by antiaristo » Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:00 am
Then there is this<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Leak of Agent's Name Causes Exposure of CIA Front Firm<br><br>By Walter Pincus and Mike Allen<br>Washington Post Staff Writers<br>Saturday, October 4, 2003; Page A03 <br><br>The leak of a CIA operative's name has also exposed the identity of a CIA front company, potentially expanding the damage caused by the original disclosure, Bush administration officials said yesterday. <br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The company's identity, Brewster-Jennings & Associates, became public because it appeared in Federal Election Commission records on a form filled out in 1999 by Valerie Plame, the case officer at the center of the controversy, when she contributed $1,000 to Al Gore's presidential primary campaign. <br></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br>After the name of the company was broadcast yesterday, administration officials confirmed that it was a CIA front. They said the obscure and possibly defunct firm was listed as Plame's employer on her W-2 tax forms in 1999 when she was working undercover for the CIA.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A40012-2003Oct3?language=printer">www.washingtonpost.com/ac...ge=printer</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>I would LOVE a hero to come out of all this. America NEEDS heroes at this juncture. I just don't see Wilson/Plame in that light.<br> <p></p><i></i>