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To: Patriot from Philly
My understanding is that Wilson was saying Cheney sent him on this mission. The Bush officials were answering questions on why they sent an incompetent critic on this mission

Wilson said that until he was caught in a lie and that it was his wife that sent him

17 posted on 10/02/2005 1:08:59 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: Mo1
So why is Pincus so gleeful about a conspiracy charge against Bush officials. Pincus writes that the act itself does not have to be criminal but the result is. I don't see conspiracy, but Pincus is sure hoping for charges.
19 posted on 10/02/2005 1:14:23 AM PDT by Patriot from Philly
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To: Mo1
"Wilson said that until he was caught in a lie and that it was his wife that sent him."

A fair prosecution would involve a case against Wilson on several counts of perjury, malfeasance, and divulgence of classified intelligence information - charges far more serious than any discussion of who his wife worked for on the Washington DC party circuit.

If there is a prosecution against the administration all it will demonstrate is that politics is the meanest BS carried out by the most un-American scum we can buy for election or to report news.

30 posted on 10/02/2005 4:07:30 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Please sit down and tell me logically and quietly.)
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To: Mo1
Really? Can you find a quote where he says Cheney sent him? I'm not talking about a quote saying Cheney asked the CIA to check out this Niger report - I'm talking about a quote where Wilson says Cheney directed that he - or anyone - go to Niger.

I've asked that a few times in response to comments such as yours, and no one has ever come up with one.

55 posted on 10/02/2005 6:42:30 AM PDT by lugsoul (Sleeper troll since 1999.)
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To: Mo1
Pincus and his wife threw a dinner party for Bill and Hillary Clinton when Mrs. Pincus was a political appointee in the Executive Branch.

Journalist Kenneth Timmerman said that when the congressional Cox Commission confirmed that China had committed nuclear espionage against the U.S., "the Washington Post assigned a journalist whose wife was a Clinton administration appointee to cover the story." That was Walter Pincus. Timmerman said that Pincus and his wife Ann were guests of the Clintons at Camp David. Timmerman said that after several years at the U.S. Information Agency, Ann Pincus was transferred in the late 1990s to the Office of Research and Media Reaction at the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the same office that "lost" a laptop computer loaded with highly classified intelligence documents in April 2000.

Timmerman noted that, in his reports for the Post, Walter Pincus consistently sought to debunk the Chinese espionage allegations. Now he's sliming the administration for acting against the Iraqi nuclear threat. No wonder the Democratic National Committee cites his work.

101 posted on 10/02/2005 12:20:26 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Mo1

...Social Washington is salivating at the idea of a revitalized White House, with a multilingual, art-collecting, wine-drinking, garden-loving billionairess who calls herself "cheeky" and "sexy" (Heinz Kerry) running the salon.


..."What we're hungry for," said former Clinton administration official Ann Pincus, "is someone who's engaged."

The Bushes have been virtually incognito for the last four years. Harpers Bazaar recently referred to the first lady's style as "Marian the Librarian."

"Nobody's been to The White House," added Mrs. Pincus. "You don't know about them. There's no buzz." The president is a teetotaler and Laura Bush "doesn't even do lunches. It's like, 'Hello, is this 1958?' "


108 posted on 10/02/2005 12:30:39 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Mo1; Howlin
Walter Pincus and Vernon Loeb covered the story for the Post. Loeb, the junior partner, was relatively new on that beat. Pincus's career with the Post stretched back to 1975. Prior to that he had served as an investigator for Senator J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., on the Foreign Relations Committee, and then spent three years as editor of the New Republic.

Pincus is part of the "activist media," where opinions and solutions often substitute for facts. He once said at a conference that it was his job to "cure something we find to be wrong." Until the late 1980s, he focused on nuclear arms control; "activism" on this beat generally meant supporting arms control agreements regardless of the impact on U.S. national security. He co-wrote and helped produce anti-nuclear television documentaries in the 1980s at the height of the "nuclear freeze" campaign. His articles consistently warned of dire consequences should the U.S. abrogate the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and he has blamed the U.S. for North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

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Pincus has had a long relationship with the CIA. Herbert Romerstein, a veteran investigator of Soviet subversion, disinformation and espionage, says Pincus and Gloria Steinem attended a Communist International Youth Festival in Vienna in 1959, with funds provided by the CIA. The CIA financed at least one more trip for Pincus in 1960. He has said that he rejected a job offer from CIA. During the Clinton years, Pincus enjoyed access to high-ranking CIA officials. He consistently portray-ed the Agency's leadership in the most favorable light-as long as that leadership came from within the Democratic Party. He has been particularly kind to George Tenet, a Clinton appointee who, has been held over by George W. Bush.

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The Pincus-Tenet relationship probably dates back to the mid-1980s. Tenet got his start in Washington as a Capitol Hill aide to Senator John Heinz; after Heinz's death, he moved to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, working for the ranking member, Senator Patrick Leahy. Tenet moved up to become staff director when the Democrats regained control of the Senate and David Boren took over the chairmanship of the committee. Boren and Tenet ran many of the Senate's Iran-Contra investigations, portrayed as a Republican scandal. Pincus wrote stories about the CIA's involvement in the scandal, based apparently on a steady stream of leaks from the Democrats.

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Pincus has close personal links to the Clintons. His wife, Ann, is a native of Little Rock and, for a time, his son, Ward, was a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He claims an "association with Arkansans over the past 30 years," and says that through these connections, he and his wife befriended the late Vincent Foster. They were among the "family friends" who gathered at Foster's home on July 20, 1993 after he was found shot to death in Ft. Marcy Park. Pincus was the first to suggest that Foster had cracked under the pressure of his job as Deputy White House Counsel.

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That same year, Ann Pincus became a high-ranking Clinton political appointee at the U.S. Information Agency. Later, when USIA was folded into the State Department, she became a senior official in State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. His other son, Andrew, became General Counsel of the Commerce Department in 1997, just as the campaign finance scandal was unfolding. Beginning that year, Commerce came under increasing fire for liberalizing high-technology exports to China, especially satellites, allegedly in return for contributions to the Democratic National Committee. Pincus wrote a number of articles refuting those allegations that were similar to his later coverage of the Chinese nuclear espionage scandal.

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An official at the Washington Post described Pincus as "a friend of Bill's." He said that the couple were frequent guests at Camp David and had attended formal White House dinners for visiting foreign dignitaries. In 1995,"Reliable Source," the Post's gossip column, reported that the Clintons had attended a dinner party at the Pincus home. Despite the obvious conflict of interest, the Post assigned Pincus to cover two of Clinton's most damaging national security scandals. The President benefited greatly from this friendship.

More here...

121 posted on 10/02/2005 12:43:57 PM PDT by kcvl
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