Posted on 07/18/2005 5:22:18 AM PDT by mal
With each passing day, the manufactured "scandal" over the publication of Valerie Plame's relationship with the CIA establishes new depths of mainstream-media hypocrisy. A highly capable special prosecutor is probing the underlying facts, and it is appropriate to withhold legal judgments until he completes the investigation over which speculation runs so rampant. But it is not too early to assess the performance of the press. It's been appalling.
Is that hyperbole? You be the judge. Have you heard that the CIA is actually the source responsible for exposing Plame's covert status? Not Karl Rove, not Bob Novak, not the sinister administration cabal du jour of Fourth Estate fantasy, but the CIA itself? Had you heard that Plame's cover has actually been blown for a decade — i.e., since about seven years before Novak ever wrote a syllable about her? Had you heard not only that no crime was committed in the communication of information between Bush administration officials and Novak, but that no crime could have been committed because the governing law gives a person a complete defense if an agent's status has already been compromised by the government?
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Tenet?
Fitzgerald's fishing for something else.
Jennifer and now (for the second time), Valerie. It's summer time so I suppose it's appropriate they put us to sleep with a rerun.The biggest story that never was. A non-story desperately hyped by the Lame Stream Media.
I heard someone, can't remember who, say on the radio, "Just remember, my friends, this is a total non-story outside the beltway." Well put and true!
DURING THE cLINTON ADMINISTRATION??
Bumping for reference.
I liked the logic of the brief. It isn't the American public to whom the law is concerned about having classified information revealed. Rather it is foreign governments, particurly hostile foreign governments.
The CIA negligently revealed Plame's covert status to Cuba a long time before this Rove thing ever came up.
Her cover was already blown. It's why she works a desk job and walks in and out of the public doors at the CIA when she goes to work every single day of the year for nigh onto a decade.
If it's true that the media has known this all along, then one has to wonder if the special prosecutor isn't unofficially and simultaneously working an "expose the hypocricy of the media" side operation.
To know they have reported this themselves to the courts by a legal brief, and then not to reveal that to their listening audience is at the same level as the Dan Rather Memogate outrage.
I really hope so, I have had feeling in the pit of my stomach that something is afoul behind the scenes and it usually involves the people that are screaming the loudest. Lets not forget how many FBI files have been removed over the past decade plus and by whom. Seems like a very coordinated effort with the obvious help of the media...IMO
Wouldn't it be fun to see someone irrefutably deliver the goods on the media?
BTW, does anyone know what discretion the special prosecutor has? For example, a rogue CIA agent attempting to topple the government or affect an election through the use of position and CIA information and resources IS illegal, isn't it?
Could this prosecutor be investigating Plame & Wilson??!!
Especially helped by the NY Times.
I can't believe this is still a story.
Miller catches wind of this conversation, perhaps through a conversation with Cooper or perhaps she asked Rove a similar question. Anyway, Miller wants to confirm this portion of the story, so she does some digging to find out the NAME of Wilson's wife.
This can't be right. Why would Miller dig for the name when she doesn't bother to write the story anyway? Answer...because she is the one that was peddling the story to set up Rove. Remember, Miller and Plame both worked on WMD proliferation issues, they were certainly aware of each other's work.
Before publishing his article Novak checked with the public information office at CIA. They did not warn him off. Ergo, they didn't much care about protecting her.
Interesting thread going about what Fitzgerald, the prosecutor might be really investigating
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1445072/posts
All roads are leading back to the Wilson's themselves and their involvement in the forged documents.
This could get real good.
Yes, but the media hasn't exactly emphasized this fact.
Had you heard that Plame's cover has actually been blown for a decade — i.e., since about seven years before Novak ever wrote a syllable about her?
Same answer.
Had you heard not only that no crime was committed in the communication of information between Bush administration officials and Novak, but that no crime could have been committed because the governing law gives a person a complete defense if an agent's status has already been compromised by the government?
I haven't heard this, but it's plain common sense. It has been well-reported, although muddled at times, that the leaker must know the agent's covert status and intend to blow his cover.
Don't know for sure but I would assume yes, absolutely. I'm sure this prosecutor is looking at everything. Maybe even the reason the Bergler sentencing has been delayed? This could be real fun if weren't so potentially serious. But I think it will lead us to what we all have known for a long time. No other explanation as to the hypocrisy in coverage of GOP vs DEM's. IMO though the media is just the well placed conduit to spin the agenda of the real culprits.
Wow. And I was just wondering the same thing.
And this might go to the top of the Dem Party.
See #16 and go to the link if you haven't already. Fascinating.
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