[america-rules]

What a bunch of idiots !

Plame was outed over 10 years ago and had special protection back then and was made in to a desk jockey then !

Google is your friend !

[Lancey Howard]

Corn's next column will also ignore the fact that a completely different "source" leaked Plame's identity to Judith Miller.

[DTogo]

David Corn... the Nation... *sigh*

[FreedomCalls]

Why wasn't Corn concerned when the WaPo and several other news sources a few months ago exposed the VERY MUCH STILL COVERT secret airline the CIA uses to render battlefield detainees down to giving schedules, naming the "employees" operating it, the airfields it operates out of, and listing the actual tail numbers of the planes?? Hmmmmm? Where was he then?

[Darkwolf377]

Imagine if the left--journalists and DU posters--were this concerned with terrorists?

[CyberAnt]

Hmmmmm? Poor David - I guess he didn't notice that Robert Novak wrote his article with Valerie's name in it - PRIOR TO THE CONVERSATION ROVE HAD WITH COOPER.

Or .. David didn't happen to see that Wilson put his own wife's name on his website.

Vaalerie was not an operative (or covered agent) - she was an analyst.

DON'T ANY OF THESE MEDIA PEOPLE EVER GET THEIR INFORMATION CORRECT.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Here's what Corn wrote about the Sandy Berger affair:

Two recent examples show how reckless and vicious GOPers can get. When the news broke weeks ago that former Clinton national security adviser Sandy Berger had removed classified documents related to terrorism and notes from a secured viewing room at the National Archives, leading Republicans and conservative commentators—including House Speaker Denny Hastert and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay—went berserk. With little information available about what Berger had done—he claimed he had taken papers out with him by accident and returned most of them later—they accused Berger of stuffing documents down his pants and suggested he had swiped documents to cover up misdeeds or mistakes committed by the Clinton administration and to prevent the 9/11 Commission from finding out truths that would trouble or embarrass the Clinton gang.

But days ago, The Wall Street Journal reported, “Officials looking into the removal of classified documents from the National Archives by former Clinton National Security Adviser Samuel Berger say no original materials are missing and nothing Mr. Berger reviewed was withheld from the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks….The conclusion by archives officials and others would seem to lay to rest the issue of whether any information was permanently destroyed or withheld from the commission.” This, of course, doesn’t explain what actually happened, but it does take the fizz out of attacks initiated by Republicans before the facts were in.

What's sauce for the goose ....

[DaveTesla]

NEWT GINGRICH DEBUNKS PLAMEGATE HOAX
Calls Rove Accuser Joe Wilson a Liar on NBC Today

By Richard Poe @ Wednesday 13 July 2005, 5:23 pm
http://moonbatcentral.com/wordpress/?p=692


On this morning’s NBC Today show, former House Speaker
Newt Gingrich lashed into Plamegate hoaxster Joe Wilson,
whose phony allegations against Bush advisor Karl Rove are
rapidly falling apart at the seams. Wilson accused Rove
of revealing the name of Wilson’s CIA wife — thus
allegedly blowing her cover — in retaliation for a report
Wilson had written which supposedly undermined White House
claims that Saddam Hussein was trying to obtain uranium
ore from Niger.


Now we know that Wilson is a hoaxster. His wife was not a
covert agent during the period in question, her identity
was not secret, and Rove never divulged it. The Bush
White House did not authorize Wilson’s mission to Niger,
as Wilson previously claimed. Even worse, Wilson’s
conclusions on Niger were baseless and wrong. He sought
to lull Americans into believing that Iraq was not trying
to obtain uranium ore from Niger, when in fact reliable
evidence shows Iraq was doing just that. Newt Gingrich
told Katie Kouric this morning:

"[Joe Wilson] Lied to the country about who got him the
job. The Senate Intelligence Committee is scathing about
that. He lied to the country about his own conclusions.
The Senate Intelligence Committee Report repudiates him on
that. … It turns out in retrospect he had been talking to
the Kerry campaign for months. He was a contributor to
Kerry and he was essentially a Kerry supporter … his book
title is The Politics Of Truth and yet the Senate
Intelligence Committee said that Wilson specifically was
using falsehoods on 3 or 4 occasions …"

