The Plamegate Hall of Shame

The Weekly Standard ^ | 09/11/2006, Volume 011, Issue 48 | Fred Barnes

[aculeus]

What's left to do? Fitzgerald, in decency, should terminate his probe immediately.

We have lawyers who put innocent people in prison for child abuse that did not occur and they're still prosecutors.

Lawyers have their own ethical universe.

[tcrlaf]

"Why is it never mentioned that Joe Wilson was part of the John Kerry presidential campaign?"

Because to do so would be ADMITTING that this was a politicly motivated hit, by folks who are thier friends, willing to LIE for political gain....

Remind a Lib that Wilson's story CHANGED after he went on Kerry's Payroll, and they go absolutely apoplexic....

[uncbob]

Bush II, like his dad, prefers to let weeks pass before muttering some make-weight argument over a topic some have forgotten, but most remember as only a negative, never to be repudiated, perception.

Father--Kindler Gentler Administarion

Son--Compassionate Conservatism

Hand writing was on the wall in the 2000 primaries

[Chuzzlewit]

agreed bob. Sheesh, I sure wish he had played a bit more rough with these turds. I guess he is turn the other cheek kind of guy.

[Billthedrill]

This entire affair seems to have grown a life of its own shortly after it became apparent that somebody in the Bush administration really might be in legal jeopardy, but in fact it was originally an attempt to create a stir sufficient to affect the 2004 elections. Once it became evident that it would not stop when Bush was sworn in many in the MSM immediately were taken back to 1972, when a pre-election scandal was leveraged to bring down the winner of the election.

This was not Watergate, and could not be made into Watergate, but Scooter Libby is now paying for the attempt to turn it into precisely that - a scandal whose primary activities paled in the furor over the coverup. It was, in effect, an attempt at a journalistic coup d'etat and its major proponents at the NY Times acted as if it were and continue to do so.

[Raycpa]

NEVER MIND

[khnyny]

I'll answer my own question:

Valerie Plame Takes Her Story to Simon & Schuster


http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/news/author/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002839639

[OldFriend]

According to an article in the NYSlimes, Armitage was ordered to keep silent by Fitz, a close relative to NiFong!

[OldFriend]

I've said it before and I'll say it again.....Fitzgerald and Nifong ~ Perfect Together

[Howlin]

Scooter Ping!

[OldFriend]

I was channel surfing and caught Colmes. Now I know why I never watch that show anymore. What a dispicable liar.

He is definitely of the begala/carvile school of liars.

And I actually heard him say one time that he never reads any dem talking points. Odious is too nice a description for him.

[OldFriend]

Wilson took his lies to the NYSlimes and they were only too happy to oblige.

[wildbill]

Powell and Armitage probably won't ever dare to go on a news show again if there is any decent reporter on the panel--because they'd have to answer why they didn't come forward for years as they saw their government grind up little people and many functions slow because of the investigation.

They have no defense for this shameful episode.

[YaYa123]

Yes, a really good article, but I'm looking for one that names names. Who in the MSM, (at the behest of Joe Wilson), jumped at the chance to go after the Bush White House. Without the aid of Lexus-Nexus, and without being a "reporter, I found just these few equal opportunity Rove/Bush/Cheney bashers, who need public floggings for their Plamegate coverage.

