http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/josephwilson/ en-us Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:40:08 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276806/posts The Supreme Court announced Monday it will not give further consideration to a lawsuit brought by a fired CIA agent and her husband against high ranking Bush administration officials, including former Vice President Dick Cheney. The decision is a victory for Cheney and his former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove, and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. They and nine unnamed co-defendants were sued by Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband Joseph after her CIA cover was leaked to reporters. FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276806/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:40:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1872355/posts It is amazing to me how many times in the course of our history, serious issues have taken a back seat to trivial and often foolish diversions that were politics-driven. Does anyone remember Quemoy and Matsu – nondescript islands off the coast of China whose status probably enabled John Kennedy to defeat Richard Nixon in 1960? Does anyone remember the “brainwashing” of George Romney or the pubic hair in the Coke can? How about the videos that someone in Judge Bork’s family viewed – videos that were gleaned from receipts fished out of the Bork family garbage by people who... From Sea to Shining Sea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1872355/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:52:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1867757/posts Bill O’Reilly devotes considerable time and a book to warning of the dangers to America from those he calls Secular Progressives or SP’s. These are people whose belief system is atheism, who believe that anything goes in sex and in the media, that America is a bad country that should make it up to the rest of the world for past sins, that our military is evil and should never be used to advance or defend our interests, and that every other culture in the world is superior to our own. Many liberal Democrats are SP’s, and only by understanding... From Sea to Shining Sea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1867757/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:52:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1841099/posts The Senate Intelligence Committee has just released a new report as part of its continuing investigation into prewar intelligence. In the report, the committee's vice chairman, Republican Sen. Christopher Bond, has included a set of "additional views" in which he provides new evidence contradicting some of the public testimony Valerie Plame Wilson gave before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in March. In that testimony, Mrs. Wilson flatly denied playing a role in choosing her husband, Joseph Wilson, for a fact-finding trip to Niger. "I did not recommend him. I did not suggest him," she testified........ ......[snip] Now,... NRO- The Corner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1841099/posts#comment Mon, 28 May 2007 22:13:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815525/posts Waxman Peddles Wilson's Lie By Clarice Feldman Is Congressman Harry Waxman, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, ignorant, lying or counting on the fact that the press is both?He is now picking a fight with Secretary of State Condi Rice based on utterly false premises. Chairman Waxman insists that Rice explain why in his 2003 State of the Union address the President "asserted that Iraq sought uranium from Niger" and demands that she provide information about what she knew about this assertion and how it ended up in the address. In this demand, Waxman continues to cite... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815525/posts#comment Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:03:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802387/posts For his level-headed professionalism, Lester Holt is on my [admittedly short] list of MSM faves. But while Holt did hit former Ambassador [to Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe] Joseph Wilson with one tough question on this morning's "Today," he let Valerie Plame's husband hijack the beginning of the interview, lobbed him numerous softballs, and failed to confront Wilson on his blatant misrepresenation of Plame's role in sending him to Niger. View video here. In a set-up piece on this morning's "Today" that preceeded the interview, a clip was played of Rep. Lynn Westmoreland [R-Georgia] asking Plame, during yesterday's congressional... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802387/posts#comment Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:29:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797891/posts CIA Operative Plame To Testify Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald Also Invited To Testify POSTED: 1:04 am EST March 9, 2007 CAPITOL HILL -- Valerie Plame, the CIA operative exposed after her husband criticized President George W. Bush's march to war, has agreed to testify before Congress. A House panel is looking into how the White House handled her identity. Congressman Henry Waxman, who chairs the panel, has also invited special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to testify March 16. But he hasn't responded yet. Fitzgerald just won conviction of Vice President Cheney's former aide, Lewis Libby, on obstruction and perjury charges. Plame's... NBC WESH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797891/posts#comment Fri, 9 Mar 2007 07:26:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780926/posts Plamegate: 25 Lingering QuestionsBy Fedora (The first four questions and answers below were previously posted as Was Plame Covert? A Review of Isikoff and Corn's Hubris.) I recently finished reviewing Michael Isikoff and David Corn’s Hubris (New York: Crown Publishers, 2006) to see what it adds to the current state of knowledge in the Plamegate investigation. Here I will present my findings in the form of a list of questions and answers focusing on loose ends and other points of interest in the case. I will list the questions first so that individual readers may more easily scroll down to... Original FReeper review of Michael Isikoff and David Corn, "Hubris" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780926/posts#comment Wed, 7 Feb 2007 22:16:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757930/posts An attorney for former ambassador Joseph Wilson, whose wife, Valerie Plame, is at the center of the Plamegate scandal in Washington, was raked over the coals by a judge Thursday for remarks she made the day before on MSNBC's Hardball. During an interview on the program, Melanie Sloan said that former administration official Scooter Libby could still be convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice even though he may not have been the first person to reveal that Plame was a CIA agent. In a stinging rebuke from the bench, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said that he "would not... imdb.