{"id":5357,"date":"2007-11-26T08:23:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T16:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2007-11-26T10:29:13","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T18:29:13","slug":"fox-anchor-traitors-who-betrayed-us-anti-terror-secrets-deserve-a-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=5357","title":{"rendered":"Fox &#8216;News&#8217; Anchor: Traitor Who Betrayed US Anti-Terror Secrets Deserves a Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pensitoreview.com\/\">Pensito Review<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gibson_John_11-26-07.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\">In 1999, former Pres. George Bush famously said, &#8220;I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John Gibson, the Fox &#8220;News&#8221; anchor, takes an opposite view. He says he wants <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,162335,00.html\">to &#8220;give a medal&#8221;<\/a> to the Bush officials who deliberately jeopardized a top-secret, well-established CIA program that tracked the sales of weapons of mass destruction in black markets worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Why would a rightwinger like Gibby want to pin a medal on these traitors? Because the traitors are Republicans &#8212; a cabal led by Dick Cheney and that included Karl Rove and Scooter Libby &#8212; while the covert agent in charge of the CIA&#8217;s top secret WMD tracking program, Valerie Plame Wilson, made a campaign donation to Al Gore in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Ed Note: It is our understanding that she and her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, also contributed to George W. Bush&#8217;s campaign at the time as well.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>In her 20 years as a spy for the United States, Agent Wilson worked for a front business, an oil industry consulting firm called Brewster Jennings and Associates. She frequently  traveled overseas where she developed a network of secret &#8220;assets&#8221; &#8212; foreign nationals who provided her with inside knowledge on the movement of chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons and materials in the worldwide terrorist black market.<\/p>\n<p>The CIA will not say, of course, how many of these foreign assets were compromised, killed, wounded or kidnapped and tortured as a result of Cheney&#8217;s treasonous conspiracy to forfeit them by exposing Agent Wilson&#8217;s covert identity.<\/p>\n<p>And only time will tell how many weapons of mass destruction were transported undetected because Agent Wilson&#8217;s network was forfeited &#8212; and whether one or more of these weapons will be used to attack the United States.<\/p>\n<p>But none of that matters to Republicans like John Gibson and his cohorts at Fox &#8220;News&#8221; and in the Bush White House, whose patriotism is as fake as the made-in-China American flags pinned to their lapels. Gibson&#8217;s remarkable statement advocating giving a medal to Rove, Cheney and Libby &#8212; the &#8220;most insidious of traitors&#8221; who betrayed vital national secrets &#8212; exposes him for what he is: an ideologue who puts his party ahead of his country even at the risk of national security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review. In 1999, former Pres. George Bush famously said, &#8220;I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.&#8221; John Gibson, the Fox &#8220;News&#8221; anchor, takes an opposite view. 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