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.
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Seattle, what can you expect?
But how? How would this discredit Wilson? Why doesn't the editorial explain this?
Extremely odd. How can anybody vote on a question of fact about which they have no knowledge?
Further evidence, as if any were needed, that you have to be a certifiable loony to write editorials for a major metropolitan newspaper.
"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?
She wasn't covert since the mid 90's when Aldrich Ames was arrested for spying!
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?
The cancer eating away at America is metastasizing from the left.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Ah, but the sheeple don't know this was the reason. The MSM doesn't seem to want to mention this.
This rag is just disgusting.
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
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.
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