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Six Reasons the Plame Episode is a Farce
RussP.us ^ | 2007-02-03 | Russ Paielli

Posted on 02/25/2007 11:51:02 AM PST by RussP

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OK, I already posted this two or three weeks ago, but I decided to post it again because I worked so hard on it, and I have made a few small revisions since then too.

As I said the first time, this synopsis will come as no great revelation to informed Freepers, but I think it could be useful for educating your less-informed friends and relatives about the Plame affair.

The "big picture" of the Plame thing has never been properly presented, hance most of the general public is ignorant of the ridiculousness of the whole thing. This article is an attempt to fight such ignorance. If you like it, please forward it to your friends and relatives. Thanks.

1 posted on 02/25/2007 11:51:09 AM PST by RussP
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To: RussP

excellent analysis


2 posted on 02/25/2007 11:53:18 AM PST by FormerACLUmember
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To: RussP

Very good. Hope you don't mind if I pass this on.


3 posted on 02/25/2007 12:06:56 PM PST by Eagles6 (Dig deeper, more ammo.)
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To: RussP

Bookmarked it. Thanks.


4 posted on 02/25/2007 12:08:00 PM PST by Mark was here (Hard work never killed anyone, but why take the chance?)
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To: RussP

"educating your less-informed friends and relatives about the Plame affair."

Like my son who believed about a year ago that Rove had already left the WH over this and Cheney was next. Sigh... he reads the left wing blogs and believes them, but then, he lives in California so even though it's probably a losing battle I'll send this to him.

Thanks...it's hard to make sense of something so senseless but I think you did a good job.


5 posted on 02/25/2007 12:09:48 PM PST by Aria
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To: Eagles6

"Hope you don't mind if I pass this on."

Of course not. Please do!


6 posted on 02/25/2007 12:12:17 PM PST by RussP
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To: RussP

Thanks bump

to be read later.


7 posted on 02/25/2007 12:13:41 PM PST by eleni121 ( + En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great))
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To: RussP

Deserves to be posted again. I actually think Wilson and Plame should be brought up on charges of fraud and misuse of public funds.


8 posted on 02/25/2007 12:16:45 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Aria

The level of ignorance out there never ceases to amaze me. The Plame thing itself is not particularly significant, but the way it distorted and blown out of proportion by the Left is just incredible.

I figure that putting the Plame thing into perspective should help people to see through the media bias against the Bush administration in particular and Republicans in general. If this doesn't do it for them, they are probably beyond the reach of rational discourse.


9 posted on 02/25/2007 12:16:52 PM PST by RussP
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To: KC_Conspirator

If Bush were a Democrat, that is probably what would have happened.


10 posted on 02/25/2007 12:19:03 PM PST by RussP
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The only thing you are missing is the evidence that Plame had not been out of the country on official (or Non-Official if you will...) business.
11 posted on 02/25/2007 12:20:05 PM PST by DalcoTX
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To: RussP

Bookmarked. Thank you for sharing your hard work!


12 posted on 02/25/2007 12:22:41 PM PST by syriacus (6 months into Truman's Korean War -- CENSORSHIP imposed; 11,000 US deaths; thousands more DRAFTED.)
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To: RussP

Well done! :)


13 posted on 02/25/2007 12:25:47 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: RussP

Fitzgerald is a moron.

Gotta feel sorry for Libby. Bet his legal fees are daunting.

BUMP!


14 posted on 02/25/2007 12:29:58 PM PST by upchuck (Oh, so they have Internet on computers now! ~ H. Simpson)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Excellent summary. Too bad the newspapers can't find a way to present the facts in the case succintly like this.


15 posted on 02/25/2007 12:31:36 PM PST by Jack Black
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To: DalcoTX

Hey, how are you, DalcoTX?

It is possible that Plame had been out of the country on a nominally "covert" mission within the five years preceding the so-called "leak." Since I am not the Director of the CIA, I have no way of knowing for sure.

What I do know is this: if she was going back and forth between working a "covert" job and working openly at CIA headquarters, then the "covert" job couldn't have been very important.

In case you are unaware, the CIA headquarters is routinely monitored by foreign intelligence agencies. They photograph every person who enters and leaves the building. They may not catch every person every time, but they definitely catch people who work there routinely.

If the CIA assigned to an important covert job under those circumstances, they are truly incompetent. I don't think even *they* are *that* incompetent.


16 posted on 02/25/2007 12:34:02 PM PST by RussP
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To: RussP

bttt


17 posted on 02/25/2007 12:55:16 PM PST by ThreePuttinDude ()...On 9-11 & 7-7 Islamic missionaries came a callin'.....()
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I am doing just fine RussP. And you?

By saying that she was seen entering CIA HQ and working in Langley around 2002-2003 doesn't mean that she was doing the same thing 1998-1999. My research indicates at that time she was working in Boston.
18 posted on 02/25/2007 12:58:37 PM PST by DalcoTX
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To: RussP
One could go as far as to say that this was the scam of the century... DBM stooges collaborating with DNC 'operatives' in the CIA/State Department... eclipsing the crude efforts of Mapes, Burkett, Lockhart & Rather.
19 posted on 02/25/2007 1:10:34 PM PST by johnny7 ("We took a hell of a beating." -'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell)
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To: RussP

Good points and makes sense. Unfortunatatly Fitz doesn't.

Pray for W and Our Troops


20 posted on 02/25/2007 1:13:03 PM PST by bray (Redeploy to Tehran)
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