Posted on 08/29/2006 6:09:41 PM PDT by bnelson44
The ridiculous end to the scandal that distracted Washington.
I had a feeling that I might slightly regret the title ("Case Closed") of my July 25 column on the Niger uranium story. I have now presented thousands of words of evidence and argument to the effect that, yes, the Saddam Hussein regime did send an important Iraqi nuclear diplomat to Niger in early 1999. And I have not so far received any rebuttal from any source on this crucial point of contention. But there was always another layer to the Joseph Wilson fantasy. Easy enough as it was to prove that he had completely missed the West African evidence that was staring him in the face, there remained the charge that his nonreport on a real threat had led to a government-sponsored vendetta against him and his wife, Valerie Plame.
In his July 12 column in the Washington Post, Robert Novak had already partly exposed this paranoid myth by stating plainly that nobody had leaked anything, or outed anyone, to him. On the contrary, it was he who approached sources within the administration and the CIA and not the other way around. But now we have the final word on who did disclose the name and occupation of Valerie Plame, and it turns out to be someone whose opposition to the Bush policy in Iraq has—like Robert Novak's—long been a byword in Washington. It is particularly satisfying that this admission comes from two of the journalists—Michael Isikoff and David Corn—who did the most to get the story wrong in the first place and the most to keep it going long beyond the span of its natural life.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
THREE years.
More like Laurel and Hardy ("That's another fine mess you've gotten us into, Corn!").
A total smackdown!
Debunks 3 years of tired liberal lies by smear artists (Wilson and Co) who played the victim game.
I want to get their 15 minutes of fame returned.
Great column.
Perhaps we taxpayers can do a class-action suit against Fitzgerald and the Plames for WASTING the money we knew was being wasted all along.
I saw one of the authors on Softball. They have a very liberal way of twisting their story. No matter that this was a bunch of nothing that the White House had nothing to do with in the first place EXCEPT they used the info to attack Wilson. They were on a vendetta aganist Wilson. Yes they had nothing to do with the whole epsiode but they used it for political gain. ACCORDING to the nuty lefty reporter who everyone fawns over.
That would be nice.
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