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SENATOR CHARLES SCHUMER
"This is one of the most reckless and nasty things I’ve seen in all my years of government," Schumer said. "Leaking the name of a CIA agent is tantamount to putting a gun to that agent’s head. It compromises her safety and the safety of her loved ones, not to mention those in her network and other operatives she may have dealt with. On top of that, the officials who have done it may have also seriously jeopardized the national security of this nation."
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JIM VANDEHEI and WALTER PINCUS
"Interest emerged again following the September 30, 2005, grand jury testimony by Judith Miller, released from jail the day before: "As the CIA leak investigation heads toward its expected conclusion this month, it has become increasingly clear that two of the most powerful men in the Bush administration" -- Karl Rove and I. Lewis Scooter Libby-- "were more involved in the unmasking of operative Valerie Plame than the White House originally indicated." --Jim VandeHei and Walter Pincus, Washington Post, October 2, 2005 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/01/AR2005100101317.html). "
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PAUL BEDARD
"Cheney resignation rumors fly" (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/051018/18whwatch.htm?track=rss) Paul Bedard wrote in his October 18, 2005, "White House Watch." "Sparked by today's Washington Post story that suggests Vice President Cheney's office is involved in the Plame-CIA spy link investigation, government officials and advisers passed around rumors that the vice president might step aside and that President Bush would elevate Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice."
"The rumor spread so fast that some Republicans by late morning were already drawing up reasons why Rice couldn't get the job or run for president in 2008," Bedard wrote. "

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TED RALL
"How far up the White House food chain does the rot of treason go? 'Bush has always known how to keep Rove in his place,' wrote Time in 2002 about a 'symbiotic relationship' that dates to 1973. This isn't some rogue 'plumbers' operation [ like Watergate ]. Rove would never go it alone on a high-stakes action like Valerie Plame. It's a safe bet that other, higher-ranking figures in the Bush cabal--almost certainly Dick Cheney and possibly Bush himself--signed off before Rove called Novak. For the sake of national security, those involved should be removed from office at once." --Ted Rall, July 5, 2005 (http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=21798&mode=nested&order=0). "

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GEORGE SEPHANOPOLIS
"Near the end of a round table discussion on ABC’s This Week, George Stephanopoulos dropped this bomb:

"'Definitely a political problem but I wonder, George Will, do you think it’s a manageable one for the White House especially if we don’t know whether Fitzgerald is going to write a report or have indictments but if he is able to show as a source close to this told me this week, that President Bush and Vice President Cheney were actually involved in some of these discussions.'
"This would explain why Bush spent more than an hour answering questions from special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. It would also fundamentally change the dynamics of the scandal. President Bush could no longer claim he was merely a bystander who wants to 'get to the bottom of it.' (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/11/AR2005071101568.html) As Stephanopoulos notes, if Bush played a direct role it could make this scandal completely unmanageable."

Source: Judd, Think Progress, October 2, 2005 (http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/02/bush-directly-involved/). Video WMP and QT links posted (http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/10/02.html#a5192) on Crooks and Liars website. "

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FRANK RICH
"It is about the president of the United States. It is about a plot that was hatched at the top of the administration and in which everyone else, Mr. Rove included, are at most secondary players." --Frank Rich, New York Times, July 17, 2005 (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/opinion/17rich.html?incamp=article_popular). "

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MICHAEL WOLFF
"In an article in the September [2005] issue of Vanity Fair (not yet online), Michael Wolff ["All Roads Lead to Rove"], in probing the Plame/CIA leak scandal, rips those in the news media -- principally Time magazine and The New York Times -- who knew that Karl Rove was one of the leakers but refused to expose what would have been 'one of the biggest stories of the Bush years.' Not only that, 'they helped cover it up.' You might say, he adds, they 'became part of a conspiracy.'" --Greg Mitchell, Editor & Publisher, August 11, 2005 (http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001013806). "
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[commonguymd]

"HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS"


That would be tens of millions. Add another couple zeros.

[EricT.]

And I actually heard him say one time that he never reads any dem talking points.

He must be writing them then.

[OldFriend]

They come to him thru his fillings so he just has to listen and regurgitate the hate.

[cpdiii]

Isikoff and Corn and other journalist fanned the flames against Rove and Libby long after they knew the perp was Armitage. I would think this meets the test of "Absence of Malice" in a defamation suit against them. ???

[Lewite]

He has always been a dirt bag. His road has been paved with unmerited gifts that more qualified men should have received. Political correctness is a plague. What a sorry episode of American history.

[Boazo]

Thank you for your research.