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Plame-Out?
Opinion Journal.com/WSJ ^
| 9-30-03
| James Taranto
Posted on 09/30/2003 1:29:34 PM PDT by veronica
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:58 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Anti-Bush partisans are really piling on thick over the purported scandal involving the "outing," supposedly by White House officials, of Valerie Plame, who may or may not have been a covert CIA operative, and who is married to a critic of the administration named Joe Wilson. Josh Marshall blogged himself into such a frenzy yesterday that he almost matched Glenn Reynolds's output on a slow day. One random left-wing blogger sums up the tone of the attacks: "Conservatives have a long history in America of resorting to traitorous acts to further their own private agendas." We're half-expecting the bestseller lists to feature a book called "Leaks and the Leaking Leakers Who Leak Them."
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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cia; doj; jamestaranto; josephwilson; leak; plamenameblamegame; robertnovak; valerieplame
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Comment #61 Removed by Moderator
To: PhiKapMom
Hi Mom!
Remember that Chappaqua meeting Clinton and the missus had recently with 150 advisors ....I bet this is where this was hatched.
62
posted on
09/30/2003 6:46:55 PM PDT
by
Dog
(This wednesday is my birthday and I officially become older than dirt....)
To: expatpat
Pentagon wouldn't surprise me either -- clintonites landed there in droves!
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posted on
09/30/2003 6:47:21 PM PDT
by
PhiKapMom
(Support our President -- Donate to Bush-Cheney '04 (www.georgewbush.com/donate))
To: Maria S
I'm trying to find exactly what Hillary is up to this. According to the deluded Democrats, this is the biggest scandal since Watergate. But who are the point men for this? Her "war puppies" ( not war dogs) who just had their muzzles taken off, Schumer and Nadler. If anyone remembers after 9/11, Hillary bear hugged the media spotlight. Schumer and Nadler had to take what few morsels were left over when they should have been ahead of her.
She's not in front of this because it will backfire on them. Time for more Dems to fall on their swords for the party. I knew the Dems were desperate, but most of the time they usually stretch a half-truth and see if it sticks. This time they made it all up out of less than thin air.
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posted on
09/30/2003 6:49:05 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
("Read Hillary's hips. I never had sex with that woman.")
To: Dog
Hi Dog!
I will bet you are right! That makes perfect sense!
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posted on
09/30/2003 6:49:29 PM PDT
by
PhiKapMom
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Comment #66 Removed by Moderator
Comment #67 Removed by Moderator
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Little Chrissy Matthews sure seems as if he thinks its "much worse" than Watergate. He was absolutely going crazy last night and tonight with this topic. (To be honest, I didn't watch much of the show either night) - but the bits and pieces I was somehow able to stomach - he was trying to get folks to say it was much worse than a "3rd rate burglary--as in Watergate".
BLECH - I can't STAND Chrissy and all these media-type folks!!
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posted on
09/30/2003 6:53:31 PM PDT
by
MasonGal
Comment #69 Removed by Moderator
To: seamole
Thanks
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posted on
09/30/2003 6:58:55 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(http://www.favewavs.com/wavs/cartoons/spdemocrats.wav)
To: seamole
http://www.mideasti.org/html/bio-wilson.html I postet this reply on another article concerning Wilson, but it has bearing bears here also. This has to do with the tangle of webs and who's been working for whom. Please read and lgo to the link.
BLUF: Joseph Wilson has multiple connections to far left wing elements (AlGore, the Clintons, etc) and a long history of working for those who have no interest in defending our national security or preserving and promoting our republic.
Found this on Google. I have to assume this is the same Ambassador Wilson. I also heard that he disclosed his wife's ID HIMSELF on another website, but this site (above) has an interesting twist.
Look at the opening quote: "Ambassador Wilson is CEO of JCWilson International Ventures, Corp., a firm specializing in Strategic Management and International Business Development." Wouldn't being "Ambassador" and incorporated in this business make one unable to be "objective"??? This is, of course, the same arguement made against VP Cheney though he liquidated his assests and interests while Wilson didn't. Yet Cheney is still hounded by these blood thirsty National Socialists on the Left (ie, the entire left wing of the USA).
The more I look at this, the more I wonder if these Dems also had financial "interests" with France in the "Oil For Food Program" or the Semiens computer company (who provided Iraq with a lot of computer hardware...illegally).
Also, look at this: "In 1985-1986, he served in the offices of Senator Albert Gore and the House Majority Whip, Representative Thomas Foley, as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow." Now we also have a Clinton connection...... And the plot sickens.
And then: "Ambassador Wilson served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council from June 1997 until July 1998." This guy didn't even know 800,000 civilians were slaughtered in Ruwanda, how could he possibly know what Iraq was doing!!??!!
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posted on
09/30/2003 7:07:47 PM PDT
by
M1Tanker
(Drive a Tank! What ever you can't shoot....Run it over!!)
To: marron
Great post.
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posted on
09/30/2003 7:26:51 PM PDT
by
michaelt
Comment #73 Removed by Moderator
To: veronica
The simple truth is that there is a full-time squad of liberal scandal-mongers funded by the Larry Flynts and George Soroses of the left whose only occupation is to find dirt on Bush and Republicans. Since it is highly unlikely that Bush will be performing unnatural sex acts with mutant frogs or found selling state secrets to arch-enemies, any kind of dirt will do such as this "scandal". They are starved for bad news about the Bush administration, but they never give up. Once this dies down, they will dream up another.
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posted on
10/01/2003 4:52:30 AM PDT
by
driftless
( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
"This time they made it all up out of less than thin air."
This 'scandal' may have been made up out of less than thin air, but it sure is getting all of the airtime these days!!
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posted on
10/01/2003 5:26:56 AM PDT
by
Maria S
(“I know a little bit about how White Houses work.” Hillary Clinton, 8/26/03)
To: Arrowhead1952
Sorry many American believe this kind of garbage,and they're getting fed it daily.
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posted on
10/01/2003 5:46:24 AM PDT
by
deedgirl
To: deedgirl
Sorry many American believe this kind of garbage,and they're getting fed it daily.No joke. I wish there was a way to get more people to realize how the media and many politicians twist the truth. There are two thread this AM talking about Miss perky B!TC# who is awful about reporting BS on her show. I wish she would have an interview with Ann Coulter or Laura Ingraham. They would rip her up like a lion eating a steak.
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posted on
10/01/2003 5:57:57 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(I am ashamed the dixie chicks are from Texas!)
To: Arrowhead1952
The sad thing about all this is, this man does deserves to be re-elected and is getting screwed AND THE PEOPLE ON HIS SIDE SAY NOTHING,or perhaps republicans like being abused by the democrats.
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posted on
10/01/2003 6:02:17 AM PDT
by
deedgirl
To: veronica
Just FYI:
"But David Manners, a former CIA case agent in the Middle East, said such concerns [about revealing Plame's ID] were probably unnecessary. 'If the implication is she ran clandestine operations around the world using her true name, then the real story is: What kind of crazy operation was she running? Because if you're operating clandestinely under your true name, you're a fool.'" The Los Angeles Times, 10/1/03
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scandal1oct01,1,1890560.story?coll=la-home-leftrail
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posted on
10/01/2003 6:04:40 AM PDT
by
Gothmog
To: Maria S
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posted on
10/01/2003 6:08:35 AM PDT
by
autoresponder
(go ahead - add some expresso to the Yukon Jack!)
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