EX=PROSECUTOR: PLAME LEAK NOT ILLEGAL

NEWSMAX ^ | 2/22/05

[Shery]

"So Wilson won't go to jail for outing his wife?"

Too bad, huh? I was sort of looking forward to it.

[cyncooper]

frog-marched

Wilson wanted to see Rove "frog-marched" off in cuffs.

[JesseJane]

Cyn,
Thanks, I'll do that. Our views may differ in the end, but I am open to all that is out there. The truth matters!! :)

[JesseJane]

Thanks Alia!

[BlessedByLiberty]

Thanks for the correction. When I'd heard about that speech I knew that his 'outrage' on behalf of his wife was as phony as a CBS document.

What whets my curiosity is not who leaked to Novak, but what the reporters leaked to one another and the DNC.

Just curious, does anyone think some of this Plame pseduo-scandal also bleed over to the Grand Jury doings with Sandy Berger?

[maine-iac7]

The fact that it is in Newsmax means that it probably won't hit their radar ...

So - isn't FR's radar signal long enough to get it out there?

Hey DRUDGE, RUSH/Hannity/FOX.....

[jriemer]

Cross-linking this thread, the Virginia Man Charged With Conspiring to Assassinate President Bush thread and key posts:

Check out posts 77, 179, 189 and 196

Follow this chain of personalities:
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, man charged with conspiring to assasinate GWB has Ashraf Nubani as his lawyer. ( post 77)
Ashraf Nubani has defended the Global Relief Fund (post 179)
The GRF sued several MSM outlets including the NYT for libel but failed after being called a "terrorist organization". (post 189)
A veteran New York Times foreign correspondent (Philip Shenon) warned an alleged terror-funding Islamic charity (the GRF) that the FBI was about to raid its office

The fact that NYT was sued for libel about the alledged terrorism support by Global Relief is especially ironic. However you would think that after such treatment by GRF, the NYT wouldn't stick their necks out for this group but yet they did by tipping the GRF off on an imminent FBI raid on their offices. Very interesting.

[maine-iac7]

There is a masterful chess player in there somewhere I'm thinking? ;)

think you are SO right!

He' a good friend of a master poker player -

[Alia]

Cyncooper, your collection of files, which you have shared in and through many threads, are awesome. And, I thank you.

[Alia]

Cyncooper -- I agree with you. Dr Kelly DID make the wrong choice in "meeting" with those hounding reporters. What I was referencing to was old Character Brit. Dishonor. There's a long line in British history concerning stalwart characters having made an eggregious misstep ending their own lives similarly to Dr. Kelly. The "pressies" abused his "ego". They knew exactly how to ply and play Dr. Kelly. And once he misstepped, they shoved his nose into it without mercy, without compassion, without discretion -- and all in their rabid pursuit of hankering PM Blair. And after Dr. Kelly's suicide, they, the pressies, hadn't even the decency of shame nor even conscience.

Can you tell I'm still angry about this?

[tang-soo]

Explains the National Review's Rich Lowry: The Miller-Cooper defense hasn't made this argument because it would be too embarrassing to admit that the Bush administration's "crime of the century" wasn't really a crime at all, especially after a year and a half of media chest-beating to the contrary.

There's the best example of simultaneous irony and hypocrisy I've ever seen.

[maine-iac7]

and of course one of the investigations they are hotly pursuing is what documents (that the 9-11 commission would find startling) clintooon sent sandy burgurgler to put in his socks accidentally...top of the list, I'm sure

[Ben Hecks]

"But I believe ... leaking classified information from the CIA as Joe Wilson did by his op-ed piece in the NYT is against the law"

That has always been my belief. He was on an official trip for the CIA who had ownership of any information that he brought back - they alone had the authority to release it to the public.

[JesseJane]

I feel certain the investigation is on-going.. it's just a gut feeling.

[Mo1]

That has always been my belief. He was on an official trip for the CIA who had ownership of any information that he brought back - they alone had the authority to release it to the public

I'm not sure if they had the sole authority to release it .. I think Congress can can also petition to have it declassified

But either way .. It was NOT Joe Wilson's place to do an op-ed piece on this information

[cyncooper]

I'm angry with Kelly.

He DID give the media the "sexed up" dossier comment.

He then attempted deceit in his testimony. I need to leave and don't have time to look it up, but one example is the female journalist he was in fact talking to...he is asked about meeting her and Kelly tries to deceive by saying how he met her only once and that was at a lecture and they'd only exchanged social niceties. Only later when a different questioner delves in a bit does he finally admit that he had spoken to her via the phone.

[Mo1]

I feel certain the investigation is on-going.. it's just a gut feeling.

I believe there is a Grand Jury on that one also

[cyncooper]

Oh, and don't get me wrong. Of course I'm angry with the British press, too.

I'll never forget Blair being on an international trip when Kelly killed himself. Blair gets off a plane and is asked if he thinks he has Kelly's blood on his hands! He who had the knife in his back Kelly had stuck in it (from the way I see it).

[JesseJane]

Ahhhhhhhhhh... so that's where it is...

Thanks Mo1!

[cake_crumb]

LOL! I kept saying no laws were broken. Speaking of Rove, Wilson ought to go for a frog march for defamation of character.