Posted on 07/11/2005 11:18:25 PM PDT by Howlin
I WROTE a column on Oct. 10, 2003, about the strange case of Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame.
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...I offered my speculation of what an administration official might have said to a journalist to explain just how Wilson — a Clinton administration official — got the assignment in the first place: "Administration official: 'We didn't send him there. Cheney's office asked CIA to get more information. CIA picked Wilson . . . Look, I hear his wife's in the CIA. He's got nothing to do. She wanted to throw him a bone.' "
Hate to say I told you so, but . . .
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There's no mistaking the purpose of this conversation between Cooper and Rove. It wasn't intended to discredit, defame or injure Wilson's wife. It was intended to throw cold water on the import, seriousness and supposedly high level of Wilson's findings.
While some may differ on the fairness of discrediting Joseph Wilson, it sure isn't any kind of crime.
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So if the offense wasn't against Plame, what of the offense against Wilson? There was no offense. As many of Joe Wilson's own hottest defenders would no doubt argue in relation to President Bush, exposing a liar is not only not a crime, it's a public service.
And Wilson lied. Repeatedly.
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What isn't controversial is this: Karl Rove didn't "out" Valerie Plame as a CIA agent to intimidate Joe Wilson. He was dismissing Joe Wilson as a low-level has-been hack to whom nobody should pay attention. He was right then, and if he said it today, he'd still be right.
And if Valerie wants to live a quiet spy life, she should stop having her picture taken by society photographers and stop getting stories written about her on the front page of the Times.
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He got this "assignment" because SHE gave it to him.
Then he said Tenet and Cheney sent him and denied his wife had anything to do with it.
Read the Senate Intelligence Report; he lied UNDER OATH.....and they said so.
Do not post to or send mail to Howlin again.
You need a life!
Leave me alone, you strange old woman................ I tell the truth about your eternal voyeurism!
You do well here, FR is much better with your excellent input, but your second and third thoughts seems to be to hurt quite afew innocents. You are just one unhappy old coot, imo................ and I wish you well with the grand children of which you take fine care.
But, you should just keep your angry and cruel thoughts about people you don't know......... to your very odd, gossipy self!
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Howlin............... there are dozens of folks here who know you well and come to your protection ( you are the center of FR and I know that!) ............. but you can be one mean and nasty woman............ for absolutely no reason.
You are the Chuckie Schumer of FR............... the ENFORCER.......... and it's not a pretty thing!
Clearly the issues in all of this are no longer the issue. It's all about removing the one guy who can mastermind the next election for the Rs.
I will do as you say!
FR is the best, and I meant no harm!
Please be well!
My take was that she influenced her boss to give it to him since she wan't high enough up to have done it on her own authority.
Then he said Tenet and Cheney sent him and denied his wife had anything to do with it.
Read the Senate Intelligence Report; he lied UNDER OATH.....and they said so.
Yes, he did. I never said that he didn't.
My original response was to the statement that they "worked together" at the CIA. They did not. Yes, it's still nepotism and yes, he lied about her involvement under oath. However, he wasn't a CIA employee; only she was.
My mistake; my only excuse is that I misread. As you can see, I was in the midst of a "troll disruption"........LOL.
Do you have a link to that??
Do you have a link to that??
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/10/02/in_probe_of_cia_leak_two_sides_see_politics/
Yeah, no problem, I saw that set of posts. Thankfully, AM is on top of it.
It is. But one has to realise Wilson was a big Liberal as well as a phoobah in the Clinton Administration, so he gets a pass - just like his boss - who was (along with dozens of other more serious but unindicted felonies) guilty of sexual harrassment for boinking the hired intern help. He never had to answer for any of that, either, just like Sandy Burglar, or... the list of nefarious Clinton rats goes on and on and on, all getting away scott free.
Wilson is just one of the many rats who managed to carry his game into the Bush Administration. Now, instead of being prosecuted himself, they are, natch, going after Karl Rove. You have to hand to it to the Dims and the MSM - they certainly are consistent!
Thanks!
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But Rove's committed a classic case of treason - deliberately outing a secret operative for base political motives - and Freepers seem willing to give him a get-out-of-jail card
Were you aware that Valeri Plume had not been a covert agent in over NINE YEARS? Rush was reporting on that this morning.
But Rove's committed a classic case of treason - deliberately outing a secret operative for base political motives - and Freepers seem willing to give him a get-out-of-jail card
Were you aware that Valeri Plume had not been a covert agent in over NINE YEARS? Rush was reporting on that this morning.
If so, why does noone say this?
Sorry sport, no desert till you finish with your crow.....
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