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The disloyalists
Washington Times ^ | 9-6-06 | Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

Posted on 09/06/2006 11:42:36 AM PDT by JZelle

There was only one thing truly astonishing about the revelation last week that Richard Armitage, Colin Powell's deputy at the State Department during George W. Bush's first term, was the source of Bob Novak's first column about Iraq war critic Ambassador Joe Wilson and his CIA agent wife, Valery Plame. That was Mr. Novak's subsequent description of the man who first "outed" Mrs. Plame's place of employment as "no partisan gunslinger."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: armitage; colinpowell; frankjgaffneyjr; karlrove; novak; plamegate; scooterlibby

1 posted on 09/06/2006 11:42:37 AM PDT by JZelle
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To: JZelle

W needs to call the bug man to Foggy Bottom, pronto.


2 posted on 09/06/2006 11:46:42 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

So in the end, the whole thing was RINO treason.


3 posted on 09/06/2006 11:48:52 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

We can take Robert Novak along with us.......on a rail.


4 posted on 09/06/2006 11:54:56 AM PDT by A Balrog of Morgoth (With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the RINOs in terror before me.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

A purge of back-stabbing careerists is long overdue at both CIA and the State Dept. How in hell can you run a foreign policy and a war when part of your team is working against you?
President Bush missed his chance to clean out the rats when he took office, and he's been paying for it ever since.


5 posted on 09/06/2006 12:26:09 PM PDT by 95 Bravo ("Freedom is not free.")
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To: 95 Bravo
W is sometimes strikingly naive when it comes to dealing with people who don't support him.
6 posted on 09/06/2006 12:53:19 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: JZelle
So when are Armitage and Fitz going to be indicted???

Firtz knew the truth and still went after LIbby, Cheney and Rove in hopes of bringing down a sitting President in a time of war.

His actions were/are frivolous, dishonest, "malice aforethought" = Is not that a gross and criminal misuse of his office?

How many places did he go to before he finally got someone to grant him a grand jury???

Why is NOTHING being done to the real perps? It's okay to destroy the innocent, but when the truth comes out, the guilty get a free pass???
7 posted on 09/06/2006 1:00:51 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Lincoln)
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To: JZelle
The rest of the editorial, dealing with how this has hurt the Administration's WOT (and endangered the Nation) and other offences this cabal has committed (such as the blocking of Bolton's nomination), were informative too.

Bttt.

8 posted on 09/06/2006 1:02:24 PM PDT by DoctorMichael (A wall first. A wall now.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
"W needs to call the bug man to Foggy Bottom, pronto."

That didn't work at the CIA (Porter Goss debacle) and it won't work at the State Department.

The left wing bureaucracy is now so entrenched normal solutions to the problem are useless. This particular disease has spread itself government wide and is going to require far more severe treatment to eradicate it.

9 posted on 09/06/2006 1:06:38 PM PDT by Czar ( StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: 95 Bravo

Ping to #9...


10 posted on 09/06/2006 1:07:58 PM PDT by Czar ( StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: Czar
I know. You can't blast government careerists out, once they've been there a few years.
11 posted on 09/06/2006 1:32:31 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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