Posted on 11/02/2005 5:20:09 AM PST by kellynla
'SCOOTER" LIBBY'S indictment was not exactly good news for the White House, but it could have been a lot worse. Feverish speculation had been building that Karl Rove would soon be "frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs," as Valerie Plame's bombastic hubby, Joe Wilson, had hoped. Or even that Dick Cheney would have to resign.
But with his investigation all but over, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has found no criminal conspiracy and no violations of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which makes it a crime in some circumstances to disclose the names of undercover CIA operatives. Among other problems, Plame doesn't seem to fit the act's definition of a "covert agent" — someone who "has within the last five years served outside the United States." By 2003, Plame had apparently been working in Langley, Va., for at least six years, which means that, mystery of mysteries, the vice president's chief of staff was indicted for covering up something that wasn't a crime.
Making the best of a weak hand, Democrats argued that the case was not about petty-ante perjury but, as Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid put it, "about how the Bush White House manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to bolster its case for the war in Iraq and to discredit anyone who dared to challenge the president." The problem here is that the one undisputed liar in this whole sordid affair doesn't work for the administration. In his attempts to turn his wife into an antiwar martyr, Joseph C. Wilson IV has retailed more whoppers than Burger King.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I have had just about all of the freaking Dimcrats I can stand!
Like you said...well, well, well!
Could this revelation of a covert prison system of the CIA which includes some eight countries around the world, be less damaging than the public learning the name of a CIA employee who might have been a "covert" agent back in the days of Aldrich Ames?
The double agentry of Ames probably led indirectly to the removal from the field of Valerie Plame, but in any case, there is a secret culture within CIA that is determined to work at cross purposes with the Bush Administration, and they are being squeezed out by Porter Goss. This is their call to resistance, and it matters not if the entire structure is pulled down on their own heads. If they go, everybody goes.
Temperature in Hades this morning? Five degrees below zero?
Heckfire, we could find some to go to the LA Times and torture people if they wanted!
It's the end of the world as we know it.
I had to click through to the source link before I'd believe the L.A. Times really printed this.
Of course, FR and the blogosphere has known this for months, maybe a year+?
yep, the editorial page of the L.A. Times has changed dramatically since Max Boot arrived...
Michael Ramirez was getting verrrrry lonely. LOL
I would like to commend the LA Times for running Max Boot's opinion column about Plamegate's Real Liar. Although I realize that it's an opinion column and probably does NOT represent the editorial view of the LA Times, it is about time that people realize what has happened here. The CIA did something either incredibly stupid by sending Wilson and permitting him to publish a truth-twisting opinion piece or they conspired to discredit a duly elected President and his administration. Liberals have worried for years about an "out of control" CIA that might act domestically. Now we have a situation that demands an investigation into that very real possibility. Unfortunately liberals are too blinded by Bush-hatred and they look the other way when such things may indeed have happened.
How about putting a few reporters on that topic? You might sell a few more newspapers. The Democrat party line is available everywhere else for free.
bttt
FREEPER ORIGINAL: Set up? Anatomy of the contrived Wilson "scandal"
This from the LA Times???!
Looks like there's some ice skating going on in hell today...
The reporters are concerned that their USG sources will dry up. Their support for an investigation into the Plame leak has come back to bite them, especially since their brethern, Russert, Miller, and Cooper, are material witnesses. How sweet it is.
The CIA is ratcheting up the heat on the WH. They are using the useful idiots in the dim party and feeding them all manner of "revelations".
Its long past time for the CIA to be held accountable.
Negroponte do your freekin'job!
Fitz knew that within a week. The rest of his "investigation" was a perjury trap.
The fact that Wilson was allowed to go on a mission for the CIA without signing a disclosure agreement, and returns from the mission without filing a written report, indicates that sinister motives prevailed.
Let's play offense for a change!
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