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CIA 'outing' might fall short of crime
USA Today | July 13, 2005 | Mark Memmott

Posted on 07/14/2005 7:15:36 AM PDT by CedarDave

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cialeak; plame; wilson
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To: randog
Looks like the MSM is pulling out their end game, i.e. "We couldn't stick this on Rove so let's end this quietly before it backfires and we get some on us."

Hehehe. The whitehouse refusal to comment serves a double purpose. They really do (I think) want the investigation to come to creditable and definitive conclusion, so they're cooperating, including adhering to the prosecutor's request not to comment.

At the same time, however, there might be a bit of the "rope-a-dope" going on here (which Bush and Rove have used on the 'Rats over and over again and they still fall for it!). IOW, let's say the Whitehouse knows that Rove told the full and complete truth to the prosecutor and his grand jury months ago, and Rove's testimony is in full comportment with other evidence such as the Newsweek memo. Rove wasn't making outgoing calls, he was responding to specific queries by reporters about the story, he was asking that the information not be published, he picked up the rumor from the press (not official sources), and so on.

In short assume the Whitehouse knows there's nothing there. By refusing to comment they whip the 'Rats and their press into a frenzy. 'Rats make wild charges which will later be proved false. The public sees 'Rats being unhinged, engaging in smears, and politicizing an investigation which the Whitehouse is seen to be treating soberly and seriously.

21 posted on 07/14/2005 7:49:26 AM PDT by Stultis
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To: CedarDave
In the amicus briefs the MSM filed with the court to keep their folks out of jail, Their own position was no jail because there is no crime.

Check out Hugh Hewitt. Relevant sections posted.
22 posted on 07/14/2005 7:49:54 AM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Democrats haven't had a new idea since Karl Marx.)
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To: smiley
As I listened to speaker after speaker at the 2004 DNC Convention insist that Bush stole the presidency in 2000 ~ insisting that Bush was an illegitimate Presidency ~ I knew there would never be either an end or a limit to their vile, seditious attacks on him and his administration!
23 posted on 07/14/2005 7:51:49 AM PDT by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: TASMANIANRED
In the amicus briefs the MSM filed with the court to keep their folks out of jail, Their own position was no jail because there is no crime.

But with a lot of huffing and puffing and chest pounding, a heck of a good story (but only in their liberal minds) on a slow summer's day.

24 posted on 07/14/2005 7:53:24 AM PDT by CedarDave
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To: CedarDave
This is nothing but political childish nonsense and the players areless mature than the young children in my family. What happened to America first? American lives and the very fabric of America is threatened with this and it MUST stop.
25 posted on 07/14/2005 8:03:12 AM PDT by libill (The first casualty of War is Truth-disputed origin)
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To: Stultis
...there might be a bit of the "rope-a-dope" going on here (which Bush and Rove have used on the 'Rats over and over again and they still fall for it!).

Just a bit? I can't wait for Rove et.al. to kick the chairs out and let the bodies twist.

26 posted on 07/14/2005 8:26:26 AM PDT by randog (What the....?!)
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To: popdonnelly

As long as you're asking things of Wilson, why not ask him why he has lied about what he learned while on the Niger trip?

And why he lied and claimed Dick Cheney asked him to go there?


27 posted on 07/14/2005 8:34:03 AM PDT by Redbob
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To: CedarDave

Rush now reading from the USA Today story.


28 posted on 07/14/2005 9:26:41 AM PDT by CedarDave
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