Or you can see what Michael Douglas came up with as an alternative:
As opposed to this skag:
Posted on 11/30/2005 6:19:16 PM PST by wagglebee
Although on the surface it looks like you had Amb. Wilson and his current wive, Val Plame, running an anti-Administration CIA operation, my money's on it being more of a "private thing" which has been worked in collusion with Grassley and possibly another Senator who has a financial interest in whatever it was Wilson was up to.
Other Freepers have posted quite a bit of material already about the possibility Wilson was involved in peddling yellow-cake to Saddam Hussein, and this bit about Grassley and the FBI investigator appeared in a Washington Times article the other day.
Those who've followed me on the Anthrax Attack know I've had my suspicions about Grassley all along.
"From what I read, Maureen Dowd is practically begging to be sacked. Or is that bedded?"
Yes.
Grassley was one of the senators who wanted to let Saddam keep Kuwait back in 1990-91.
He bears close watching.
Or you can see what Michael Douglas came up with as an alternative:
As opposed to this skag:
Kristof had breakfast with the Wilsons at some Democrat Function in Seattle prior to his article. I think he even sited Plame in his article as "someone present at the meetings" referring to Wilson's meetings with the CIA regarding results of Wilson's Niger trip. Plame was at both meetings.
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More Wilson/Plame/lying MSM puzzle pieces.
The Old York Times should have sacked the Old Bag!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighting Troops
May I point out that neither Pelosi nor Kucinich said "cut and run." Truth is relative, particularly in the nuanced Kohn family.
More Stories from Joseph Wilson
By Cliff Kincaid | November 24, 2005
http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/4188_0_2_0_C/
The Wilson comments show that he is still determined to conceal the truth about his wife's role in the sordid affair.
At this late date, Joseph Wilson is still trying to cover up the involvement of his wife in his CIA mission, apparently in order to protect a rogue element of the CIA from necessary scrutiny. After the production of the Libby indictment, Wilson wrote an October 19 Los Angeles Times article that said, "Although there were suggestions that she was behind the decision to send me to Niger, the CIA told Newsday just a week after the Novak article appeared that 'she did not recommend her husband to undertake the Niger assignment.' The CIA repeated the same statement to every reporter thereafter."
In fact, a CIA spokesman tells me that the agency did not comment on the record about that matter. And this is not what "the CIA" actually told Newsday. The July 22, 2003, Newsday story by Timothy M. Phelps and Knut Royce quoted an unnamed "senior intelligence official" as saying that Valerie Wilson did not recommend her husband to undertake the Niger assignment. This official may or may not be from the CIA. In any case, it is not an official CIA statement. It was an unnamed official leaking information to these reporters for a specific purpose—to exonerate Valerie Wilson of charges that she played a role in the mission.
It bears repeating: the Senate Intelligence Committee cited "interviews and documents" that Wilson's CIA wife "offered up his name" for the assignment and that she actually wrote a memorandum saying he would be perfect for the mission.
What is to be made of Wilson's false claim that "the CIA" told the press that his wife had no role in his trip? Not only is Wilson misrepresenting the facts, but if we assume that "the CIA" is actually a high-level official of the agency, then this official was lying to the press. But Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald didn't investigate this leak.
The Wilson comments show that he is still determined to conceal the truth about his wife's role in the sordid affair. That is the truth that Libby uncovered but which has been shunted aside by most of the media. It demonstrates that the press would rather protect their sources in the CIA than in the Bush Administration. Those sources, who seem determined to undermine the global war on terrorism, are likely behind the recent Dana Priest Washington Post article on the CIA's "secret prisons."
Interestingly, after the CIA got a Justice Department investigation into the leak of the name of Valerie Wilson, then-Counsel to the President Alberto R. Gonzales sent a message to all White House employees that requested that they also preserve information relating to contacts with Knut Royce and Timothy M. Phelps.
Yet the Special Prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, did NOT investigate these contacts. If he had, we might have had a small window into the rogue elements in the CIA, besides Valerie Wilson, that were manipulating the press in the Wilson affair.
Former Cheney aide Lewis Libby has an opportunity to blow the whistle on this rogue element in his trial. Let's hope that "national security" doesn't keep the public in the dark.
Often lost in this maze is the role of Walter Pincus and his wife Ann. Just imagine, during the Clinton Administration his wife Ann was named to VOA (after serving at Public TV station WETA), and from there was moved to the Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research at a time when her husband was supposed to be reporting for the NYTimes on Chinese infiltration of US defense industries. INR, which is a small counterpart to the CIA, has access to all major intelligence gathering, and the placement of Ann Pincus in INR was a blatant conflict of interest, and the New York Times knew it, even if Bill Clinton didn't care. (The Pincus were frequent guests at the White House.)
Ann Pincus is now working for the left wing Center for Public Integrity, which is involved in so-called "investigative journalism" and lauds any study that bashes the Republicans. In sum, Walter Pincus, who is directly involved in this Plame business, and his wife Ann, are about as phoney a couple you could find next to Plame and Wilson. But... so it goes at the New York Times.
I read where the Pincus family enjoyed a 4th of July barbeque and the Plame residence before the Novak story hit a week later. Why would a super secret NOC invite reporters to her residence?
Yes, but be sure to have an adequate supply of NoDoz.
Fitz is a classic example of someone who can't see the forest for the trees. Now, he moght argue that all this is out of the scope of his investigation, but it all pertains to motive - Libby's motive, Rove's motive, Wilson's motive, Plame's motive, etc, and is thus essential to a true understanding of the events.
Information doesn't fall from the sky.....and wind up in the papers. Go back to that July 4th picnic and find out everyone that was there.
Don't forget....there were also two relatives of Joe's who knew about Valerie. (Why did Joe even tell these two relatives?) Valerie has never said how many people she told.
I still laugh everytime I think of Joe and Valerie living "in sin" at the Watergate before they bought their home NEXT DOOR TO CHRISTOPHER WOLF. Oh yeh...Wolf's law firm is out of NYC. Wonder if it's in the same building as Bubba?
All they had to do was de-classify the July 7th letter that Powell had in his hands when he boarded the plane. The text of that letter was dated June 10th....which pretty much corresponds with Woodwards date of getting the word on Valerie.
And has been ever since she laid down for Stalin and his murders of 66 million.
What an attorney tells third parties or says in the presence of third parties is not under Attorney Confidentiality.
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