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

Cspan ^ | March 16, 2007

[plain talk]

I think Fred Thompson has a better chance than Romney

I don't. Romney is the only one of the bunch with any credentials to speak of since he's been a governor and has actually run something. Romney also knows how to communicate and doesn't sound like a country bumpkin. He's comes across as intelligent. None of the rest of them can touch him in that area. Romney is a nobody right now. That will change once there are debates and he cleans the floor with the rest of them. So I believe Romney will not only will be the nominee but will be the next President - unless someone else shows up with a resume that can speak well.

[freema]

Thanks, pinz!

[pinz-n-needlez]

File under... Half the battles in life are won simply by showing up?

[pinz-n-needlez]

:-)

[Red Steel]

He kept asking her whether Plame committed perjury when she testified that she was covert or whether she was wrong when she said that Plame is not covert under the law.

Colmes played coy and dumb with Toensing so to maintain the confusion on this issue.

Apparently, Waxman gave Plame the wiggle room to say anything she wanted to say and not get into any trouble:

Democrats Alter Oath For Witnesses: Leaves Out God (Does not look like Plame testified under oath)

[roses of sharon]

Something from Sen Bond tonight.

Valerie Plame Wilson vs. the Senate Intelligence Committee [Byron York]


At her appearance before the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, Valerie Plame Wilson flatly denied playing a role in the choice of her husband for a CIA mission to Niger. "I did not recommend him. I did not suggest him," she said. She also testified that a Senate Intelligence Committee report which concluded she did suggest her husband was wrong. In particular, Mrs. Wilson said a CIA reports officer who, according to the Senate report, told Senate investigators that she had suggested her husband, "came to me almost with tears in his eyes. He said his words have been twisted and distorted."

Tonight a key senator is disputing Mrs. Wilson's testimony. In response to an inquiry from National Review, Senator Christopher Bond, vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee, released the following statement:


I stand by the findings of the Committee’s report on the Niger-Iraq uranium information, including the information regarding Mr. and Mrs. Wilson.

We have checked the transcript of the comments made to the Committee by the former reports officer and I stand by the Committee’s description of his comments. If the reports officer would like to clarify or change his remarks, I’m certain that the Committee would welcome his testimony.

We have also checked the memorandum written by Ms. Wilson suggesting her husband to look into the Niger reporting. I also stand by the Committee’s finding that this memorandum indicates Ms. Wilson did suggest her husband for a Niger inquiry. Because the quote [the portion of the memo quoted in the Senate report] obviously does not represent the entirety of the memorandum, I suggest that the House Government Reform Committee request and examine this memorandum themselves. I am confident that they will come to the same conclusion as our bipartisan membership did.





03/16 07:32 PM

[roses of sharon]

A little bit more on Val, documents.

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/

[Albertafriend]

And Clarice Feldman.

[PeskyOne]

Thanks for this post! I did a little research on Kit Bond the other day, and I was impressed with what I found out. I believe he is a very smart man and if he said Plame recommended her husband, I believe she did it. Bond graduated first in his class from the University of Virginia Law School!

Valerie Plame was totally unbelievable today when she couldn't remember the name of the junior CIA person who told her she should recommend her husband...that little tale doesn't pass the smell test.

[VictoryGal]

But she got great photos for her book, and a great script for her movie.

But. Whooooo would they get to play ole "Nostrils" Waxman? I swear to God I couldn't watch for fear of seeing those Lincoln Tunnel sized schnozz-holes. I think I'm scarred for life...

[an amused spectator]

And if she wasn't a covert officer, there would be no problem with trumpeting the information proving this to be the case.

You're still full of it after all these years, eh, lugsoul?

Just like there'd be no problem trumpeting the fact that Prseident Clinton and her husband fired 93 US attorneys for political reasons.

HAHAHAHAHA! You're such a joke!

[greyfoxx39]

Romney also knows how to communicate and doesn't sound like a country bumpkin. He's comes across as intelligent. None of the rest of them can touch him in that area.

Who sounds like a country bumpkin and unintelligent? Guiliani? McCain? Thompson has a slow, deliberate manner of speaking, but I certainly wouldn't think "country bumpkin".

You must be thinking of Bill Clinton. And you know what we got with him. He wasn't called "Slick Willie" for no reason.

[tirednvirginia]

Hi all
Two points: Article in this morning's Virginian Pilot repeats Valerie's statement that she was "covert". However, it doesn't even mention Vitoria's testimony that Plame was NOT covert under the law. Ia that selectively reporting what happened in a story or what?

2nd point - Americans can't get the image of those Mormon boys being required to ride around neighborhoods on bicyles and their annyoying visits to our front doors. At least I can't.

[an amused spectator]

And she wasn't covert because Vicki Toensing knows more about who is covert than the Director of National Intelligence does.

This is great!

Another person who holds the opinion that the person who wrote the law doesn't know what the law means. So, legislators are in state capitals and the nation's capital busily writing laws that are incomprehensible to them.

So, the only reason that we don't ignore the laws written by monkeys on typewriters is because they'll shoot us if we don't - kind of like the British back in the late 1700s...

[roses of sharon]

Yes, I have always believed this was a set-up of some kind. I wish we had the kind of media monopoly that the left does, it seems they just play with us like puppets on a string, here's more.

http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/when-and-why-joseph-c-wilson-iv-outed-valerie-plame

[STARWISE]

Victoria Toensing's opening statement before the live Plame hearing. Move the slider bar a little over an inch, and you'll see this heading:

Toensing vs. the WaxMan

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http://perishthethought.blogdrive.com/

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She also is blogging the "Gathering of Eagles" event at the top.

[plain talk]

Come on. Thompson's drawl indeed makes him sound like a country bumpkin. I say that while having been born and raised in Texas and personally liking the saound of his voice. But the masses won't go for it after 8 years of George Bush. Thompson is slow and deliberate and while Plain Talk personally likes plain speaking I don't think the masses will find him an exciting speaker. Plus Thompson hasn't done very much.

Of all Bill Clinton's faults, public speaking is not one of them. Of all the candidates on our side Romney is only one who has run something and is an excellent speaker. Our side better pay attention to public speaking or we're toast. The mushy middle often pick the candidate that sounds better and carries himself better.

[Night Hides Not]

A general, she said, remains a general even if he is rotated from combat overseas to a post in the U.S. This seems pretty silly to me. It conflates RANK with STATUS.

You are correct, sir. Combat unit "leaders" are recognized by the green felt tabs on their shoulders. When an officer or NCO is transferred to a non-combat unit, the green tabs come off.

[Night Hides Not]

The Dems ran cover for her, and the Republiscardycats didn't even show up...

I was very disappointed, too. If this is what the Republican Party stands for, it's time for a new party.

[the Real fifi]

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/03/the_waxman_circus.html