Watch the video here.
http://treyjackson.net/files/Newt713.wmv
For more on the rapidly distintegrating Plamegate hoax,
see Byron York’s piece in today’s National Review Online,
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200507121626.asp

which explains how Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper
set up Rove for what amounts to a journalistic frame-up.
Cooper, by the way, is married to Hillary operative Mandy
Grunwald —
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/10429/

a close confidante of the junior senator from New
York. "Hillary Clinton even threw Grunwald a baby shower
at the White House in July 1998. At the time, Cooper was
covering presidential politics for Newsweek," reports
NewsMax.com.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/1/27/114029.shtml

[Echo Talon]

aided by its echo-ists in the conservative media

LOL!

[DaveTesla]

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx HEADQUATERS

[Doofer]

The White House may be stonewalling on the Rove scandal.....

I was listening to Limbaugh today and he played audio were more than a few MSM talking heads said the White House was stonewalling this thing. Glad to see that this reporter got the talking points memo [sarcasm]...

[Recovering_Democrat]

Corn looks for a scandal next to any "R" that isn't named McLame or Shays. No biggie here. No crime, no foul.

[Daaave]

The secret agent and the retired diplomat in their January 2004, Vanity Fair spread.

Undercover CIA agent Valerie Wilson (nee Plame) and her husband Joseph Wilson, retired (unemployed) diplomat, who was sent by the CIA (But not the Bush admistration.) at the suggestion of his own wife, to Niger to investigate claims that Iraq had tried to buy 'yellowcake' uranium.

[philman_36]

(A Google search at the time would have yielded the name--and maiden name--of Wilson's wife.)
And which website would it have been obtained from? Perhaps from Mr. Wilson's own website?

Oh, you simply MUST tell us David. Stop leading us on and tempting us you wicked, wicked man! /faux elite sophisticate

[philman_36]

By disclosing Valerie Wilson's relationship to the CIA, Rove was passing classified information to a reporter.
At least he wasn't stuffing Valerie down his pants. /Berger impression

[linkinpunk]

The Intelligence Identities Protection Act makes it a crime to identify "a covert agent"

They forgot the "intentionally" part.

Honest mistake, I'm sure.

[ravingnutter]

Plame was not a covert agent. She had not been covert for nine years as she was outed by Aldrich Ames prior to 1994 and then again by the Cubans. She was assigned a desk job as an analyst at that time for her own safety.

The identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame was compromised twice before her name appeared in a news column that triggered a federal illegal-disclosure investigation, U.S. officials say.

Mrs. Plame's identity as an undercover CIA officer was first disclosed to Russia in the mid-1990s by a Moscow spy, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. In a second compromise, officials said a more recent inadvertent disclosure resulted in references to Mrs. Plame in confidential documents sent by the CIA to the U.S. Interests Section of the Swiss Embassy in Havana.

The documents were supposed to be sealed from the Cuban government, but intelligence officials said the Cubans read the classified material and learned the secrets contained in them, the officials said.

Washington Times

She would have had to have been covert in the last five years for Rove to have broken the law, per former Assistant Deputy Attorney General Victoria Toensing, who helped draft the 1982 law in question.

For Plame's outing to have been illegal, the one-time deputy AG explained, "her status as undercover must be classified." Also, Plame "must have been assigned to duty outside the United States currently or in the past five years."

[1Old Pro]

The Nation needs to re-read the law. Mrs. Wislon was not undercover.

[moose2004]

Typical of "The Nation."

[TheForceOfOne]

Ohio newspaper holding two investigative stories after NY Times reporter jailed

http://www.ap.org/pages/indnews/

Excerpt:
"The climate has always been different," Clifton said. "Let's face it: During the Watergate years with Deep Throat, it was never even thought of. It wasn't even a remote possibility that someone was going to get subpoenaed because of Deep Throat squealing. That has changed so dramatically in the last few years."

THEY'RE GETTING NERVOUS! LOL!