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To: Coop; onyx

I saw Joe Wilson on Keith Olbermann's show the other night; he actually said that Fitzgerald had said at least 3 times that Valerie Plame WAS undercover.

I yelled at the TV so hard...


12 posted on 04/12/2006 9:32:29 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: Howlin; Coop

You really must stop watching Keith and Cooper. :)


13 posted on 04/12/2006 9:35:02 AM PDT by onyx (It's easier to indict a ham sandwich or Tom DeLay than it is to indict a Democrat.)
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To: Howlin
he actually said that Fitzgerald had said at least 3 times that Valerie Plame WAS undercover.

Here's the transcript from his Monday interview with Wolf Blitzer:

WILSON: Well, it certainly makes the case that my wife was a classified officer and, therefore, the leak of her name is a violation of national security. Whether that can be prosecuted and other relevant acts, I have no idea. But at a minimum, it's a violation of national security. There are administrative procedures for that.

BLITZER: But Patrick Fitzgerald is not going after that. He's going after the -- he's simply investigating, at least based on what he's charged so far, that Lewis "Scooter" Libby lied.

WILSON: Well, Mr. Fitzgerald has made it very clear and made it very clear in his press conference two things. One, justice would be served so long as somebody was prosecuted for a crime. And second, he made it very clear that the fact that Mr. Libby had perjured himself and had obstructed justice in the view of the special prosecutor, that had stymied his effort, really, to get to the bottom of the organic crime that he was -- that he was looking in to. But irrespective of whether he prosecutes on the crime, it's important to understand that if you're a classified officer -- and Mr. Fitzgerald has said that repeatedly, that Valerie was -- then the leaking of her name is a violation of the national security.

BLITZER: But why wouldn't somebody be prosecuted for that?

WILSON: Well, again, there may well be administrative sanctions. I think it's very clear if you look at the tact that Mr. Fitzgerald is taking, he's narrowing his prosecution of Mr. Libby to what -- what is, I think, prosecutable under the circumstances.

39 posted on 04/13/2006 5:30:31 AM PDT by angkor
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