Posted on 11/23/2005 7:00:36 AM PST by conservativecorner
In violation of CIA regulations that bar contact with reporters without permission, Joseph Wilson's agency-employed wife Valerie Plame apparently accompanied him to a breakfast meeting with New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof in which they discussed the ambassador's controversial mission to Niger one month before Plame allegedly was "outed" by Robert Novak.
In a WND column, investigative reporter Jack Cashill points to a "stunning admission" by Wilson in a January 2004 Vanity Fair magazine story that apparently has been overlooked.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
It's not as if this is some sort of a serious offense like stuffing highly classified documents in your socks and stealing them or Blood For Oil! Can't we just move on from this radical right-wing pogrom against innocent patriots who are only trying to expose the dastardly criminal activites of the real liars, Chimpy and Haliburton, and save the country? /sarc/
I have cable, the pic was loaded instantly. Thanks, it's a good one.
Ooops, meant for A.A. Cunningham.
Valerie looks very upset that she's been "outed".
Joe Wilson is a former Democratic appointee (a couple of ambassadorships and a job on the National Security Council, plus working for Al Gore) who wrote a BS article in order to help the Kerry campaign. End of story.
The whole affair is an attempt to divert attention away from Joe Wilson's botched attempt to cast doubt on the Bush Administration's Iraq WMD intellegence.
If you think I was hostile then you're a bigger drama queen than you appear and you seem to have forgotten your initial post.
Why in the world did you post that pic? It's taking forever to download, and I'm DSL. Phone modem folk aren't going to appreciate that at all.
I use a dial up connection. The photo loaded fine for me. Due to it's size I resized it to one third of its original to expedite loading. That's something I always do when posting large photos because I'm such a hostile SOB.
Perhaps the problem is with your ISP, or your browser setting or the host server. I'm sure that you took all of that into consideration before you started complaining, didn't you Clara? Perhaps you enjoy whining, snivelling, moaning and groaning. Which is it?
Mine took a long time too, and I am on broadband. Your reasoning re website sponsoring graphic sounds right to me.
I didn't appreciate that remark, either. We ARE getting what we pay for. The only reason to comment on slow loading is because we always get a fast download of pics, and this one was unusually slow.
You can't possibly be seeing that photo. According to Clara Lou, who has a DSL connection, and is therefore the barometer for computer performance, it won't load. Could she be wrong!
I'm getting flashbacks to the days of dial-up.
Those two are do dirty.
It was painfully slow to load for me, on cable connection.
Clara, if you are paying for DSL and that picture took more than 3 seconds to download, you need to get a technician to your home immediately, because you're not getting what you're paying for.
do dirty = so dirty (although on second thought ...)
Not so, as confirmed by several other posters on this thread. My connection is downloading everything else as usual, both at FR and everywhere else on the web.
Clara, I don't want to be rude, but that's really YOU'RE problem, not the problem of the poster. Part of the enjoyment of FR is the anticipation that somebody took the time and got some fun and interesting pictures up on a thread. I don't want that to end because A FEW PEOPLE will have to wait a few minutes for it to download. When you think about it, that's a very liberal way of thinking...you want all of us to suffer, because you're suffering. Think about it.
Wrong. Joe Wilson was a careeer Foreign Service Officer. He had one ambassadorship to Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe (1992-1995). The State Department nominates career officers as ambassador to the WH. They can approve or nominate a political appointee. About one-third of all ambassadors are political appointees. Wilson was not one of them.
He spent a one year congressional fellowship to work in the offices of Al Gore and then Tom Foley (1985-86) during the Reagan administration. Career officers are assigned to Cong offices on a regular basis. So are military officers and others from USG agencies.
The Department also selects representatives to the NSC. Wilson was not a political appointee to the NSC.
Wilson was a career FSO with 23 years of service. He was a political opportunist who tried to hitch his star to John Kerry, in hopes that he would obtain a high level job in a Kerry administration. Admiral Crowe did something similar with Clinton and was rewarded as Ambassador to the UK. End of story.
Clara Lou...if you can't stand the heat...get off the thread. By the way, I've been here since 1998.
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