Mark Steyn: Bigger than Watergate

The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 10/11/03 | Mark Steyn

[Howlin]

I could have sworn that at the very begining of this, on Crossfire, I heard Bob Novak say that if the FBI asked him, he would divulge his sources.

What does it say about "journalists" when on the one hand they rail about illegal activities, and on the other concel them FOR THEIR OWN BENEFIT?? Because you know that Novak, who supposedly has knowledge of a crime, is only refusing to protect his sources, who may, in fact, be the actual criminal!

[MEG33]

I believe he hasn't been an ambassador since they were married.His last post was 1998.

[Gorjus]

. . . the press is looking right past the real story . . .

Ain't it the truth! Here is a bona fide, 4th Estate, watchdog role - a government agency that is just not doing its job. It's even a valid dig at Bush, because ultimately he is responsible for that failure. If someone had 'leaked' the basic out-of-control nature of the CIA to the liberal press, that person would have been hailed as a 'whistleblower' (not protected as a source, because the facts are so undeniable that retaliation against the 'leaker' would have been political suicide) and it would have been front pages for weeks. "Two years after 9/11 and still the CIA isn't protecting us!"

But all they see is politics, and the shortest route to Bush was through the unnamed Senior Administration Official - even though their own secrecy is the only reason that leak goes unpunished!

[Howlin]

Set up? Anatomy of the contrived Wilson "scandal"

[No_Outcome_But_Victory]

This is perhaps the most disturbing article I've read in several months. Hopefully, we get some light on these cockroaches in the intelligence agencies who are pulling this stuff. They seem almost as stupid as the State Dept.

[dennisw]

btttttttttttttttttt

[headsonpikes]

One of his most hard-hitting columns yet.

It is deeply disturbing that the CIA is dead useless, at least to the President and the country.

[nothingnew]

...given that both Hashemi Rafsanjani and the Norks have promised to use their nukes as soon as they can.

Norton takes umbrage to this remark.

FMCDH

[Sloth]

...the moth-eaten French pantomime mule of Messrs Chirac and de Villepin

ROTFLOL... Oh, to be so good with words!

[MEG33]

I haven't heard him say it,but if he divulges the name to the FBI, we won't hear of it because of the criminal investigation.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[Brian Allen]

<< Whoever had the bright idea to send this idiot over to Nigeria on such an important and delicate matter needs to be fired. ASAP. >>

Are you kidding?

By the standard of lickspittle lacky traditionally hired by Foggy Bottom's self-annointing and self-perpetuating Communist Party of America/Communist International/Comintern/Comminform-descended, un-and-anti-American Brahamas, this joker is a whiz kid!

A stellar performer!

A star!

[And never ever even so much as get me started on State's Bureau for International Narcotic's Matters and Enforcements' truly evil, lying, looting, thieving, murdering, moronic "aviation director," the leaden trailing edge static wick of aviation innovation and world champion lying piece of doodoo, John E McLaughlin!]

[MEG33]

Amen..I writhe in envy !

[eureka!]

bump for lunchtime read

[Libertina]

Another great piece by Mark Steyn. BUMP

[jpl]

Talk about an understatement! Whoever had the bright idea to send this idiot over to Nigeria on such an important and delicate matter needs to be fired. ASAP.

This is the biggest problem not just for Bush, but for any conservative in Washington, period. You're fighting a war within in addition to all the wars without. 90% of the civilian career bureacracy is hard-core liberal democrat and adamantly opposed to your policies. Tenet has good intentions, but he can't just make a clean sweep of all the troublemakers. Most of these people unfortunately can't be fired, because they're members of the federal employee union.

[js1138]

The best face to put on this s that Wilson played the Chevy Chase part in Spies Like Us.

[shhrubbery!]

Reporters don't divulge sources,so I believe the important finding of the leaker may never happen.

I refuse to adopt the term, "LEAK," for this absurd creation of the Bush-bashering media.

There is absolutely no evidence that anyone "leaked" Valerie Plame's covert status -- because she apparently WASN'T covert.

If Steyn is right, Plame's classified status ended five years ago.

This silly kerfuffle, as the WSJ calls it, is falling apart at the seams. NewsWeak now admits that the 'two senior administration officials' who called 'six journalists' about the affair did so only AFTER the Novak column came out, not before:

Isikoff and Hosenball: 'Leakgate' - Criminal or just plain stupid?

[Howlin]

Our Man in Niger