I think that is him behind the glass:
Posted on 08/12/2008 3:10:54 PM PDT by rocksblues
Valerie Plame was dealt another setback Tuesday when a U.S. court of appeals upheld a federal judge's decision to dismiss her lawsuit against members of the Bush administration.
Given the media's fascination with this former CIA operative who has claimed for years she was illegally outed by the White House for political reasons, it will be interesting to see just how much attention this ruling gets in the next 48 hours.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
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What about Mister Plame? What’s Joe doing now?
The issue with the story went to print, but a glitch in the Editorial board resulted in the story being cut in favor of additional advertisement space for the Obama campaign... /sarc
She should've divorced him... ;-)
Well, well, well, ..... me naked. I have not seen a thing on the tube today. Consistency is the MSM highwater mark.
Nice!
I always thought it was so ironic that the same people who hyperventilated about the alleged outing of a CIA operative, were in favor of the New York Times publishing the details of the Bush administration surveillance of calls and messages going overseas to suspected terrorist operatives.
I’m still confused as to whether or not she actually was an operative to be outed. I’ve heard that she was just a desk jockey analyst that doesn’t fall in the rules of anonymity and therefor not illegal to “out”.
bttt
What about the 550 metric tons of yellowcake out of Iraq. Every person I say this to does not believe me.
Freep it out!
500 tons of yellowcake sent to Canada via Iraq? by Conservababe
And Joe only said that they didn't acquire yellowcake THROUGH LEGAL CHANNELS.
And the reporter who made the story a "GO" (In his first week as Whitehouse reporter) is the hubby of Mandy Grunwald, Hillary's best friend and Bubba's old campaign manager.
IMHO, Hillary was behind the whole thing.
I’ll second that. Possibly that explains why no one even hinted at prosecuting Richard Armitage. It better served the purposes of the BDS claque to cling to the myth of Plame’s Special Covert Status, as the fundamental aim was to punish someone, anyone associated with the Bush WH staff, but hopefully VP Cheney. Acknowledging her non-covered status would compromise the dream.
What you say?
Valerie Plame was dealt another setback Tuesday when a U.S. court of appeals upheld a federal judge’s decision to dismiss her lawsuit against members of the Bush administration.
Valerie Plame was dealt another setback Tuesday when a U.S. court of appeals upheld a federal judge’s decision to dismiss her lawsuit against members of the Bush administration.
Valerie Plame was dealt another setback Tuesday when a U.S. court of appeals upheld a federal judge’s decision to dismiss her lawsuit against members of the Bush administration.
Valerie Plame was dealt another setback Tuesday when a U.S. court of appeals upheld a federal judge’s decision to dismiss her lawsuit against members of the Bush administration.
Must have been conservative judges.
Obameo will take care of that.
I think that is him behind the glass:
bttt
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BABBINS: On the Joe Wilson-Valerie Plame matter, you focus on that as one piece of evidence about the ClA's operating against the Bush Administration instead of as part of it. We have endured a three-year media spectacular surrounding the leak of Flame's identity, culminating in the commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence for perjury. Why do you think that that was essentially a set-up, an attack on the President by the CIA?
SCARBOROUGH: The ClA was so suspicious and so angry at the Bush Administration's policies that it had no interest in doing a proper investigation of Niger. That's what it boiled down to.
Look at Vice President Dick Cheney. There's a report from the Defense Intelligence Agency that Saddam Hussein's regime may have contacted Niger to buy some "yellowcake," which is lowlevel processed uranium and is used to make bomb-grade uranium. This was not farfetched, because Saddam had bought yellowcake from Niger before, and in fact, the yellowcake was still in his country, supposedly under seal. So a request goes over from Dick Cheney's office to lhe ClA and what happens? How is it handled? Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson's wife-it comes down to her division, the Counter-Proliferation Division, and she decides, "Let's send my former-ambassador husband down to investigate." That's what she decides. And she recommends him for the trip. He is not a trained intelligence investigator. He's a former diplomat who decides he will fly to Niger and jusl ask some questions and then return.
After the 2003 State of the Union address. Wilson decides to leak his trip, breaking his own [self-imposed) vow of confidentiality. Valérie Plume was sitting right next to him when he leaked it to Nick Kristof of the New York Times. She knew her role in getting him the trip. She wrote a memo recommending him. Spouses, in the" CIA, are responsible for protecting the confidentiality of the covert status of their spouse. So at that moment, the Wilsons were, in a sense, outing Valérie Plame, because they had to realize that when this [report about the trip] appeared in the New York Times that people were going to ask, "Who is this ambassador, and how did he get sent to Niger?"
And the answer was going to come back: His wife got him the trip. And thal's exactly what happened, because when that column appeared in the New York Times, the White House said. "What? Who? Why?" and "When did this happen'.'" And they made an inquiry to the CIA, and the bureaucracy reported back that [Wilson's] wife got him the lrip. And that is what spawned this scandal, not some diabolical plot to get Wilson's wife as punishment. It was just gossip. That's how Joe Wilson got the trip.
Selling used cars ... no, brokering mortgages, no, wait, he’s an obamanation consultant.
No story here.
Maybe the National Enquirer, the new “America’s Newspaper” can run the story.
There was so much info on the internet about her not being a covert operative at the time of her outing that it is no wonder that the Judge had to dismiss her suit.
"She can't find her brain ... at least she had a half a brain .. once."
Leni
Re: “What about Mister Plame? What’s Joe doing now?”
He should be growing peppers (or pot since he’s probably into that stuff) in New Mexico. Isn’t that were the couple Plame said they were going to go to get away from the inside the Beltway nightmare?
She was not an operative at the time she was identified as working for the CIA, although she had been on covert status a decade or more before. The law is clear, and she was not covert at the time, nor did she fall within the timeframe the law specifies, so no violation was committed. There was no "there", there in this case...
the infowarrior
She was so top secret that she used the name of her CIA front company, Brewster-Jennings & Associates to donate $1,000 to Gore.
Well AP and Reuters did report it..but what I can agree to is that they will never accurately report this story.
Never ....
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http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2008/08/plame-contempla.html
August 12, 2008
Plame contemplates appealing court ruling dismissing lawsuit
A federal appeals court today rejected a lawsuit by former CIA agent Valerie Plame and her husband against three top Bush administration officials.
Plame and her husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson, had sought damages against the officials for allegedly playing a role in publicly identifying her as a CIA agent.
Plame and Wilson’s attorney, Melanie Sloan, called the court’s ruling a disappointment and says her clients are reviewing options, including a possible appeal.
As long as the MSM is complicit Ms. Plame will try to extend her 15 minutes.
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