CSPAN to Broadcast Hearing on Public Disclosure of Covert Agents
Ex-CIA Larry Johnson has written a memo about the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. Ray McGovern and nine others, all related to CIA, have signed on. (Thanks to Josh Marshall for posting it).
See Light Up the Darkness for information on a joint hearing on Friday, with the U.S. Senate Democratic Policy Committee (DPC) and the U.S. House Government Reform Committee Minority, to €œto examine the national security implications of disclosing the identity of a covert intelligence officer€. The hearing will be co-chaired by Senate DPC Chairman Byron Dorgan (D-ND), and U.S. Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA). Former intelligence officers and analysts will discuss the impact of such disclosures
WHEN: 10:00 AM, Friday, July 22, 2005 - (Tomorrow morning)
WHERE: Room 138 - Dirksen Senate Office Building, United States Senate, Washington, D.C.
At Kos, they’ve been appealing to CSPAN (politely) to cover the hearing.
CSPAN has responded positively, scheduling the airing of the live meeting on CSPAN3.
This will be the link for the LIVE broadcast online. Thanks to CSPAN for listening.
SEE BOSTON GLOBE - Ex-CIA officers rap Plame leak
OTHER PLAMEGATE UPDATES AROUND THE BLOGS:
Conservative media who lie for a hoped-for effect (see Donald Lambro’s latest willing cooperation with RNC talking points) are, in reality, sheltering a party and an ideology - national security be damned. I think we should be exposing these liars at every turn. Don’t allow to lie and crawl back under their rocks. Expose them to the light of day - send your tips to MEDIA MATTERS.
John Fund, Ken Mehlman, Mark Steyn, and others have falsely claimed that Wilson said his wife was not a clandestine agent, and the effects are showing in rightwing “news” made by either gullible sorts or partisans who just don’t care what’s true anymore.
Joe Gandelman, who spent many years as a professional journalist, has a blogpost about an Editor and Publisher article having to do, in part, with journalist malpractice, Judith Miller, and her “source”. Bottom line, Sam Smith, a professor of Journalism at St Bomaventure University says:
From where I sit, Miller went to jail not to protect the name of a source, but to protect the name of a former source who may be a felon. I share the concerns of journalists across the country. The press is under attack, and it’s a war that must be won. But this isn’t very good terrain from which to launch a counter-attack.
John Aravosis reports that the White House press corps went for McLellan hard today. He has a partial transcript.
