Posted on 10/21/2005 9:44:44 AM PDT by blogblogginaway
I'd sure as heck like to know why they allowed this
This is why I am hopping mad at the MSM - they have simply refused to look at the story from this angle, which has far more serious ramifications than if Libby or Rove incidentally "outed" Plame while setting the record straight regarding Wilson's trip to Niger. They are obsessed with the inner workings of the White House, but - for the first time ever - completely indifferent to the possibility of nefarious schemes being hatched in the CIA. This sickens me. My contempt for the MSM has never been stronger.
And "Slam Dunk" got a medal.
The CIA is no better then the KGB... might be worse because the CIA has no loyalty.
It was Wilson and his demoncRAT friends that plotted. Wilson bragged all around DC that his wife worked with the CIA. It wasn't a secret. Yet, if and when an administration official mentions it the reaction is like telling a poorly-kept secret. In Washington, DC, there aren't any secrets.
I don't know if DiGenova is correct, but I do notice that there are a number of "former terrorism" people pumping up this Plame story. Could it be that these pre-9/11 terrorism experts are diverting attention from their own mistakes by attacking the White House?
Duh.
Some woman named Flavia on Tucker Carlson said last night that Fitzgerald had interviewed Italian authorities in Rome about the break-in at the Nigerian Embassy there. If you will remember, it has been suggested that the letterhead and seals that were stolen were used to produce the forgeries.
Bush's PR people need to get ahold of this article, and start quoting DiGenova...just "positing" the idea that what DiGenova said is not only plausible...
but, likely!!!
Back in July, I mused about why the MSM weren't considering a CIA plot.
Here's what I posted then:
"Countless times, over a period of many long years, I've heard about how adroit the CIA is at destabilizing governments. I suspect that it would be easier to count the stars in the sky than conspiracy theories about the CIA. Many of these conspiracy theories were so convoluted that they made John le Carré novels look straightforward by comparison. Most were covered extensively in the MSM -- with the requisite anti-US slant.
Now, we have a CIA "operative" and her husband at the centre of an intrigue apparently designed at destabilizing the US government itself. Naturally (I've come to believe that I've fallen into a parallel universe, where the totally bizarre and twisted is natural), the MSM is ignoring the possibility that this is a CIA plot -- or, at the very least, that it is the machinations of a highly trained CIA operative."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1445109/posts?page=18#18
A CIA Plot -- along with the Kennedy Assassination, the resignation of Nixon, the disappearance of Hoffa, and New Coke.
This article is very interesting. I think it is very plausible.
bttt
You're exactly right...that is the money quote of the piece. That little fact has been bugging me for 2 years. How covert could she have been if the CIA was willing to let him play such an overt role in this whole affair. It's not like they were a couple of shrinking violets who hid from the public. This whole thing stinks.
The Justice Department investigation was not requested by CIA Director George Tenet. Any leak of classified information is routinely passed by the Agency to Justice, averaging one a week. This investigative request was made in July shortly after the column was published.
If the Republicans would institute Grand Jury investigation on some of the totally illegal activities on the Democrats, this sh@@ would rapidly come to a halt.
The "Whitehouse" was very concerned about leaks at the time Fitzgerald was appointed.
I recall that they mentioned that a number of things needed to be investigated (i.e., leaks) in addition to the Flame/Plame matter.
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