[Peace-discuss] Plame Flame

[C. G. Estabrook]

FEDERATION OF FORTUNE 500 KILLERS - The Glorious Revolutionary
Federation of Fortune 500 Killers condemned what it called
"the pathetic left and liberal celebration and hysteria over
Karl Rove's alleged outing of Valerie Plame as CIA agent." A
Federation spokesperson continued: "The left's vilification of
Rove over this issue has sunk its members to the level of the
liberals: more interesting in scoring political points than
maintaining their political integrity.". . .

Liberals and leftists have taken to their blogs, churning out
their most feverish anti-Rove caricatured rhetoric. More
self-righteous blogs equated a petty political leak to
"treason." "Traitor," screeched Buzzflash.com, a favorite
liberal cyber-masturbatory zone. Rove "betrayed national
security," Buzzflash continued, in apparent tribute to the
paranoid style of Ann Coulter, Daniel Pipes, David Horowitz.

Yet the Federation recalls a time decades ago when revealing
the names of CIA and FBI agents was actually something in
which the left took pride. These were agencies that subverted
democratically elected regimes abroad, aided tyrants, helped
harbor Nazis, and bugged dissidents inside and outside of the
United States. . . They continue into more recent times,
notably with the CIA's demonstrable involvement in crack
importation to inner cities and the failed 2002 coup against
Venezuela's leftist leader Hugo Chavez.

Amidst the contemptible left-liberal-centrist squawking over
Karl Rove's alleged involvement in the Plame affair, the
Federation wonders why the left cares so much about the
safety, the confidentiality, and the security of employees for
an institution that displays repeated contempt for values the
left supposedly champions. Plame-like CIA agent "outings"
should be far more common, as they were in the heyday of the
(apparently forgotten) Covert Action Information Bulletin,
which published more than 1,000 CIA agent names. Now, the left
co-opts the patriotic framing of the right and declares CIA
"outing" a "treasonous" act to score political points. The
twilight of its integrity nears. Real-world problems continue
as the pundits and the bloggers spread trivial gossip.

If Rove is indeed unmasked as the Plame leaker in the coming
weeks, the Federation has announced that it will mail him a
$15 award and plaque, honoring him for "potentially disrupting
the work of one of the most rogue agencies the world has ever
seen."

[The Glorious Revolutionary Federation of Fortune 500 Killers
is a student group at Columbia]

http://prorev.com/2005/07/plame-flame.htm