Posted on 09/02/2006 8:41:36 AM PDT by veronica
As the Plamegate "scandal" fades away, one question remains: How to do right by the principal victim of the farce - former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby? The new book "Hubris" by Newsweek's Michael Isikoff and The Nation's David Corn - hardly a flattering view of the Bush administration - completely unravels the notion that there was a broad institutional conspiracy to "out" putative CIA agent Valarie Plame Wilson for political reasons.
Yet that unfair accusation has led to the resignation and indictment of one high-ranking administration official and the smearing of others - and helped draw focus and energy away from the major challenges facing the president's team. Robert Novak first revealed that Plame was a CIA "operative" in a July 2003 column. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, Plame's husband, charged that the White House intentionally leaked his wife's identity as "revenge" for Wilson's efforts to paint the administration as having distorted facts in making the case for deposing Saddam Hussein. Wilson claimed that the White House exposed his wife's undercover status - a federal crime - as part of a plot.
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was named to examine the charge. His probe of the administration led to Libby's indictment for lying to investigators, and his subsequent resignation. Novak refused to publicly name his primary source - leading to three years of loony-left conspiracy-mongering.
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Has Chris Matthews apologized yet?
WORST. FITZMAS. EVER.
ROFLOL!
Joseph Wilson is a proven opportunistic lier and Richard Armitage is a proven craven coward. Louis Libby is a wronged man. Who will now give him back his reputation and his honor? Who will publicly challenge Wilson to show that his accusations were not made up from whole cloth and therefore were libelous
How are the dumdums taking this news. Has anyone ventured over to dummyland to find out? Are there mass suicides? Gnashing of the teeth and rolling around on the carpet or are they in an uproar?/p>
While there is enough blame to go around, I think the main culprit is Fitzgerald. He knew from the very beginning that is was Armitage. Yet he went on with the investigation, ordering Novak, Armitage, et al, to keep mum about what they knew. Just what was Fitzgerald's game?
Yet another example (as if we needed another) of why the President's conciliatory and "bipartisan" intentions upon taking office were enormously foolhardy.
Who's going to pay his lawyer's fees?
Oh there was an "institutional conspiracy" going on all right, and it was orchestrated by the libs and the Democraps with the help of their buddies in the main stream media !!!
I wish somebody could gather all the statements by Isikoff and Corn during this fiasco .. which I believe would show they were leading the talk shows with their "Rove did it" theory.
Where's Coulter when we need her!
Armitage was looking to be part of Kerry's cabinet.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52688-2004Oct21?language=printer
"A dark-horse candidate for defense, some said, is Richard L. Armitage, Bush's second in command at the State Department."
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2004/09/05/all_the_presidents_men/
" Tom Vallely, the Friend of John ..from the antiwar years... offers the name of President Bush's deputy secretary of state, Richard Armitage --"
I have no doubt that there are others.
Chrissy was on "vacation" this week, so he missed partaking in the conversation so far. I have written to msnbc, in fact I have emailed every major news organizations, asking for the immediate and public apologies to the Bush Administration...including Rove and Libby. The story won't get much coverage because of the timing...labor day weekend, 9/11 anniversary, katrina, etc. Chrissy will never apologize...if nbc/msnbc had any integrity at all, they would fire chrissy and schuster, et al. But alas, msnbc has no integrity. They are all left-wing moonbats. I'm waiting for Team Libby to make a public statement on all this, I'm waiting for Fitzy to drop all charges and issue an apology; I'm waiting for Libby to file a defamation suit against nytimes, wapo, msnbc, armitage, et al.....waiting, waiting, waiting. The judges involved with the Fitzy persecution of Libby should be embarrased and angry. Perhaps that ever-so-secret indictment of Rove (as proposed over at truthout) was really an indictment of Fitzy for lieing to the court? Who knows, eventually truth outs...it always does. The big question is, will the truth be able to overcome the damanage that has been done by our lieing democrats and the mouthpieces in the old media?
Rush's staff is probably working on it.
I dunno --- of all the leftist pundits out there, I think Matthews is the most inclined to admit he was wrong -- but I won't hold my breath.
The great irony of this is that one of Scooter's most prized souvenirs of his years in government is a photo of himself and Colin Powell with a very gracious inscription by Powell.
Bush (or whatever Pubbie can if it is even possible) should immediately pardon him. Any outrage would just bring the real issue to the forefront.
Let the media hang itself.
JMHO
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