Posted on 07/18/2005 8:20:32 PM PDT by cricket
Pusued the following after hearing Rush today discuss the Amici Brief that had been filed by more than a few Media Outlets.
The treason may be 'Mr. And Mrs. Wilson; but the hoax is on us it seems.
The question is; will the responsibile parties for this slander/treason be held accountable. . .and how far will our MSM go; playing 'cat and mouse' with the truth so as to 'bring a story home' for ratings and . . .an agenda?
Media Admits Rove is Innocent
Posted by: Dale Franks on Wednesday, July 13, 2005
You probably won't hear this anywhere in the mainstream media, so I might as well do it. I hate to beat this Rove thing to death with a stick, but, I'm seeing all these reporters at White House Press Briefings, and in the papers, and on TV all hinting—without actually saying it, but strongly implying—that Karl Rove is guilty.
But what you may not know is that the legal position of the organizations they work for is that Karl Rove has committed no crime. In fact, their position is that no crime has been committed at all, in reference to the Valerie Plame case.
"Dale," you're undoubtedly asking, "how can you say such a thing? It's just wacky!"
Well, it would be, usually, except for one thing. An amicus brief has been filed in the US Court of appeals for the DC Circuit by the following media organizations:
Media Organizations
ABC Dow Jones & Co.
The New York Press Club
Advance Publications Scripps Company
The Newspaper Association of America
Albritton Communications FOXNews
The Newspaper Guild
The American Society of Magazine Editors Gannett Co. Newsweek
AP Harper's Magazine Foundation
NYP Holdings
Belo Corp.
Hearst Corp.
The Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press
Bloomberg
Knight-Ridder Newspapers
Reuters
CNN
LIN Television
The Society of Professional Journalists
CBS Magazine Publishers of America Tribune Company
Copley Press
McClatchey Co.
The Washington Post
Cox Newspapers
McGraw-Hill
White House Correspondents
Daily News
NBC
So, have I left anybody out? No? Well, that's pretty much a who's who of the Old Media. And what, exactly, is their legal position?
There is ample evidence on the public record to cast considerable doubt that a crime has been committed... At this point, the brief repeats the elements of the crime I wrote about yesterday, and continues:
Congress intended only to criminalize only disclosures that "clearly represent a conscious and pernicious effort to identify and expose agents with the intent to impair or impede the foreign intelligence activities of the United States..." They then bring up another aspect that I mentioned, which is whether or not Ms. Plame was even a covert agent at all.
Public information casts considerable doubt that the government took the "affirmative measures" required by the Act to conceal Plame's identity.
At the threshold, an agent whose identity has been revealed must trule be "covert" for there to be a violation of the Act. To the average observer, much less to the professional intelligence operative, Plame was not given the "deep cover" required of a covert agent. See 50 USC § 426 ("covert agent" defined). She worked at a desk job at CIA headquarters, where she could be seen traveliong to and from, and active at, Langley.
She had been residing in Washington—not stationed abroad—for a number of years. As discussed below, the CIA failed to take even its usual steps to prevent publication of her name...
This goes to whether or not the element of the government taking "affirmative steps" to keep Ms. Plame's identity a secret applies. And, according to the brief filed in Federal Appeals Court by the Old Media, even that is doubtful.
Indeed, they hint the CIA might even have been complicit in publishing Ms. Plame's name.
Novak's column can be viewed as critical of CIA ineptitude: The Agency's response to a request by the State Department and the Vice president's office to verify whether a specific foreign intelligence report was accurate was to have "low-level" bureaucrats make the decision to send a non-CIA employee [Joseph Wilson] (neither an expert on Niger nor on weapons of mass destruction) on this crucial mission at his wife's suggestion...Did no one at Langley think that Plame's identity might be compromised if her spouse writes a nationally distributed Op-Ed piece discussing a foreign mission about a volatile political issue that focused on her subject matter expertise?
The public record provides ample evidence that the CIA was at least cavalier about, if not complicit in, the publishing of Plame's name. Moreover, given Novak's suggestion of CIA incompetence plus the resulting public uproar over Plame's identity being revealed, the CIA had every incentive to dissemble by claiming it wash "shocked, shocked" that leaking was going on...
So, let's review. The official, legal position of the Mainstream media is that no crime was committed in the release of Valerie Plame's name.
The media asserts:
a) that even if Plame was a covert agent, the release of her name doesn't meet the required elements to charge anyone under § 421,
b) that Ms. Plame wasn't a covert agent anyway, as §426 defines it, so even if the CIA didn't want her name published, publishing it isn't a violation of the section, (and)
c) the CIA didn't try to keep her name from being published.
So, the media admits, White House Press Corps hound-baying aside, that Karl Rove is legally innocent of any wrongdoing.
And, while we're on the subject, what is the deal with the New York Times? One of the things about their mouth-breathing editorial this morning is that the editors of the Times know who Judith Miller's source was.
