Posted on 03/16/2007 5:55:58 AM PDT by Mo1
Edited on 03/16/2007 5:57:55 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
ON CAPITOL HILL Valerie Wilson Testifies
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) chairs a House Oversight and Government Reform Ctme. hearing on the disclosure of CIA Agent Valerie Plame Wilson's identity. The hearing will look into whether White House officials followed appropriate procedures for safeguarding the identity of Ms. Wilson.
FRIDAY, C-SPAN AT 10AM ET
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Just turned off the mute..lol
Joe Wilson Was Sent to Niger By A Guy Who Walked By [John Podhoretz]
This is what Valerie Plame Wilson just said about her husband's trip: "I did not recommend him, I did not suggest him, I did not have the authority." An officer serving under her was upset to have received an inquiry from the vice president's office about yellowcake from Niger and evidently, while she was comforting that junior officer, some guy walked by her office and suggested her husband should go to Niger to check it out.
She said she was ambivalent about the idea because she didn't want to have to put her 2 year-old twins to bed by herself at night. Still, she and the guy who had just happened to walk by then went to her supervisor.
Supervisor: Well, when you go home this evening, would you ask your husband to come in.
Then her supervisor asked her to write an e-mail about the idea. She did so. That e-mail, she said, was the basis for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence claim that she had been responsible for sending her husband to Niger for the CIA.
In other words, she didn't recommend him or suggest him. Rather, it was a guy who walked by.
JPod, the Corner NRO
When will Armitage testify at this hearing?
Is that a rhetorical question? Since Fitzgerald is still on the case, I doubt that Armitage could/would say much and put himself into legal jeopardy. The fact that he hasn't been prosecuted speaks volumes about Plame's status.
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Fitzgerald is no longer on the case. The case is over.
Besides, Armitage could get immunity for his testimony. (Ala Oliver North.)
But, as you know, Armitage broke no laws. So he has nothing to worry about.
Hey, I didn't say she isn't attractive! All I said was that in that photo she has a mustache and it appears that she could have used braces when she was little. She is a VERY attractive woman with a mustache and an over-bite. Many wish they could be so lucky.....
Did waxman leave? Probably needs to wax his nose!
That is how the CIA does business?
Sorry to be so late answering your question...I got called away! Wilson was not an Ambassador at the time he went to Niger in 2002. In 1992, President George H. W. Bush named Wilson the U.S. Ambassador to the Gabonese Republic and, concurrently, to the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe - positions Wilson held until 1995. In 1997 President William Jefferson Clinton appointed him to the National Security Council where he handled African affairs. Wilson left the council in 1998. (http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1497427)
I agree with you about Tenet, and I think all Clinton holdovers should have been terminated on day 1.
Victoria seems to be pissing off the committee!
Yep. I'm tired of fighting them - thinking about just giving them names..... beginning with Mt. Wilson, Mt. Fitzgerald, Mt. Waxman, Mt. Reid......you get the idea.
Finally! Toensing says the two words we've been waiting for: Richard Armitage!
Talking about the al gore contrib in her cia cover biz!
Hooray!!! She says what we want to say!!!
I love that woman!
She said she went overseas on secret missions within the past 5 years from today. Her twins were born in 2000. They must be about 6 1/2 years old now. So she's not ok putting themselves to bed by herself, but she was ok traveling overseas on secret CIA missions and leaving them home with Wilson or a nanny??
Toensing is getting in all of our (Freeper) points in her opening statement!
She knows this is her only chance to get this info into the Congressional Record.
Now we're getting somewhere.
I'm sure they didn't want to hear her say "Richard Armitage, who, by the way, was the original leaker."
Go Victoria!
"As to classified status, the WH has the authority/right to override that, I believe"
Just for emphasis (not to you redgirl), ALL, top-to-bottom, right-to-left, backwards-and-forwards classification authority extends from the President, down. There is no higher authority than the President in either the military or the federal government.
Declassification authority is identical, and in both cases, the "process" for classifying or declassifying anything and everything is precisely what the President says it is (or isn't). The President can declassify anything at the snap or his fingerrs, or force an agency (say, NORAD) to adhere to rigorous classification processes.
Waxman JUST walked back in....I guess he didn't think it was necessary to be in the big chair for all of this panel.
pffffffft
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