Live Thread - House Oversight and Government Reform Cmte. hearing (Valerie Plame Wilson Testifies)

Cspan ^ | March 16, 2007

[the Real fifi]

Wonder if that same guy walked by her office in 1999 when she sent Joe to Niger.

[Miss Didi]

She is now saying someone else told her to write up that email

So she was a covert typist?

Post of the day; thanks for the laugh!

[STARWISE]

I know!! We need a pj party .. BAD!

[tflabo]

What's next for Valerie? Penthouse?

Let her enjoy her little fake nirvana world and fun in the sun for now....just up the road her castles will turn to rust and dust.

[roses of sharon]

As per trial testimony by the CIA, she did send him.

It matters not tho, since the CIA allowed Wilson to write about his "secret" trip in the NYT, and no one has been arrested or charged with a crime.

[Heavy Fuel]

these people all seem to be above the law..makes me cringe to think about it

[lugsoul]

Hmmm... In the interest of fairness, you might be interested in both sides of that conversation. Bill Harlow, the CIA spokesperson, says he asked Novak "in the strongest terms he was allowed to use" not to print the information, and that - of course - he didn't tell Novak "you can't print that because she is covert" because to do so would be telling Novak officially that she was covert.

If you are suggesting that someone should tell Novak that she is a covert officer - in order to prevent a reporter from reporting that she is a covert officer - then you have stepped all the way through the looking glass.

[pitinkie]

I have that series on DVD..loved it!

[acsrp38]

Doesn't it depend on what your definition of is is??

[saveliberty]

:-) What's not to love?

Just made it back home. I left at 2:30 and got home at 3:30. I live 12 miles away and under normal conditions, it only takes 20 minutes.

Lots of prayer getting home safely, especially up and down some scary, slippery hills.

Now I need to catch up on the Thread.

[lugsoul]

That is odd, since no one who was involved in the meetings to send Wilson testified at the trial. Care to identify by name the witness you claim testified that she did send him? Or are you going to, once again, run away from your own factually-challenged post?

[maica]

This is a huge committee:



Members of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Democrats

Henry A. Waxman, California, Chairman

Rep. Tom Lantos, California

Rep. Edolphus Towns, New York

Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski, Pennsylvania

Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, New York

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland

Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio

Rep. Danny K. Davis, Illinois

Rep. John F. Tierney, Massachusetts

Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay, Missouri

Rep. Diane E. Watson, California

Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, Massachusetts

Rep. Brian Higgins, New York

Rep. John A. Yarmuth, Kentucky

Rep. Bruce L. Braley, Iowa

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of Columbia

Rep. Betty McCollum, Minnesota

Rep. Jim Cooper, Tennessee

Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Maryland

Rep. Paul W. Hodes, New Hampshire

Rep. Christopher S. Murphy, Connecticut

Rep. John P. Sarbanes, Maryland

Rep. Peter Welch, Vermont

Republicans

Rep. Tom Davis, Virginia, Ranking Minority Member

Rep. Dan Burton, Indiana

Rep. Christopher Shays, Connecticut

Rep. John M. McHugh, New York

Rep. John L. Mica, Florida

Rep. Mark E. Souder, Indiana

Rep. Todd Russell Platts, Pennsylvania

Rep. Chris Cannon, Utah

Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee

Rep. Michael Turner, Ohio

Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California

Rep. Kenny Marchant, Texas

Rep. Lynn A. Westmoreland, Georgia

Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, North Carolina

Rep. Virginia Foxx, North Carolina

Rep. Brian Bilbray, California

Rep. Bill Sali, Idaho

Vacancy

[tsowellfan]

Americans are idiots. She will tell one lie after another, but they will believe her

They will believe her because no republican official in government will attack and discredit her and expose this.

[Txsleuth]

She not only said today that she did NOT ask Joe to go to Niger...she said she had NOTHING to even do with the discussion...

She then said that "they" told her to write an e-mail about her husband going after THEY made the decision...(without her suggestion of course)..and THEN asked her if she would ask her husband, Joe that night if he would go.

Of course she said all of that with complete sincerity that some other agent suggested it...it was discussed and decided on, ALL without her knowledge or input.

LIAR, LIAR...

Star..I wish you could have seen her testimony..you HAVE to watch for a replay of it...you will not believe how condescending and high and mighty she acted.

[petitfour]

Actually, she's from an Air Force family, and I think she joined under Reagan.

[CutePuppy]

... "hell, we'd be beating our dogs!"

Now, that is never acceptable... Beating "our" Democrats is the solution. Not only dogs are not guilty in this case, but I doubt that any dog can do as much damage to us as Democrats.

"Have you beaten your local Democrat today?"

[Miss Didi]

Brava, PeskyOne! I think all our nerves are shot by now.

[Txsleuth]

Wouldn't a pj party just be the neatest thing???

[NoDRodee]

PSMBC reporter Mike Vaccaro? stated that Valerie clearly said it was not she who requested SlimeyJoe go to Niger.

Now I didn't hear that her testimony.

Did she actually say that?

And, if so, why in heaven's name has NO one asked as a followup: who DID send your husband to Niger??

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I'm just wondering if the alleged travel she had abroad in the last 5 yrs as a so-called "covert" agent might have been a pleasure trip ... maybe joining SlimeyJoe while he was in Africa for a little vacation.

No one has pinned down that alleged assignment abroad that I've heard.

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These question were addressed:
Did she actually say that?
Yes she did, she was not authorized to make those decisions

And, if so, why in heaven's name has NO one asked as a followup: who DID send your husband to Niger??
They did
CIA does not know who authorized it, but she later stated
she asked her husband to meet with the CIA about going to
Niger
Like the CIA would not know who sent him, right
She said unknown person asked her to ask Joe to go
Then she said she asked him to go
Then she said she didn't ask him to go

kind of made me want to go wind surfing?

[saveliberty]

Yes, but every job has responsibilities which include idiot proofing. Some people are better at dealing with it than others. And they keep on coming out with a more robust class of idiots.