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Originally posted by Dave the Wonder Boy:
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Originally posted by Rob Kamphausen:


even worse, if his statements have backlashes with his higher ups, he's facing more serious consequences than simply being fired. i mean, the guy is more or less stuck in one of the least pleasant locales on the planet. and, the military isn't known for being too keen on dissenting opinoins.
I've heard some people saying that revealing the name of Wilson's wife was pretty much a "hit" being put out on her by the White House in retaliation for Wilson's op-ed peice. You just pretty much said the same thing, y'know. Dissenting or unpopular opinions and facts will be punished accordingly. Which sort of reminds me of Ann Coulter now that I think about it more...
That's misrepresentative.

Former Iraq ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife was not --and is not-- a CIA field agent, she's an analyst. There is some concern that some of the people she had meetings with in other countries could be compromised, but even that is a longshot.

And there is also no evidence that the person who leaked her identity to reporter Robert Novak thought she was a field agent. For the leak to be a criminal offense, the source leaking her name would have to know that she was a field agent to be guilty of criminal behavior. (See the Wall Street Journal editorial I posted above in its entirety, at the bottom of page 10 of this topic.)
After watching Meet the Press it does really look like somebody was doing a little payback in response to Wilson contradicting the company line. At one point Novak was saying he was "weakly" asked not to use Wilson's wife name. And her status as far as I can tell was covert & could affect anyone she had contact with. Whoever gave her name up needs to step up & do the right thing.