You nailed it!
I knew it was some mass murderer that he reminded me of but I couldn't pin it down. Here are their respective "mug shots" for comparison:
David Corn
Ted Bundy
Al Bundy
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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You nailed it!
I knew it was some mass murderer that he reminded me of but I couldn't pin it down. Here are their respective "mug shots" for comparison:
David Corn
Ted Bundy
Al Bundy
Jokes aside, you know when all the truth gets out
about ole Joe and his company's entanglement with
WMDs, with his company working with GOGEMA shipping YK
to Libya.Where Saddam had his nuke program and scientists,
so it couldn't be found by UN in Iraq. Then Saddam
paid Gogema a French company, and they paid Niger.
I call it the round robin game. A rotten game.
Joe's company got theirs and Joe made trips over there
to cover it up. And I think some in lib media
know this also. A scummy bunch.Ed
We have many more of the details now than were available then, of course, but that piece demonstrates a core truth about the whole matter. Anyone -- reporters, Fitzgerald, commentators, lawyers -- anyone could have easily discerned the outlines of the set up back when it was all still occurring. That they didn't bother speaks volumes.
This case -- indeed, the whole debate that's grown up about our invasion of Iraq -- demonstrates how the media, working hand-in-glove with malicious forces, can forever distort historical truth. In 2003, elected officials, commentators and "experts" who, just five years before in 1998 supported and passed the Iraq Liberation Act on the SAME basis President Bush relied on to take out Hussein, began insisting GWB lied to take us into Iraq.
The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, passed with huge bipartisan vote margins in Congress and signed into law by Bill Clinton, made it the policy of the U.S. government to overthrow the Hussein regime.
Yet, in 2002, someone (or group), somewhere put in motion ops that were designed to set up the lie that Hussein had no WMD while President Bush was still urging the United Nations to act. Someone planted obviously forged documents with the Italians, setting up the notion that British pre-invasion intelligence was flawed. Someone turned people like Scott Ritter, who had been insisting Iraq DID have WMD, into people who insisted Iraq did not. And, I believe, someone (most likely the Russians) helped Hussein move what remained of his WMD program out of Iraq.
There are any number of suspects who had the means, motive and capability. Basically any of the big players involved in the Oil-for-Food scam. The French, Russians, even Kofi Annan and the UN, which is nothing more than a profoundly corrupt anti-U.S. cabal.
The scam/set up started early in 2002. Remember, Wilson went to Niger in 2002. The Plame Name Game was merely a handy means to cloak the extent of the counter-ops going on against President Bush and our nation. That President Bush and his administration have managed to stand firm, avoid being hamstrung by the set up, and continue winning elections is nothing short of astounding.
Corn is able to make this claim because, in his first 2003 article, he phrased his accusation in the form of questions. It's an old, sly technique commonly used back when our libel and slander laws had teeth. If you're "only asking a question," you cannot be successfully sued for making a declarative assertion.
Excellent work, Wolfstar!!
Thanks, STARWISE.
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What a slippery character! Corn is from the "it all depends upon IS is", school.
Isn't Isikoff the one that "lost something" when he was in Iraq? Har har har... "Left something behind" if you know what I mean. "Forgot something"?
(This is based on an actual Larry King interview.)
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He sure is. Corn is a total Clinton sycophant and desciple. Ugh!
Very much appreciated, but it is I who should thank the hundreds of FReepers since 2003 who have used the info in exactly the way you mentioned. I did that research and wrote the piece for the benefit of FReepers and folks who lurk here. My satisfaction comes in knowing the info did some good. :)
What did he leave behind?
Many thanks for posting ALL the great info! :-)
his hand.
I still live for the day when Joe the Liar is finally put under oath for his efforts towards a Coup d'Etat.
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