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The Rove Problem
Time ^ | 7/21/05 | Nancy Gibbs

Posted on 07/21/2005 8:24:53 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection

Did Bush's top aide commit a crime talking to reporters about a spy? Here's what the case is really about--and why it grows more fascinating

Valerie Plame had no reason to welcome a reporter into her home last week. Reporters tell stories and trade secrets, and her life, once a state secret, had become one of the most widely told stories in years. As if anyone could resist it: beautiful blond mother of two whose identity as a CIA spy is compromised by a political vendetta against her husband.

She opens the door of her brick house on the leafy Washington side street, a few turns from the German embassy. A Jaguar convertible sits in the driveway, the toys and bikes in the garage. There are...

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1 posted on 07/21/2005 8:24:54 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
As if anyone could resist it: beautiful blond mother of two whose identity as a CIA spy is compromised by a political vendetta against her husband.

This twit's skin has to be turning purple from all the Dem Kook-Aid she's drunk.

2 posted on 07/21/2005 8:26:03 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
What MSM bias? /sarc)
3 posted on 07/21/2005 8:26:28 AM PDT by JRios1968 (No Sir, I don't like it.)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

The MSM has put all their eggs in the radical-left basket...leftist propoganda is their sole mission in life.


4 posted on 07/21/2005 8:28:50 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Valerie Plame had no reason to welcome a reporter into her home last week

Hmmm ... yes, why did she and her hubby invite Time into their home???

Why not an interview at Joe's Wilson's office?

Oh ... and notice how they ate calling her a CIA Spy .. instead of a Covert Agent

5 posted on 07/21/2005 8:37:42 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I have to be a "Time" subscriber to read the story...?

That might happen, when I grow another arse..
6 posted on 07/21/2005 8:39:26 AM PDT by mmercier (communists, queers and nitwits)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

"As if anyone could resist it: beautiful blond mother of two whose identity as a CIA spy is compromised by a political vendetta against her husband."

--Not according to the court records. Heh, heh. This chick needs a bath in some Bud to wash out the Kool-Aid.


7 posted on 07/21/2005 8:39:37 AM PDT by panamagringo
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To: mmercier

I quit looking at TIME 20 years ago after their anti-RKBA cover filled with suicide pictures. Every time I get one of their little pre-paid envelopes I mail it back empty.


8 posted on 07/21/2005 8:42:33 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Scratch a Liberal. Uncover a Fascist)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
As if anyone could resist it: beautiful blond mother of two whose identity as a CIA spy is compromised by a political vendetta against her husband.

Barf alert?

9 posted on 07/21/2005 8:53:20 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Here we go again with the beautiful blonde meme.


10 posted on 07/21/2005 9:04:36 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Valerie Plame had no reason to welcome a reporter into her home last week. . . . beautiful blond mother of two whose identity as a CIA spy is compromised by a political vendetta against her husband. She opens the door of her brick house on the leafy Washington side street, a few turns from the German embassy. A Jaguar convertible sits in the driveway . . . .

Valerie doesn't seem to be resisting this crude invasion of the press very hard.

Could it be that this rich, well-groomed leftist agitator actually INVITED a reporter into her beautiful home? Is this proper behavior by a desk jockey at the CIA while under investigation?

By the way, did the Plames or Wilsons manage to buy their Jaguar convertibles, Georgetown townhouse, and $10,000 wristwatches on the taxpayer's dime? Not bad, eh?

11 posted on 07/21/2005 9:04:38 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

"I quit looking at TIME 20 years ago "

I have you beat. I quit looking at Time 35 years ago, when
they called my home town, Memphis, a "degenerate backwater town"
I have not looked at one since.


12 posted on 07/21/2005 9:05:39 AM PDT by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava)
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To: AlexW

I understand the suits from Stamford are moving in...


13 posted on 07/21/2005 9:09:41 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Scratch a Liberal. Uncover a Fascist)
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To: mmercier
(You don't have to be a subscriber to read the entire article.)

"But in the meantime, there is plenty of evidence of recklessness, ruthlessness and political passion that have made the search for the truth all that much harder."
(The reporter is describing Rove. In reality, yes, "the recklessness, ruthlessness and political passion" of Joe Wilson, not Karl Rove, has hurt not only the search for truth, but our national security as well.)

