Posted on 10/24/2005 12:11:18 PM PDT by inpajamas
The savage left-wing attack on Judith Miller from inside and outside of the New York Times completely misses the point. She is under attack for being a lackey of the Bush Administration when she failed to do the administration and the public a big favor. She could have done a potential Pulitzer Prize-winning story that could have broken the Joseph Wilson case wide open. It is a story exposing the Wilson mission to Africa as a CIA operation designed to undermine President Bush.
For 85 days in jail, Miller protected her source, Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, but the fact remains that she never used the explosive information Libby gave her. Now we know, according to Miller's account, that Libby told her about a CIA war with the Bush Administration over Iraq intelligence and that he vociferously complained to her about CIA leaks to the press. But Miller decided that what Libby told her was not newsworthy. Why?
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She's saving it for her book.
Face the music the left could care less about Rove and Libby, they have bigger fish to fry . They want Bush and the VP. If Clinton was never brought to justice for losing the nuclear codes ,then what was done was nothing. They want Bush , they have never forgiven him for defeating Gore, He was on his way to be a great president, and they cannot handle that.Now what do we do to stop this. We do what freepers do best, FIGHT BACK!
"Democrats will be jumping out of windows if no Republican is indicted."
Let me be the first to escort them to the 10th floor and help them open it.
Is it legal to donate money to a Presidential campaign fund using a false identity and cover company associated with your government job?
I wouldn't trust Tenet to give me the correct time of day.
Ordinarily there's no effective way to attack an indictment other than going to court and trying to prove oneself innocent. This quote makes it look like this is a different case. The House and Senate intelligence committees ought to initiate an immediate investigation of how the CIA has tried to pervert the justice system and achieve a coup against a duly elected, sitting president in time of war. That could totally overshadow any indictments, if the pubbies have the balls to do it.
Yes, and I bet the Wilsons and their CIA co-conspirators are having a good laugh about all of this.
The amazing thing is that the administration and the GOP have allowed themselves to be played in such a way by such low-lifes as the Wilsons.
I called her once, over a decade ago, just to give her a slice of my opinion. Obviously, didn't do any good.
By any account, she was hardly a James Bond-type. Plame's "cover," a company called "Brewster-Jennings & Associates," was so flimsy that she used it as her affiliation when she made a 1999 contribution to Al Gore for president.
Was / Is "Brewster-Jennings" a real company and if so, when did she stop working there? Thanks in advance for the enlightenment.
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Even her hubby, Wilson, Joe thinks that Valerie Plame is a wimp.
Joe said she never would have wanted to send him to Africa, because she needed to have him at home to help with their twins.
Will someone freepmail me a coherent reason behind the CIA's desire to sabotage the Bush Administration? I am wondering if the suits at Langley are a little nervous about Bush's War on Terror, given the fact that there is an enormous and damning paper trail left over from Clinton's goons. What if we uncover a Saudi link that Clinton wanted to keep quiet? Money talks, and you know what else eventually walks.
Waiting for replies.
In 1997, Plame moved back to the Washington area, partly because (as was recently reported in The New York Times) the C.I.A. suspected that her name may have been on a list given to the Russians by the double agent Aldrich Ames in 1994.
No doubt about it! She's always been a partisan, liberal Democrat hack. She and Jane Mayer even went so far as write a book about Clarence Thomas after he was confirmed to the Supreme Court, in which they tried to ruin his reputation. IMO, she would never have been promoted to her position with The NYT if she was not a bona fide liberal hack! I have a feeling she might be called before the Grand Jury now that she has been exposed as having knowledge about the Wilson matter. It would be interesting to know if she knew the Wilsons while living in DC! According to Miller, Abramson refused to allow her to write about the Wilson matter, but Abramson denies it.
Which "Clinton goons" and what paper trail?
Miller did write about it
As I told the grand jury, I recalled Mr. Libby's frustration and anger about what he called "selective leaking" by the C.I.A. and other agencies to distance themselves from what he recalled as their unequivocal prewar intelligence assessments. The selective leaks trying to shift blame to the White House, he told me, were part of a "perverted war" over the war in Iraq.
The CIA would be derelict is we did not have assets monitoring yellowcake from the inside!!
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