Valerie Plame Joseph Wilson
Posted on 07/14/2005 7:15:36 AM PDT by CedarDave
Can't excerpt
I hear Wilson was peddling his "Rove Must Go" story on Katie Colon's show this morning. The current story, by a member of the MSM no less, puts a different perspective on the whole affair, and Rove and the Bush administration may yet have the last laugh.
How do you LEAK something that's already public knowledge? This whole "scandal" just doesn't make any sense.
It's kinda hard to call yourself a "covert agent" when you're just a paper-pusher at Langley.
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."
MIGHT fall short? Yeah it's missing all but one or two of the essential elements of the crime. MIGHT?
It makes complete sense when you look at it as an attempt to first smear Bush's Iraq War plans, then try to blame it on Rove when it backfires.
Wilson and his MSM co-conspirators make Dan Rather look like a genius.
Rove made them look quite foolish with his 9/11 Liberals just want to offer therapy comments. They're aiming for Rove's head.
If the prosecuting attorney knows that elements of the crime cannot be proven, he/she is not going to bring a prosecution.
I've been saying this from day one.
From what has been made public so far, no crime has been committed.
Sure it does, the government and media have nothing to offer the American people so they just go after each other daily to justify their existance and massive salaries and budgets.
It is what the do.
Fact is, the only way the MSM is even heard is by Rush and Laura and Hannity - I only hear MSM from them playing them.
Americans would not even hear it if not for the "right-wing" radio.
Anyone think to ask Wilson why he immediately accused Rove when this whole thing started? Or why his wife sent him to Niger? Or whether he actually did anything in Niger? Or why he wrote an article for the Times stating categorically that Saddam never sought yellow cake in Niger?
Now what Rather & Mapes did... those untraceable, forged memo's... and how she called Joel Lockart to give him a 'heads-up'... THAT'S 'WHISTLE-BLOWING'!
Valerie Plame Joseph Wilson
Note this totally off topic question posed by reporter ("Scott") to the President during an Oval Office photo op with Prime Minister Adrian Nastase of Romania
Q: Thank you, Mr. President. President Clinton suggested that perhaps politics was behind the disclosure of the Sandy Berger investigation. Do you have anything to say about that? And, also, when did you learn about this probe?
PRESIDENT BUSH: I'm not going to comment on this matter. This is a serious matter, and it will be fully investigated by the Justice Department.
Q: When did you learn, sir, if I may?
PRESIDENT BUSH: I'm not going to comment on it. It's a very serious matter. It will be fully investigated by the Justice Department.
Sheesh ~ how clear is that as a policy.....No comment on on-going investigations, regardless of who is being investigated!
While it is clear to us here that these @$$-holes are merely trying to find ways to destroy GWB, to the rest of the world their actions create the impression that all of America is stupid, corrupt and/or petty beyond redemption!
....these rats haven't stopped and continue to denigrate President Bush and his administration ever since he ran for President in 2000.....they're vicious, hateful and the spawn of Hillary....
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."Facts:
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.
The term "covert agent" means a present or retired officer or employee of an intelligence agency or a present or retired member of the Armed Forces assigned to duty with an intelligence agency whose identity as such an officer, employee, or member is classified information, and who is serving outside the United States or has within the last five years served outside the United States. 50 USC 426, Paragraph 4. (Emphasis added)
Link: 50 USC 426
Plame was recalled to the U.S. in 1994 after Aldrich Ames was arrested on charges of espionage.
They heard the word "leak" and thought "water"gate. Its hard coded into their brains now. Never mind its merely a drip. Let them make fools out of themselves. Most people dont even know who Rove is or even care.
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