A friend says: “Regarding Giraldi, it is very rare to see or read an ex cia officer having good things to say about Israel. Whether it is Ray McGovern, Phil Giraldi, Robert Baer or Michael Scheuer, and those are just the ones I can mention off the top of my head, I think they think American foreign policy has been hijacked to the detriment of long term American interests by the Israeli Lobby. They have all had their warnings and advice ignored as the U.S. makes decisions based on internal politics instead of statesmanship, so this blinds them and they let their feelings color their writings.”<\/p>\n
Washington Post<\/a>: <\/p>\n Why people care about Valerie Plame and her anti-Semitic tweet<\/p>\n In a vacuum, this would be a troubling headline: \u201cFormer CIA operative tweets anti-Semitic article.\u201d Bigotry in the ranks of the U.S. intelligence community is bad. Obviously.<\/p>\n But when the former CIA operative in question is Valerie Plame Wilson, the interest level is much higher \u2014 particularly among journalists, who remember her as a central figure in a decade-old case that exposed the lack of protection afforded to reporters who use confidential sources, which persists to this day.<\/p>\n Just last month, the Valerie Plame Affair, as the episode came to be known, gained newfound relevance when Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department is \u201creviewing policies affecting media subpoenas\u201d as part of the Trump administration’s effort to crack down on leaks.<\/p>\n To non-journalists, Plame’s tweet looks like the next installment in the ever-popular series Fall from Grace, which is not an actual reality TV show but probably will be, at some point.<\/p>\n After her CIA cover was blown, in 2003, Plame became a best-selling author, penning a memoir titled \u201cFair Game,\u201d and a pair of spy novels.<\/p>\n In 2010, a movie adaptation of \u201cFair Game\u201d hit the big screen, with Naomi Watts starring as Plame.<\/p>\n This is why people care what Plame says on Twitter. On Thursday, she tweeted a link to an article headlined \u201cAmerica’s Jews are driving America’s wars.\u201d Among the many anti-Semitic passages in the piece is this Nazi-esque recommendation:<\/p>\n For those American Jews who lack any shred of integrity, the media should be required to label them at the bottom of the television screen whenever they pop up, e.g. Bill Kristol is \u201cJewish and an outspoken supporter of the state of Israel.\u201d That would be kind-of-like a warning label on a bottle of rat poison \u2014 translating roughly as \u201cingest even the tiniest little dosage of the nonsense spewed by Bill Kristol at your own peril.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Plame deleted the tweet and posted follow-up messages, in which she was alternately defensive and apologetic.<\/p>\n 1) First of all, calm down. Re-tweets don’t imply endorsement. Yes, very provocative, but thoughtful. Many neocon hawks ARE Jewish. https:\/\/t.co\/m5oGgKPo2a<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Valerie Plame Wilson (@ValeriePlame) September 21, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
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