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Cia Leak: Not above the law (Freep this poll)
SEATTLE POST ^ | 10/30/2005 | Editorial

Posted on 10/30/2005 6:30:57 AM PST by DogBarkTree

There is a cancer on the presidency, and it cannot be exorcised by the resignation of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

Libby, assistant to the president and Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, has been indicted on five federal counts, including obstruction of justice, making false statement and perjury. The charges stem from the investigation into a leak disclosing that Valerie Plame, wife of former ambassador Joseph Wilson, was a covert CIA operative.

Based on the allegations special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald laid out in the indictments Friday, it's increasingly evident that officials within the Bush administration disclosed Plame's identity as part of an effort to discredit Wilson's criticism of one of the pretexts for war against Iraq.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...


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Here is where the Seattle Compost poll stood: Was President Bush or Vice President Cheney involved in the disclosure of Valerie Plame as a covert CIA operative? 1.1% Bush, yes. 0.0% Bush, no. 17.7% Cheney, yes. 0.3% Cheney, no. 72.8% Both. 5.6% Neither. 2.6% It doesn't matter. Total Votes: 378
1 posted on 10/30/2005 6:30:58 AM PST by DogBarkTree
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To: DogBarkTree

Seattle, what can you expect?


2 posted on 10/30/2005 6:33:29 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: DogBarkTree
This is really a manufactured news story. What else is new. BTW. the DUmmies have already beaten the crap out of this poll.
3 posted on 10/30/2005 6:33:57 AM PST by satchmodog9 (Free choice is not what it seems)
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To: DogBarkTree
Based on the allegations special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald laid out in the indictments Friday, it's increasingly evident that officials within the Bush administration disclosed Plame's identity as part of an effort to discredit Wilson's criticism of one of the pretexts for war against Iraq.

But how? How would this discredit Wilson? Why doesn't the editorial explain this?

4 posted on 10/30/2005 6:34:12 AM PST by AndyTheBear (Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
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To: DogBarkTree

Extremely odd. How can anybody vote on a question of fact about which they have no knowledge?


5 posted on 10/30/2005 6:34:13 AM PST by Restorer (Illegitimati non carborundum)
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To: DogBarkTree
Based on the allegations special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald laid out in the indictments Friday, it's increasingly evident that officials within the Bush administration disclosed Plame's identity
It's increasingly evident only if you have an active desire that it be increasingly evident. What fertilizer.
6 posted on 10/30/2005 6:34:52 AM PST by Clara Lou
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To: Restorer
That's the essence of polling.
7 posted on 10/30/2005 6:35:02 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Janice Rogers Brown is the only High Court nominee that is acceptable to me, period.)
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To: DogBarkTree

Further evidence, as if any were needed, that you have to be a certifiable loony to write editorials for a major metropolitan newspaper.


8 posted on 10/30/2005 6:35:16 AM PST by speedy
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To: DogBarkTree

"to discredit Wilson's criticism of one of the pretexts for war against Iraq."

Again, what is wrong with discrediting Wilson, when Wilson was spouting lies to undermine the US war effort?


9 posted on 10/30/2005 6:35:48 AM PST by frankjr
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To: DogBarkTree
There goes that 'covert' word again.

She wasn't covert since the mid 90's when Aldrich Ames was arrested for spying!

10 posted on 10/30/2005 6:36:33 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: tet68

I like how she is referred to as a covert CIA operative now. Wasn't she on the cover of Vanity Fair? I guess she was hiding in plain site. (When she wasn't running around Afghanistan disguised in her burkha interrogating terrorists and developing sources) I seem to remember when this thing started brewing a few months ago that someone posted a link on here that Joe Wilson stated on his web site that his wife worked as an analyst for the CIA. Does anyone have any information on this?


11 posted on 10/30/2005 6:38:13 AM PST by willyd (No nation has ever taxed its citizens into prosperity)
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To: DogBarkTree

The cancer eating away at America is metastasizing from the left.


12 posted on 10/30/2005 6:39:29 AM PST by OldFriend (Fitzgerald is a Lawrence Walsh wannabe)
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To: Restorer

It is the new model for reporting. Take an opinion poll first so you know which way to slant your reporting. All the MSM are doing it.


13 posted on 10/30/2005 6:40:44 AM PST by willyd (No nation has ever taxed its citizens into prosperity)
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To: willyd

THe Vanity Fair photo was taken after Novak's article I believe. Id like a firm word one way or the other if she was covert or not. Ive heard nothing official one way or the other.


14 posted on 10/30/2005 6:41:10 AM PST by DogBarkTree
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To: AndyTheBear

That is NOT what happened at all! Fitz self righteously stood there and SAID a bunch of crap about "protecting national security" and all that but in the end he ADMITTED that there was NO UNDERLYING CRIME TO TRIGGER THE INVESTIGATION!


15 posted on 10/30/2005 6:41:20 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: tet68
Seattle, what can you expect?

What...you mean you don't believe this editorial board and the left in general cares about national security, maintaining the integrity of CIA agents, and lying to grand juries?

Me neither.

16 posted on 10/30/2005 6:43:20 AM PST by daler
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To: frankjr
when Wilson was spouting lies to undermine the US war effort?

Ah, but the sheeple don't know this was the reason. The MSM doesn't seem to want to mention this.

17 posted on 10/30/2005 6:43:21 AM PST by AndyTheBear (Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
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To: willyd

This rag is just disgusting.


18 posted on 10/30/2005 6:44:04 AM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: DogBarkTree

According to the authors of the law, she doesn't even come close. Anyway, if you're parking your sports car in the CIA parking lot, you ain't covert


19 posted on 10/30/2005 6:48:00 AM PST by mkmensinger
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To: DogBarkTree

I had a bright thought. Fitz wants to bring out the truth that Libby tried so clumsily to do. All the witnesses will serve this purpose. I don't mean the whole debate about why we went to war. I mean to bring ot what Matalin stated on Imus that Wilson is a fool and a liar. The journalists called will be pawns.


20 posted on 10/30/2005 6:50:34 AM PST by larryjohnson (NOT the Larry Johnson from CIA)
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