{"id":4790,"date":"2005-07-22T16:53:36","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T20:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4790.html"},"modified":"2005-07-22T16:53:36","modified_gmt":"2005-07-22T20:53:36","slug":"a-special-joint-oversight-hearing-on-the-national-security-consequences-of-disclosing-the-identity-of-a-covert-intelligence-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-special-joint-oversight-hearing-on-the-national-security-consequences-of-disclosing-the-identity-of-a-covert-intelligence-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"DPC Joint Oversight Hearing on the consequences of outing a covert intelligence officer"},"content":{"rendered":"

This afternoon on Capitol Hill, the Democratic Policy Committee hosted a hearing to examine the national security implications of disclosing the identity of a covert intelligence officer. The DPC, in other words, was willing to do what the majority party was not — take a serious look at the consequences of the Plame scandal and engage in some administrative oversight.<\/p>\n

The hearings were broadcast on C-SPAN, but if you missed it, I have copies of the remarks made by the hearing’s chairman and several of today’s witnesses. They’re definitely worth reading.<\/p>\n

* Opening statement<\/a> from Senator Byron L. Dorgan, Chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee<\/p>\n

* Remarks<\/a> of Colonel W. Patrick Lang, former director of the Defense Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Service, and a retired senior officer of U.S. Army Special Forces<\/p>\n

* Remarks<\/a> on Larry Johnson, a decorated veteran of the CIA and the former deputy director of U.S. State Department’s Office of Counterterrorism<\/p>\n

* Remarks<\/a> of James Marcinkowski, a former CIA operations officer, and also has worked for the U.S. Navy and the FBI<\/p>\n

The Republican talking points — Plame’s undercover status wasn’t important, Rove’s leak didn’t do any harm, the scandal didn’t undermine national security, etc. — look utterly ridiculous once you consider the expert testimony offered this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This afternoon on Capitol Hill, the Democratic Policy Committee hosted a hearing to examine the national security implications of disclosing the identity of a covert intelligence officer. The DPC, in other words, was willing to do what the majority party was not — take a serious look at the consequences of the Plame scandal and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}