Posted on 11/02/2005 3:30:59 PM PST by KCRW
'SCOOTER" LIBBY'S indictment was not exactly good news for the White House, but it could have been a lot worse. Feverish speculation had been building that Karl Rove would soon be "frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs," as Valerie Plame's bombastic hubby, Joe Wilson, had hoped. Or even that Dick Cheney would have to resign.
But with his investigation all but over, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has found no criminal conspiracy and no violations of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which makes it a crime in some circumstances to disclose the names of undercover CIA operatives. Among other problems, Plame doesn't seem to fit the act's definition of a "covert agent" — someone who "has within the last five years served outside the United States." By 2003, Plame had apparently been working in Langley, Va., for at least six years, which means that, mystery of mysteries, the vice president's chief of staff was indicted for covering up something that wasn't a crime. Making the best of a weak hand, Democrats argued that the case was not about petty-ante perjury but, as Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid put it, "about how the Bush White House manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to bolster its case for the war in Iraq and to discredit anyone who dared to challenge the president." The problem here is that the one undisputed liar in this whole sordid affair doesn't work for the administration. In his attempts to turn his wife into an antiwar martyr, Joseph C. Wilson IV has retailed more whoppers than Burger King.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
In the LA Times, no less??????
Sorry if someone else has already posted this.
Sorry if someone else has already posted this.
not me, if it has been posted it is worth seeing a second time. IMHO an article should be allowed to be reposted after 12 hours.
Or the whole lot of them would be "frog-marched" to the pokey.
It is sort of startling, isn't it? I particularly like their close:
"So much for the lies that led to war. What we're left with is the lies that led to the antiwar movement. Good thing for Wilson and his pals that deceiving the press and the public isn't a crime."
Yeah...wazzup with that?
Rare that the LAT isn't following the lib script contributing to the liberal bizarro parallel universe.
My goodness. This, from the LA Times? I may reconsider my lowly opinion of the MSM.
Max Boot http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-columnist-mboot,0,4938445.columnist?coll=la-nav-sectionfronts is one of the few (maybe the only?) conservative columnists the LA Times runs on a regular basis in its Opinion section. Boot is so good he balances out the horrible Robert Scheer http://www.robertscheer.com/.
Is Max Boot about to be fired for his blasphemy?
Max Boot is an articulate communicator. Good article.
I'm in shock....the LA Times? I think I see the fingers of the MSM rising up into the wind, and realizing that it is blowing strongly for the right
Don't. Your lowly opinion of the MSM is dead on.
This article is an aberration.
BUMP
You have to remember that Max Boot is the LA Times token conservative columnist. He is a weekly columnist. In real life he's Olin Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He is also a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard. The LA Times has to have a least one conservative who appears regularly to overcome all the other columnist (both those on staff and those who write contributing columns like Max Boot.) With the LA Times you have to remember the conservative to liberal column factor is something like 10-15 to 1.
This is the easy thing to write. I'll be surprised if the Times pursues any stories on: 1) Who's paying Joe Wilson? 2) Who DID leak Plame? 3) Who signed off on Wilson to Niger and why? 4) What's the connection between Wilson and fake French documents? etc. etc.
Three months is too long! How can you be a covert agent, AND work a desk job at the CIA? That's just too stupid!
Is this coming from the op-ed page staff, or is this a guest columnist? Either way, I can't believe they actually printed it.
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