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Real Story Behind CIA Leak
Fox News Corp. ^ | 3-6-07 | John Gibson

Posted on 03/06/2007 5:54:52 PM PST by windchime

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1 posted on 03/06/2007 5:54:56 PM PST by windchime
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Gibson concludes:

So why would send an anti-war activist to investigate a key fact in the decision to go to war? Answer: He wouldn't. And the person who did was trying to sabotage the president.

That is the real story behind this entire saga.

2 posted on 03/06/2007 5:55:32 PM PST by windchime (I consider the left one of the fronts on the WOT.)
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3 posted on 03/06/2007 6:11:06 PM PST by pookie18 ([Hillary Rotten] Clinton Happens...as does Dr. Demento Dean, Bela Pelosi & Benedick Durbin!!)
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To: windchime

Concise, except for the fact that plame wasn't covert and not covered by the ruling.


4 posted on 03/06/2007 6:12:49 PM PST by Eagles6 (Dig deeper, more ammo.)
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To: pookie18

Your post perfectly describes what happened here. Thanks!


5 posted on 03/06/2007 6:27:26 PM PST by windchime (I consider the left one of the fronts on the WOT.)
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He didn't lie, evidently.

The jury disagreed. I'm not sure what grounds the author has to come to this conclusion.

6 posted on 03/06/2007 6:28:57 PM PST by Sherman Logan (I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)
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To: Eagles6

I agree. Gibson qualified his statement with the word 'technically', but it wasn't sufficient to stifle the word 'covert'.


7 posted on 03/06/2007 6:32:58 PM PST by windchime (I consider the left one of the fronts on the WOT.)
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To: pookie18

Classic!


8 posted on 03/06/2007 6:34:37 PM PST by maggief
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To: Sherman Logan

Never proven to have lied about anything.
I do not believe the jury thought he lied either. They wanted to punish George W Bush and Dick Cheney. Period.
If the jury thought he was a liar, why did they feel bad for the guy? Sounds to me they believed he couldn't remember what the exact details were and when what was said. They still wanted to punish someone.
And 11 jurors in a DC court are certainly going to punish the republican everytime.


9 posted on 03/06/2007 6:38:39 PM PST by roostercogburn
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To: Sherman Logan

I think what the author means is that Libby and the reporters had faulty memories.

Juror Denis (with one n) Collins was having difficulty relating information from the past ten days in his press address.


10 posted on 03/06/2007 6:38:50 PM PST by windchime (I consider the left one of the fronts on the WOT.)
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My point is that the jury, in our system, is the decider of fact. They decided he lied.

God and Mr. Libby are the only ones who know whether he did or did not lie in reality. But legally the issue has been settled.

I doubt I could have voted as the jury did, as I know how little I remember of what happened on a busy day several years ago. But my opinion, and yours, is comprehensively irrelevant at this point.


11 posted on 03/06/2007 6:46:47 PM PST by Sherman Logan (I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)
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To: Sherman Logan

"They decided he lied."

Juror Collins was less definitive when he described their decision.

I doubt that I could accurately relate in detail conversations from yesterday!




12 posted on 03/06/2007 6:54:40 PM PST by windchime (I consider the left one of the fronts on the WOT.)
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So let me get this straight: Scooter Libby is going to jail for not remembering who he told what. He didn't lie, evidently. He didn't remember right, and that is a federal crime, of course, if you happen to be speaking to a FBI agent when your memory fails.

But at the same time, the same Justice Department has taken the case of a high government official who lied, who stole classified documents, who destroyed those documents, and he's walking around free as a bird. They won't even ask him to take a lie detector test to determine if he lied more than they already know.

People are saying the Libby trial is the key to the kingdom, that it stands for the trial of the entire administration and the war in Iraq.

Here's what it was about: Does the vice president have the right to say, see that guy named Joe Wilson who is going around saying I sent him to Africa to investigate Saddam's nuke bombs? I didn't send him. His wife did.



The bush justice dept..................



13 posted on 03/06/2007 6:58:03 PM PST by WhiteGuy (GOP Congress - 16,000 earmarks costing US $50 billion in 2006 - PAUL2008)
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To: windchime

Me either. Sometimes I forget 10 minutes ago.

The other day I threw an important document in the trash and carried a napkin back to my desk. Rescued the doc just before it got hauled away.


14 posted on 03/06/2007 6:59:26 PM PST by Sherman Logan (I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)
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To: pookie18

GREAT cartoon. PERFECT! (of course, it IS Ramirez)... :)


15 posted on 03/06/2007 7:06:29 PM PST by cgk (I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn’t. - Ann Coulter)
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To: nutmeg

Fox ping... (John Gibson)


16 posted on 03/06/2007 7:06:52 PM PST by cgk (I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn’t. - Ann Coulter)
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To: Sherman Logan
"My point is that the jury, in our system, is the decider of fact. They decided he lied."

Juries do not decide 'fact'.
Juries determine whose version of the 'facts' they will accept.
Juries are better than most alternatives but they are not magically given the ability to know which 'facts' are, in fact, the real facts.

Hint: juries can screw up, juries have screwed up, this jury took time to wonder why Rove and probably Cheney were not being prosecuted...and that is a fact.

17 posted on 03/06/2007 7:07:03 PM PST by norton
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To: Fedora

ping


18 posted on 03/06/2007 7:09:25 PM PST by freema (Marine FRiend, 1stCuz2xRemoved, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: cgk
The Kollinger one wasn't bad either!


19 posted on 03/06/2007 7:09:41 PM PST by pookie18 ([Hillary Rotten] Clinton Happens...as does Dr. Demento Dean, Bela Pelosi & Benedick Durbin!!)
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Oh, sorry!! No it certainly wasn't - it's excellent - I'm just a bigbig Ramirez fan and never saw that one ;).


20 posted on 03/06/2007 7:11:54 PM PST by cgk (I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn’t. - Ann Coulter)
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