[wagglebee]

The "Old Gray Whore" is simply despicable.

[SIDENET]

Did the New York Times sack the wrong reporter?

Huh, huh. They said "sack".

Sorry.

[Sam Hill]

"Wikipedia, the always-current online encyclopedia, traces the beginning of Wilson's disinformation campaign to May 3, 2003: "Wilson, Plame and Kristof meet for breakfast. Wilson tells Kristof about his trip to Niger, on the condition that Kristof not name Wilson as his source." "Kristof" is Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times reporter. Plame, of course, is Wilson's wife Valerie, a WMD specialist at the CIA. If Wikipedia is accurate, Wilson almost assuredly revealed the identity of his wife to Kristof long before Miller knew. As previously reported, Wikipedia cites as source a flattering article on the Wilsons written by Vicky Ward for Vanity Fair magazine. Kristof has yet to respond to my e-mails asking for clarification."

Sheesh. Why didn't Cahill just look at the VF article. The breakfast is described in black and white there in black and white.

WND is the lazy bunch of people on earth.

[GregoTX]

"Did the New York Times sack the wrong reporter?"

Its a good start. Id like to see ALL New York Times reporters fired.

I must confess I didnt read the article, this is my bump to come back later to give it a looksie.

[Petronski]

Hate your font, love your post.

[ncountylee]

A bitter Al Gore partisan

I enjoy these. Now entering their sixth year of pain.

[Arm_Bears]

In the world's newsrooms, the truth is vulnerable PERIOD!

[mo]

Well Kristof can just join the list of known journlistic malpractioners...headed up, of course, by Mary Mapes and Dan Rather!!

[devolve]

[freema]

"I'm told by a person involved in the Niger caper that more than a year ago the vice president's office asked for an investigation of the uranium deal, so a former U.S. ambassador to Africa was dispatched to Niger..."

Something that's been really nagging at me, and I haven't seen it mentioned, is how ticked would you be if, as Vice-President, you asked for an investigation, and some dumbass diplomat was sent?

[yldstrk]

Do us a favor and fire 'em all!

[Verginius Rufus]

Back during the anthrax scare of Oct./Nov. 2001, Kristof played a key role in targeting suspicion at Steve Hatfield, who seems to have been totally innocent, but was deemed evil by leftists for having spent some time in Rhodesia before it fell to Mugabe. It ruined Hatfield's career, at least for the time...I don't know if he has recovered from the hit. Meanwhile the actual perpetrators remain at large. Five people died.

[airedale]

Actually we don't know if it was the French who prepared the forged documents that were slipped to the Italian journalist. Perhaps Wilson had seen them before the French had them. Perhaps his wife shared them with him and the original stories about his seeing early on were the truth which is now disguised with a lie that he misspoke. We've never gotten to the bottom of how, why and when the documents were prepared and who actually prepared them.

[Mike Darancette]

Wilson almost assuredly revealed the identity of his wife to Kristof long before Miller knew.

Kristof had breakfast with the Wilsons at some Democrat Function in Seattle prior to his article. I think he even sited Plame in his article as "someone present at the meetings" referring to Wilson's meetings with the CIA regarding results of Wilson's Niger trip. Plame was at both meetings.

[christie]

ping

[nopardons]

More Wilson/Plame/lying MSM puzzle pieces.

[bray]

The Old York Times should have sacked the Old Bag!

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighting Troops

[victim soul]

More Stories from Joseph Wilson
By Cliff Kincaid | November 24, 2005

http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/4188_0_2_0_C/

The Wilson comments show that he is still determined to conceal the truth about his wife's role in the sordid affair.

At this late date, Joseph Wilson is still trying to cover up the involvement of his wife in his CIA mission, apparently in order to protect a rogue element of the CIA from necessary scrutiny. After the production of the Libby indictment, Wilson wrote an October 19 Los Angeles Times article that said, "Although there were suggestions that she was behind the decision to send me to Niger, the CIA told Newsday just a week after the Novak article appeared that 'she did not recommend her husband to undertake the Niger assignment.' The CIA repeated the same statement to every reporter thereafter."

In fact, a CIA spokesman tells me that the agency did not comment on the record about that matter. And this is not what "the CIA" actually told Newsday. The July 22, 2003, Newsday story by Timothy M. Phelps and Knut Royce quoted an unnamed "senior intelligence official" as saying that Valerie Wilson did not recommend her husband to undertake the Niger assignment. This official may or may not be from the CIA. In any case, it is not an official CIA statement. It was an unnamed official leaking information to these reporters for a specific purpose—to exonerate Valerie Wilson of charges that she played a role in the mission.

It bears repeating: the Senate Intelligence Committee cited "interviews and documents" that Wilson's CIA wife "offered up his name" for the assignment and that she actually wrote a memorandum saying he would be perfect for the mission.

What is to be made of Wilson's false claim that "the CIA" told the press that his wife had no role in his trip? Not only is Wilson misrepresenting the facts, but if we assume that "the CIA" is actually a high-level official of the agency, then this official was lying to the press. But Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald didn't investigate this leak.

The Wilson comments show that he is still determined to conceal the truth about his wife's role in the sordid affair. That is the truth that Libby uncovered but which has been shunted aside by most of the media. It demonstrates that the press would rather protect their sources in the CIA than in the Bush Administration. Those sources, who seem determined to undermine the global war on terrorism, are likely behind the recent Dana Priest Washington Post article on the CIA's "secret prisons."

Interestingly, after the CIA got a Justice Department investigation into the leak of the name of Valerie Wilson, then-Counsel to the President Alberto R. Gonzales sent a message to all White House employees that requested that they also preserve information relating to contacts with Knut Royce and Timothy M. Phelps.

Yet the Special Prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, did NOT investigate these contacts. If he had, we might have had a small window into the rogue elements in the CIA, besides Valerie Wilson, that were manipulating the press in the Wilson affair.

Former Cheney aide Lewis Libby has an opportunity to blow the whistle on this rogue element in his trial. Let's hope that "national security" doesn't keep the public in the dark.

[gaspar]

Often lost in this maze is the role of Walter Pincus and his wife Ann. Just imagine, during the Clinton Administration his wife Ann was named to VOA (after serving at Public TV station WETA), and from there was moved to the Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research at a time when her husband was supposed to be reporting for the NYTimes on Chinese infiltration of US defense industries. INR, which is a small counterpart to the CIA, has access to all major intelligence gathering, and the placement of Ann Pincus in INR was a blatant conflict of interest, and the New York Times knew it, even if Bill Clinton didn't care. (The Pincus were frequent guests at the White House.)

Ann Pincus is now working for the left wing Center for Public Integrity, which is involved in so-called "investigative journalism" and lauds any study that bashes the Republicans. In sum, Walter Pincus, who is directly involved in this Plame business, and his wife Ann, are about as phoney a couple you could find next to Plame and Wilson. But... so it goes at the New York Times.

[Navy Patriot]

The "Old Gray Whore" is simply despicable.

And has been ever since she laid down for Stalin and his murders of 66 million.