Posted on 06/21/2008 9:47:33 AM PDT by big black dog
In this article detailing Scott ‘Wormtongue the Sellout’ McClellan’s moments of C-SPAN glory in front of a panel of partisan hacks on Capitol Hill today, the opening paragraph (which I won’t quote directly, you can read for yourselves) states that McClellan is claiming he was instructed to say that Cheney and Libby weren’t involved in the leakage of Valerie Plame’s employment status with the CIA, and then goes on to state that such an assertion (their lack of involvement) is false.
Excuse me, AP reporter and fact transmogrifying reporter Laurie Kellman, but ever heard of someone named Richard Armitage? You know, the Richard Armitage that both admitted publicly, long after the bonfire of the idiocies over the entire kerfuffle was in full conflagration, that he was the one that mentioned Plame to Robert Novak. Remember? The Richard Armitage that Robert Novak confirmed was his source for the story, after Armitage went public?
Hello?
Do you recall that the “involvement” of Cheney and Libby was basically being bombarded with questions by reporters trying to figure out (before Armitage came forward) who’d passed along the information - and that they basically responded with ‘wouldn’t know anything about it’ or ‘I hadn’t heard that’ as their answers? And that the basis of Libby’s trial was a discrepency in Libby’s description of events from different recountings (grand jury and investigators) of the precise wording of the way he dodged the questions from those same reporters?
Look it up. Do some research. Re-read the source materials on the subject.
Or, maybe you have, and you just really don’t care, because it makes McClellan’s backstabbing for dollars story oh that much more scintillating.
It is a tough call, determining if it’s incompetence and stupidity as opposed to intentional mischief. The case is pretty compelling for a combination of both.
The Ass. Press will never allow facts to get in the way of a good story. Gotta give their ‘RAT massas what they want.
Scott is drowning in his own vomit.
No doubt McClellan and Plame have bank accounts in the same neighborhood bank. Zurich.
There are a lot of Texans anxious to have the luck of seeing Scott Keeton McClellan wonder into a bar... It ain’t gonna be pretty.
-AP Legal Team
The whole Valerie Plame & hubby thing is so over and definitely a RAT witch hunt. Plame’s hubby on the DC social circuit outted his wife, the witch. Sheesh!
You didn’t mention Rove, but he has said that when it was stated to him by a reporter that Wilson’s wife worked for CIA which might explain why Wilson was chosen for his Niger mission, he replied that “I’ve heard that, too.”
And he had heard that about Wilson’s wife - that she was CIA.
He also said, though, that he tried to steer reporters away from getting out front and writing articles on that issue.
Point is, liars can always find some hook to hang a lie on.
Sorry, but I hadn’t read up on what Cheney or Libby claimed to have said when the subject was broaçhed to them.
I know Libby had to talk about that and there’s a record.
Wasn’t aware Cheney ever had to make a claim one way or the other. Maybe I missed something.
Anyway, AP and Scott McClellan and ALL the Media for that matter want people to forget about Armitage and come to believe that Libby was convicted for leaking, when he was not even charged with that, and no others than Libby were charged with ANYTHING.
From a political cartoon
Over heard at the Justice Department
Joe Wilson lied.
So, you went after Wilson?
Nope, Bob Novak revealed Plame’s identity in his column.
So, you went after Novak?
Well no, Richard Armitage leaked her information to Novak.
So, you went after Armitage?
No, as it turns out Plame WASN’T really a covert agent.
So, you’re dropping the case?
No, I’m going after Libby.
Libby, what about the others?
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we’re totally serial
New York Times Outs CIA Operative
NewsBusters.org | June 22, 2008 - 10:12 ET | Mick Wright |
Posted on 06/22/2008 8:49:33 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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