Posted on 07/12/2006 3:55:19 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
The Dinosaur press will begin attacking Novak as a Rove flak and this is no big deal. Meanwhile they leak national secrets about Swift Bank as if we needed to know for some unknown reason.
Motto of The Old York Times: If Bush Bleeds, It Leads.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
You have it almost right. Wilson's trip to Niger did convince him that Saddam was trying to obtain yellow cake and he told the CIA that when he returned. This was an oral debriefing. Later Wilson wrote this big op-ed article about there being no attempt by Iraq to obtain uranium. A Senate committee later found unanimously that Wilson lied in his op-ed, that he did orally report that he found paydirt in Niger. But the media routinely ignores this established fact. Very frustrating. The American MSM is simply not reliable anymore. Makes room for the blogosphere and pajamhadeen.
Novak is trying to be cute. He still will not release the name of the primary source. The only thing he got from Wilsons entry in who's who is his wife's name, not her occupation.
AP writer is Pete Yost.
BTW, tune in to Rush Limbaugh today: I'll be on, 2nd hour.
That was my thought from the beginning and there was briefly some talk about learning who approved it and the process involved. Unless that is in the Commission Report I never heard anymore about it. The MSM would certainly bury it because it is their guys, leftist traitors, who would be exposed.
Plame is having an affair now with James Bond.
Fitzgerald has been trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill. I predict that he will not convict anyone.
Yes, after squinting at the article for a while, that's what I get, too. There were three sources, the primary source (not named), Rove and the CIA guy who signed a waver. After Novak heard Joe's wife was CIA, he used Who's Who to get her name.
1. The "Primary Source" is a Whitehouse official.
2. The "Primary Source" is NOT a political "gunslinger".
3. The "fact" that Joe Wilson's wife worked for the CIA was "inadvertantly" revealed in a conversation. I.E, "Hey, you know his wife works for the CIA."
4. Novak looked up the name of the wife in Who's Who. ...........
He says he did in the article.
When Fitzgerald arrived, he had a third waiver in hand -- from Bill Harlow, the CIA public information officer who was my CIA source for the column confirming Mrs. Wilson's identity. I answered questions using the names of Rove, Harlow and my primary source.
"using the names of Rove, Harlow and my primary source."
Yeah, I missed that.
He's still not disclosing to his readers.
> I knew the second I saw his labeling of Wilson's wife
> as a CIA operative that he'd screwed up. That factoid
> was not needed for his story.
Novak has said, the term "operative" is his own long-standing political-reporter lingo (which I've heard him use on CNN's Capitol Gang as well) and wasn't used in the spy-operative sense. Admits that using the word was misleading. But Novak tends to call everyone in Washington an "operative" because everyone he comes across seems to be working an angle, pushing an agenda--pols, bureaucrats, campaign workers, lobbyists, almost everyone. It’s the way of life in Washington. Wilson and Plame no different as it turns out.
What person in the White House is not a political "gunslinger"? The chef? The doorman?
That's DC pundit talk that simply means the person is not a paid political "advisor" like Rove or Carville in the Klintoon era. IOW, the person is a Staff member, like Press Secretary, Chief of Staff, et al.....
The Bush administration, through the creation of the special prosecutor's office, has spent millions on this stupid case and enabled its near death by a thousand cuts from its enemies.
Will it at least provide similar resources and effort in tracking down the government-paid traitors responsible for the devastating serial disclosures in the New York Times?
Just another example of how much of a bumbling ash hole Mr. No-facts is. He screwed up from the get go.
Thank You.
You must not have read the article. It's obvious Carl Rove leaked the name of a triple-top-secret agent (the one who liked to send her husband on trips to Africa). Just read the AP, Reuters, and AOL headlines this morning.
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