THE STATE DEPARTMENT PLOT THICKENS (Podhoretz on new Time article)

NRO Corner ^ | 7/31/05 | John Podhoretz

[Republican Red]

Time magazine piece:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1088666,00.html

I didn't even waste time reading the Time article spin. I'd rather read Podhoretz take on the "new information". He tends to be logical, smart and imo, dead-on with the facts.

[Republican Red]

Workable link to the Time article "When They Knew":

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1088666,00.html

[csmusaret]

Again the finger points at Colin Powell.

[BonnieJ]

Would anyone in the media go to jail to protect Colin Powell?

[Rokke]

Let's think about that for a second...would the media rather protect Powell...or Rove? Hmmm.

[ncountylee]

Yes there are a few.

[kcvl]

So for those who think something very bad happened here, why isn't attention now circling around the State Department , whose two top guys at the time -- Colin Powell and Richard Armitage -- leaked like sieves to the media?

[ncountylee]

Looks like Powell helped the anti Bolton groups.

[Republican Red]

Time tries to paint this as bad for Rove but I think just the opposite. It points the finger away from White House and right at the State Department.

The State Department was no friend to the Bush White House.

[sandydipper]

Valarie Phlame and Joe Wilson are suck a$$ demos who clamor for attention because their work product never amounted to crap. Neither has ever had a real job.

[Txsleuth]

Towards the last few years that Powell was in the Administration, the media too a decided "liking" to him, after basically portraying him as an "house slave" and Condi Rice as an "Aunt Jemima"....

I am thinking that the change just may have occured around the time that all of this was getting started...

SO, obviously the media would/will/is covering for Powell, where they wouldn't for Rove or Libby.

[Mike Darancette]

why isn't attention now circling around the State Department, whose two top guys at the time -- Colin Powell and Richard Armitage -- leaked like sieves to the media?

Bwaaa, Haaa, Haaa - I'll bet Fitzgerald is.

[Ditter]

I can't remember the last time one of my friends and I talked about Wilson and Phlame. The reason is that we have NEVER talked about this non story. I wish the media would SHUT UP!

[Armigerous]

This would seem to jive with the comment made some time ago- that his source was an 'administration official' who was 'no partisan gunslinger'

[Wuli]

I have been pointing to Colin Powell as the leaker since July 13th.

He is a darling of the MSM and my belief is that Judith Miller is trying to (1)protect Colin Powell and all her other State dept leakers and (2)help her bosses keep the story from moving on to........the truth.

So, is Colin going to step forward as a Repblican or remain undercover as a "moderate"?

[Republican Red]

I actually think the Wilson-Plame story is just getting interesting. The Democrats and their media have been making such a big deal out of a non-story that when the facts actually start to come out it looks like it will bite them all in their collective butts.

On Meet The Press this morning the the story was being talked about by reporters with more "we really don't know yet" comments. That is far different from Rove outed a covert agent.

[Mike Darancette]

'administration official'

I'm not sure that State Department personnel are considered "administration officials". I don't think that the blanket disclosure waiver issued by the White House applies to the State Department.

So Miller rots in jail to protect Foggy Bottom.

[God luvs America]

I caught the very end of MTP this morning when, during a round table discussion they brought up the Plamegate investigation....of course they went to a pair of CoPost journalists first but a women reporter from National Review went last and contended that the leak came from a place other then the WH...the insinuation was it came from the media...they others were aghast!!!! Amazing they NEVER ask what Miller/NY Slimes are hiding and always run to their defense.

[jimboster]

For the sake of argument, let's say Powell is Judith Miller's source. But everyone thinks it's Rove. So everyone believes Rove is a scumbag for leaking the name. Powell, along with Rove and Libby, has signed a blanket waiver releasing all reporters from any confidentiality agreement. Is it ethical for Miller to keep her mouth shut if it unfairly impugns the integrity of both Rove and the White House?

[Brilliant]

Ah... The story that won't go away even though no one outside the media gives a rip.