08-25-2008, 08:04 AM
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Originally posted by George...The point I was trying to make was that anonymous information has been the mainstay of reporting since the beginning of time. Think Deep Throat, think Organized Crime, think of any time you might know something about someone who can cause you or your family physical or economic harm and how willing you would be to disclose your name while you divulge the information about them. If you want an example of what happens when you put your name out look at Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame to see what can happen to you. In this case it's also wise to remember that Mr. Kenoi does, admittedly, have known associates who are convicted murderers. Knowing that would you be anxious to 1) get the police reports out and 2) keep your name a secret?
I dont think I have rose colored glasses but I do not even think Hilo politics is so important to be terrified of murderers. Again this is my opinion. You would have earned more believability from me in your reply if you had used an example at least from Hawaii.
You refering to this Valerie plame the CIA Operative and her husband Joe Wilson:
Valerie Plame Wilson,... the wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, IV, is a former United States CIA Operations Officer, whose covert identity was classified. After working for the CIA for twenty years, she retired in December 2005, as a result of the publication and compromising of her classified cover identity by an American journalist in the summer of 2003.
On 14 July 2003, Robert Novak identified "Wilson's wife" publicly as "an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction" named "Valerie Plame" in his syndicated column in The Washington Post. In that column Novak was responding to an op-ed entitled "What I Didn't Find in Africa," written by Wilson and published in the New York Times the previous week, on July 6, 2003. In his op-ed, Wilson stated that the George W. Bush administration exaggerated unreliable claims that Iraq intended to purchase uranium yellowcake from Niger to support the administration's arguments that Iraq was proliferating weapons of mass destruction so as to justify its preemptive war in Iraq.[10]
Novak's public disclosure of Mrs. Wilson's then-still-classified covert CIA identity as "Valerie Plame" precipitated what is known as the Plame affair.leading to the CIA leak grand jury investigation, which resulted in the indictment, conviction and commuted sentence by President Bush of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in United States v. Libby on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements to federal investigators.
As I read, Ms Plame aka Mrs Wilson is still alive, correct? And akamai voter isnt a CIA operative ? Or if they are Hilo really has gone big time! [}
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