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Plame Out - The ridiculous end to the scandal that distracted Washington.
www.slate.com ^ | Aug. 29, 2006 | Christopher Hitchens

Posted on 08/29/2006 2:36:26 PM PDT by neverdem

fighting words
Plame Out
The ridiculous end to the scandal that distracted Washington.
By Christopher Hitchens
Posted Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006, at 1:02 PM ET

I had a feeling that I might slightly regret the title ("Case Closed") of my July 25 column on the Niger uranium story. I have now presented thousands of words of evidence and argument to the effect that, yes, the Saddam Hussein regime did send an important Iraqi nuclear diplomat to Niger in early 1999. And I have not so far received any rebuttal from any source on this crucial point of contention. But there was always another layer to the Joseph Wilson fantasy. Easy enough as it was to prove that he had completely missed the West African evidence that was staring him in the face, there remained the charge that his nonreport on a real threat had led to a government-sponsored vendetta against him and his wife, Valerie Plame.

In his July 12 column in the Washington Post, Robert Novak had already partly exposed this paranoid myth by stating plainly that nobody had leaked anything, or outed anyone, to him. On the contrary, it was he who approached sources within the administration and the CIA and not the other way around. But now we have the final word on who did disclose the name and occupation of Valerie Plame, and it turns out to be someone whose opposition to the Bush policy in Iraq has—like Robert Novak's—long been a byword in Washington.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: armitage; cialeak; hitchens; indicted; jcwilson; joewilson; josephwilson; plame; rove2bindicted; scooter; valerieplame; yellowcake
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To: neverdem

Night after night, Brian Williams ,Andrea Mitchell , Olbermann and the rest of the NBC anti Bush cabal,
would have breathless updates on the impending indictment of Karl Rove ,a modern day Julius Rosenberg.
They also tarnished President Bush and VP Cheney as being part of the conspiracy.
The same group of shriekers that always demand that President Bush apologize, will never mention this story again.


121 posted on 08/29/2006 5:56:25 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: billhilly

Cavalry?


122 posted on 08/29/2006 6:08:48 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: neverdem

bump for later.


123 posted on 08/29/2006 6:22:31 PM PDT by bcsco ("He who is wedded to the spirit of the age is soon a widower" – Anonymous)
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To: Suzy Quzy

You amy be overstating the respect of the media, ever, for the "whole truth". Narrative has been king sunce the days of the Yellow Press -- it was Hogan's Alley that begat it.


124 posted on 08/29/2006 6:28:51 PM PDT by bvw
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To: UCANSEE2

BTTT


125 posted on 08/29/2006 6:37:33 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: liberallarry
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Do a Google search in News on "Richard Armitage" and see that this story has dropped off the radar like a lead balloon!

"No it hasn't."
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I specifically said do a Google NEWS search... not a web search that brings up blogs. A Google NEWS search brings up the MSM doing stories and this story has dropped off the radar for the MSM.
126 posted on 08/29/2006 6:47:32 PM PDT by avacado
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To: the Real fifi

bttt


127 posted on 08/29/2006 6:51:22 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: UCANSEE2; All

Your #65 post caught my attention. While channel surfing, at about 6:50 or so EST on CNN (Lou Dobbs with a female sub), she passed off to Jack Cafferty(sp?), who did a spew about how there are 2.3 billion(trillion??)worth of Gov't contracts handed out that basically are almost "non-bid", and are not really "publicly known".

Cafferty went on to say that a bi-partisan bill has passed the house, passed in commitee in the Senate, awaiting a vote on the Senate floor, that will make it a law to publish the company's names who receive these contracts, and the ammount of each contract.

The bill has NOT made it to the Senate floor for a vote, because ONE Senator has used their "Veto-Objection" to stop the bill from being voted on.

Cafferty was enraged that this ONE Senator is able to stop this bill from being voted on. He said that 2.3 Billion(again it could be Trillion) in contracts being almost secretly handed out of tax paying American's money should be available for all to see.

He then said the "weasel" blocking this shouldn't be that hard to find out of "100 weasels", and he was going to try to find out who it is.

Then after I read the article you posted in the link below,(You have to scroll down a ways to find it), my tin-foil hat got very hot.

Could it be Feinstein blocking this bill???????

