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Plame security breach? It just ain't so, Joe
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 17, 2005 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 07/17/2005 12:53:39 PM PDT by FreeKeys

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1 posted on 07/17/2005 12:53:41 PM PDT by FreeKeys
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To: FreeKeys
Great Editorial !! *BUMP* !!
2 posted on 07/17/2005 12:59:55 PM PDT by ex-Texan (Mathew 7:1 through 6)
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To: FreeKeys
Kamel Bourgass and Magdy el-Nashar are real people, not phantoms conjured by those lyin' sonsofbitches Bush and Cheney. And to those who say, "but that's why Iraq is a distraction from the war on terror," sorry, it doesn't work like that. It's not either/or; it's a string of connections: unlimited Saudi money, Westernized Islamist fanatics, supportive terrorist states, proliferating nuclear technology....

..... leftist U.S. and Euroweenie politicians and their lazy, suck-up constiuents; lying, agenda-driven media sycophants; Islamofacist apologists and their incessant demands for political correctness....

One day it all comes together and there goes the neighborhood.

3 posted on 07/17/2005 1:07:27 PM PDT by workerbee (A person's a person no matter how small)
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To: FreeKeys

No one quite like Steyn, Bump


4 posted on 07/17/2005 1:09:58 PM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: workerbee

How does that song go ? "Plame Game" ?


5 posted on 07/17/2005 1:11:12 PM PDT by genefromjersey (So much to flame;so little time !)
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To: FreeKeys
earlier post : Plame Security Breach: It Just Ain't So, Joe (Democrats Inhabit Planet Zongo Alert)
6 posted on 07/17/2005 1:19:59 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: FreeKeys

Mark is at his best sticking a pin into the Plame/Blame game.

Below are my conclusions to why Miller is in jail.

Apparently, Judith Miller went to jail to protect one or more of the following choices: (take your choice)

Sources Judith Miller is protecting by going to jail:

1. Karl Rove
2. Dick Cheney
3. Colin Powell
4. Haliburton
5. Tom Delay
6. GW
7. Laura Bush and her twin daughters
8. Bush's Doggie
9. _____________ (Fill in the blank with any Republican!)
10. All of the above


7 posted on 07/17/2005 1:33:49 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The MSM is trying to make us believe, Judith Miller is in jail to protect Karl Rove!)
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To: FreeKeys
Oh, don't worry. The idiot liberals will try again. The smear campaign didn't work against Powell or Ashcroft or Rumsfeld or Delay or Rove, but no matter.

They'll be on to someone else in short order. Their only strategy is to stink up the media atmosphere and hope republicans get blamed for it.

8 posted on 07/17/2005 1:39:08 PM PDT by Reactionary
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To: FreeKeys
What's this really about? It's not difficult. A big chunk of the American elites have decided there is no war; it's all a racket got up by Bush and Cheney.

This why we are seeing all the junk news stories...Hurricanes .Sharks....missing children.

And, even if there is a war somewhere or other, wherever it is, it's not where Bush says it is. Iraq is a ''distraction'' from Afghanistan -- and, if there were no Iraq, Afghanistan would be a distraction from Niger, and Niger's a distraction from Valerie Plame's next photo shoot for Vanity Fair.

9 posted on 07/17/2005 1:40:48 PM PDT by Dog ( Is Joe Wilson is just a character Rove created?)
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To: FreeKeys

bump


10 posted on 07/17/2005 1:49:41 PM PDT by Roberts
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To: Grampa Dave

Judith Miller is in jail to protect Judith Miller and only Judith Miller.


11 posted on 07/17/2005 1:52:54 PM PDT by kingu
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To: kingu

I got an email from a friend, who wondered if she asked for protective custody so she wouldn't end up like so many who made the Clintoons mad.


12 posted on 07/17/2005 2:01:41 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The MSM is trying to make us believe, Judith Miller is in jail to protect Karl Rove!)
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To: Miss Marple; Grampa Dave; Peach; Howlin; MamaLucci

Steyn's done a great job on this one.


13 posted on 07/17/2005 2:03:26 PM PDT by MizSterious (Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
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To: Grampa Dave

Sorry for the ping--I see you've already found this one!


14 posted on 07/17/2005 2:03:56 PM PDT by MizSterious (Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
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To: MizSterious

Perfect:

In fact, the only lying sonafabitch turned out to be Yellowcake Joe. Just about everybody on the face of the earth except Wilson, the White House press corps and the moveon.org crowd accepts that Saddam was indeed trying to acquire uranium from Africa. Don't take my word for it; it's the conclusion of the Senate intelligence report, Lord Butler's report in the United Kingdom, MI6, French intelligence, other European services -- and, come to that, the original CIA report based on Joe Wilson's own briefing to them. Why Yellowcake Joe then wrote an article for the New York Times misrepresenting what he'd been told by senior figures from Major Wanke's regime in Niger is known only to him.


15 posted on 07/17/2005 2:05:09 PM PDT by Peach
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To: MizSterious

No problem.

See how I expanded on your comments about Judith Miller not going to jail to protect Karl Rove?


16 posted on 07/17/2005 2:06:54 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The MSM is trying to make us believe, Judith Miller is in jail to protect Karl Rove!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Perfect. I like your tagline. ;)


17 posted on 07/17/2005 2:13:08 PM PDT by MizSterious (Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
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To: Peach
Steyn Smokes the Morons AGAIN.
18 posted on 07/17/2005 2:17:29 PM PDT by Tom D. (Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. - Benj. Franklin)
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To: FreeKeys

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?)


19 posted on 07/17/2005 3:09:13 PM PDT by FReethesheeples (Gonzales appears to be quite WEAK on Property rights!)
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To: NutCrackerBoy; goldstategop

You guys know the rules: the title must be EXACTLY like the original, no substituting of ANYTHING, even question marks -- or the search (YES I DID AN EXACT TITLE SEARCH FIRST) turns up nada.


20 posted on 07/17/2005 4:32:22 PM PDT by FreeKeys ("Branding themselves the terrorists’ rights party is unlikely to improve the Dems'06 chances"-MSteyn)
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