Posted on 02/23/2005 5:43:48 AM PST by Doctor Raoul
Back in October of 2003, I offered a $100 RuthsChris Steakhouse gift certificate to the first journalist who would tell the public whether Val Plame was or was not a "Covert Agent" according to the law in question. YO' MEDIA, FREE MEAL OFFER: Is Joe Wilson's Wife a "Covert Agent" Under That Law? abner and jimfree added $100 each, bringing the bounty to $300. It went up 10/5/03 and after almost EIGHT months, I recided the offer on 5/31/04 due to lack of response, even though we had faxed the offer to numerous Washington newsrooms and bureaus. By that time, I figured either the prosecutor or a non-journalist would answer the question first and we'd be paying out for stenography, not investigative journalism. Though the offer has expired, the DC Chapter of FreeRepublic.com is mailing Bruce and Victoria each a $25 Gift Card to TGI Fridays for their Washington Post op-ed which answered the question. TGI Friday's is located at Reagan National Airport so we hope to make their next airport delay a little more pleasant. Funny how the Washington Post had to rely on NewsMax to get the word out. Perhaps these two could start a class action lawsuit against Joe Wilson, the DNC and the liberal media to recover the costs of an unwarranted investigation, or at least have Joe Wilson "frog marched out of Foxhall for fibbing". In the words of Dennis The Menace, "Jeepers Mister Wilson, you lied."
Thanks very much for this, was looking for it this morning and was like "Is it just me they won't let see it?"
Neat that the other paper picked it up last week and then NewsMax chose to highlight it.
It can't be said enough.
Whoops, meant #22 for you.
When "frog-march" (also sometimes called "the frog's march") first appeared as slang around 1871, it meant to carry a prisoner (or a drunk being ejected from a bar) face down, with each of four husky men holding an arm or leg. The term comes from the resemblance the recipient of the procedure bears to a frog with its limbs splayed out. Today, however, "frog march" is usually used to mean the less dramatic (but equally effective) method of forcibly propelling a prisoner forward while pinning his arms behind him.
The media can't claim bias, all we wanted was an answer one way OR the other.
You've been here long enough to know better than to post full Washington Post material.
Judith Miller brought this out on Charlie Rose last night.
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Victoria went to school with one of my cousins.
That is so interesting.
You know, while the Appeals Court judges refer in their individual opinions to the seriousness of outing a covert agent, the main decision quotes from the subpoenas and they grand jury wants Miller not only to tell them what a specified government official told her on or between 7/6 and 7/13 about Plame, if anything. They want to know what was said or documented about Iraq seeing to buy uranium.
I wonder why the grand jury wants to get into that aspect if all they looking at is the narrow question of Plame, her status at CIA and who "outed" her. I just wonder about that.
Oh, and for Cooper they want any source(s) for what he heard about Plame and about Wilson himself AND about Wilson's trip to Niger.
All so intriguing.
I wasn't trying to get around anything, just made an honest mistake.
It was a mistake for which I'm sorry. Good enough?
Be nice to Victoria and Bruce, they may need someone to go to lunch...
Anyone know what has happened to. . .with. . .the 'sock stuffer'; Andy Berger. . . .
Is Mr. Berger traveling around Europe on an extended vacation. . .retired to a 'finca' in Argentina?
Wearing iron bracelets around his house and not getting out much? What. . .???
Don't know, but if I were the judge, I'd see that his library card gets pulled.
Good enough.
. . .but that would be so mean. . .
Thanks.
(Please don't think I am lazy for not looking it up myself; it did not occur to me that it would be available on line.)
No problem. That was easy, I kinda knew where to look.
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