Posted on 02/07/2007 2:16:26 PM PST by Fedora
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An important adjunct to your new Plame post, was just posted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1781072/posts
It appears that Wilson's wife made the recommendation regarding her husbands qualifications for the trip to Niger before Cheney asked the CIA to look at the issue.
I believe that even then the political moles within the bureaucracy had their act in play before Cheney asked about Niger.
My conspiracy mind could even speculate that the "unconfirmed" report given to Cheney, the day after Plame recommended her husband, was in fact the delivery of the enticement for Cheney to go seeking what the moles had already forged, or knew was forged before that enticement was placed in front of Cheney.
They set Cheney up and then went about using their forgery, or what they already knew was a forgery when they put it in Cheney's briefing, as "evidence" that Cheney had gamed the intelligence; when all he had done was ask them to go find what they already knew as in the intelligence stream - the forgeries they KNEW were forgeries before the matter was ever presented to Cheney.
And, it is not at all funny, or inconsequential that there is no paper-trail for how the forgeries arrived in a safe in the offices of Plame's department at CIA.
Fitzgerald seems to want a conviction really bad--to the point of obsession--but I can see him trying for a mistrial if he can't get one. Justice seems to be the farthest thing from his agenda.
Thanks for the link! Someone pinged me to York's article on that just as I was about to post this, so I added a quick note and link in the answer to Question 6, but I haven't had a chance to analyze the new data yet and integrate it.
Thanks Fedora.
Thanks for the ping!
That odious William Arkin giving away our secret codes.....the Bush Admin should have prosecuted him.
Yes, McCarthy must fit in there somewhere--thanks for reminding me!--need to think about that. . .
The ONLY lingering question is, IS how much money is Fitzy milking the system of.. Its all about Fitzy parasiting the treasury.. Else this would have been over a loooooong time ago...
Extraordinary compilation of information, Fedora! Thank you.
"And, it is not at all funny, or inconsequential that there is no paper-trail for how the forgeries arrived in a safe in the offices of Plame's department at CIA."
Bump to that!
Post Modern Prosecutions (WARNING - it's Lew Rockwell.com, but it's the clearest explanation of post modern law that I have found)
Can't comment on the cases discussed in the article as I haven't been following them, but postmodern theory certainly pervades today's legal climate and underlies judicial activism, political correctness, and similar trends. Its influence runs so deep that even people not directly familiar with its theoretical formulation are influenced by it, so it's likely it influences the prosecution.
FEDORA! I don't know how I missed this. Brilliant. I'm posting it all around. Bravo!
bump
Absolutely brilliant summation of the liberal media going ga-ga over a non-story.
Brilliant and a keeper.
Jen
Excellent work. Thank you.
The Libby defense team should recall Tim Russert to impeach his integrity and bias against the Bush administration as follows:
Q. Define you position as VP of the NBC Washington bureau?
Q. Does that include: meeting with other more senior executives in making decisions regarding NBC policies and procedures? What and how stories are investigated and reported? Meeting with lawyers, fact checkers, producers, investigators, reporters and others like managers and executives in developing stories?
Q. Is it the responsibility of an on air personality like you to be more thoroughly informed than the average member of the public?
Q. As host and an NBC executive don’t you have wide latitude and discretion on what makes it on the air?
Q. Please define journalistic integrity? Does that include avoiding deliberate misrepresentation? Would you say you have the highest standards of journalistic integrity?
Q. When did you first learn that V. Plame was not a covert CIA operative?
Fitzgerald: Objection. The Q is outside the scope of your Honor’s limitations as to what can be admissible in this proceeding.
Wells: Your honor, the witness opened the door to this line of questioning and I intend to impeach his sworn testimony.
Judge: Objection overruled.
Q. You previously testified that you appear on air nearly every Sunday, 2-3 times a week on the Today show, periodically on Imus and on various other venues, correct?
Q. Between the dates of xx/xx/xxxx and yy/yy/yyyy, how many times did you refer to V. Plame as a covert employee or CIA operative?
Q. Did you ever submit that observation to fact checking?
Q. When did you become aware of a friend of the court brief submitted by numerous news organizations (including NBC?) stating that the NYT reporter should be released because there was no crime as Plame was not an operative nor covert?
Q. Were you present when the decision to file this brief was discussed? Did you participate? Were you consulted? Did any reporter or fact checker point this out to you ever? Are you aware that NBC lawyer Xxxxxxxxxxx says you were present?
Q. How is it credible that you were not aware of this brief?
Q. Let me take you back to your previous testimony that you were not biased against the administration. How could you make XX references to something you knew to be factually incorrect unless you were biased?
Q. How many times did you challenge others who referred to Plame as covert or an operative?
Q. How could you claim to have an ounce of journalistic integrity to make XX references to something you knew to be factually incorrect?
Q. Are you selectively remembering what you want to remember but not recall what you don’t want to recall?
Q. Why should anything you have testified to be believed?
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