NEWSWEEK: Matt Cooper's Source

Newsweek ^ | July 18 issue | Michael Isikoff

[CWOJackson]

Vicksburg! Nice area. If I recall that's where the USS Cairo is (an ironclad from the northern war of aggression or whatever it is the Civil War is being called this week) Congratulations!

When we were stationed in Norlin's we took a trip up through some of the Civil War sites in Mississippi. I remember we liked Vicksburg a lot...also the Mobile and that area.

[YaYa123]

Oh the bad boys and girls are cropping up all over this morning, aren't they? Even camoflauging themselves on other related threads. But what a swift and sure job the moderators are doing. Thanks!!

[onyx]

Yes, I am quite fond of VB. It already feels like home. I know this will sound wierd, but it feels to me like I have returned home. RETURNED home.

[defenderSD]

We're having a battle against a minor troll attack on this thread....lol. Liberals desperately want to discredit Karl Rove and you can see it here this morning.

[onyx]

LO - I see that. I also saw that JimRpb squashed him...lol.

[Jim Robinson]

LOL! Nothing gets by the all seeing FReep Eye:

[CWOJackson]

Just about anywhere I travel I have much the same feeling...of course that's probably because we live in the Seattle area.

Lately we've been thinking of moving to Elizabeth City, NC. We were stationed there when both our boys were born. Nice quiet town, protected from Hurricanes by the Outer Banks but near enough to the coast to get there easily, close to the Norfolk area. Nice cost of living. A little sticky in July and August...which you know what I mean or will soon...but not bad overall climate.

[defenderSD]

Yes, JimRob is very quick at troll target acquisition and removal. His CPU runs at 7.6 ghz, even at 1:40 in the morning.

[onyx]

FOTFLOL! I love that Jim! WTG.

[FranklinsTower]

Something tells me this troll is that lunatic who runs around with a foaming mouth, screaming, "Liar! Liar! Liar!"

You know, Lawrence O' Delusional, the guy, who just might get fitted with a straight jacket in a few weeks...

[Eagles6]

It's hardly worth getting up before noon these days. A troll is zotted. No fanfare, no bugles, no pyrotechnics, no smell of ozone in the darkness before the dawn. It hardly seems worthwile at all.

Oh, well. There are sure to be more. They remind you of those sheep in turkey.

[defenderSD]

"It's hardly worth getting up before noon these days. A troll is zotted. No fanfare, no bugles, no pyrotechnics, no smell of ozone in the darkness before the dawn. It hardly seems worthwile at all."

At this hour of the morning, troll warfare is more of a calm, professional battle with some humorous banter amongst the folks on our side. It's like a special forces raid in the morning darkness rather than 7th Corps blasting three tanks simultaneously in the afternoon sun. But troll warfare at 8 PM on a Wednesday night, now that's a real event.

[CWOJackson]

We need a "double super secret background" zotting capability.

[Fedora]

An ironic sidelight to this article is that Michael Isikoff previously coauthored an article about the Plame leak with Mark Hosenball, who should know all about blowing CIA agents' covers, since Hosenball's other coauthor Philip Agee got CIA agents killed by leaking their names, while Hosenball himself was kicked out of Britain as a security risk for helping Agee compromise state secrets. (Incidentally, Hosenball also did a nice job of helping Newsweek cover (up) TWA 800.) Isikoff and Hosenball even had the gall to allude to Agee while opining on Plame:

Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, "Criminal or Just Plain Stupid?", 10/08/2003

As former CIA director James Woolsey points out, the 1982 law that makes it a federal crime to disclose the identify of an undercover CIA agent was carefully written to target witting perpetrators. Congress had in mind actors such as ex-CIA agent turned left-wing critic Philip Agee who, for political reasons, wrote a book “outing” many of his former colleagues, leading to considerable and justifiable concern about their safety.

[Mad Mammoth]

"Sounds like Rove did blow cover which is a violation of the law. I trust ir will be a big story next week. Our people must obey the law too."
Take a hike Troll. I believe Rove's earlier statements and I don't believe some troll who signed up for FR just this morning. Buzz off, you liberal fool.

Couldn't have said it better myself. That now-dead troll was probably Lawrence O'Donnell, chaffing badly from that pink tutu.

[Eagles6]

Each gives it's own satisfaction. A puff of wispy smoke disappated by a gentle summer breeze or a blinding flash and a mushroom cloud. The result is the same.

[BIRDS]

Maybe Howard Dean or Hillary...ha.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

It's Rove.

Leftists are absolutely OBSESSED with destroying him.

There's been nothing like the Left's hatred for Karl Rove, since they (successfully) brought down Newt Gingrich. That success very strongly rewarded them for the "deliberate attack" tactic, and they've never ever forgotten its power. (didn't hurt that it very nearly worked against Justice Thomas, either)

Liberals now believe if they simply get angry and hysterical enough, they can bring down whomever they target... (Rove, at the moment)

[USNBandit]

You guys caught in some kind of time warp? It is 2005, please set your clocks appropriately.

[PzLdr]

She wasn't a covert operative. My understanding is that she was a pencil pusher or bean counter at Langley. And why wasn't anybody at the CIA reprimanded for allowing this woman to get her husband the job?{Potential conflict of interest, appearance of impropriety, etc, etc} Could it be because the Agency bureaucrats were opposed to "W's" policies, were of a like mind with Wilson and the little woman, and didn't want to give "W" any ammo against Saddam?