posted by Zacs Mom
Posted on 11/03/2005 3:49:31 PM PST by SquirrelKing
Thing is, and thie shows, when you shine the light on him just a little his claims scurry away like roaches on the basement floor.
Steyn Ping!
The pass by the media is only to be expected. It's the pass by the special prosecutor that is the most disturbing. If he lied about a trip made at the behest of the CIA, then isn't that an issue of nat'l security?
That seems to be the issue on A LOT of people's minds today. They are playing so fast and loose with this trip and the consequences that it is high time it caught up with them. Some libs are even now bringing up the "forgeries" and other examples of bogacity that they touted. All of this was harassment and stunts to damage Bush and affect the election. By dredging it back up now it seems even more ridiculous.
But that doesn't stop them!
That's why I was very disappointed that nothing about Wilson's misbehavior was mentioned or alluded to in Fitzy's press conference. In principle, the Justice Dept. should be able to initiate an investigation of this guy. Instead, the admin. is getting investigated?? This is all upside-down. And indicted??? For what?
Was Libby just being stupid? Shouldn't they have openly called Wilson on his lies?
Steyn is ALWAYS fun
you must be a Foamyan :)
BTRL
Steyn ping.
There is much political gain to be had knowing about the Wilson and Plame affair.. and politically inserting it into any conversation for the next two months, maybe longer..
Then the democrats would rue the day that they brought it up..
When this Plamegate started to heat up recently, I decided I should educate myself and did a Yahoo! search and one of the first pages was Wikipedea. So I checked it out to get an overview, there's a link to the 1982 Outing a Spy Act so I read it. My first conclusion was "there's no way they're going to get a conviction on this". Then I decided to look into whether Plame would be considered "covert" under this act. After a maybe couple hours it became clear that Plame could not be considered covert. A Public Defender could easily prove this in court.
So I had to ask myself "why does every news paper in the country continue to refer to Plame as a covert agent when they could just read the law like I did and figure out she wasn't?"
Well, we know the reason. This is what Orwell warned us about. I'm sure the textbooks of the future will describe Wilson as a heroic whistleblower who exposed the lies of the warmongering neocons.
And of course the GOP leaders are bringing this up on National TV etc etc every chance they get
Yeah right
The one place this might get resolved is if it is done during the Libby trial. The Republicans do not have the guts to ask for an investigation as evidenced today by the January hearing date for the Supreme Court justice. The Dems want months to pound on Bush and that hearing, held now, would be their problem as it would dictate the news. If during the Libby trial Ms Phlame and Mr. Wilson were put under oath, things might look different. I have always suspected SHE had an agenda and sent this (Wilson) there to move her agenda or alternatively get him out of the country so she could mess around.The Libby trial is in my opinion the only place where there is a chance for the Wilsons, the CIA and the media to be exposed. I would contribute to that effort.
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Reading this, I see Hillary somewhere...way in the back.
I don't really like "Yellowcake Joe".
I prefer Yellow Joe.
Or, Ol' Yeller.
posted by Zacs Mom
LOL
Feel my Squirrely Wrath!
bttt!
Come on Mark, don't hold back..tell us what you really think of Joe...LOL!
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