Patriot Paradox
Posted on 06/24/2004 10:01:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) was interviewed by government prosecutors Thursday in connection with the federal investigation of who leaked the name of an undercover CIA (news - web sites) operative to the news media.
The president was questioned for 70 minutes in the Oval Office by U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who is heading the Justice Department (news - web sites) investigation.
Very tiresome and pointless. The real problem was that Valerie Plame gave a critical job to her own husband, a flaming clintonoid ideologue, for which he was not qualified. He failed to do the job properly and then lied to the press about it. A newspaper reporter reported this, and got pasted.
How many reporters would be rabidly pushing prosecutors to investigate a news source if it was a liberal news story that was leaked. Zero. They would condemn any investigation as censorship and as an attack on the free press.
You are answering your own question with this
The goal here has to be about making as many headlines saying Bush was interrogated as possible to spin his administration as corrupt.
It took me two seconds to see this was another lib implant.
I really do miss Ari. 
What's with the headline? There's nothing in the story that has anything to do with the headline, is there? The story doesn't even mention whether or not the President's attorney was present during the questioning!
According to Wilson, Plame outted herself to him during a heavy make out session in Paris...on their second date. Looks like we found the source of the leak, folks : Valerie herself.
If there were any danger to the paper pushing wife (as opposed to handler of agents in the field, which she was NOT) it was caused by Wilson himself.
Since Wilson was on CIA business, any information that he developed belonged to the CIA....not to him. If that information was assigned a security classification, Wilson violated security regulations when he wrote the op-ed.
But .. the info the left always leaves out of their reports is that the WILSONS are very good friends of the Clintons AND HELD FUNDRAISERS FOR THEM.
I don't even need an investigation to know who the real corrupt person is who started this whole mess.
My theory: Hillary ask Valerie to recommend her husband for the trip to Niger. Wilson went to Niger but as investations proved, Wilson did nothing but sit in the local cafes and sip tea. He came back and said, "no connection between Iraq and buying yellowcake from Niger". Which was a lie! The goal was to discredit Bush and stop the war. Wilson said he met with Cheney - records prove Wilson didn't. It was not until that point that someone commented to Novak that Wilson's wife was a CIA operative.
I believe the person will be found .. and I believe they will be tied DIRECTLY TO HILLARY AND VALERIE. How about an October surprise ..??
No, he doesn't have style, but he isn't that bad. I wouldn't say he's misquoted any more than Fleischer was. Don't forget that Ari's tenure as Press Secretary took place during the atrocities of 9/11/01 and the immediate aftermath. McClellan's job is more difficult for two reasons:
1. The - newness, for lack of a better word - of the war on terror has worn off, and the public is waking up to the fact that we're in this for the long term. Much as our parents and grandparents felt when the realities of our belated involvement in WWII finally sank in.
2. It's an election year. The hatred and attacks from the left always increase exponentially in proportion to the length of time remaining until election day. If Ari were still press secretary right now, even he might be visibly wilting under the sheer weight of lefty hatred...which is exactly the aim of the left to begin with. He left when he did because the grind was getting to him.
If we're smart, we wouldn't want the job of press secretary to a Republican president for anything in the world.
Actually, it was Harris himself who "outed" her by overreacting to Novak's use of the word "operative" - Novak has already explained that it was common knowledge that she worked for the CIA - just not as an agent. Novak inadvertently used the term "operative" in the sense it is commonly used in politics as anyone who works for an organization - as in 'a DNC operative' or 'union operative' No one told him that she was in fact an agent, and he didn't mean to imply that she was. It was Harris who took the word literally and blew her cover by publicly confirming that sense of the term.
The Rat attack machine really knows how to make a mountain out of a molehill...and keep the story going and goingand going.
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