Posted on 10/28/2007 7:19:28 PM PDT by skully
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. --Outed spy Valerie Plame says she isn't going away, no matter what the folks at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue want.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
The Wilsons have set up the website WILSONSUPPORT.org for their legal defense fund, which includes a donation page.
I’m envisioning a pic of bill clinton saying, “I’d hit it.”
But she doesn’t have her own trashy TV show to show her butt weekly.
If anyone’s going to pay attention to her, she needs to bleach her eyebrows (and divorce that bozo husband).
Have you heard that the CIA is actually the source responsible for exposing Plame’s covert status? Not Karl Rove, not Bob Novak, not the sinister administration cabal du jour of Fourth Estate fantasy, but the CIA itself? Had you heard that Plame’s cover has actually been blown for a decade — i.e., since about seven years before Novak ever wrote a syllable about her? Had you heard not only that no crime was committed in the communication of information between Bush administration officials and Novak, but that no crime could have been committed because the governing law gives a person a complete defense if an agent’s status has already been compromised by the government?
No, you say, you hadn’t heard any of that. You heard that this was the crime of the century. A sort of Robert-Hanssen-meets-Watergate in which Rove is already cooked and we’re all just waiting for the other shoe — or shoes — to drop on the den of corruption we know as the Bush administration. That, after all, is the inescapable impression from all the media coverage. So who is saying different?
The organized media, that’s who. How come you haven’t heard? Because they’ve decided not to tell you. Because they say one thing — one dark, transparently partisan thing — when they’re talking to you in their news coverage, but they say something completely different when they think you’re not listening.
You see, if you really want to know what the media think of the Plame case — if you want to discover what a comparative trifle they actually believe it to be — you need to close the paper and turn off the TV. You need, instead, to have a peek at what they write when they’re talking to a court. It’s a mind-bendingly different tale.
As it happens, the media organizations informed the court that long before the Novak revelation (which, as noted above, did not disclose Plame’s classified relationship with the CIA), Plame’s cover was blown not once but twice. The media based this contention on reporting by the indefatigable Bill Gertz — an old-school, “let’s find out what really happened” kind of journalist. Gertz’s relevant article, published a year ago in the Washington Times, can be found here.
How long before she resorts to Penthouse photo spreads to stay in the news?
It seems they are making it up as they go. They wouldn’t know the truth if it bit them!
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Plame on ‘60 Minutes’: She Worked to Halt Iranian Nukes
“It was classic Karl Rove: go after your enemy’s strong point,” Plame writes, saying Bush’s former political adviser was behind both efforts. “In Joe’s case it was that he told the truth; in Kerry’s case, it was his exemplary military service.”
Plame often casts herself as a spectator to the scandal. She discusses being uncomfortable in the limelight, even as she poses for magazine photographs, attends posh Washington fundraisers and is whisked backstage at a rock concert as her husband becomes one of the Iraq war’s most public critics.
Ten Questions for Valerie Plame Wilson
She’s set to testify before the House tomorrow. Here’s what the public needs to know.
By Byron York
4) In January 2004, Vanity Fair published an article touching on your role in the Niger uranium affair. It said
In early May [2003], Wilson and Plame attended a conference sponsored by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, at which Wilson spoke about Iraq; one of the other panelists was the New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof. Over breakfast the next morning with Kristof and his wife, Wilson told about his trip to Niger and said Kristof could write about it, but not name him.
Is that account accurate? If so, please describe what you said to your fellow attendees, either publicly or privately, at the Democratic Policy Committee meeting.
5) There have been some questions about the wording of the Vanity Fair paragraph quote above, which says that your husband met for breakfast with “Kristof and his wife.” Just to be clear: were you at that breakfast? If so, what was said?
Did Valerie Plame Wilson Tell the Truth?
A senator’s investigation suggests the answer is no.
By Byron York
SWORN TESTIMONY
In her testimony before the House, Mrs. Wilson said flatly, “I did not recommend him. I did not suggest him.” She told the House committee that a 2004 Senate report, which concluded that she had indeed suggested her husband for the trip, was simply wrong. In particular, Mrs. Wilson pointed to a February 12, 2002, memo she had written, which the Senate said showed that she had suggested her husband for the trip, and claimed that the Senate had taken the memo “out of context” to “make it seem as though I had suggested or recommended him.”
The 2004 Senate report to which Mrs. Wilson referred had quoted a brief excerpt from her memo. In the new report, Sen. Bond publishes the whole thing, and it seems to indicate clearly that Mrs. Wilson suggested her husband for the trip. The memo was occasioned by a February 5, 2002 CIA intelligence report about Niger, Iraq, and uranium. The report had been circulating in the intelligence community for a week by February 12, and Mrs. Wilson headlined her memo, “Iraq-related Nuclear Report Makes a Splash.”
Valerie Plame says she’s sorry she posed for that Vanity Fair photo. “It was more trouble than it was worth,” Plame tells CBS’s Katie Couric in a “60 Minutes” interview to air this Sunday. In her first TV interview, Wilson says her CIA boss was blindsided by the photo: “He gave me a really good chewing out. As I deserved to be.”
On January 16, Rep. Jay Inslee, D.-Wash., introduced the “Valerie Plame Wilson Compensation Act,” which, if passed, will allow Plame early redemption of her retirement benefits (approximately $1,800 per month).
The conceit!
What did Plame accomplish for her nation as a so called CIA operative? She is a legend in her own mind. She compromised in 5th column liberal socialist fashion, the security of our government, and is yet to be held accountable for it. She and her rectally fixated husband need to be tried for actively opposing the policy of the US government and then put in the stocks until they can sit on their own accumulated excrement.
Plame and Wilson symbolize everything that is wrong with the politiocally corect CIA, which should be disbanded as a foul experiment that has gone very wrong, using the media to alter the defined policy of the United Staes. Shame!
During the Cold War they would have disappeared , their remains never to be found again.
Perhaps the Russians will yet do us a favor.
Please!
She was NEVER a spy. I don’t know why the MSM keeps referring her as such. Oh, wait, I know why.
People for the (UN)American Way Foundation.
The 'spy' leaves her driveway on her way to work on Friday, Dec. 9, 2005 in Washington.
I’ll bet they’ve had a publicist for months. Books, movies, Bill (makemebarf) Maher. Funny behavior from someone who doesn’t want to be defined by it.
The 'unbiased political expert' Craig Crawford.
Congratulation on being the Phillip Agee of the New Century.
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