Posted on 07/17/2005 8:03:13 PM PDT by CHARLITE
The outing law clearly states that she would have had to been overseas as a covert op for 5 years prior to being "outed". She's been at a desk job at Langly for the past 6. No laws were broken. Period.
" Two years ago, after reading a Bob Novak column, I called former Ambassador Joseph Wilson and asked, half-jokingly, "Why didn't you tell me your wife was in the CIA?"
Shouldn't this more correctly read
" Why didn't you thell me that your wife was in the THEEIA ? "
Korn and his wife, VandenHeuvel, are the two most vile partisans I've ever seen on a tv set.
Because everyone already knew it according to Valerie Plame's former CIA boss!
If you're ever asked to define the word 'smarmy', just mention David Korn's name.
well duh! Almost thought in a way that Corn admitted the press were democrat hacks.
feh.
Korn and Wilson outed her as an undercover officer in order to accuse Rove of outing her.
Except that Rove didn't out her, they did. And she wasn't undercover, but thats just details.
Wilson, who had revealed in a New York Times op-ed that on a 2002 CIA-sponsored trip to Niger he had gathered information undermining one of George W. Bush's justifications for the Iraq War: that Iraq had been shopping for uranium in Africa
He outed himself as being a CIA agent in order to accust Bush of lying. Except that the CIA didn't send him to Niger, so he wasn't really an agent. And while he was in Niger he did no investigating that he couldn't have done over the phone. What he did find confirmed that Bush had told the truth.
His only written report was the opinion piece in the Times, in which he lied about his findings.
The press still seems oddly incurious about a fake CIA mission that was used to tilt an election, and which was used to undermine the war effort.
Bush told the truth, and Wilson knew it even as he wrote his piece accusing him of lying. Iraq had come calling in Niger looking for uranium, and Wilson knew it. If Korn's IQ is above subnormal, then Korn also knows it. Which means that this piece, like Wilson's, is not merely incorrect but a lie.
These guys get paid for stuff like this. That never fails to astonish me.
He's married to Katrina van den Heuvel (sp?)? Imagine being the dumbest one in that relationship.
Let's see; Wilson writes an op-ed piece AFTER he goes to work for John Kerry, claiming that he was sent to Niger at the request of Dick Cheney and declares that the words Bush spoke in the SOTU were lies and were the false basis with which Bush led the country to war.
Are they insinuating that the White House was to do NOTHING? Say nothing? Not defend themselves? Not try to at least correct Wilson's claims -- which, we all know now, turned out to be, almost to a word, a pack of lies.
Just stop and think a minute about that: if the White House hadn't refuted the lies Wilson told, his "facts" would have been used to what end - why, to get John Kerry elected, right?
More noise from the half-vast left-wing conspiracy.
If any wrong was done. it MUST be laid to a pubbie. Otherwise, it MUST be classified as an OOPSIE. There, ain't that simple? Ancha glad ya axed me?
Could minor Ambassador Joe Wilson himself have been the source in blowing his own Wife's "cover" (even if she had not been a covert CIA agent at the time of the alleged "leaks")?
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 ("hot") 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.
Exactly!
Could minor Ambassador Joe Wilson himself have been the source in blowing his own Wife's "cover" (even if she had not been a covert CIA agent at the time of the alleged "leaks")?
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 ("hot") 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.
Just remember: nobody--NOBODY--can digest Corn.
I suspect Korn is rewriting history - what his pal Wilson said was "literary flair". Somebody needs to carefully check when Korn's article on Wilson was actually submitted. Methinks he doth protest too much!
STOP POSTING THE SAME THING TO ME ON EVERY THREAD!!!
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