Posted on 07/16/2005 8:20:46 PM PDT by DaveTesla
So now we know a lot of the facts. In the midst of a war, a rogue CIA employee named Valerie Plame set out to sabotage the President's war policy -- a policy ratified by both political parties and both houses of Congress. To do this she sent her husband on a mission to Niger to discredit the President's statement that Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium there -- in other words to discredit a justification for the war in which Americans were continuing to die. Forget for a moment the treasonous nature of an action designed to undermine a duly arrived at war policy and to destroy the credibility of the commander-in-chief while this nation's soldiers were in harm's way. The mere act of sending a relative on a mission like this was illegal under existing statutes for someone in Plame's position.
Her husband, Joseph Wilson, went off to Niger, did no investigation and came back and lied about what he had allegedly discovered. The bi-partisan 9/11 commission concluded that Wilson's claims were false -- a year and half after the damage the Plame-Wilson team intended was already done.
The Plame-Wilson lie was designed to make the President look like a liar and the nation's democratically and legally arrived at war policy a fraud. This came right at the climax of anti-war primary campaign of Howard Dean in July 2003, just three months after the fall of Baghdad and when the terrorist counter-attack had already begun.
Immediately the Democratic Party leadership jumped on the President calling him a liar and a fraud using the 16 words in the January 2003 State of the Union address about Niger as evidence. These 16 words were perfectly true than (as now) yet that didn't stop Democrats from using the Plame-Wilson lies to undermine the authority of the commander-in-chief in the eyes of the American people and before the entire world. No psychological warfare campaign ever conducted by an enemy against the United States has been as effetive as this one.
It emboldened our terrorist enemies, and sowed distrust in Europe and throughout the world about American policies, continued for more than six months with of course the megaphone provided by the NY Times and other Bush-hating and America bashing media institutions.
Joseph Wilson threw fuel on the fire by falsely claiming that Vice President Cheney had sent him and not his treacherous anti-Bush wife in her attempt to protect Saddam Hussein and his monster regime. NDavid Corn of the Saddam- and terrorist-sympathizing Nation and other journalists in the opposition press jumped on the story and projected the treacherous activities of Wilson and Plame onto the Bush Administration which was still trying to carry on an anti-terrorist war in the Middle East.
Corn was the first to suggest that outing Plame as a rogue CIA employee was itself treason and certainly against the law. It was not. Plame is not a cover CIA operative and besides and all its Democrat friends in Congress opposed the law protecting CIA agents and protected and even lionized the rogue CIA agent Philip Agee whose leaks of the names of covert CIA agents had gotten one agent killed and was responsible for the enactment of the law. The Nation also has been in the forefront of the fawners at the feet of liar Joseph Wilson giving him a dinner and award for his treachery. (Working against your own government in time of war, while in the employ of your government is by definition treachery.) In other words The Nation is entirely consistent: it will protect those CIA agents (Agee, Plame) who are enemies of the United States or its policies, and and only those agents.
Democrats will of course mentally dissociate themselves from acts of conscious treachery. And many of them have reason to do so. Unlike the Nation radicals, they are not rooting for our enemies to win. On the other hand, over and over in this war they have shown that they are prepared to win elections even at the cost of American defeats in the war on terror -- which as we can easily caculate may cost 100,000 American lives at a blow. Or as the President once put it to Tom Daschle, they are a party who will put their partisan interests above the security of 300 million Americans.
In a synchronity that all honest liberals should pay attention to, an appeals court has found that no torture or illegality took place at Guantanamo and that the legal campaign led by communist supporter Michael Ratner in behalf of the Guantanamo terrorists is based on an even bigger lie than the Plame-Wilson sabotage. In this assault on the war on terror from behind our lines the Democratic Party is also a willing and essential accomplice.
It's time for the Democrats to stop their sabotage of the war on terror. It's time for them to put away the witch-hunt against Karl Rove and Homeland Security, and to begin finally to think about defending this country instead of its internal enemies.
I think you've nailed it.
