Posted on 10/20/2005 3:53:52 PM PDT by churchillbuff
You posted this as an AP story without crediting the actual author. (Maybe the author's name wasn't given at the source you utilized.) Anyways, the author is Pete Yost. That matters because it puts the credibility of the story in serious doubt. Here's another thread (same AP story) going on right now.
This breathless AP hit piece fails to mention one small fact...by any reading of the law supposedly violated here, there was no violation. The law requires a covered agent to have served in a covert capacity within the last 5 yrs. before their identity was revealed. Forgetting the fact that Plame was listed as a CIA employee in "Who's Who" and it was fairly well known she was a CIA employee, she had not had a covert assignment for 9 years prior to her "outting." And even then it was in the UK under only the lightest of cover, unofficial cover.
For a better analysis of this story than this utterly biased AP hatched job, check the Investor's Business Daily's more intelligent, thoughtful, deep and analytical piece today:
http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=20&artnum=2&issue=20051019
Did the inditements come out and the trial start?
Man, I must have missed it.
Has it gone to the jury yet? Were they convicted? How much jail time did they get?
Man, I need to know. :)
Next we're going to find out Cheney has hidden microphones secreted all through the OEOB, and he's got tens of thousands of hours of tapes... well, CD-ROMs, including conversations of all his staff for the past five years.
" Prosecutors, however, have a different account from Russert.
The TV network has said Russert told authorities he did not know about Wilson's wife's identity until it was published and therefore could not have told Libby about it.
Russert also says that it was Libby who initiated the contact with him. "
I was unaware of the legal precedent that says when accounts conflict between the WH and the media-the WH version is always a lie .
(( pinging to post #21)
Great.... /sarcasm
Your ignorant statement makes you sound more like DU mole than someone with some good sense. Go back to the DU playground and celebrate over there.
The press is acting like Libby was caught stuffing his pants with top secret documents.
C'mon. Let churchillbuff climax already! It shouldn't be much longer. It's been amazing seeing all the similar stories he's/she's been posting on this same topic.
***rimshot!***
Semper Fi
Well, I just checked the AP source used by churchillbuff and Pete Yost's name is right there, plain as day. I wonder why churchillbuff didn't think that including the author's name would be a good idea?
One of my self-appointed roles is to post articles on big news stories that many freepers want to ignore for ideological reasons. I'm the anti-Ostrich. I'm also a conservative, which is why I came on freerepublic - to bash Clinton and his lawbreaking.
So you're saying Freepers are ignoring this story? How about doing a search, you may be suprised.
"The press is acting like Libby was caught stuffing his pants with top secret documents."
Thanks for that - first good laugh all day.
Well, good thing you posted this. Otherwise another left wing rumor of a rumor of a MSM theory might be ignored.
All we know are what useful idiots are leaking or what reporters wished they were leaking........... grand jury testimony is secret........and so are the conclusions.......so we wait, something the media can't handle.
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