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The Public's Right To Know [Liar: Joe Wilson]
Investor's Business Daily ^ | April 10, 2006 | None cited

Posted on 04/11/2006 10:42:12 AM PDT by Quilla

Lost in the brouhaha over President Bush's "leak" of "classified" information is the real reason for the outrage: The "leak" proved that Joe Wilson was a liar.

Among the things that bothered us in this affair is that it's deemed first-rate, Pulitzer-worthy journalism when a major newspaper prints classified information that our enemies find useful, but when the commander-in-chief authorizes the release of declassified material to defend his administration's position it is treated as a betrayal of the public trust, if not an impeachable offense.

When the New York Times last December revealed that the National Security Agency listened in on communications between terrorist suspects abroad and U.S. residents, or when the Washington Post ran a story about the existence of CIA prisons where the worst terrorists were being held and interrogated, the information aided our enemies.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bushlied; cialeak; declassification; demlies; fitzgerald; ibd; joewilson; josephwilson; nie; plame; presidentbush; wilson
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To: Logical me

Not to hard with the majority of the mainstream media, 90% of Washington DC and 49% of the country cheering you on.


21 posted on 04/11/2006 6:34:17 PM PDT by SelectiveJNJ
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To: Siena Dreaming

The President nor Scooter Libby has done anything wrong but there is a Grand Jury and the Media has convicted them already...you don't need the truth when you have the media!


22 posted on 04/11/2006 6:36:42 PM PDT by SelectiveJNJ
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To: Siena Dreaming

The President nor Scooter Libby has done anything wrong but there is a Grand Jury and the Media has convicted them already...you don't need the truth when you have the media!


23 posted on 04/11/2006 6:36:44 PM PDT by SelectiveJNJ
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To: ravingnutter
"IOW, Bush didn't authorize anything, Tenet did and the info was public in Oct 2002."

Belated reply: The MSM's coverage of this story has been without shame. Either that, or utterly incompetent. Take your pick. It is simply a flat-out lie to state - as the story on the front page of the Seattle Times did last week - that this was a leak of "highly-sensitive" information. It was neither a "leak" in the normal sense of that term, nor was it new, sensitive information. It was info that had been publicly discussed for months. Moreover, THE INFO SHOWED THAT BUSH WAS NOT LYING ABOUT THE INTELLIGENCE HE WAS GIVEN.
24 posted on 04/12/2006 7:18:10 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: LucyT
"Could one story about Joe Wilson, any one story, mention that he was working for the Kerry campaign?"

Some backup for what I wrote the other day.

New York Post July 29, 2004 -- DEMOCRAT John Kerry's campaign yesterday gave a ringing endorsement to Bush-bashing Ambassador Joe Wilson — even though a bipartisan Senate committee just found so many holes in his story that even his own wife won't back it up. Wilson claimed President Bush lied about whether Saddam Hussein was seeking yellowcake uranium from Niger, and Wilson knew it because the CIA sent him there. The Senate report says, if anything, the truth is the opposite of what Wilson claimed. But that doesn't seems to bother the Kerryites, who yesterday hailed Wilson's "integrity" and said he's still very much a part of the team that Kerry hopes will make him commander in chief. "Joe Wilson has served for many months as an informal adviser to the Kerry campaign and continues to do so," said Kerry foreign policy adviser Susan Rice.

It is amazing how the MSM completely bury this fact in their accounts.

25 posted on 04/13/2006 10:52:02 AM PDT by Dilbert56
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To: Dilbert56
Somehow it was left to Larry King to bring that little tidbit to light. Transcript:
KING: And is that why you joined the Kerry campaign?

Have you ever endorsed a candidate before?

WILSON: I have never been honored. I've never been invited to endorse a candidate before. I'm just a simple civic servant. I was foreign service officer. I was an political appointee for George Herbert Walker Bush. I was very comfortable in that role. I was very comfortable when we did the first Gulf War. I make that clear in the book.

KING: Scowcroft and all...

WILSON: Scowcroft, and Jim baker...

KING: Cheney.

WILSON: Well, Cheney, I didn't know. As, he likes to point out he never met Joe Wilson, I'm equally pleased to point out I never met Dick Cheney. Well, certainly, Scowcroft and the president and Jim Baker.

KING: So why have you endorsed John Kerry?

No only endorsed you're working for him.

WILSON: Well, no I'm not working for him in the sense that I'm not drawing a salary. What I have done, I have endorsed him and I serve on an advisory committee that advises the campaign, that advises the foreign policy adviser. That's a policy thing.


26 posted on 04/13/2006 10:56:42 AM PDT by Dilbert56
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