'Ere now! I bloody well DID NOT! What is it with you lot, always blaming me for everything? It's enough to make a man become a Hermit, it is!
Posted on 07/16/2005 12:43:25 PM PDT by Stultis
Thank, cc. I read you analysis at the time. As is often the case, you were well ahead of the curve.
Your logic is good and I agree in part. However, this Rove "scandal" has distanced some Republicans. I have heard comment that he has brought in too many "cronies" from Texas and that he will ignore anything to protect his friends.
I do not feel that way. However, I hope Rove is completely exonerated soon so that this negative will be removed from President Bush's administration. I believe in him and I don't want to see his credibility jeopardized.
| Interviewed = 0 Contacted = 0 Grand jury = 0 But, I know a lot about Plame! |
Thanks for the ping!
David Corn writes "Once Valerie Wilson's name appeared in Novak's column, her days as a CIA undercover official were done. Moreover, operation that she worked on--and possibly other officers and agents with whom she had worked--were compromised. Novak ruined Valerie Wilson's career."
This means that she can no longer perform her WMD duties as required. So why is she still working at the agency. Based on why Corn and Wilson are saying, her employment at the CIA should have been terminated months ago.
The fact that she is still working at the agency says that her career was not impacted, as Corn and Wilson claim.
Indeed. The fact that she is working does not support their assertions that her career is "ruined".
Could minor Ambassador Joe Wilson himself have been the source in blowing his own Wife's cover?
It is distinctly possible, (though it may be unlikely that Joe Wilson himself directly was NY Times Judith Miller's source), since Joe Wilson himself evidently routinely bragged openly to strangers about her CIA employment, prior to such "cover" being "blown" in the press.
Here's an example of Joe's apparently routine and open bragging about Valerie being a "CIA agent," which became known directly to me over a year ago:
He certainly bragged about it per a famous and highly reliable source's (named below) account of his own face-to-face encounter with Amb. Joe Wilson prior to Valerie Plame's "outing" as a CIA agent/employee.
Based upon a personal conversation (we were in a small group eating; it was NOT an "off the record") I had with eminent historian Victor Davis Hanson (we were at a luncheon table together during a trip to Europe), it appeared entirely possible that Joe Wilson himself was the (or one source, if not the original one) possible source in revealing his own wife's status as a CIA agent or employee.
Victor Davis Hanson (Wilson presumably knew Victor Davis Hanson wrote regularly for NRO (National Review Online), had done OpEds for the Wall street Journal, and other publications, and had his own Website with a widespread following) said he (VDH) & Joe Wilson were both in the same "Green Room" before a televised debate-discussion on Iraq, etc. and Joe first warned the TV make-up person not to get powder on his $14,000 Rolex watch, then he bragged to Victor about several things (possessions and trips to Aspen, etc.), like his expensive car (I think it was a Mercedes), and then bragged about his beautiful wife who, Joe Wilson said (braggingly) was a CIA operative.
I asked Victor Davis Hanson Why he didn't write up this account.(?) He replied that Joe Wilson would probably simply deny it, since only he (VDH) & Joe Wilson were in the Green Room together before the broadcast.
However, it is now easy to surmise that Joe Wilson is a crass, materialistic, self-promoting, vain, egotistical, bragaddocio-opportunist, so this account is perfectly consistent with Valerie Plame's TWO photo shoots in Vanity Fair. (Or was it Vogue? No, probably too crass for Vogue, n'est pas?)
I admit it. I am the Parmes leaker.
'Ere now! I bloody well DID NOT! What is it with you lot, always blaming me for everything? It's enough to make a man become a Hermit, it is!
Shhhhh...Democrats don't want the public to know the truth (Valerie Plame wasn't a 'secret agent' -- did not have the security classification nor employment category of a "secret agent").
Since Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson have been documented revealing Plame's employment with the CIA in many capacities for a while now, long prior to ever the calls by "journalists" to Karl Rove as now being questioned, there's more than enough proven information that Valerie Plame's employment with the CIA is moreorless public knowledge...given that her neighbors even knew who she worked for.
As to anything "secret" or superdupersecret about the nature of her employment with the CIA, it seems that Democrats have nothing without the fantasy of intrigue. Another case of Democrats being fanned by fantasy and hyper emotionalism, paranoid fears and greedy desires, rather than substance, truth and/or the American way.
However, it's just what Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean want: misguided, deluded, confused and incited voters who are desperate for...desperate for...well, the confusion they seek on the part of voters leads to the new realm of the Clinton/Dean fascist state, no doubt about that.
"Why bother? It was obvious Wilson was the leaker to Corn."
Bingo!
Rove is wearing a button that says "I'm a SOURCE, not a TARGET." LOL.
I am Cornholio.
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