Posted on 07/19/2005 12:18:07 PM PDT by outlaw1_2003
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
The CIA is a rogue agency, in a way. And didn't Clinton do something with a large segment of employees that made it darned near impossible to fire them?
And there's some saying of Clinton that's famously quoted that paraphrased says "I've left them some smoking guns to deal with."
The press informs the judges that the CIA itself "inadvertently" compromised Plame by not taking appropriate measures to safeguard classified documents that the Agency routed to the Swiss embassy in Havana. In the Washington Times article — you remember, the one the press hypes when it reports to the federal court but not when it reports to consumers of its news coverage — Gertz elaborates that "[t]he documents were supposed to be sealed from the Cuban government, but [unidentified U.S.] intelligence officials said the Cubans read the classified material and learned the secrets contained in them."The media know the facts, since their attorneys cited these facts on their behalf in court.
Furthermore, besides the media, Fitzgerald must also know the facts. Why does he keep investigating a non-crime?
The emails between Rove and Hadley seem to exonerate Rove further. I agree with your post, and thanks.
I'm perplexed by Wilson's determination. Either he knows something that everyone else is missing, or he is an overblown egomaniac. I, like all of us, believe the latter.
Ok, I've done some asking.....
What I found out... Hersh is right about this. Happened in the last week of August 2002, up to may-be 1 Sept or 2 Sept. The Cabal met in Switzerland. Lugano.
The tale about French intel was a false lead put out by the Cabal.
<< Writing in a recent issue of the New Yorker magazine, Hersh reports the intent may have been to embarrass "Iraqi hawks at the top of the Bush administration." These officers calculated that the "hawks" couldn't resist using the forgeries to make their case and would then look foolish when the hoax was revealed. >>
Hersh is wrong about this. If the racionale had been so, to stop the hawks, the hoax would have revealed prior to the war.
I do and I keep some threads on that scam in my Wilson/Plame folder as I believe they are related.
Did Capitol Hill Blue Post An Article With Fabrications?
(The answer turned out to be "yes")
Btw, we're also discussing Wilkinson on another thread - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1446543/posts - posts 71 &c.
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