RUSH LIMBAUGH Live Thread July 15

rushlimbaugh.com ^ | July 15, 2005

[RobFromGa]

Can't wait for him to discuss the circus in the senate yesterday. Hope he has the sound bits.

That's what I'm waiting for.

Just said he wonders "what planet they are living on"

[RushCrush]

The best thing about being surrounded by liberals is that it strengthens my resolve every day. I'm not sure I would be as active in the party and in politics in general had I not had to put up with these ridiculous liberals.

So in a way, I'm thankful for them.

[Maria S]

Who Exposed Secret Agent Plame?
How about the least likely suspect?
http://www.nationalreview.com/may/may200507150827.asp


Thanks; I missed this one. Appreciate your bringing it to our attention.

[NavySEAL F-16]

See Cliff May at National Review as well as at the Corner --
Has the correspondence from David Corn -- it's great!

[RushCrush]

awesome save, thanks for posting!!!!!!!!

[mware]

When was Corn's article published???

[Mr Cobol]

I think your first caller must be a ringer. Sure made you look good. You nailed him and I would like to listen to what he had to say after you put him down.

[RushCrush]

Rush: it was ghoulish for the two Dim senators from Maine to write to Sandra Day O'Connor and ask that she not retire. They may as well have been asking Rehnquist to die.

[RushCrush]

That account has been banned! LOL

[RobFromGa]

BURIED LEDE [Cliff May]
Rather deep in the Washington Times story today by Stephen Dinan and Joseph Curl is this revelation:

A former CIA covert agent who supervised Mrs. Plame early in her career yesterday took issue with her identification as an "undercover agent," saying that she worked for more than five years at the agency's headquarters in Langley and that most of her neighbors and friends knew that she was a CIA employee.

"She made no bones about the fact that she was an agency employee and her husband was a diplomat," Fred Rustmann, a covert agent from 1966 to 1990, told The Washington Times.

"Her neighbors knew this, her friends knew this, his friends knew this.”

If her neighbors knew she worked for the CIA, if her friends new she worked for the CIA, no crime was committed by anyone passing such information along to a reporter--as long as they didn’t know and tell that she had once been undercover, and as long as the source of their knowledge was not classified documents.

It bears repetition: Knowing Plame worked at the CIA does not mean knowing she had ever been a covert agent.

Bob Novak did not know she had been undercover--until The Nation’s David Corn suggested that, based on information that clearly came from Joe Wilson himself. And Corn was the first to raise the suggestion that Plame was a secret agent--one who had been exposed by the Bush administration to punish Wilson. (My piece on this is elsewhere on NRO today.)

Also, while I hate say I told you so, I did write on NRO back on Sept. 29, 2003:

It’s the top story in the Washington Post this morning as well as in many other media outlets. Who leaked the fact that the wife of Joseph C. Wilson IV worked for the CIA?

What also might be worth asking: "Who didn't know?"

[Soul Seeker]

Rush-Gang of Fourteen went to krispy Kream to discuss Supreme Court. LOL!!!

BTW, I think the W.H. could have been involved in Rehnquist's statement yesterday. Rehnquist refusing to retire cuts The RINO's off at the kneees, those attempting to get O'Connor as Chief justice.

[RobFromGa]

Now mentions that gang of 14 went to have coffee and donuts at Krispy Kreme to discuss O'Connor vacancy...

[Mo1]

Oh how nice .. the Gang of 14 went out for donuts to dicuss the USSC

[RobFromGa]

BTW, I think the W.H. could have been involved in Rehnquist's statement yesterday.

It was Rove with a Rehnquist hand puppet I heard.

[Mo1]

The RINO's off at the kneees, those attempting to get O'Connor as Chief justice.

I agree with Rush .. that letter yesterday was sick

[Soul Seeker]

Isn't it? I'm so glad they have their little support group. Apparently their little club can't afford a higher priced menu though. They'll have to raise member dues.

[mware]

Oh this is just too good. Got to love it. One of the editors of The Nation is Greta von (whateverhernameis)

[Eva]

Do you think that he has been reading FreeRepublic?

[unsycophant]

www.weeklystandard.com

 Wilson……launched into a tirade against the Bush administration, which he claimed had ignored the findings of a trip he took to Niger in February 2002 to investigate claims that Saddam Hussein's Iraq had tried to acquire uranium there. His trip had disproved those claims, he continued, yet his findings were ignored. And when he went public with his story, the administration had tried to "silence" him by leaking to the press that his wife worked for the CIA.

This is how Pat Roberts, the committee's chairman, put it in his "additional views" section of the report:

At the time the former ambassador traveled to Niger, the Intelligence Community did not have in its possession any actual documents on the alleged Niger-Iraq uranium deal, only second hand reporting of the deal. The former ambassador's comments to reporters . . . could not have been based on the former ambassador's actual experiences because the Intelligence Community did not have the documents at the time of the ambassador's trip.

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Maybe Mr. Wilson was getting his advance information from Ms. Plame.

[RobFromGa]

I'm pretty sure he does sometimes, too see what our hot buttons are. He probably has some staff researchers too...