Will Coleman use his position to investigate the matter? There have been several incidents of Democrats working with the terrorists to undermine the war and I'm not aware of any of them being investigated by Coleman's committee.
Yes -- and who was that who gave the OKAY? and Why the OKAY?
I don't forget that while the US prepared for WAR, military satellites observed large movements out of Iraq. Which, of course, the MSM did NOT report. And why didn't they report this? Could Wilson have just been a useful idiot?
You are right about "who gave the ultimate YES to Wilson's going." I have many unanswered questions. For starters? Why would Plame recommend her husband for this task? Did she wish him to be publically stripped? She had to know, his going and doing what he did would unmask her. Her "bosses" had to know this too.
Joe Wilson's Credibility Problem
Committee staff asked how the former ambassador could have come to the conclusion that the ‘dates were wrong and the names were wrong’ when he had never seen the CIA reports and had no knowledge of what names and dates were in the reports,” the Senate panel said. Wilson told the panel he may have been confused and may have “misspoken” to reporters. The documents—purported sales agreements between Niger and Iraq—were not in U.S. hands until eight months after Wilson made his trip to Niger.
I hope you're right. I think many of us are really tired of the continual accuse - demand resignations - be shown to be fools - repeat cycle with the Dems. We've seen it with Cheney, Bush, Ashcroft, Lott, DeLay, Rove, . . .
The Dems never seem to pay for their nastiness and lying.
BTTT
He was never Ambassador to Iraq. For a time as senior diplomat, he was acting ambassador - where by all accounts he actually did a good job. However, later he seems to have fully succumbed to Clinton and "travelled" to the dark-side. His leaving office and his business dealings as a consultant to those wanting to do business in Africa and Turkey, all deserve closer scrutiny.
Not much of a benchmark. Saddam was reelected for a thirty year run. The little runt in North Korea is going on a 20 year run, little Fidel is nearing his 50th year and counting.
Longevity in office is not the hallmark of a great leader, but of the ability of hold office, usually with a gun to the head of the population.
I believe (If I remember correctly) that Mr. Wilson has "gold" interests in Niger.
Don't you just love the sound of backfire in the morning? :-p
Horowitz blends incisive logic with easy-to-read narrative. The guy is just damn good.
What Wilson Didn’t Say About Africa: Joseph Wilson's Silent Partners
Former ambassador Joseph Wilson has been a leading spokesman for critics who accuse President Bush of basing his case for war against Iraq on forged documents purporting that Iraq attempted to buy uranium from Niger. Wilson’s charge has been discredited by a Senate investigation,1 but what remains unanswered are questions arising from what is now known about French intelligence’s role in pushing the forged documents on British and US intelligence.
The role of France and Wilson in undermining Bush’s case for war looks particularly curious in light of disclosures about Saddam Hussein’s bribery of foreign political and business figures during the course of the Oil-for-Food program from 1996 to 2003. Saddam’s web of graft spun in many directions: among others, to UN officials, Russian and Chinese oil companies, British critics of Tony Blair’s Iraq policies, and US critics of President Bush’s Iraq policies, as well as France. Near the center of the web was the Banque Nationale de Paris, where Iraq’s Oil-for-Food revenues were initially kept until 2001, when they were redistributed among several undisclosed banks approved by Iraq. Meanwhile French oil company TotalFinaElf received Oil-for-Food vouchers and held a contract to develop oil fields in southern Iraq.2
Read more:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1256475/posts?page=1,114
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If the CIA wants to remain a viable agency in the future, it needs to "out" and then "fire" its rouge employees. As a casual observer I am disgusted with the Agency's failures to protect the homeland and its obvious political betrayals to influence political elections.
What's loopy about it? Karl Rove is a great conservative and a great American. People need to be shown what a good person he is. Right now all most people know is the MSM lies.
>>That building you have posted a photograph of - what is it?
That is the world's tallest building. Even from the basement windows you can see Siberia!
And perhaps the backpedaling of the NYT is because someone over there realizes it. As my elders used to say, "if it stinks, don't stir it around."
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