Regarding Plamegate, we are told constantly by the Wilson's that the administration targeted Valerie in retaliation for Joe Wilson telling the "truth" that Iraq was not trying to purchase uranium.
I'm starting to think that not 1 reporter in 100 either knows the truth or is reporting the truth.
The Senate Bipartisan Committee reported that what Joe Wilson was reporting privately in closed door sessions to Congress actually bolstered the Bush administration's position that Iraq was trying to purchase uranium.
The bipartisan committee report that shows Wilson lied about what he found in Niger:
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=21844942
The panel found that Wilson's report, "rather than debunking intelligence about purported uranium sales to Iraq, actually bolstered the case for most intelligence analysis."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39834-2004Jul9
To this day, British intelligence maintains that Saddam Hussein sought uranium in Africa, recently underlined by a report from The Financial Times of London. The British government states "European intelligence officers have now revealed... human and electronic intelligence sources from a number of countries picked up repeated discussion of an illicit trade in uranium from Niger." The New York Times paraphrased the above with a clear-cut story titled: "Intelligence Backs Claim Iraq Tried to Buy Uranium." The essay leaves no doubt as to the claim of Bush in January 2003 that Saddam Hussein was not only was trying to procure uranium, but had been for years.
http://www.nytimes.com/financialtimes/business/FT1087373295002.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Wilson misled the Washington Post in June 2003, when he told the paper that the Niger intelligence was based on documents that had clearly been forged because "the dates were wrong and the names were wrong." In fact, Wilson had never seen the reports.
When the Senate committee staff asked Wilson how he could have come to that conclusion, Wilson replied that he may have "misspoken" (See first paragraph) to reporters.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39834-2004Jul9
The MSM signed an amicus brief saying there was no crime in the Plame leak:
36 major news organizations and professional reporters' groups (including CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Reuters, The Associated Press, The Tribune Company, The Washington Post, The New York Press Club and The White House Corespondents) insisted that "no crime" had been committed in the "Plame Leak" case because, among other things, Valerie Plame's identity had previously been disclosed to both the Russians and the Cubans!
Read their brief here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665581/posts?page=12#12
Albright exactly is gentler version of Helen Thomas (thanks to my kid brother).
By now Israel has learned that trying to deal with terrorists using PC(politically correct)logic will lose every time you try.
It was a mistake to give back the Gaza strip as the terrorists saw the gesture solely as a sign of weakness rather that the olive branch which is the European/NYT mentality of waging war.
It will also be a mistake to stop destroying terrorists and anything they use to try and destroy Israel with.
What I see happening is that Israel will keep making remarkable strikes against the terrorists until they(hamas and hezbollah) cry "uncle".
Eventually, in short order, the terror types and their lackeys will claim they are ready for peace talks which will be a sign Israel is making strides in it's blitzkrieg they are currently waging.
World opinion will immediately jump on Israel to stop the bombing and all will be peaceful again.And most likely Israel will pull back as it always does. But will all be peaceful again?
We are fighting a slick enemy in the Middle East. They have successfully used left wing tactics to wage war, and the msm/driveby media is solidly against Israel even though they are the aggrieved party! They were attacked by terror types and their soldiers were kidnapped.
This matters little to agenda laden media and terror types bent on the destruction of the U.S. and all it represents.
We are the true, real targets or terrorists and if they have to strike us through Israel all the better for them.
Islamic terrorism has become a sort of blind faith/brainwashed form of war waged on the US and it's few allies. The perpetrators have learned to use every trick in the trade against us.
We are afraid to go up against Iran,who is undoubtedly behind much of the current problems in Israel, and Saudi Arabia since they control vast stretches of oil reserves that could disrupt worldwide commerce.
At the same time we refuse to drill for oil in places where oil is found and every type of energy security available to us from nuclear to shale oil,which is directly related to the WOT, is demagogued,shot down by the left in a traitorous effort to regain political power at any and all costs.
Meanwhile our elected reps fail to secure our own borders by killing border fence funding(in the Senate) when we know terror types cross almost daily.
We are in a crossroads as a nation and we need to stand up for freedom and democracy or lose it.
#46, this may be a repulsive thought, but what if Buffalo Butt Russert decides to act like a newsman/Journalist for a change instead of DBM/DNC and asked Maddie really probing questions and followups? What would happen if he did that, and she turned on him and put his head in a squeeze lock,vice grip leg hold until his eyes started to pop? She seems consumed with her own ego most of the time, and has a pass given to her by the DBM normally. This would be exciting if he would only realize he is supposed to be a Journalist not a DNC shill.