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To: avacado

Funny how they are no longer interested in the story... just when it was getting good! LOL!

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The NYTimes isn't interested for good reason:

Plame-Gate Bombs Out, But the Times Barely Notices
"Not with a bang..." So much for the Valerie Plame controversy.

Posted by: Clay Waters
http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2006/20060830133451.aspx



It really wasn't so long ago that the Times found it of vital importance exactly who told columnist Robert Novak that anti-war ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife worked for the CIA.

Now we know, thanks to "Hubris," a new book by Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff and left-wing writer David Corn of The Nation, someone who bears much responsibility for puffing up the Plame non-story in the first place.

Times legal reporter Neil Lewis notes what everyone who has Internet access already knows -- that Richard Armitage, former deputy secretary of state under Colin Powell, was columnist Robert Novak's source for the information that Joe Wilson's wife, Valerie Wilson/Plame, worked for the CIA.

Having lost the partisan angle of a vengeful White House out to sabotage the now-discredited Wilson for suggesting the Iraq War was based on false pretenses (the moderate Armitage was no fan of the war), the Times shrugs the story off onto page A12: "First Source of C.I.A. Leak Admits Role, Lawyers Says."


46 posted on 08/30/2006 4:45:13 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: fight_truth_decay

What do you expect from a paper that pays Joe Wilson and Larry Johnson to write Op-Eds for it?

Sulzburger is only interested in stories he can use to screw Bush. He has no interest in setting the record straight. He and his paper should be obligated to do so, because they published an unfounded attack on the Bush White House that has been published all over the World.


67 posted on 08/30/2006 5:55:47 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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