Posted on 10/17/2005 1:30:57 PM PDT by CyberAnt
The last sentence says it all: "... a failure that demonstrates the folly of trying to curry favor with the liberal press."
This is what Rush says all the time. Trying to please the media never works.
While I believe that this report is probably true, I'm hoping to see a second source before I start celebrating ANOTHER MSM FUBAR.
Of course WE figured it out .. but the liberals need a little more convincing that we're on to their scheme.
And .. that scheme was hatched (I believe) by Hillary (and her political hacks). Hillary knows Valerie Wilson very well (they do fund raisers for the Clintons). Hillary suggests to Valerie that Wilson be sent to Niger to investigate this false premis that Iraq was trying to buy yellowcake from Niger. Even though it was Blair who brought the charge, Bill Clinton warns Blair that if he continues to stand with Bush - Blair will lose his election. A few days later the Wilson story breaks. This was supposedly to stop the war by discrediting Bush and Blair.
IT DIDN'T WORK!! And .. in case anybody is paying attention, both the UK and Australia leaders (the biggest supporters of the WAR) were both re-elected along with Bush.
Plame's Input Is Cited on Niger Mission
Report Disputes Wilson's Claims on Trip, Wife's Role WaPo - 7/10/2004
and
Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq Senate Select Committee on Intelligence - 7/7/2004 (pdf file) - particularly the section on Niger beginning page 36.
I'd be very cautious celebrating any possible good outcome from an employee of the NYT...Miller is a very hard person to figure out. She went to jail for 80+ days supposedly protecting a source - then she forgets who that source was (couldn't recall who told her about Plame?).
I'll start believing in Ms. Miller's patriotism when I see the article written by her telling the entire story of the Wilsons and the CIA deliberately giving the Bush admin. bad intelligence in order to discredit the Iraq war...
Ms. Miller is being a little too sneaky for me to be comfortable with her.
Since Cooper got involved as a "corraborator" it leads back to Hillary and her best friend and media advisor, Mandy Grunwald. (Cooper is married to Grunwald).
Forgot about that... again, not a good idea to put ANY trust in a member of the MSM.
Gee .. thanks for those links!
Rush was saying this morning that Wilson was whining to the press about it being Cheney who sent him - and Libby knew that was not true - and was the reason Libby had tried to correct the story.
Also .. Wilson claimed he wrote a report and gave it to Cheney - and Libby knew that was not true.
The biggest liar in all of this has been Wilson!
Has any REAL journalist looked into the Niger document story? I hear stories about them being forged, but has this ever been verified by anyone with any integrity?
It sounds like Miller went to jail in order to avoid exonerating the Bush administration.
Joe Wilson's Perfidia-- Joe took the Islamicists' side when he said that the President lied. Since the Times spread Joe's tale, please put them in jail. And, certainly, Joe should be fried.
We don't really know if that's true or not. She could have had a number of reasons for going to jail.
For instance, one freeper said yesterday that she stayed safe in jail until an inquiry ended into the affair in which she leaked to Islamic terrorists the fact that Fitzgerald was about to raid their offices. I don't know if that's true, but it's one possibility. Another possibility is that it wasn't Libby she was shielding at all, but someone else. Who knows? In any case, she does not appear to have come out of this as a heroine to the left. They all hate her.
NOBODY likes a sneak. She went to jail rather than exonerate the Bush admin.? What was her angle? Is this really all for a book deal?
"It sounds like Miller went to jail in order to avoid exonerating the Bush administration."
My personal belief is that she went to jail to protect Hillary. And .. now that Miller is saying she can't remember who gave her the name .. I'm still convinced it was Hillary who told her about Valerie, and their little scheme to send Wilson to Niger in order to discredit Bush.
If this had worked, Bush and Blair would have lost their elections and the democrats would have brought the troops home.
THANK YOU ALMIGHTY GOD THAT IT DIDN'T WORK!
I'm waiting for another source as well. If I took just this to the liberals I fight with, they'll just see GOP, and dismiss the entire story.
Bush ought to hold a press conference and announce that "realizing that trying to work with the media bias against this white house, I hereby revoke ALL press passes and will hold interviews with FOXs Brit Hume, Shaun Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Free Republics Jim RObinson! Please hand in your press passes on your way out and don't let the door hit you in the A#%^~
I honestly don't know. If you read that report about her and the NY Times from Editor & Publisher yesterday, you have to think that there's a lot of things going on that we just don't know about.
I think she put in all that jail time most likely because she feared that if she told the real truth about whatever she's hiding, she'd put in even more jail time, and if she lied she risked getting caught.
Another theory is that everyone at the Times hated her because of her MSM reports and because she had taken the government oath to keep any secrets she learned. Then maybe she thought she'd try to become a super leftist hero by going to jail to protect her sources. Only that hasn't worked. But who knows who she was protecting?
The whole thing is pretty murky at this point.
The CIA and the State Department need major housecleaning. Unfortunately, President Bush has not seen the need to expell the leftist, liberals, and losers from these federal bureaucracies. At a minimum, he should have started a different hiring/promotion process that attracts and keeps American patriots.
The damage the damned press has done to this country is unimaginable. Undermining our president in a time of war, supporting all the leftist in this country. Biased and out right lying to the public to sway their opinions. Enough is enough.
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