Posted on 07/11/2005 1:18:58 PM PDT by CorporalTravis
That's so wrong...
And funny.
Didn't Jeff just move out of Barney Frank's basement apartment?
Thanks Corporal! This article just makes my day. I needed that!
In the midst of all the screaming, this is a well-reasoned piece.
I would like to see this from someone other than Gannon.
I've always thought Wilson outed his own wife out of ego (trying to prop up his own status).. especially after learning that what he was telling the media was the polar opposite of his actual report...
Gannon (aka Guckert) is right on the money here - I would go further and say that Valarie Plame is basically responsible for outing herself. She got herself involved in a nakedly political attack on the current administration by sending her loud-mouthed, dim-witted husband on the Niger trip.
Or on his back.
Maybe his digging into the Plame Affair resulted in the whole Gannongate flap? The Dems know the MSM won't ask the hard questions if it involves a Rat. He had to be eliminated.
This is also a good time to remind everyone that the 9-11 commission debunked Mr. Wilson's claims that the President was "twisting" the evidence. The British Butler report found that the report of Saddam seeking uranium in Niger "was well founded." The Washington Post reported that the 9/11 Commission "found that Wilson's report, rather than debunking intelligence about purported uranium sales to Iraq, as he has said, bolstered the case for most intelligence analysts. And contrary to Mr. Wilson's assertions, the CIA did not tell the White House it had qualms about the reliability of the Africa intelligence." In other words, Mr. Wilson was lying.
I've been saying this for a while now. I first learned of his Wife being a covert agent when I heard Joe Wilson say it on national TV.
He obviously knew his wife was a covert agent. And he knew it was illegal to reveal that publicly, since he was calling for Rove to be arrested.
First, how did Wilson know this? He didn't have a job for which he had the appropriate clearance for this information. Could his wife had TOLD him she was a covert operative, and if so was that legal? You can't simply tell your spouse stuff.
Second, since he DID know it, the fact that something has become public does not give others permission to reveal that the information is accurate. So Wilson's outing of his wife should be illegal.
Your link doesn't work.
Outside the Beltway this is such a non story....!!! Dream on DNC...you won't get Rove anyway you try...
While I don't doubt Wilson tripped over his own tongue, where do you see Bob Novak in all this?
It was his column, I thought, that started this whole affair.
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