Posted on 11/05/2005 4:17:31 AM PST by PajamaTruthMafia
Both the mainstream media and the Bush administration have ignored the elephant in the living room in the Scooter Libby perjury case - the blatant lies former Ambassador Joe Wilson has told about his role. The administration is hurting itself by leaving truth-telling to columnists and bloggers.
Libby was indicted because he told a grand jury he learned that Wilson’s wife was a CIA official from reporters; the special prosecutor says he got that information from colleagues.
The prosecutor was appointed to investigate a CIA allegation that someone had outed an undercover agent in revealing to columnist Robert Novak that Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA and had arranged for his trip to Niger in 2002 to investigate a report that Iraq had tried to buy uranium there.
Wilson’s wife did work for the CIA but met practically none of the criteria for coverage under the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act, the law on truly undercover agents. The referral by the agency to the Justice Department makes sense only as part of the CIA’s war against supervision by the administration - supervision necessary because of the agency’s own failure to spot Saddam’s pre-1990 nuclear program, among other things.
In that June 2003 oped Wilson wrote he was sent to Niger to answer questions raised by Vice President Cheney. He insisted he was able to debunk reports about the sale of yellowcake uranium.
The Senate Intelligence Committee said in July 2004 that Wilson learned an Iraqi delegation visited Niger in 1999 - which officials there interpreted as an interest in uranium, because their country produced nothing else Iraq could use. And it turns out it was his wife who got him sent to Iraq in the first place.
Wilson had made speeches and provided - false - information to at least two reporters before he revealed that he was the mystery envoy he was talking about. Under those circumstances why shouldn’t the Bush administration try to steer reporters toward the truth?
The longer Bush and Cheney shirk the task of speaking the truth, the more damage our country will suffer.
No doubt about it. . .
As I offered yesterday. . .if this is 'Rove's' idea of 'strategy'. . .then it IS time for him to go.
Cannot understand 'how/why' they (Bush, et al) think this works. . .
It may be Bush's idea of 'strategy'. The White House needs to clean up its side of the street. Seems pretty honorable to me and I'm proud of the way they have behaved in contrast to the Clintons.
I'd be more afraid of losing the case and trashing my career.
You are probably right, but DC is 90% Dem.
I am sick and tired of Joe Wilson getting a free ride. The news media should tell the truth about the guy, or stop giving him a free forum, or both.
I have always appreciated Bush's honorable responses. . but he has a tendency to go beyond the 'turning of the cheek'. . .
It is not dishonorable to have an honest strategy that protects his own Presidency and by turn, the rest of the country, when it is under assault from the Left. A strategy that allows some light/truth on these assaults; rather than the continued promotion of the Left's, lies and spin.
Truth be told; Bush should win the war on this; but he should not allow himself - or our country - to become part of the 'walking wounded' in the interim.
ENOUGH with the . . .no comment while this is under investigation. We are at war, and not just in Iraq. And Bush must be, as well, the Commander-in-Chief of this war being played out on our home front. . .
Why should a prosecutor succumb to pressure from anybody? He should do what he believes is right.
bttt
The Score in the Race to Judgment at the White House
Clinton Democrats:
61 indictments or misdemeanor charges
33 convictions
14 imprisonments
7 independent counsel investigations
72 congressional witnesses pleading the Fifth Amendment
19 foreign witnesses who declined interviews by investigative bodies
17 witnesses fleeing the country to avoid testifying
Bush Republicans:
1 indictment, not even on the primary issue
What the hell does being right mean... if you don't stand up and fight?!!!
Sentitment w/question. . .worth repeating. . .
I do not get; and even more discouraged seeing this story . . .again; being played out on yet another 'Sunday morning' as framed by Demrat propaganda. . .
The Herald is MA's most 'balanced' paper as far as editorials... but c'mon... where's the Washington Times? Where's the senior Republican Senators stepping in to set the story straight?
And most of all...WHY DOESN'T BUSH START 'FIGHTIN BACK?!!!
Perhaps Free Republic could have a contest. . .see who comes up with the best answer to that question.
Maybe all the 'talk show' heads. ..could do this same contest!
Might get some White House attention ;^)
. . .and a big pot o'money for the best answer!
Or. . .we just make bets; on the 'if' and the 'when'. . .
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