NY TIMES CLAIMS EXCLUSIVE NEW DETAILS OF EVENTS SURROUNDING CIA LEAK, SOURCES TELL DRUDGE...

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[JediForce]

Thank you. Whew. This SP might have opened a large can of whoop-ass homemade worms.

[Mo1]

The RINO's in the House would go along with it? Are you in the same reality the rest of us are in? If anything it is the RINO's in the Senate that would break, the House is under the Hammer of Delay and the Dems can't touch Bush because of it. Since proceedings start in the House, it's a no starter.

If they did that .. they could kiss their polticial careers Good Bye

Count on that!

[InterceptPoint]

Walter Pincus already knew who Plame was

For the unenlightened: Who is Walter Pincus?

[Types_with_Fist]

Who is Walter Pincus?

Wasn't he the center for the San Diego Chargers?< /sarcasm>

[popdonnelly]

There's no doubt in my mind that the Dems could attempt to impeach Bush. Partly, I hate to say it, as payback for Clinton.

[JediForce]

This could make a great Clancy novel.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Hagel ending up in handcuffs would be just as satisfying to me as almost any Democrat.

[Ben Hecks]

Was someone close to Wilson part of the Oil-for-Food scandal?

Since Wilson was anti-Saddam before the oil-for-food program began and pro-Saddam after, you may have a good theory. I think Wilson has a number of "European" friends that may have had their gravy train cut off.

[processing please hold]

Riveting Rove Revelations: from high level anonymous sources, as told to the NYT only because they stand behind and never reveal their sources.

That's what goes for journalism these days, isn't it?

[mystery-ak]

I agree with you on that...but if this NYT article is about a secret file the Bush Admin kept on Wilson, it may backfire on Hillary...she still has a lot of splaining to do re her filegate.

[Danae]

LOL

I have a question. If the left is so freaking outraged about the "Rove leak", which was no leak at all, why aren't they just out the roof with the Honorable Mr. Kerry from Mass. outing the name of an agent in the field, while the guy was still IN the field? It happened in a Bolton hearing as I recall.... This is CLEARLY evidence of an "outing" is it not?

[pieces of time]

Posted this on a thread the other day but it's worth repeating: Bill Gertz says Plame was outed before Novaks column.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040722-115439-4033r.htm

[Mo1]

http://www.nndb.com/people/233/000044101/

Walter Pincus
AKA Walter Haskell Pincus

Born: 24-Dec-1932
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY


Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Journalist

Level of fame: Somewhat
Executive summary: Washington Post reporter with CIA ties

Military service: U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps 1955-7

Writes on national security for The Washington Post. According to published reports, Pincus worked for the CIA during the early 1960's, though when John Deutch was asked directly if Pincus was an "asset", he claimed not, but did express familiarity with the non-asset. The CIA did pay for him to attend two overseas conferences, by Pincus' own 1967 admission. The Washington Times (a Moonie publication) on 31 July 1996 described Pincus by saying that "some in the agency refer to [Pincus] as 'the CIA's house reporter.'"

Father: Jonas Pincus
Mother: Clare Glassman
Wife: Betty Meskin (m. 12-Sep-1954, one son)
Son: Andrew John Pincus
Wife: Ann Witsell Terry (m. 1-May-1965, two sons, one daughter)
Son: Ward Haskell Pincus
Son: Adam Witsell Pincus
Daughter: Cornelia Battle Terry Pincus


University: BA, Yale University (1954)


(awarded:george-orwell-award) 1977
Polk Award 1977
Emmy 1981
Council on Foreign Relations
The Washington Post National Security reporter


Author of articles:
The Washington Post, 18-Feb-1967, DETAILS: How I Traveled Abroad on CIA Subsidy

[kcvl]

Born in Brooklyn, Walter Pincus worked as a copyboy at the New York Times after graduating from Yale University. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1955 and served in the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps in Washington from 1955-1957. After his discharge, he worked on the copy desk of The Wall Street Journal's Washington edition. He left in 1959 to become Washington correspondent for three North Carolina newspapers. In 1963, he moved to the Washington Star before joining The Washington Post, where he worked from 1966 to 1969. From 1972 to 1975, he was executive editor of The New Republic. He covered the Watergate Senate hearings, the House impeachment hearings and the Watergate trial, writing articles for the magazine and op-ed pieces for The Washington Post. In 1975, he returned to The Washington Post to write for the national staff of the newspaper.

[GoLightly]

One thing that is an asset is that this affair is so convoluted that it gives most plebeian Americans a headache.

This situation is not that complicated & could be broken down into a few sound bites that would sell it. "WH outted one of our spies to take revenge on her husband." Trying to correct the bad sell is what gets more complicated.

Nixon's impeachment was much easier, because a bunch of burglars in a DNC office is much easier to understand.

A whole lot of dynamics have changed since then.

1) It was before cable & before the net! The big three really were the big three & most people trusted them.

2) Agnew had already dirtied the administration.

3) Donks had the House, so the hearings were the real deal, government of record kinda thing. The donks were serious lawmakers, not shrill kooks trying to do or say anything to get back in power again.

4) Nixon lacked charm & believe me, that was important.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I think impeachment is the goal or at least a black spot so large President Bush will be known for nothing else.
SCOTUS may be part of a one-two punch or the vehicle.

Events are too coordinated to be part of a continuously breaking news story. The events are unfolding in a way that leads me to believe is very methodical.

The hatred consuming the left in DC is unlike anything I could have ever imagined. I'm guessing you and I are about the same age. I can remember a time when the Office of the President was treated with such respect. Now the Minority leader calls him a liar and a loser in front of school kids for God's sake.

It goes back to 2000, the successes Bush had in spite of 9/11, the GOP gains, etc.

In some ways they are like the terrorists...they can wait. Bang the drum often, no matter how long it takes. Sooner or later it will stick.

I do believe impeachment is in the plan. I have heard more comparisons to Watergate than I would have imagined.

I also think there are many little subplots we are not aware of which is why it seems we change directions as to motive, who the target is, etc.

I believe in my heart of hearts that Dems are in this for power, but someone else is in this with one goal--Destroy Bush.

[RobFromGa]

WHy did they wait till after the election to pull this out of the hat??

[Eva]

I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't the reason that Tenent resigned. I think that he requested the investigation, I know the request came from someone in the CIA.

[McGavin999]

It makes much more sense that Plame herself was Judith Miller's source. After all, Miller has been writing on WMD issues for years and Plame is in the WMD section of the CIA. Plame could have been leaking info to Miller for years. It would certainly explain why Miller won't give up her "source".

[kcvl]

He co-produced with CBS News a two-hour documentary in 1992, WATERGATE: THE SECRET STORY, with Mike Wallace as correspondent that was broadcast on CBS June 17, 1992 and accompanied by articles in The Washington Post and Newsweek. In 1993, he directed a combined research effort among The Washington Post, Newsweek and CBS News on the 30th anniversary of the John F. Kennedy assassination. That resulted in a November 1993 series in The Washington Post, a major package of articles in Newsweek, and another co-production with CBS News, of a two-hour documentary, THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION, with Dan Rather broadcast Nov. 19, 1993.

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In 1965 he married the former Ann Witsell Terry of Little Rock, Arkansas. He has three sons and a daughter: Andrew of Washington, D.C.; Ward of Dubai; Adam of Chicago, Ill.; and Battle of Chicago, Ill. And two grandchildren, Josh and Kate, of Washington, D.C.