Posted on 10/28/2005 10:43:35 AM PDT by rawhide
The savage left-wing attack on Judith Miller from inside and outside of the New York Times completely misses the point. She is under attack for being a lackey of the Bush Administration when she failed to do the administration and the public a big favor. She could have done a potential Pulitzer Prize-winning story that could have broken the Joseph Wilson case wide open. It is a story exposing the Wilson mission to Africa as a CIA operation designed to undermine President Bush.
For 85 days in jail, Miller protected her source, Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, but the fact remains that she never used the explosive information Libby gave her. Now we know, according to Miller's account, that Libby told her about a CIA war with the Bush Administration over Iraq intelligence and that he vociferously complained to her about CIA leaks to the press. But Miller decided that what Libby told her was not newsworthy. Why?
We were critical of Miller from the start because she went to jail rather than testify under oath and tell the truth before a grand jury. Eventually, she did testify, under questionable and mysterious circumstances. She claims she insisted that her testimony be restricted to her conversations with Libby. Clearly, Miller had a relationship with Libby as a source. On that matter, she is "guilty" as charged. But the media attacks on Miller really show her critics do not regard Libby as a source worth protecting. Libby, according to columnist Frank Rich, is a "neocon" who misled the nation to get us into the Iraq War. On the other hand, Wilson is supposed to be a hero and whistleblower. He came back from Africa, after investigating the Iraq-uranium link, and concluded that the Bush Administration was lying....
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Problem is those have gone downhill in quality....
Wasn't Valerie Plame brought in from her overseas covert NOC operations after Aldrich Ames sold out all our NOCs in the mid 90s?
And nothing more on Miller and her call to the Holy Land Foundation, tipping them off about a pending FBI raid?
Fitzgerald was to have investigated that as well.
Questions:
Over the course of her career, what did Valerie Plame say about Iraq's WMD?
Who were Kenneth Pollack's Sources?
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I'm more of a Vince Flynn fan.
A little too late for considering that , however..
He will be punished more vigorously than others.
Joe Wilson is dumb as a box of rocks. He is a hack with an extremely inflated sense of himself. There is no way he was part of some huge CIA conspiracy. The CIA isn't that smart, either.
This is about a failed diplomat who was trying to jump start a failed business venture in Africa by getting his wife to have him sent on a free CIA trip to Niger, and about the Kerry campaign making a non-story into a story to try to nail Karl Rove in the middle of the election.
Because it was really a business trip and he really didn't talk to anyone about Iraq or yellowcake, Wilson made up some bullshit when he got back. Then the Kerry campaign found him and he got stars in his eyes, seeing himself as the future Secretary of State. He made up more bullshit, the Kerry campaign got it published by their eager and gullible compadres at the Washington Post and New York Times, and Wilson becomes a celebrity.
Then, when Novak unexpectedly tells the true story about Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, the Kerry people scramble and figure out a way to use it to make up another bullshit story that the White House was "waging war on Wilson." They thought they could implicate Karl Rove and make Bush fire him in the middle of the campaign. Don't forget, these were the same people who got the New York Times to run a front-page story on the "Rats" ad in 2000. They were very, very good at getting bullshit stories planted. They also feared and hated Rove beyond all reason, and would stop at nothing to get rid of him, including using poor dumb Joe Wilson and playing on his delusions of grandeur.
Notice that they conveniently got Mr. Mandy Grunwald to make the baiting call to Rove. Rove said nothing, but Cooper wrote his breathless story "A War on Wilson?" anyway. Cooper was a brand-new WH correspondent for Time, there was no way Rove or Libby were deliberately leaking anything to him. Cooper's story started the MSM feeding frenzy. Too bad Rove kept notes and Libby didn't.
Flynn's okay.
Try Daniel Silva: here
Silva's novels are excellent.
Flynn's are, too, but Silva is a bit more cerebral.
Not necessarily. He, as well as his wife, could have been unwitting but very cooperative dupes in the larger scheme of things. Since he was a known anti-war Kerry adviser, he could be easily expected to trash GWB after his 'investigation'.
>>Joe Wilson is dumb as a box of rocks. He is a hack with an extremely inflated sense of himself. There is no way he was part of some huge CIA conspiracy. The CIA isn't that smart, either.<<
The CIA is at least smart enough to know Wilson is as dumb as you suggest and would be the perfect fall guy for such an operation, if it failed. Don't think that every operation such as this, if true, works the way things are planned. Events could have taken a turn.
At any rate, there will be plenty of time for this. Right now, we have to deal with a prosecutor who spewed rhetoric about a CIA agent's outing in his news conference, and either found no crime in the outing or didn't bring any charges. The charges he did bring are likely bogus he said, she said, crap.
Agreed.
Bush Sr is an ex-CIA guy....
How do you know the CIA hated Bush Sr? Has it been documented? I am not asking in an argumentative way...just curious.
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