Posted on 08/29/2006 9:41:36 PM PDT by bnelson44
Time to put the Plame conspiracy to its final rest.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT
From its very start, the ballyhooed case of who leaked the name of CIA analyst Valerie Plame to columnist Robert Novak has been drenched in partisan politics and media hypocrisy. The more we learn, however, the more it also reveals about the internal dysfunction of the Bush Administration and the lack of loyalty among some of its most senior officials.
The latest news is that the Bush official who first disclosed Ms. Plame's identity was none other than former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. According to a new book by liberal journalists David Corn and Michael Isikoff, Mr. Armitage was Mr. Novak's primary source for his now famous column of July 14, 2003, that first publicly revealed Ms. Plame's CIA pedigree.
In other words, the leaker wasn't Karl Rove or Scooter Libby or anyone else in the White House who has been accused of running a conspiracy against Ms. Plame as revenge for her husband Joe Wilson's false accusations against the White House's case for war with Iraq. So what have the last three years been all about anyway? Political opportunism and internal score-settling, among other things.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
Some of the most dangerous enemies to US security and freedom are the career beaurocrats at State. State, like CIA, has been purposely infested with leftists in order to leak and secretly undercut US intelligence efforts around the world.
Putting Condi there was a good idea, but someone forgot to tell her to ignore, or better, do the direct opposite of any advice given to her by State careerists.
This non-story has gotten more press than it ever deserved. Of course, we can't count on the Media to give nearly the amount of coverage to the exonerating facts as they do their own fantasy. Isikoff is so, "Clinton-days". Still trying to be a hot-shot newsbreaker in an administration that hasn't nearly the fodder. As for Corn, I wish he would go somewhere and look for an upper lip!
being the scholar, she should have known
Will Bush even KNOW about this story???
It used to be that I disliked liberals, but I can honestly say now that I despise them. This can't be good for the blood pressure.
didn't wilson "out"her in "who's who"?-wilson is a real scumbag and valerie plame(name sounds made up)got him appointed to an investigative job-the more i see of wilson,the more i think he's a traitor working for the un internationalists-who cares how she got exposed-she must be the only cia operative the liberals ever gave a tinker's damn about
How?
Colin Powell must be laughing himself silly.
....a$$
Bump to the top
"At a minimum, there appears to be a serious question of disloyalty here. By keeping silent, Messrs. Powell and Armitage let the President take political heat for the case, while also letting Mr. Rove, Mr. Libby and other White House officials twist in the wind for more than two years. We also know that it was the folks in Mr. Powell's shop--including his former chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson and intelligence officer Carl Ford Jr.--who did so much to trash John Bolton's nomination to be Ambassador to the U.N. in 2005. The State Department clique that Mr. Bush tolerated for so long did tremendous damage to his Administration."
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008872
AND FOR YOU JOHN MCCAIN FANS, THESE PEOPLE "Messrs. Powell and Armitage" ET AL HAVE JOINED HIS 2008 PRESIDENTAIL CAMPAIGN. ALSO, IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT SOME OF THESE PEOPLE TESTIFIED DURING THE SHAM "9/11 COMMISSION HEARINGS" AND THAT POWELL WAS ONE OF THE LEADING OPPONENTS TO FINISHING OFF SADDAM IN '91 ...RTO
That puts it in perspective nicely, thanks.
They are as despicable as comrade c.
by saying she worked for the cia-unless that isn't true-to be honest i didn't care enough to research it
Thanks for the post. I'm unclear as to how he 'outed' her in that entry. That she was married to Joseph Wilson wasn't at issue. I thought that her status at the CIA was at issue. I don't see any reference to that in the entry.
Oh ... the house of cards is definitely tumbling down. WaPo knows it, and so the editorial today. They don't want to be the last one standing, with their finger in their ear.
What President Bush Should Do About Plamegate
(While he works night and day to protect US and suffers burdens of terrifying knowledge we'll never fathom. God bless him.
Back to the article excerpt .. go, Clarice!!
"Im so livid at this tangible and intangible harm that I cannot imagine that the President doesnt share my fury at such damaging perfidy. If I were advising him, heres what Id tell him:
(1) He should have Attorney General Gonzales report to him everything the Department knows of the Armitage revelations and when they occurred to ascertain whether any of the Isikoff-Corn report is false.
2) Former Secretary Powell should be summoned and asked when he learned of the Armitage admission and why he failed to report this to him.
(3) If the reports that he knew in September 2003 that Armitage was the leaker prove true, the President should publicly say that he is deeply disappointed in the conduct of the former State Department officials, that he doesnt question their belief that the Armitage leaks were inadvertent but that there failure to notify him of those leaks was inexcusable.
(4) If the facts indicate that former Attorney General Ashcroft and Comey knew who Novaks source was, the President should indicate his disappointment in them for having yielded to the press frenzy in appointing a special prosecutor rather than simply having the courage to tell what happened and why.
(5) He should express regret to the country for this unnecessary and longstanding distraction occasioned by these failures.
(6) He should express special regret to Scooter Libby and his family who have been forced to endure so much for no reason whatsoever.
(7) Finally, he should express disappointment in the unprofessional conduct of the Special Prosecutor who misled the public and the Courts, among other things, and he should announce that he is instructing the Atttorney General to dismiss Fitzgerald and drop the case against Libby.
The President is an honorable man who naively believed that these officials shared his courage and sense of honor and probity.
He has so far not spoken on this matter nor criticized the evident failures of the Prosecutor or his former appointed officials, but it is now time to move, to place the blame for this longstanding and damaging distraction where it belongs, and to act to prevent further injustice and distraction from truly pressing matters of critical significance to this country."
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