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Dem Strategist Suggests on MSNBC that President May Be Focus of Leak Probe
MSNBC News | 07/16/2005 | MSNBC

Posted on 07/16/2005 7:55:07 AM PDT by RightFighter

On MSNBC a little while ago, they had a story about the "politics of the CIA leak". The reporter was interviewing Pat Buchanan and Democratic strategist Peter Fenn. What follows is the best transcript I could piece together quickly. I've quoted Fenn word for word.

PAT BUCHANAN: It's very, very serious...There is a credibility problem for the press secretary...There is no legal problem for Rove...Reporters in Washington have a gleam in their eye and smiles on their faces, and there's a reason for it...Pat Fitzgerald hasn't been digging for two years and judges haven't been sending reporters to jail because they don't have anything...Everyone in town (Washington) feels there is something very, very serious and today's story in the NY Times where a memo was floating around aboard Air Force One about Wilson's trip to Africa indicates this could be very big stuff.

ALEX: Peter, what kind of big stuff could Pat be referring to?

PETER FENN: Alex, this is not a third-rate burglary. The focus had been on White House staff. Now, as Pat says, with this memo from the State Department about Wilson, about his wife, about the connection, it was brought onto Air Force One by Secretary Powell. I cannot imagine, Alex, that if he's going up and down the aisles with that memo as he was supposed to have been, that he did not discuss it with the President of the United States. I cannot imagine that there were not phone calls from Ari Fleischer, the Press Secretary who was on board, back to the White House about this. This was precisely at the time when Wilson was about to publish his article. Folks knew about his position about weapons of mass destruction. I have a sense that this may go all the way to the top.


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Just wondering whether you guys and gals think this is just Peter Fenn's wishful thinking, or if this may actually be the direction this is heading.
1 posted on 07/16/2005 7:55:08 AM PDT by RightFighter
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To: RightFighter

It's not Fenn's wishful thinking, it's his intentional smearing of Bush. It's the DNC's formal declaration that they're now after Bush. Treat it as such.


2 posted on 07/16/2005 7:58:57 AM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: RightFighter
I think Peter Finn is as delusional as a Coke addict after a snort of Cocaine. And Pat Buchanan is not too far behind him.
3 posted on 07/16/2005 7:59:33 AM PDT by The South Texan (The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
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To: RightFighter
Cheese, baby!
4 posted on 07/16/2005 7:59:33 AM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: RightFighter

5 posted on 07/16/2005 8:00:12 AM PDT by dts32041 ( Dear Senator Durbin, I am not an Illinois Nazi. (US ARMY RET))
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To: Pukin Dog

Hey Pukin! You have any more rants about this coming soon?


6 posted on 07/16/2005 8:00:15 AM PDT by RightFighter
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To: RightFighter

What's the big deal it's not like he was using public taxpayer funded offices for sex parties.


7 posted on 07/16/2005 8:01:00 AM PDT by kharaku (G3 (http://www.cobolsoundsystem.com/mp3s/unreleased/evewasanape.mp3))
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To: RightFighter

Can you say "Im-PEACH"? I knew you could.


8 posted on 07/16/2005 8:01:53 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: Pukin Dog

"Cheese, baby!"


Here, Ratty, Ratty.... LOL

Score:

Pukin 1
MoveOn 0


9 posted on 07/16/2005 8:02:27 AM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
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To: RightFighter

Pukin looks better every day. He said the Dems were after Bush, and now this DNC weenie is getting vibes from outer space that say this goes, "All the way to the top".


10 posted on 07/16/2005 8:02:42 AM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: RightFighter
Yep, a follow up on my original "Open Letter to the MSM". I keep having to update it with the latest media BS. I may never finish it at this rate.
11 posted on 07/16/2005 8:03:12 AM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: popdonnelly

Yes looks like Dan Rathers revenge. The dems can't win an election so it's destroy those that do, kind of a terrorist way of doing things.


12 posted on 07/16/2005 8:03:33 AM PDT by Judge Roy
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There after Bush. Guys we need to get serious. This is not funny. We should not treat it as such.


13 posted on 07/16/2005 8:03:49 AM PDT by newconhere
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To: RightFighter

so, lemme see...the CIA was 'sending' someone to Niger and the State Department had a memo about it and the info was available to Powell and he shared the info aboard AF1? And they might have discussed how silly a choice the CIA 'investigator' was? Was Tenet on board? Are we to think that this was inappropriate?


14 posted on 07/16/2005 8:05:59 AM PDT by bitt ('We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now sowing.' Victor Davis Hanson)
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To: newconhere
Nope, just relax.

These are desperate times for the Dems. They are heading over a cliff. We only need to stay out of their way.

15 posted on 07/16/2005 8:06:02 AM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: newconhere

In every post about Wilson/Rove, remind everyone that Sandy Berger, National Security Advisor for President Clinton IS GOING TO JAIL.


16 posted on 07/16/2005 8:07:03 AM PDT by griswold3 (Ken Blackwell, Ohio Governor in 2006)
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To: newconhere

I agree, they ARE going after GWB. Even tho we knew they would. The lack of Bush scandal material is only serving to make the demonicRATs more rabid, and so they need to make it up! I'm hoping it will keep making them look like the desperate fools they are, but we can take nothing for granted.


17 posted on 07/16/2005 8:07:14 AM PDT by Fudd Fan (fiat voluntas Tua)
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To: Pukin Dog

After reading your rants, you are one SCARY Pukin Dog! The MSM should be very afraid. :-)


18 posted on 07/16/2005 8:07:32 AM PDT by PilloryHillary
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To: griswold3
i thought Sandy Burglar is getting a suspended sentence?
19 posted on 07/16/2005 8:08:07 AM PDT by bitt ('We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now sowing.' Victor Davis Hanson)
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To: RightFighter
I believe there has to be a crime committed?? The Grand Jury is most likely investigating purjery and that most likely involves the press not the WH. Pat cannot say that because it goes against the DC echo chamber. He would be called a loon, which in this case he is.

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

20 posted on 07/16/2005 8:08:28 AM PDT by bray (Pray for the Freedom of the Iraqis from Islam)
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