Posted on 11/07/2005 12:22:00 PM PST by shhrubbery!
Sean Hannity just announced that Major General (ret) Paul Vallely will go on air on the Hannity radio show TODAY, Monday Nov. 7, 2005, to reassert that "that if anybody outed Plame, it was Joe Wilson himself" (quoting Hannity).
Vallely has been threatened with a lawsuit by Joe Wilson's lawyer if he does not retract statements he made last week on the John Batchelor show.
Click on link above for WABC's website, then click on "listen now" to hear program.
Right. That was a quote from Nicholas Kristof -- the reporter at the NYT to whom Wilson leaked his "findings" about uranium and Niger.
At the time Wilson leaked to Kristof, he did use Kristof to keep his name anonymous.
But Wilson "used" Kristof in another way too -- to peddle disinformation that Kristof is now having to retract, albeit in a half-baked way -- "Kristof: 'I might have gotten it right!'"
Of course Wilson's fatuous mug, willingly splashed across the cover of Vanity Fair, completely blows any claim he might've had to being a "private citizen."
LOL! Thanks, very good. I'd missed that.
I have to remember to save web pages. I'll look for the source, but yesterday I read the deal Fitz made with Russert was to be questioned ONLY on what Russert told Libby, NOT what Libby told him.
So Fitz is basing some of his indictments on 1/2 of a conversation?
bttt
In America, police are not allowed to get a search warrant to look for "whatever the heck they can find that's illegal or improper" inside a target's home.
So it should be for this pathetically bogus 'outing' grand jury investigation by Fitzgerald.
If he determined that an "outing" was not even possible, that there was no CIA covert compromise, he was duty bound to close up his investigation and go home.
I believe that Kristoff was informed of Plame's status when he sighted 'someone present at the meetings' with Wilson and the CIA.
This 'alleged' investigation sounds more weird each day! It does not sound like Fitzgerald was trying to learn who supposedly 'outed' Plame, but was trying to 'entrap' Rove and Libby.
Vallely did name one person I'd missed on first hearing, a person who Vallely says was also aware Wilson had told numerous people that Plame worked for the CIA (pre-July 2003).
I believe I heard this person's name as Wayne Simmons, and that he has some connection with the CIA.
Also, the Strata-Sphere website has a list of dates on which Wilson and Vallely would've been in the Fox News green room at the same time.
And one more time before I have to leave the thread (no, not to take a shower): Major General Paul Vallely and Joseph Farah (publisher of WorldNetDaily, also threatened with a lawsuit for defamation by Wilson's lawyer) will be on the John Batchelor show tonight, starting at 10pm eastern time, tonight.
Also apparently going on the record on the Batchelor show tonight is Vallely's fellow Fox News consultant, Lt. General Tom McInerney, USAF (ret), West Point '59. Possibly Victor Davis Hanson will be on air too, but the site isn't clear about that yet. Link to Batchelor show here, scroll down to "listen live" button on left.
That's all for me for now, back tomorrow.
Even so, an outing is an outing, whether published or not. Seems to me.
I mean, Kristof could've passed Plame's name along to an enemy --say, Iran or North Korea, without literally publishing it. So it isn't publishing that's necessarily the greatest sin. Anyway, now I'm really outta here.
Yeah - just like Michael Moore threatened to sue anyone that said he lied in Fahrenfake 9/11. Well, Lumpy Riefenstahl has been called a LIAR and a FAKE by just about everyone, including people he would have expected to align with him.
Still waiting for lawsuits. Should have been 100 filed in New York alone.
Wilson should remember that unlike criminal lawsuit, Vallely can haul WILSON's ass up to testimony. Then let's see who gets slapped with a perjury charge.
Another Embarrassment for Kristoff
By Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid | October 17, 2002
Perhaps Kristof ought to be investigated for impersonating a serious columnist.New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof made a name for himself with a series of columns claiming he knew who the prime suspect in the anthrax murders was. He called him "Mr. Z," until "Mr. Z" went public and affirmed his innocence. "Mr. Z" is Steven Hatfill, whose spokesman Patrick Clawson says that Krisfof's columns were full of "bunk" and "total garbage."
(source: http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A608_0_2_0_C/)
The man is delusional - too much dope, and I don't mean past use. I live for this house of cards to fall....
It's that law about not hurting a Lib's feelings.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Geez, I would give anything for Wilson to actually sue someone, anyone, for defaming what little of his character he has left. Then he would have to be deposed under oath about all his bloviations. This man has got to go down for his deep lies all designed to bring down a Presidency. This is serious stuff. If a Repub operative were doing the same stuff, the MSM wouldn't give up until there was nothing left to see.
Not exactly a small group he'd joined.
To win a libel or slander suit, don't you have to prove that someone knowingly lied about you?
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Or contradicting what they're saying, no matter how lying, mean, vicious and petty it is. It's the Liberals Are Always Right Sedition Act, I tell you.
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