, he will be left out on his own little limb to crash and burn by himself to insulate the administration he is such a whore for now.

And I say good. He is willingly letting himself be used by a corrupt and self serving administration, thinking he's going to benefit from it.

And CNN should fire his ass, but doesn't have the balls to.