A GOP Congressman Asks Questions About Valerie Plame Wilson's Testimony

National Review ^ | 3-26-07 | Byron York

[berdie]

Please educate me!!..Someone please explain why Plame was testifying, anyway?? Didn't Armitage confess, with no repercussions? Doesn't Libby have an appeal?? Why is this an issue (as if it ever should have been)?

[casino66]

The Republicans mostly boycotted the hearing because Waxman had issued a list of questions that could not be asked. It was so confining that the Repubs said the hell with it and didn't bother to participate in a phony exercise.

[JmyBryan]

I'm pretty sure I saw Issa present while watching CSPAN.

[L.N. Smithee]

That rodent Waxman no doubt already sent Westmoreland's request to the circular file.

"Rodent"? Silly, pigs aren't rodents!

[Tut]

The Republicans mostly boycotted the hearing because Waxman had issued a list of questions that could not be asked. It was so confining that the Repubs said the hell with it and didn't bother to participate in a phony exercise.

I've heard something about this before but I don't remember seeing the contents of that list. Is that list available to us? Is it posted so we can know what they were?

It seems odd to me that such a list would be submitted.

[L.N. Smithee]

Here's what ticks me off more than anything else: Waxman is doing the job the way it should have been done by Tom Davis for the past six years (minus, of course, the outright lying and preventing mitigating facts from being said on C-SPAN).

Why did Davis think as the ranking minority member it made sense not to demand GOP members show up for Plame and take it to her? Where was Davis when he could have done something about Sandy Berger when it mattered, and not as he was on his way out the door? Was he too lazy or is he just stupid?

[exit82]

A list of questions that could NOT be asked?

Why didn't these gutless GOP wonders just ask the questions and make a scene anyway? Who is going to tell a US Congressman that he can't ask a question?

Valerie Plame should have been exposed for the liar she is, but that would have taken real work, real loyalty to the President, and real love of country--guess that's to much to ask of today's GOP.

It's much more important to be seen as a collegial twit.

Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson need to be keelhauled for the damage they done with their lies.

[Prokopton]

Was he too lazy or is he just stupid?

I wish it were that simple.

[Tricky j]

If Nostralitis waxman had a list of questions that could not be asked, A GOOD REPUBLICAN(I can't think of any) would have asked those questions only and asked him what HE was covering up.

I can't think of 1 republican with the b@lls to do that.

[L.N. Smithee]

I wish it were that simple.

Please elaborate.

[freema]

bookmark

[expatpat]

Probably didn't take much. Liberals lie often and easily.

[shelterguy]

I've been following this case a great deal and have come to a conclusion.

The prosecutor was asked to find out if a crime was committed in regards to her "outing:".

The only way there was a crime is if she was protected under the 1982 Intelligence Identity Protection Act.

When she was asked this last week she fumbled and stumbled and finally said that nobody had yet said she was covered.

Are they trying to make us believe that after three years they haven't determined that yet?

Hardly believable. They just keep using words like classified or covert. NEVER has anybody from the CIA or Fitzpatrick said she was covered. This investigation was over before it started but the media and Fitz have been able to keep it going for three years.

When will somebody shout this from the rooftops? She was not covered therefore there is no underlying crime.

[GadareneDemoniac]

I totally agree with your post, just one minor point: Rep. Westmoreland is the possessor of male appendages. Unlike the other Repubs on the committee.

[HardStarboard]

>>>Unlike the other Repubs on the committee.<<<

Thanks for the correction...I realized my error while reading the post in detail in bed (in printed form) just before going to sleep. Although I was chagrined, it did not disturb my sleep.

Let me know if you find out where to distribute similar pairs to elected Republicans!!

[piasa]

The Republicans mostly boycotted the hearing because Waxman had issued a list of questions that could not be asked

Did any of them have the stones to publish the questions Waxman didn't want anyone to ask? Sometimes the answers to questions aren't half as interesting as the questions themselves.