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The Rove Problem
Time ^ | 7/21/05 | Nancy Gibbs

Posted on 07/21/2005 8:24:53 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection

Did Bush's top aide commit a crime talking to reporters about a spy? Here's what the case is really about--and why it grows more fascinating

Valerie Plame had no reason to welcome a reporter into her home last week. Reporters tell stories and trade secrets, and her life, once a state secret, had become one of the most widely told stories in years. As if anyone could resist it: beautiful blond mother of two whose identity as a CIA spy is compromised by a political vendetta against her husband.

She opens the door of her brick house on the leafy Washington side street, a few turns from the German embassy. A Jaguar convertible sits in the driveway, the toys and bikes in the garage. There are...

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To: Zee2
I dont think rush limbaugh should be prosecuted for his little drug problem.

Interesting. I have said I support the prosecutor in that case. Now that he has the relevant records, I suspect he will conclude that there's no violation of the law, though. But he has the evidence, we'll see.

61 posted on 07/21/2005 5:29:51 PM PDT by SolidSupplySide
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To: SolidSupplySide

are you claiming rush somehow didnt violate the law on a technicality? or are you claiming he didnt even violate the spirit of the law?


62 posted on 07/21/2005 5:31:15 PM PDT by Zee2
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To: Mo1

She wasn't a spy either. Too much kool aid.


63 posted on 07/21/2005 5:33:48 PM PDT by canadiancapitalist
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To: Zee2

That's why all these "journalists" filed a brief with the court stating that "no crime has been committed" and "Valerie Plame was not a covert operative". You've been watching way too much ABCCBSNBSPBSCNNMSNBCCNBC.


64 posted on 07/21/2005 5:40:31 PM PDT by canadiancapitalist
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To: Zee2
It appears that he didn't violate the spirit of the law. The doctor shopping charge seems dead according to the facts in this article.

Again, your worldview seems to be colored by some sort of partisanship.

65 posted on 07/21/2005 5:41:30 PM PDT by SolidSupplySide
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
The Democrats are really exhausting a lot of energy on this.

2006 is ahead, and they are GONA LOSE AGAIN.

66 posted on 07/21/2005 5:45:17 PM PDT by agincourt1415 (4 More Years of NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN!)
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To: canadiancapitalist

the journalists didnt file the brief, there legal departments filed the brief. A brief that the Judge didnt find pursuavive seeing that the Judy Miller is still in jail. Of course the judge has access to alot more facts the general public and the legal departments of media corporations would have access too.


67 posted on 07/21/2005 5:53:24 PM PDT by Zee2
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Its partly about Joe Wilson's and Valerie Plame's egos and won serial indiscretions re: her identity:

1. Joe Wilson being David Corn's source for a Nation story revealing Plame as CIA prior to Novak's story.

2. Wilson posting his wife's CIA employment on his own website prior to the Novak column (per Editor of PoliSat.com).

3> The wilson-Plame family telling friends and neighbors about her CIA employment.

4. For a corroborating story see my FR Post:

"Was the Narcissistic Joe Wilson a Source in "Outing" His Own Wife Valerie Plame as a "CIA Agent"?"
68 posted on 07/21/2005 6:43:28 PM PDT by FReethesheeples (Was the Narcissistic Joe Wilson a Source in "Outing" His Own Wife Valerie Plame as a "CIA Agent"?)
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To: dirtboy

Time and the MSM ignore such stories and facts as,

For instance:

1. Wilson reportedly posted & mentioned his wife's CIA employment, prior to any story, on his OWN Website(!) per the Editor of PoliSat.Com.


2. Cliff May's connecting Wilson as David Corn's Valerie Plame as CIA story source in Corn's Nation article which preceded Novak's original article,

3. Which evident pattern of indiscretion or braggadocio is further shown in the Wilson's neighbors and friends knowing her CIA link.

4. David Horowitz' (FrontPageMagazine) thesis that Plame herself was a possible source in blowing national security secrets, and, if so, should be tried for treason...

And, finally,

5.This behavior pattern is further corroborated in my story about Wilson's crass & blabbermouth behavior under the FR Post titled:

"Was the Narcissistic Joe Wilson a Source in "Outing" His Own Wife Valerie Plame as a "CIA Agent"?"


69 posted on 07/21/2005 8:03:10 PM PDT by FReethesheeples (Was the Narcissistic Joe Wilson a Source in "Outing" His Own Wife Valerie Plame as a "CIA Agent"?)
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To: Katya
Is it me, or does Ms. Plame look like a younger Doris Kearns Goodwin the presidential plagiarist?

There is a somewhat resemblance with their hair color/style, their facial shape (on the longer, narrower side), and their WASP-y look. But Kearns is homely. I'll grant that Plame is (unremarkably) attractive, but that's it. She certainly ain't no raving beauty, that's for sure.

70 posted on 07/21/2005 11:49:01 PM PDT by gop_gene
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To: Cecily
Here we go again with the beautiful blonde meme.

Bubba's beeper just went off!

71 posted on 07/22/2005 8:49:55 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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