I think that the whole thing rests on the call for the independent council investigation for a crime that the NYT reporters knew never happened. I think that the prosecutors are going to prove that the NYT was acting as a partisan political arm of the DNC and John Kerry. If you recall John Kerry called for the independent council investigation in September of 2004. No, let's go back further than that.
One of the articles mentioned that Wilson did not even jump on the, the Whitehouse exposed my wife as a CIA agent until two months after the press started the story. That would have been after Wilson met with Kerry's campaign manager (can't remember his name, but he's the guy who dug up the Bush DUI)in May . It was this campaign manager that set Wilson up with the Vanity Fair article and hyped the story that was first broken in April, but was short lived in the press. No one cared. I'm not sure when the NYT jumped in, but they were calling for heads to roll and an independent investigation, and for Novak to reveal his source, because they declared that it was evident that the Whitehouse was using a friendly source to sabotage Wilson, and nullify his report. The NYT took the lead on this issue and never dropped it, until it's own reporters were subpoened.
When it was demonstrated that no law was broken by revealing that Plame was a CIA agent, the Times called for the investigation to be closed, but the prosecutor was not satisfied. He had found something else that interested him in the investigation. Possibly what he found was a concerted effort on the part of the Times (and Time) to manipulate the issue for the benefit of the Democrat party. Was there any crime involved, probably not, but the report would not be flattering to an already troubled NYT.
Chris Lehane? He met with Chris Lehane?
And did the NYT really call for the investigation be stopped?
So why – with a special prosecutor now threatening to toss Time magazine's Matthew Cooper and New York Times reporter Judith Miller in jail if they don't give up their sources in the Plame case – aren't their lawyers invoking the "no laws were broken" defense?
Explains the National Review's Rich Lowry: The Miller-Cooper defense hasn't made this argument because it would be too embarrassing to admit that the Bush administration's "crime of the century" wasn't really a crime at all, especially after a year and a half of media chest-beating to the contrary.
"It was just a Washington flap played for all it was worth by the same news organizations now about to watch their employees go to prison over it," says Lowry.
"That's the truth that the media will go to any length to avoid."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1348716/posts
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"I think that the whole thing rests on the call for the independent council investigation for a crime that the NYT reporters knew never happened"
BINGO! You win the prize! That's the most plausible explanation I've seen yet. Judith Miller and/or others in the NY Times knew who the real 'leaker' was (probably a liberal reporter, or Wilson himself, or some other liberal scum that the NY Times is desperate to protect).
The whole issue has been a smokescreen for the REAL issue, which was the despicable lying campaign by Joe Wilson and his media flacks to present a false picture of the whole Niger uranium matter and damage to Bush administration IN TIME OF WAR to pave the way for a Kerry administration.
The whole presstitute campaign for an investigation is now on the verge of blowing up in their faces big time, and they are desperate to try to contain the damage.
Why on earth would Miller go to jail to protect a R. source? I don't give any NY Times reporter such high marks for 'principles'..... no way.
Whatever is going on with Plame and Joe "RestoreHonesty.com" Wilson, the libs are not going to like it.
That's why I'm ROTFLMPO at this whole situation.
Gee, I should have just kept reading. I agree with where your thinking is going, Eva.
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