Well I had to have some fun today. I saw the following post
on Crooks and
Liars:
Lunatic Fringe on Valerie Plame
From: “tomchristian@juno.com” <tomchristian@juno.com>
Sent: Jul 23, 2005 9:02 PM
To: LCJohnson
Subject: Valerie Plame is just another CIA scumbag.
You really shouldn’t shoot your mouth off about Valerie
Plame.She’s no angel.
She’s just another lying, do-nothing CIA scumbag.
She deserved to be outed.
I printed this because many right wing blogs are so fond
of quickly posting comments or emails to try and paint all Democrats as
traitors and other such nonsense. In that spirit I’ll ask this question. Why
do right wingers hate the CIA? If they hate the CIA then they hate America
since the CIA is one of our most trusted instruments to fight terrorism. Why
don’t you email Mr. Christian and ask him why he hates America.(Update) Here’s Tom Christian’s response: “OK. So how
can you say I’m an asshole?Do you know anything about me?
lol, yea Tom, we know all about you by reading your
email.
After seeing this, I felt compelled to email Mr. Christian
and ask him if he hated our intelligence community so much as to go out and
slander one of its agents. The following was his response. I also found out he
sent the same response to others:
From: “tomchristian@juno.com”
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 02:43:34 GMT
To: digitalinsomnia420@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Love your email
Look I appreciate the fighting spirit and all that,
but I think you and Larry need to know some things about
Valerie Plame:
Here’s my letter to Larry:
Larry,
Yes I believe I do understand.
The problem however is not my understanding, but your ignorance, which
I admit
is not your fault because it’s something you probably didn’t know.
You see I do know something about Valerie Plame.
I know that her colleagues bugged my hotel room at the Best Western
Westpark
Hotel in November 1996. For months prior to that, I endured a bit of
surveillance from her
and her coworkers. My mail was opened. My car was bugged and I was
followed to work
by a van with a doppler direction-finding array on top. At the
Southwest Regional library
in Pembroke Pines, Valerie and her coworkers Johhny Spann, Cheri
Leberknight, Eunjoo
Kensinger, Rebecca Wolfson, Dave Robertson and Miguel Fabregas came by
to check
me out. I remember working out at the local gym alongside Miguel
Fabregas on one occasion.
On another occasion a woman by the name of Rebecca Wolfson was sitting
near me at the
Fort Lauderdale Hollywood airport with a small case with an aluminized
mylar patch on the
side. I saw her later in November of 1996 in the CIA’s Stafford
building. And while in Tyson’s
Corner, I remember overhearing them say something that they could only
have known if they
had been reading my e-mail.
So perhaps I’m being a bit harsh in my criticism of her, but to me
Valerie Plame is
a scumbag.
I won’t criticize you for not being omniscient Larry, that would not
be fair. But you don’t
have all of the facts.
=> Tom Christian.
This story is totally filled with holes – the biggest being
the fact the CIA does not have a charter to operate domestically. Funny how he
is being followed by the CIA yet he has knows all their names. I have faith in
our intelligence community and they would not be exposed that easily. Got to
love wingnuts!