Posted on 07/14/2005 9:13:31 PM PDT by HAL9000
Mornin' from the west coast. Should we start a list of the usual suspect Senators?
Liberals hiding behind the misnomer, Progressives:
Schumer
Leaky Leahy
Mrs. Clinton
Kerry
Kennedy
Durbin, D. Middle Name "Head" (naughty I know, but we heard it on the radio and it fits!)
RINOS who love to bask in the glow of the MSM lights:
McCain
DeWhine
Hagle
see post 191
Talk about getting hoisted by their own petard.
Good list. I am sure that there willbe a couple embarasing names coming out soon.
By then, the Dims will say, "Lets put this all behind us!"
ROFL!!
What a Dunce!
Or maybe Rove read the report from the Senate Intelligence Committee on Niger like Noval did. Like I did. It's in the Federal Register.
And don't forget that before Novak wrote his article, he says he contacted the CIA and they didn't tell him not to publish her name or her connection.
So it would be remarkably hard to blame him now, if the CIA itself didn't want to protect her identity.
Novak isn't a classified source, so Rove would have no reason to think that Plame's employment with the CIA was a secret. The only way you could think he should have would be if you already believe the story that Rove did all this on purpose, and therefore had already studied her files and knew she was a secret undercover agent.
October 19, 2003
THE PLAME AFFAIR: HOW MUCH DAMAGE?....Time magazine keeps us up to date on the potential damage from the exposure of Valerie Plame:
Officials with two foreign governments told Time that their spy catchers are quietly checking on whether Plame had worked on their soil and, if so, what she had done there. Which means if one theme of the Administration leak scandal concerns political vengeance — did the White House reveal Plame's identity in order to punish Wilson for his public criticism of the case for war with Iraq? — another theme is about damage. What has been lost, and who has been compromised because of the leak of one spy's name? And who, if anyone, will pay for that disclosure?
And how secret was Plame's CIA role? Apparently she was an undercover NOC (non-official cover), but not a deep undercover NOC:
Fred Rustmann, a former CIA official who put in 24 years as a spymaster and was Plame's boss for a few years, says Plame worked under official cover in Europe in the early 1990s — say, as a U.S. embassy attache — before switching to nonofficial cover a few years later. Mostly Plame posed as a business analyst or a student in what Rustmann describes as a "nice European city." Plame was never a so-called deep-cover NOC, he said, meaning the agency did not create a complex cover story about her education, background, job, personal life and even hobbies and habits that would stand up to intense scrutiny by foreign governments.
....Though Plame's cover is now blown, it probably began to unravel years ago when Wilson first asked her out. Rustmann describes Plame as an "exceptional officer" but says her ability to remain under cover was jeopardized by her marriage in 1998 to the higher-profile American diplomat.
Now that it's falling apart it is #6 on CNN and not even listed on MSNBC.
Unreal. You can almost hear the ratings falling for these guys by the hour.
If true, it fits more with the WH and rove's behavior in recent weeks and months on this topic. They simply have not acted the way pols act when they are guilty of something.
It fits that the media would try to paint him as the leak, when the actual source is still being protected by Miller.
And, the timing of the story falling apart and dying is PERFECT for a "proper church burial" on Sunday morning talking head shows sandwiched between live worship broadcasts (at least that's how it is on my local networks).
Irony is not dead!
Yes I wish some of those reporters yesterday had asked Wilson about Rock Creek and his other little companies afer he made his little speach about how he made his "bones".
Thing is, once again the MSM is trying to make a BIG story out of nothing. I am willing to bet that 60% of the people in this country doesn't even know, or care, who Karl Rove is.
I think I'll let things play out a little more. If I'm right, others will also put it together. We'll see....OTH, we may never know.
Has Joe Wilson simply called for Rove's "firing" or Rove's "indictment"? That would make a big difference as to whether he simply dislikes Rove or truly thinks a crime was perpetrated.
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