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.
When the fingers of blame begin to incriminate their own the lefts "search for the truth" and "heads-must-roll" attitude will change faster than John Kerry's opinion on...well...anything.
I pray you are right!It will take at least three months before they release the findings?
You are stating things which 1) aren't factual 2) out of order 3) of your own imaginings 4) being obtuse.
I laid it all out for you. There have been TWO YEARS worth of info about this case posted to FR, none of which you appear to know. You are being completely illogical and naive. Oh yes, you are also LYING THROUGH YOUR TEETH!
It was NOT Karl Rove who confirmed that neither Cheney nor Cheney's office sent Wilson!
It was NOT Valerie, the blundering Mata Hari wannabe, who thought that the YELLOW CAKE story was a crock!
And on and on and on...........
Go read up on this mess and THEN post and not before.
But obviously, you do.
I've asked you to explain, in detail, your position, which you have ignored doing. I ask it of you again. If you don't, I can only assume it's because you are incapable of doing so.
PUT UP OR SHUT UP !
That they do.
Just keep giving them more rope and they're sure to hang themselves.
This is the most stupid crop of democrats in history. Thank God they're not in charge of anything.
No offense, but that's just about the loopiest idea I've ever seen on FR. Not only that, but it would be instantly recognized as a blatant public relations ploy, and not a very good one at that. Rove is a cog in the machine. If he goes away, somebody else will take his place, and life will go on. If the Administration is unable to function without Karl Rove, this country is in bigger trouble than we think.
Horowitz puts in proper perspective the actions of the lovely and talented Valerie. When she is put on the rack the No. 1 question is "Who was behind your treason?" This, unfortunately will sound more like "Lets make a deal."
Hopefully Goss is purging this scum from CIA as fast as he can.
LOL.....let's just call them Boris and Natasha!
Great post. Thanks
Come on...answer the questions I put to you. Playing "victim" doesn't cut it here.
Yes, there is. Wilson was heavily invested in a European business that was run by a well known terrorist. You've GOT to read this thread. Everyone should. It's very long, but well worth the effort. People who haven't read it will freak!!! Yes, links are included to verify the information. FReepers on that thread are GOOD!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1443180/posts?q=1&&page=1
Hey, this is kinda fun.
People need to reiterate this point. She is an intelligence BUREUACRAT - pushes paper and holds meetings. James Bond she is not.
It most definitely is a fact and this is beginning to look like what I had hoped. The GJ is investigating a treasonous attempt to sabotage National Security hence the long period of time for Fitzgerald. Hence the sitting in jail of a bigtime reporter.
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