Posted on 07/10/2005 7:53:23 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
Much ado about nothing, but they will try of course.
From Powerline blog.......
"SCOTT adds: Hilail Gildin writes: "Andrea Mitchell was asked, on MSNBC, whether it was generally known to news people, before the hullabaloo, that Ms. Planme worked for the CIA. She answered, somewhat reluctantly, that it was. In the light of this, I don't understand the ensuing fuss."
I know it's a nit but if the list is "infinitesimally shorter" that means the lists are almost the same length.
For the record, I didn't know she was a covert operative until Wilson told me on national TV. Why isn't he being sent to jail for outing his wife? He obviously knew she was a covert CIA operative.
Actually, how did he know that? Did she tell him? He didn't have a position in government where he should have known that information. But he clearly knew it, and he knew it was against the law to reveal it and he revealed it anyway.
I don't think so. Rove and his lawyer have always said that he didn't "out" her. The information we got today seems to prove that.
Cooper's notes say that Rove just said that Wilson's wife was the one who recommended sending him on the mission. And that she worked for the CIA.
He didn't give her name, and I find it hard to believe that anyone would think she was a "covert operator" if she was working at Langley in a position to make that kind of recommendation.
I suppose one could invent scenarios that would make it look like Rove did something wrong, but that's all it would be - an invention.
I've been fighting with libs on an obscure site about this. One guy said Bushs' house of cards is falling. I told him, 'according to the libs it's been falling since Nov. 2000 and by Nov. 2008 it will be over. Bush must be using super-glue on those cards'.
They don't like me much there. LOLOLOL
It looks like Rove did not give her name......and did not mention that she was covert.
It looks like he did not even know here name or that she may have been covert.
It looks like she may have not even been covert.
The Newsweak article points out that there is nothing to suggest that Rover gave her name or mentioned anything about her being an "agent".
When I saw this on Powerline.....I was like....
"I saw that!".
I was watching when Mitchell said that.
When did this Vanity Fair magazine come out?
don't forget her decoder ring!
Umm... did the National Review and the rest of the press corps figure that they knew all about Plame but foreign intelligence agencies did not? This is one of the most bizarre stories I have ever heard. I have no clue what's going on, but I do hope that Judith Miller rots in prison.
Rule 1 of Liberalism:
Facts, logic, and consistency are irrelevant.
It seems Plame told everybody she worked for the CIA.
That's what could be gathered when they were speaking with Andrea Mitchell about it on MSNBC (mentioned in post).
I remember watching that segment.
Plame seems to be an attention whore.
Tonight on Drudge, Coulter mentioned that was a desk person and she could not have been very 'covert' running around DC in that little BMW and driving into Langley's front gates everyday.
If she was "Covert" when the Novak stuff went down.....the CIA would not let her go out making all these photo ops.
It's the July 2005 issue.
Andrea is shacking up with the fed.
I don't think that those are the kind of "inside tips" that Alan "The G" Greenspan is giving her. You need to get your mind INTO the gutter. ;->
The WSJ has said since last fall that she hadn't been covert for the past 4 or 5 years. I think that the time limit that their identity must be kept secret is 4.
Thank you.
Interesting .. and why would this question be asked?
And who asked it?
Dear Andrea (my face pulled back over my butt). If it was common knowledge why did the press demand an investigation?
Thanks for the ping!
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