Posted on 10/11/2005 5:00:12 PM PDT by YaYa123
He refuted it but then admitted it and then did himself in.
David Kelly was his name.
Speaking to media and saying things he wasn't supposed to was his unfortunate game---at least at that time. Evidently he was highly respected before.
Sadly LOL. It's all so clintonesque. Rove and Libby should have pulled a hillary and recalled nothing of particular value. But no one can do clinton better than the clintons.
But haven't you heard? It's the evil Republicans, especially the Bush administration, who practice "the politics of personal destruction". That's why Karl Rove is such a baaaaddddd man...
At least, that's what the MSM tells me...
With billybob they had monica, whitewater, travelgate, memogate, china gate, pardon gate the Cox Report, Paula Jones, Jennifer Flowers, Juanita Broderick, Kathleen Willey, Elizabeth Ward Grayson, Mena, Wag the Dog in Yugoslavia, john huang, charlie tree, maria hsia, buddhist monks and bodies stretching from Fort Marcy Park(Foster) to Croatia(Brown)and last, but not least, silverware gate and the white house furniture.
And that's just off the top of my head. Just writing it down makes me angry and sick. What a disgrace!
Don't you remember the National Journal's Stuart Taylor making all those talking head appearances during the Bent One's impeachment? Taylor's a Lefty too.
It's all just rumor and innuendo, but that doesn't mean it's wrong.
I've had my money on Scooter Libby since July 2005 when Miller went to jail.
Miller was being hand-fed little tidbits about Iraqi WMD by someone for years before the war. She was the go-to girl for Iraqi WMD stories. She was the source for the aluminum tubes story, which came from the office of the Veep, and the Niger yellow-cake story came from the office of the Veep, too. She was imbedded with the military groups checking alleged WMD caches.
Not saying Cheney is personally involved, but obviously Miller is protecting someone, and surprise, as soon as she gets a personal assurance from Libby, she obtains a Get Out of Jail Free card.
My bet is that Libby will fall on his sword.
I don't think that's always a good idea.
If the client is in trouble, I tell them to take the Fifth. If the client isn't in trouble, I generally tell them to answer fully and fairly, as if they were in a normal conversation.
Kabuki dancing is for professionals. Most people aren't all that good at playing word games. They look like fools arguing about "what the meaning of 'is' is."
Not according to Victoria Toensing, who wrote the law.
9/11 was a major intelligence failure. During the Clinton administration, the prevailing view was that Saddam was "in his box." That assessment changed very little within the CIA and State Department even after 9/11. In October 2002 the consensus among CIA analysts was still that Saddam was unlikely to commit acts of terrorism. The only caveat was that if the US went to war to depose him, Saddam would respond in a "ferocious" way.
Bush's invasion of Iraq undercut the basic agency analysis of Iraq, which had not changed since 9/11. The fact that they could not see the dangers of Iraq using non-state actors like AQ was a fatally flawed concept. Iraq was and is a central part of the WOT, something the bureacracy refuses to believe. The CIA is still operating on its own paradigm of terrorism. To admit otherwise, would mean acknowledging that its existing policy analysis had left the country exposed to a great danger.
Laurie Mylroie's, Bush vs The Beltway" provides a detailed and well researched look at the infighting that went on and is still going on about Iraq within the USG.
The WH was attacking Wilson's story (not Wilson personally), i.e., the insinuation that the VP was behind his trip to Niger and that the WH then ignored his findings, i.e., manipulated intelligence and lied to the public in order to invade Iraq. Pretty serious charges, which were unfounded.
Thanks. I read your reference to this book last night, it is now on my required reading list.
Frankjr posted some links which left my head spinning again. I think the articles he linked to say what you just told me, but this case has gotten so complicated because of the MSM spin my little brain can't keep up with it.
I agree with your remarks generally about the proper advice from a lawyer to a client--if he has something to hide. Although in this political climate, taking the Fifth would be political suicide because it would be looked at as an admission of guilt by the masses, egged on by the MSM.
However, how do you take the fifth on a question that is never asked?
I don't think the matter arose until Judith Miller testified and probably dropped an aside that she'd had some previous conversation with Libby in June. That's why she went back and produced notes from that time and now has been called back to answer questions about them.
Of course, we don't know what was the subject nor the substance of the June interview, but it could hardly have been Wilson/Pflame because Wilson hadn't come out against the administration to that point. Unless Miller revealed that Wilson was in negotiation to publish something with her paper on the subject of his trip.
Lots that we don't know here.
It might help you if you knew the social milieu that Wilson and Plame live in. They're social butterflies who actually live in Washington DC in the same social circle that includes the Kerrys and various reporters for the Washington Post and the New York Times.
And Wilson has a very big mouth.
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