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A ping and a mark for later reading.
Ping. Regarding what we were discussing on the other thread, you might want to skip to Questions 6, 11-16, and 23.
WOW Fedora!!!
Bookmark & BTTT !!!
Ping for a great summary!
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Related:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1780966/posts
Yellowcake and yellow journalism (ann coulter)
You always amaze us. Bless you.
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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.
Thanks Fedora.
That odious William Arkin giving away our secret codes.....the Bush Admin should have prosecuted him.
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...
FEDORA! I don't know how I missed this. Brilliant. I'm posting it all around. Bravo!
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?
The pardon so infuriated Justice lawyers who had worked on the case that the Southern District promptly launched an investigation into whether the pardon had been "proper." One former prosecutor we spoke to described the Rich case as "the single most rancorous case in the history of the Southern District."
Whatever happened to this investigation?
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Fantastic! Is there any way to get a link to this or a copy to Libby's lawyers? Perhaps kristinn could help.
Bookmark........thanks Fedora!
Fedora, have you seen this?
Masterful summation of Plame situation Clarice Feldman 2-11-07
The anonymous author who uses the pen name Fedora has done a masterful job of summing up the Plame case. Everything you wanted to know is found here.
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Excellent. Bookmarking.
Fedora, you are amazing. Thank you.
Freeper excellence ping (sorry if it's a duplicate but the thread is worth reading/bookmarking)
Soundbite summary, please?
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I haven't finished reading it all.
But want to say this now.
The Wilson's, IMHO, pushed this on what I consider a technicality that doesn't count...and, of course, did that for political purposes. In their way of thinking, any one who works for the CIA is undercover. The Wilson's wanted everyone to think she was a 'spy' because it gave them more credibility in his mind. And, IMHO, he had to cover his ass etts.
Now, that said... something occurred to me as I was reading. If we were to consider a pregnant 'spy' or a 'spy' with small children we'd consider the woman a fruitcake for putting her babies at risk.
I
mean
really,
women who leave their children in the car are arrested.
Inquiring minds want to know if they actually consider any of us stupid enough to believe that she would put her babies at such risk as to be a spy while pregnant or with small children
or
are she and her hubby stupid enough to have endangered those babies when they saw an opportunity to become famous.
My guess is she was too damn dumb and such an attention seeker to have been an effect spy so they slapped her behind a desk hoping to minimize that damage and then,
there's my suspicion hubby had some ground to cover (literally and figuratively) she and he screwed up by hooking up the equally spotlight loving hubby with a "secret mission" to cover his ass etts.
ping O rue
long read, late night