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“Now, ironically, with the filing of a lawsuit against Vice President Cheney himself, there is a chance that more information about the nature of what appeared to be a joint CIA/media campaign against the Bush Administration will be revealed.”

From the git-go... I believed this was a RATher/Mapes/Burkett-type scam. The only thing different was this time the MSM/DNC 'reporters' got two, active government employees to join in.

1 posted on 08/07/2006 6:52:22 AM PDT by johnny7

Maybe Tim Russert should be the one going on trial, if it's a he said/he said thing.

The whole thing was a fiasco.

2 posted on 08/07/2006 6:56:57 AM PDT by altura (Bushbot No. 1 - get in line.)

I've never like the Billy Joel song "We didn't start the fire", but it does contain an impressive list of historical events from the post WWII era.

What we need is a version for media malfeasance:

Dan Rather, Jayson Blair, GM cars blowing up on air
Qana was a great big fake, Reuters photos take the cake,
CIA and the news, work together, they hate Jews,
Joe Wilson, and Ms Plame, did the deed, how did Cheney get the blame?

3 posted on 08/07/2006 7:01:47 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ( “I'm the Emperor, and I want dumplings!” (German: Ich bin der Kaiser und will Knödel.))

Of course, the one fact everyone seems to have forgotten is that Wilson was lying. Saddam had a large supply of yellow-cake, almost certainly from Niger. Just google "radiation sickness baghdad" for the rest of the story.

4 posted on 08/07/2006 7:06:54 AM PDT by kcmt01

Didn't I read somewhere that Resident Clinton did something that got all the CIA killed in Iran a few years ago?

6 posted on 08/07/2006 7:23:37 AM PDT by mountainlyons (Hard core conservative)

NBC chief foreign correspondent Andrea Mitchell created a stir when she stated a few months after Novak's original column that Plame's identity was well known in certain Washington circles, undermining the claim that Novak had "outed" her. She later claimed to have misspoken. Did Mitchell talk to Tim Russert and others in the media about Wilson and Plame? Did they talk to Libby?

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IMUS: Well, [Alan Murray's] question seems plain. "Do we have any idea how widely known it was in Washington that Joe Wilson's wife worked at the CIA. And you said that his wife worked . . .

MITCHELL: When you look at my answer, I said: "It was widely known - and we were trying to track down who among the foreign community was the envoy to Niger." So far, so good. Okay? [Quoting herself again.] "So some of us began to pick up on that. But frankly I wasn't aware of her actual role at the CIA and the fact the she had a covert role involving weapons of mass destruction, not until Bob Novak wrote it.

IMUS: Well, that part is clear.

MITCHELL: That's clear. So, what's not clear is that I didn't know about her role at the CIA until Bob Novak wrote it. And I obviously got it muddled.

IMUS: Well, what this suggests to me is that, you knew she worked at the CIA but you didn't know what she did there.

MITCHELL: Yes, but that's not . . .

IMUS: Is that fair? Did you know that?

MITCHELL: I didn't.

Andrea Mitchell's I 'Messed Up' on Leakgate Answer .

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IMUS: Well, then - why did you say you did, Andrea?

MITCHELL: Because, I messed up.

IMUS: Oh.

--snip--

IMUS: Did you ever have a discussion with Russert about it?

MITCHELL: Sure, after the fact.