----- Original Message ----- From: "John Lacny" <jlacny at earthlink.net> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 4:37 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Gary Hart is a dick
Some liberal bloggers are circulating this rancid op-ed from Gary Hart in a Colorado newspaper:
http://denverpost.com/opinion/ci_3147655
It recycles the long-discredited, contemptible lie that Philip Agee exposed Richard Welch as CIA station chief in Greece in the 1970s. (By the way, Agee won a defamation suit against Barbara Bush -- the old one with the pearls -- when she attempted to recycle this very same lie in her memoirs.) Hart also describes Welch as "a brilliant Harvard-educated classicist," which is a bit like praising Albert Speer's refined tastes, especially given the CIA's bloodstained involvement with the colonels. This is why I have a hard time getting worked up about the Plame mess. Rationally, I understand that the outing of Plame was part of an even more awful project that many in the CIA opposed at the time (the Iraq war). But viscerally, I support the outing of CIA agents on principle.
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