Yeah, I think the cover looked like this:
Posted on 07/12/2006 3:55:19 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
"The lastest AP article does not even MENTION Joe Wilson!"
Local DC Fox News 5 just ran it, focusing on Rover and leaving it unresolved whether he may or may not be indicted in the future.
Not one word about Novak.
But then again, Novak still hasn't disclosed the name of his "primary" source.
It is unfortunate, that this matter has resulted in a circus over a non-issue.
The truth here is that the yellowcake assertion still has merit and that Joe Wilson was sent by his wife on a political mission, not a fact-finding mission.
"So, the leaker isn't Wilson but Mr. X, and we're none the wiser."
Novak is being deliberately obtuse, but that's the way I read it as well.
The "primary source" provided a waiver to Fitzgerald, but apparently not to Novak.
Seems to me that Novak and the NYSlimes of two of the same ilk.
"The news items was How did a nut like Wilson get the gig to Niger? Well, his wife set it up for him."
Which, if I read the FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulations) correctly and all the training I have had on the regulations would mean that she violated a federal law in getting a sole source contract for her husband. She and he should be in court for violation of a federal law, which several people have been tried, convicted and sent away for a long time for violating.
But then she and Joe are Democrats and Democrats can steal TOP Secret Documents and lie to federal Judges and commit Treason and no one seems to care.
When I got up this morning this is the headline on Yahoo Home page: "Novak: Rove was a source in outing Plame"
No bias here!!!
He has to be in order to write his book that is unless some old FBI agent comes out and discloses himself before the book is written a la Deep Throat. I still get a laugh that Woodward and Bernstein were scooped by their own source. Ha, Ha, Ha!
Actually Wilson found that there WAS substance to the Niger yellowcake claim. And that's what he reported at the time. It was only later when it became politically expedient to do so that he started going around de-bunking his own report.
Joe Wilson is an opportunistic liar through and through.
Why are all they all running with this carefully crafted "analysis" by the AP? (I know, no surprise really). Who ever wrote this one stayed up all night cleaning it up just the way they wanted it.
So Novak was sposed to just say that 'Mrs. Wilson recommended Mr. Wilson for the mission to Niger' and leave it at that?
And wouldn't that be overlooking one of the rules of journalism...the WHO? As in, WHO is Mrs. Wilson (to have the stroke to be recommending folks for CIA missions)?
Yeah, I think the cover looked like this:
The Rats will go nuts over "a form different from my recollection." Also I heard on the local news radio station (a CBS affiliate) that Novak revealed the source of the leak...it was Rove. That's all they said, nothing about Wilson, nothing about a still unknown "primary source". But then they had to move on to cover more important things like sports, weather and traffic reports. ;-)
....Why are all they all running with this carefully crafted "analysis" by the AP? (I know, no surprise really). Who ever wrote this one stayed up all night cleaning it up just the way they wanted it.
It's the same when W picked Dick Cheney, every network, cable news outlet and Newspaper all said the same thing...
he brings 'gravitas' to the ticket.
I had to look it up when I first heard it.
Rush frequently mentions this. They must have a 'think tank' where they (MSM) decide HOW something is reported !!!
Too bad the AP is running "Rove is the source in outing Plame" headline without a mention of the actual "who's who" entry..
These people are pathetic.
And Wilson's CIA paymasters were grossly negligent in not requiring a written report (instead of oral debriefing) or having JW sign a confidentiality agreement. It had to be classified that CIA wanted to know about yellow cake vis a vis Iraq. How was JW freely able to spread his story, then lie about it to boot? That is totally wrong.
"He has to be [obtuse] in order to write his book"
Fitzgerald brought him a waiver from the primary source.
Novak says he still needed to protect his primary source.
But he did reveal the names of Rove and the CIA staffer as confirming sources.
Did he ever reveal the name of the *primary* source to Fitzgerald or to the grand jury?
That's what I mean by obtuse. We don't know. And he's sure not telling.
I suspect his conversation was on the phone. Recording phone conversations in DC is not legal unless both parties agree to it.
We know that Rove's attorney said Rove told the Grand Jury that "I heard the same thing!" when asked to confirm Plame being Wilson's wife and that she had gotten her husband the job.
I suspect that Novak only told the Grand Jury that Rove did not confirm that Plame was Wilson's wife who got Wilson his job. "I have heard the same thing!" is not a confirmation. So Novak then contacted Harlow who did confirm that Plame was Wilson's wife and that she got her husband the job.
Note that Novak also says his recollection of his conversation with Harlow differs from Harlow's recollection.
If Rove "Remembered" things from their converstation that Novak "Forgot", then that explains the differences.
You can not indict Rove for "Remembering" something that Novak "Forgot."
It is also likely that Harlow "Remembered" things from his conversation that Novak "Forgot."
I think Novak is just saying to both Harlow and Rove... I tried not to "Remember" anything that might have given Fitzmas a reason indict you. If Novak "didn't remember" there can be on purjury indictment for Harlow or Rove.
Now we know why no one has been indicted for outing Valerie. No indictment because they couldn't indict anyone in the Bush Administration.
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