Below are the lines from your post, and the link about Fienstein's "hubby", (and their new 16.5 million house) with some of his recent "contracts" that are making him (and her) rich off of "Bush's War".

From your #65 post:

"NOTE THE ARTICLES HERE ABOUT FEINSTEIN and her HUSBAND. The REAL REASON the DEMS are PROTECTING JOE WILSON."


http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/02/its_all_about_the_secrets.html

IMHO, Feinstein CAN NOT afford to have this come out BEFORE the Nov elections. It would "sink" the 'Rats.


128 posted on 08/29/2006 6:53:19 PM PDT by musicman
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To: neverdem
Hitch should gather up all his articles and weave them into an entire best-selling book about this whole thing. Title it: Yellowcake Journalism. Make these snivelling slanderous thuggish cretins sorry they ever picked up a pencil.
129 posted on 08/29/2006 7:03:17 PM PDT by H.Akston (It's all about property rights.)
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To: billhilly
And yes, I know he was a flaming liberal for most of his career.,

Yes he was. But he always supported the Kurds in Iraq for as long as I can remember and hated Saddam Hussein.

130 posted on 08/29/2006 7:09:42 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Fake but Accurate": NY Times)
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To: billhilly
Hitchens gave the finger to Bill Maher's sycophantic audience a few nights and told them to perform an unnatural act on themselves.

Do you mean like this?


131 posted on 08/29/2006 7:15:30 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Fake but Accurate": NY Times)
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To: neverdem

Just amazing! This borders on an attempted bloodless coup, on the part of several individuals, considering how hard the Left has pushed this issue, up to and including calls to impeach the President over this.

And Richard Armitage is not doing himself, or his client John McCain, and good by remaining silent about this. The longer he refrains from commenting, the worse he is going to look. Certainly there was no crime committed, in that nobody "outed" a CIA agent. The real crime has been done to Scooter Libby, and sadly there isn't any way for him to regain his reputation.

This is far from over.


132 posted on 08/29/2006 7:19:13 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout hearts!!)
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To: liberallarry; FormerACLUmember
FormerACLUmember: Absolute dead silence from the Drive-By media.

liberallarry: Unbelievable!...and indefensible.

Indefensible, yes. Unbelievable? Hardly, from my POV.

You say later that more free speech is the only answer, and you are absolutely correct. But I emphasize that "more speech" cannot mean louder speech by the same people who already have the biggest microphones.

What is actually required is less credulity for the big talkers. If someone tells me that they are objective, I sometimes reflexively sucker for the con. I admit it, I was raised that way. The way I intend to react to that sort of claim is to ask, "Oh yeah?? What other lie are you gonna try to sell me?"

And what I like about FR is the fact that if I don't ask the hard questions someone else generally will. The motto of FR should be Adam Smith's dictum:

It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. - Adam Smith

133 posted on 08/29/2006 7:19:29 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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To: Suzy Quzy

You can do that for free.
Go to The American Thinker. Go to the search feature in the upper left and type in her name and you will get printable versions of all her articles this year, many of which are on this case. Print them.

Someone else said he wanted all of Hitchens' stuff. Go to his site on Slate and do the same thing.

Free. All for you.


135 posted on 08/29/2006 7:32:39 PM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: neverdem
Well, I don't agree with everything that Hitchens says, but his ability to provide an intellectual smackdown is second to only a few.

The whole article, though points that have been made here on FR many times, is worth the read.

136 posted on 08/29/2006 7:33:05 PM PDT by mattdono (150 Million bloodthirsty Arabs vs. 4.8 Million Jewish Israelis. That's not fair. [Off Sarcasm])
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To: aflaak

ping


137 posted on 08/29/2006 7:43:12 PM PDT by r-q-tek86 (** Tagline Removed By Admin Moderator **)
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To: neverdem

bump for later


138 posted on 08/29/2006 7:46:38 PM PDT by Christian4Bush ("Ma'am, you don't have to thank us. You just go beat him for us." Soldier to Irey re: Murtha)
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To: H.Akston

Oh man....YELLOWCAKE JOUNALISM is a FABULOUS title!!


139 posted on 08/29/2006 7:53:53 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kabooms"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: the Real fifi

Thanks.


140 posted on 08/29/2006 7:55:13 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kabooms"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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