"When Rove assails an opponent, he believes what he's saying. And it may be his capacity for convincing himself that his adversaries are vile, corrupt, dangerous and stupid that makes the job of destroying them come so easily".
(Once again the reporter assigns liberal characteristics to Karl Rove. Aren't we certain Kennedy and Schumer believe all the venomous bile they attribute to GW Bush?)

"What was the point of Rove or anyone else bringing up Plame in the first place?"
(Such a dumb question, even for a reporter! You have to wonder, do TIME reporters not even consider the possibility that Plame's faction within the CIA wanted to do harm to the Bush Administration, that they knew Wilson would assist?)

"says a CIA analyst. "So I think there was an anger at the CIA for not getting it and not being on board. The political side of the Administration was pissed at the CIA. So I can see how they responded to that--and Wilson--by implying he couldn't be trusted because, 'well, just look where his wife works"
(Guaranteed the CIA's anger at the Bush administration was greater than the other way around. Full of dead weight, useless bureaucrats and Clinton hold-overs, the CIA had to deeply resent their abilities being called into question by Bush.)

"Furthermore, had Rove intended for Cooper to circulate any information about Wilson's wife, "he certainly would not have extracted a promise that the discussions were super double secret," Luskin notes with a laugh, referring to Cooper's phrase."
(Not to mention, if Karl Rove intended for Cooper to circulate the information, Rove would have called Cooper, not the other way around.)

"The New York Times has reported that the CIA feared that her cover had been blown to the Russians by double agent Aldrich Ames. Her marriage to a high-profile former diplomat further limited her ability to fly under the radar. She began working at CIA headquarters in Langley, assigned to the directorate of operations, the CIA'S clandestine branch that manages its human spying overseas and is one of the agency's most secretive directorates. "NOCs aren't supposed to come into the building," said Fred Rustmann, a former senior CIA official and a Plame superior. "It doesn't serve cover well. It may serve the moment. They break the rules for expediency. In Valerie's case, she's a bright young woman. She has some experience in nuclear proliferation."
(At the end of this long column, finally, a quote that passes the "make sense" test!)

"Valerie Plame had no reason to welcome a reporter into her home last week"
(Bullhockeydoodoo! Wilson exposed the reason when he sat there and eyeballed the bestseller lists for the benefit of the reporter.)

14 posted on 07/21/2005 9:21:55 AM PDT by YaYa123 (@I'm Resting Easy With This Choice.com)
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To: YaYa123

"When Rove assails an opponent he believes what he's saying." - N. Gibbs

Yeah... b!#ch, he's telling the truth! You (Nancy Gibbs) on the left lie so much you think everybody lies!


15 posted on 07/21/2005 9:37:36 AM PDT by GoodWithBarbarians JustForKaos (Peace on earth! After major whup-a$$)
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To: dirtboy

Is it me, or does Ms. Plame look like a younger Doris Kearns Goodwin the presidential plagiarist?


16 posted on 07/21/2005 9:41:18 AM PDT by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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To: YaYa123
"When Rove assails an opponent, he believes what he's saying. And it may be his capacity for convincing himself that his adversaries are vile, corrupt, dangerous and stupid that makes the job of destroying them come so easily".

This is strange. What Rove said about Wilson was 100% accurate. Not even Wilson denies this now. His wife suggested he take the Niger assignment.

Let's change that sentence a little bit:

"When Rove's opponents assail him, they believe what they're saying. And it may be their capacity for convincing themselves that Rove is vile, corrupt, dangerous and stupid that makes the job of destroying him come so easily".

This statement about Rove's opponents is true. They falsely accused Rove of breaking the law. They suggested he be frog-marched out in handcuffs. In reality, serious observers of this matter all concede that Rove committed no crime.

17 posted on 07/21/2005 9:44:18 AM PDT by SolidSupplySide
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Blah, blah. Didn't work with Delay, won't work with Rove. Meanwhile, the Dems still have no agenda or leader that will get them votes.


18 posted on 07/21/2005 9:49:01 AM PDT by stinkerpot65
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To: SolidSupplySide

name one "serious observer" has says that?

and by "serious" they have to have first hand knowledge of the case.


19 posted on 07/21/2005 10:04:14 AM PDT by Zee2
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

You know the rules. This needed a barf-alert.


20 posted on 07/21/2005 10:09:42 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (© 2005, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
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