Posted on 07/14/2005 8:27:58 PM PDT by freedrudge
Now I want to know which other reporters are leaking poor Valerie's name!
The NYSlimes, ran Abu Grahb everyday for a month. They will do the same thing with Rove. I see no reason to get upset. Rove did nothing wrong. It's just the NYSlimes up to their old tricks.
No kidding. If I'm George Bush, I'm on the phone to Porter Goss first thing in the morning, telling him he's got a lot more housecleaning to do.
...say..one with cloven hooves..? Who could pilfer FBI files even while baking cookies? Who liked the WH silver pattern so much, she decided to take it home with her?..? Who has plans that we cannot even fathom yet??
I am beginning to believe the hypothesis that Fitzgerald is now looking into whether Rove told him the truth about who he spoke to and when.
The fact that Novak told Rove first isn't as important to obstruction charges as the fact that Rove spoke to him, if Rove testified that he did not speak to Novak, or something along those lines.
Next we could hear about Martha Stewart being jailed and how this is the same thing, or something to that effect.
That's what I get from this snippet, having already wholly discredited in my mind the notion that Rove did anything wrong while communicating with journalists.
House cleaning for sure, but I worry they'd buy a ticket to Russia or China and play "let's make a deal."
And it was all over town. Want proof? How about from Joe Wilson's OWN mouth?
The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity - A Diplomat's Memoir
Chapter 17: A Strange Encounter with Robert Novak
by Ambassador Joseph Wilson
Late on Tuesday afternoon, July 8, six days before Robert Novak's article about Valerie and me, a friend showed up at my office with a strange and disturbing tale. He had been walking down Pennsylvania Avenue toward my office near the White House when he came upon Novak, who, my friend assumed, was en route to the George Washington University auditorium for the daily taping of CNN's Crossfire. He asked Novak if he could walk a block or two with him, as they were headed in the same direction; Novak acquiesced. Striking up a conversation, my friend, without revealing that he knew me, asked Novak about the uranium controversy. It was a minor problem, Novak replied, and opined that the administration should have dealt with it weeks before. My friend then asked Novak what he thought about me, and Novak answered: "Wilson's an asshole. The CIA sent him. His wife, Valerie, works for the CIA. She's a weapons of mass destruction specialist. She sent him." At that point, my friend and Novak went their separate ways. My friend headed straight for my office a couple of blocks away.
Once he related this unsettling story to me, I asked him to immediately write down the details of the conversation and afterwards ushered him out of my office. Next, I contacted the head of the news division at CNN, Eason Jordan, Novak's titular boss, whom I had known for a number of years. It took several calls, but I finally tracked him down on his cell phone. I related to him the details of my friend's encounter with Novak and pointed out that whatever my wife might or might not be, it was the height of irresponsibility for Novak to share such information with an absolute stranger on a Washington street. I asked him to speak to Novak for me, but he demurred— he said he did not know him very well—and suggested that I speak to Novak myself. I arranged for him to have Novak call me and hung up.
***Novak told a perfect stranger on the street the same day he talked to Rove!
I'm sure the prosecutor will be thrilled that the NYTime's "reporters" are writing about the same story that has one of their "reporters" sitting in jail refusing to testify because the NYTimes won't allow her to. LOL!
The more I think of it, the more I think the CIA's a lost cause. Maybe we'd be better off if we canned everyone below Porter Goss, right down to the cafeteria workers and the UPS delivery guys, and burned Langley to the ground and just started over fresh.
The NY Times has declared war on Novak!
The is amazing, isn't it? Completely backa$$wards!
What about Joe Wilson and his "double super secret spy" wife?
If Valerie Plame is typical of the people working in the CIA these days, the Chicoms would have given them too much if they paid $1.98 for them to spill their guts.
I doubt that is what Fitzgerald is looking at, but I don't doubt that is the story the New York Times is trying to concoct and sell to the public. This is what is so terrible about newspapers printing leaks from a grand jury. The honorable people won't talk, and the dishonorable people can say anything they want because they know the honorable people won't talk, even to refute the lies of others.
Why doesn't someone demand an investigation into the New York Times? Find out who their source is in the CIA leaking information. This has to be illegal actitivy.
I am surprised that some question whether reporters talk to each other. Sometimes it seems to me that they don't talk to anyone else, and they think it is a good show when they talk to each other and let us watch. I'd like to see them do more reporting and less coffee klatch.
What did Wilson say on CNN?
It's past time to go after the New York Times. It's time to clean that rat hole out.
Since Joe put up his wife's name and particulars on his own web site, wouldn't/shouldn't THAT make Wilson the one who outed his wife?
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