They already know the truth. Ms. Miller doesn't, after all, work in a vacuum. Presumably, her editors know who her source is. That's they way journalism works.
Think about it: They wasted a significant amount of newsprint this morning demanding that Karl Rove publicly tell the truth.
But, one wonders why—since the editors of the Times already know the truth, and since they, you know, publish a newspaper—they don't simply publish what they know?
After all, it might have been a more interesting use of space than the anti-Rove editorial they printed this morning. And karl rove has had a waiver of confidentiality on file for 18 months.
If the public has a right to know the truth, and the editors of the Times already know what the truth is, then why don't they print it? I merely ask for my own information. TrackBacks
Almost hilarious. . .
What else can the Democrats do? They have already established a pattern of fighting dirty and not playing by the rules. The Democrat'a politics is now a gang fighting mentality; anything goes. They can lie, twist, mislead because they have the Big Media covering their evils up.
It keeps everyone divided and angry. We Republicans resent their hateful petty jealousy for power. Their street fighting will not win national elections anymore!
Unless Miller asked for protective custody, she "ain't" in jail to protect any Republican. When the MSM and rats blame Rove to GW, they never mention Miller being in jail.
Not even an insane rat would believe Miller is in jail to protect one of our people.
. . . and we know if it involved a Republican; the New York Times would be grandstanding on 'principle'. . .
The MSM and the democRATS never let the truth get in the way of a good lie.
Besides, neither of them can handle the TRUTH!!
I know what you mean.
At the very least, this brief should have been disclosed as a kind of "conflict of interest" issue. Like when Fox News reports on the New York Post of ABC News reports on Disney, they disclose that those entities are affiliates of themselves.
And again, if the shoe were on the other foot and aconservative outfit has filed a brief, it would be all over the place.
It's disgusting. Our country is not well served by this, to make a whopping understatement.
I still say the Democrats have three choices: be honest about their agenda and lose, because America doesn't want it. Maybe someday the Democrats will have a different message, or America will cahnge its mind. Not likely, though. Or they could try to be "me-too Republicans" and lose, because they appear insincere and CHARACTER MATTERS. We don't know what will happen during someone's term and we want a good, honest person to deal with the unexpected. Position papers can't possibly cover everything.
Track three is what the Democrats are doing now: hoping the Republicans stumble or are snookered (the Republicans at times really give the Dems a lot of help on this score), or try for a scandal.
It does not serve our country well.
For sure. . .but then a happy Leftist is when he succeeds in undermining our Country; surely no satisfaction in serving. . .
bump!
Yes, another failed disclosure; where this would be 'otherwise' shouted from the rooftops by Lib media.
When is some prominent Republican going to list all the "non-scandals of the week" - Rove, Bolton, Gitmo, etc. - and publicly bring attention to this? Rake them over the coals.
Seems to me their MO has been. . .let Rush go there. . .and Sean. . .Conservative talk radio, et al. . .while they remain above the fray.
I hate this; I want our PARTY- and yes, our President, to stand up to these 'evil doers' on the Left.
Surely, they could at least give the likes of Joe Wilson the truth, delivered by a verbal 'poke-in-the-eye'; or better; the verbal equivalence of blunt-force, trauma; and delivered as well, toTed. . .and Mr. Shumer. . .and Harry; and all the noxious Lib journalist pretending to probe for facts; when it is fiction that they offer - give it to em(!)
. . .but, of course, it is not going to happen.
They can worry less about the "new tone" and be a little more aggressive without coming anywhere near the ridiculous Democrat standard.
One thing for the Democrats: they have spines, and they stick together. Their principles and morals I could do without, of course.
Bush stands up to Saddam and Osama, but at times not as well against the left, I fear . . .
More to the truth; these Leftist/Demrats 'do' without them. . .see little evidence of either being present by their action/words or deeds.
Truly; they are a disgusting lot. . .
"They can worry less about the "new tone" and be a little more aggressive without coming anywhere near the ridiculous Democrat standard."
Absolutely. . .here it seems is the 'fear itself'. . .
"Bush stands up to Saddam and Osama, but at times not as well against the left, I fear . . "
So true; does make me crazy. . .they must be as willing to fight our internal enemies here at home; as those abroad. Just different strategy; but a war going on here at home that is critical as well.
You are right. The Democrats are certainly not doing much for the country. They obstruct any steps forward for fear the Republicans will gain. They only know how to attack in gang warfare but are cowards when they fight alone. They have become the ugly Americans. The Republicans need to expose the truth about them, hopefully they will get the message they cannot win elections with obstruction and criticism. The Democrats must present new ideas for the future if they ever plan to win back power.
"See post #11. Corrected myself."
Good. But you'd still better see
Miss Kaufman. They don't call her
Katie Cyclops for nothing. Otherwise,
you'll be translating Cicero all year
next year.
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