Posted on 09/17/2006 8:38:19 PM PDT by STARWISE
It’s a shame David Corn chose to show his displeasure with my September 15, 2006, Wall Street Journal op-ed about Richard Armitage’s role in the Valerie Plame so-called leak by making a baseless personal attack against me.
I wrote: “The first journalist to reveal Ms. Plame was ‘covert’ was David Corn on July 16, 2003, two days after Mr. Novak’s column. The latter [Robert Novak] never wrote, because he did not know and it was not so, that Ms. Plame was covert. However, Mr. Corn claimed Mr. Novak ‘outed’ her as an ‘undercover CIA officer,’ querying whether Bush officials blew ‘the cover of a U.S. intelligence officer working covertly in…national security.’
Was Mr. Corn subpoenaed? Did Mr. Fitzgerald subpoena Mr. Wilson to attest he had never revealed his wife’s employment to anyone? If he had done so, he might have learned Mr. Corn’s source.”
Corn blogged, “Toensing is flat-out wrong — sloppy wrong. Any intelligent lawyer who bothered to peruse the piece I wrote could discern that I was engaging in a thought exercise, not an act of disclosure.”
I did indeed scrutinize Corn’s piece. That’s why I have a September 11, 2006, yellow-underlined copy of it in my file. (I had read it before, but not printed it.) Here’s what made me add the above quote about Corn to my criticism of Special Counsel Fitzgerald.
-Corn praises Wilson and the CIA’s choice of him for the trip to Niger. That was strange since every major journalist involved in this area was asking why Wilson was sent, as he had no WMD experience and had served in Niger as a very low-level government employee decades before. Even Armitage had responded to Novak’s “Why Wilson?” by saying, “A lot of people are asking that question.”
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Corn is such a flake that if he had even a kernel of intelligence he wouldn't think of stalking Victoria because she would confuse him so much his brain would pop and he would get lost in a maize.
One of the most enjoyable moments on TV as far as I'm concerned was one morning on CSPAN (before Lamb ruined the show by not letting two people be on at once) when Victoria cleaned Anne Lewis' clock about Bill Clinton.
She's simply magnificent.
Only MSM slime merchants pretend that the CIA press office confirms the employment of undercover officers.
I've always liked her. I remember though, that during the Clinton years, there was some sort of threat made either against her or her husband, and she was worried about it. I am constantly grateful that those grifters are out of office.
Corn PWNED!
I'm surprised he didn't scratch her eyes out...
Pretty corny .. ROFL!
I keep waiting form someone to make an ad hominy remark. But then, that would take grits.
Well, I'm a Mississippi gal, so I ARE a GRITS!
I'm sorry. I don't know what got into me. I better stop or someone will call the cobs on me.
Aww, shucks.
Corn takes it in the cornhole.
LOL -- you're TRUE GRITS.
I'm instant GRITS.
I would daresay that dear David has been Corn-holed.
ONE minute and FIVE seconds faster you are, damn you! LOL
From Wikipedia.
Visit to Iraq in 2002
Rep. McDermott visited Iraq in 2002, prior to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. He received sharp criticism from conservatives, both for his visit and for his prediction that President George W. Bush would "mislead the American public" to justify military action. During the run up to the Iraq war, McDermott insisted that no WMDs would be found in Iraq.
After his visit to Iraq, Rep. McDermott received a $5,000 contribution to an unrelated legal defense fund from Shakir al Khafaji, an Iraqi-American businessman with alleged ties to the Oil for Food scandal. McDermott returned the contribution in 2004 after it was questioned in the media. Aides asserted that McDermott had no prior knowledge of Khafaji's alleged connections to Iraqi oil money.
McDermott's opponents frequently use the nickname "Baghdad Jim" to call attention to his controversial Iraq visit.
"A Little Literary Flair"
From the July 26, 2004 issue - Weekly Standard: Joe Wilson wasn't a truth-teller.
by Matthew Continetti
"ONE DAY LAST OCTOBER, Ambassador Joe Wilson, his wife Valerie in tow, traveled to the National Press Club in downtown Washington, D.C., for lunch. It was a big day for Wilson . He was the guest of honor at a banquet thrown by the Nation Institute, which publishes the Nation, the venerable lefty weekly. Daniel Ellsberg was there. So was New Jersey senator Jon Corzine. Towards the end of lunch, plates of cold salad shunted aside, Wilson was invited onstage. Looking the part of a globetrotting former diplomat in his Zegna suit and trademark Hermès tie, he launched into a tirade against the Bush administration, which he claimed had ignored the findings of a trip he took to Niger in February 2002 to investigate claims that Saddam Hussein's Iraq had tried to acquire uranium there. His trip had disproved those claims, he continued, yet his findings were ignored. And when he went public with his story, the administration had tried to "silence" him by leaking to the press that his wife worked for the CIA.
There was much applause. And there was even more applause when Wilson then accepted the first-ever Ron Ridenhour Award for Truth-Telling, along with the award's $10,000 prize. (Ridenhour was the soldier who exposed the My Lai massacre in 1969.)"
Also of interest:
THE NATION - On the far left, The Nation magazine and its Nation Institute have been supported by OSI (Open Society Institute). The magazine published a generally flattering piece about the Soros-funded Center for American Progress. http://www.aim.org/special_report/A2089_0_8_0_C/
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