...9-11 would be a daily occurrance.
Posted on 07/01/2005 1:09:11 PM PDT by Shermy
Was Clarke still in office at that time?
...9-11 would be a daily occurrance.
Additional questions are WHY did Plame "recommend" her husband for the job and WHO did she make the recommendation to? SOMEBODY approved Plame's recommendation.
I think that Plame and the people she worked directly with sought to undermine the Bush Administration and they concocted a plan to use Wilson as their dupe. So they sent him on a mission to Niger. Wilson has been so righteously indignant about his wife's outing that I wonder if maybe the guy truly is as clueless as he comes off. It's possible that Plame left Wilson completely out of the loop, letting him just stumble along looking like a complete fool.
"Was Clarke still in office at that time?"
No. That was a concern for me, but I found that ex-officials will not be noted as "former" if they served under the present administration.
Wilson was engineering a "scandal," no doubt about that. He believed there were WMDs in Iraq, he thought the nuclear case was weak. To the purpose of making Bush look like a liar they hit the weakest link, the nuclear. He was managing leaks in Brit and US papers before his article. I think Novak threw off his schedule to campaign for the position of Kerry Secretary of State.
Wilson was engineering a "scandal," no doubt about that. He believed there were WMDs in Iraq, he thought the nuclear case was weak. To the purpose of making Bush look like a liar they hit the weakest link, the nuclear. He was managing leaks in Brit and US papers before his article. I think Novak threw off his schedule to campaign for the position of Kerry Secretary of State.
Thanks.
Thanks for the clarification. It would be interesting if it's Clarke, he's quite a media hero.
Sinc Novak said it was a "long discussion" I thought of Richard "Boogie to Baghdad" Clarke. He had a lot of time on his hands.
And a fine job she did.
/sarcasm
No, he did a service in his revelation and will reveal more when the grand jury investigation is over.
His columns on this were in no way anti-Bush administration.
She leaked her job to him. Whether she was even under-cover then has not been established, but loose lips certainly seems to apply to our gal Val.
A public interest also obtains in disclosing the connection between Mr. Wilson and the CIA, because the CIA - one could almost say a renegade CIA - had opposed all along President Bush's policy of a democratic liberation of Iraq. It preferred a Baathist coup. So a CIA role in attacking the president publicly about the justification for the Iraq war takes on a sinister aspect all its own, and one could argue that the real whistle-blower in this case is the still-unnamed source or sources trying to warn Americans of what was going on.
~snip~
It's a point to remember as this case - which, again, involves a rogue CIA effort to undermine America's commander in chief during wartime - works its way through the courts. The real whistle-blowers and heroes here are those who understood this point and got word via the press to the American public.
Exactly.
There was no "WH source" at all. It was an "administration source".
I've never bought the Joe Wilson is the source theory. I've always said it was offered by way of explanation, not retaliation. It most likely was the CIA and possibly someone at State. (There are two officials)
Try to follow along. Your inane slam is stupid in the extreme.
You're very welcome, cyn. I thought this editorial sounded as though you could have written it yourself............you don't work for the NY Sun, do ya?? ;)
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