J'ACCUSE: "President [Bush] approved the leaking of the name of the CIA agent" claims John Loftus

transcribed radio broadcast | June 3, 2004 | Batchelor & Loftus

[pawdoggie]

It's pretty obvious that whoever "leaked" Plame's name was a Washington newcomer who believed that Plame was a CIA "employee", but not an agent (probably because the "secret" was so open in DC). The intent of the leak was not to endanger or "blow Plame's cover", but to let everyone know who it was that recommended sending former Ambassador Wilson to Africa in the first place. The whole incident is equivalent to Senator Leahy getting caught leaking classified information, and the person who did it (Rove is a logical suspect) ought to own up to it and resign; everyone else should then let the matter rest (after all, "Leaky Leahy" is still a sitting Senator). It was perfectly predictable, after Mr. Bush hired an attorney, that some loony lefties would hang this charge out there.

[Boot Hill]

"...you're wrong on other counts too."

Nope, the claims I posted in #1 may be crazy and they may be looney, but they are, in fact, claims made by John Loftus.

--Boot Hill

[11th Earl of Mar]

What people are telling me tonight is...

Ok, who are those people?

DU posters? Paid political hacks? Al Franken?

[Boot Hill]

"More interesting is the revelation that Tenant's heart is a camel's back."

LOL, what else would you expect from someone that's got his head up his rear?

--Boot Hill

[mewzilla]

While we're on the subject, sort of, did we ever find out just who is was that sent Wilson on his little junket?

[Paul_B]

Thanks, I seldom listen and was unaware of that.

[laconic]

Well, if the incompetent George Tenet is the source of this nonsense and is as accurate about this as he was about: 1) 9/11; 2) WMDs a "slam dunk" in Iraq; and 3) Pakistan having "No" nuclear capability in 1998, then Bush has nuttin' to worry about.

[Mitchell]

Ping.

[Hop A Long Cassidy]

Thanks for the picture. He looks like Moore's daddy to me.

Hoppy

[cricket]

"How much longer will people continue to give this far-left buffoon any credibility?" No parameters for 'fairness' for Loftus or his political ilk. They reveal themselves to be the lowest common denominator in the political equasion of Republican/Democrat.

. . .And while there may be other similarities; Joe Wilson is not the 'horses mouth' either; and the same goes for Loftus.

[dasboot]

You must be on Mission Hill?

[Mitchell]

This is the man that claims that Bush profited from the Holocaust.

I don't know anything about the merits of Loftus' claim, but he's talking about Prescott Bush, isn't he? George W. Bush wasn't born until July 6, 1946, after World War II had ended.

[Boot Hill]

"[Loftus is] talking about Prescott Bush, isn't he?"

His accusation has been made against the Bush family, which would include Prescott as well as George W.

--Boot Hill

[edweena]

Good grief, he can assert anything he likes. He can claim President Bush is in cahoots with aliens. How about some PROOF before passing on gossip and liberal wishful thinking as meaningful commentary. No proof? No evidence?

Didn't think so.

[zook]

Loftus makes stuff up as he goes along. Up until Saddam Hussein was arrested, Loftus claimed he had been killed in the first bombings of Baghdad.

I do not believe for an instant that Bush would approve this. He is not that kind of man.

[Ann Archy]

This blowhard is a Fox personality on the weekend and he's NEVER said one thing thtat has come true! Gadfly??? Liar.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

My own, personal theory involves a nervous breakdown at 'Elaine's', a confrontation at gunpoint and a horrific scene whose denouement came when Alexander fled, in a bid to preserve some semblance of sanity after working with that pretentious, insufferable WASP for the past three years.

If you want the official story, here goes:

Alexander got bored, a little tired of Bachelor hogging the spotlight and found a much better offer courtesy of The 'Great White Way.'

Aside from being an historian and a freelance journalist, Paul Alexander is also a very successful playwright. One of the off-Broadway plays he wrote hit a nerve, became successful and he decided to ditch his longtime co-host.

Does that clarify things a little?

[Boot Hill]

"How about some PROOF before passing on gossip and liberal wishful thinking as meaningful commentary."

That's the beauty of his scam, he's "connected", don't ya know, and all his sources are deep black and can't be disclosed! Pretty convenient, wouldn't you say?

--Boot Hill

[Boot Hill]

"Loftus makes stuff up as he goes along."

You mean like when he made the unsubstantiated claim that when the Jordanians busted the terrorist plot in April, that the "chemical weapons" they caught them with were VX nerve agent? Major news if true, but the claim was never substantiated.

--Boot Hill

[Boot Hill]

You nailed it.

--Boot Hill