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757930/posts#comment Sun, 24 Dec 2006 02:58:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756980/posts WASHINGTON - A federal judge strongly admonished an attorney for former ambassador Joseph Wilson for her appearance yesterday on MSNBC's program "Hardball" where she predicted a jury can find I Lewis "Scooter" Libby guilty of making false statements. NBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756980/posts#comment Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:10:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1755512/posts MILITARY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOUNDATION 13170-B Central Avenue, SE Suite 255 Albuquerque, NM 87123 URL: Website Seeks to eradicate the religious bias and coercion that it deems prevalent among high-ranking Christian members of the U.S. military Established in 2006, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) describes itself as “a watchdog group” that is “dedicated to ensuring that all members of the United States Armed Forces fully receive the Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom to which they and all Americans are entitled ..." The organization’s primary objective is to eradicate the religious bias and "coercion" that it deems prevalent among high-ranking Christian... DiscoverTheNetworks.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1755512/posts#comment Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:45:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1715498/posts The publication of Hubris is filled with irony for David Corn, Washington editor of the left-wing Nation magazine. He was present at the creation of the Valerie Plame "scandal," which the enemies of George W. Bush hoped could bring down a president. Nobody was more responsible for bloating this episode. Yet Corn is coauthor of a book that has had the effect of killing the story. Thanks to Corn's intrepid coauthor, Newsweek investigative reporter Michael Isikoff, Hubris definitively revealed then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage as my source that Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie, worked for the CIA and suggested her... WeeklyStandard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1715498/posts#comment Sat, 7 Oct 2006 18:22:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1714894/posts Bit h/t to the Commenters at Just One Minute. We bloggers owe our best work to their diligence and tenacity. The following is a complilation of some what they found so far, of what just may be the key to getting to the bottom of a Democratic conspiracy in the Foley Setup. As I previously posted here, there apparently was a promise of a book deal to pages by a Robin Kasaros. Googling her name brought about useful information such as she hosted “House Parties” back in 2005. No, not where you sell Tupperware, but the kind that like to... Macsminds http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1714894/posts#comment Fri, 6 Oct 2006 15:24:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1714978/posts Early this morning on JOM we went through the cached page blog and noticed something interesting. The cached pages we examined indicate that the mother of one of the pages, Robin Katsoros, mother of Christopher Katsoros a former Pelosi page, told the pages she was working on a screen production of the lives of pages. And she gathered information from them. She is a Conyers and Kerry supporter and he is a student at Georgetown now. It looks like the kids were trying to “sex” up their experiences to get her interested. Here are some bits of it. JOM has... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1714978/posts#comment Fri, 6 Oct 2006 17:24:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1714698/posts Was Plame Covert? A Review of Isikoff and Corn's HubrisBy Fedora I recently finished reviewing Michael Isikoff and David Corn’s Hubris (New York: Crown Publishers, 2006) to see what it adds to the current state of knowledge in the Plamegate investigation. Here I will present my findings in the form of a list of questions and answers: 1. What did Valerie Wilson aka Valerie Plame do at CIA?According to Isikoff and Corn (12-13, 283-286), after Plame graduated from the CIA’s training program, she began working with the CIA Directorate of Operations’ European Division in the Cyrus/Greece/Turkey area in the late... Original FReeper research http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1714698/posts#comment Fri, 6 Oct 2006 04:46:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1697827/posts Most conservatives who have taken a look at what is being taught about American history and values in our high schools and colleges are well aware of the horrendous brainwashing that is going on to teach our kids to hate America. I first encountered this as a college professor myself, amazingly at a Catholic college you would think would be espousing traditional American values. This was not the fault of that particular college, however, it was just that the professors they hired were products of Vietnam era education where something went so terribly wrong in our entire educational system, and... From Sea to Shining Sea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1697827/posts#comment Fri, 8 Sep 2006 15:14:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1694743/posts Mexican leftists silence Fox YahooNews.com By Miguel Angel Gutierrez, Sat Sep 2, 12:38 AM ET “Mexican President Vicente Fox was forced to abandon his last state of the nation address to Congress on Friday after leftist lawmakers alleging election fraud seized the podium and refused to let him speak. Shortly before Fox was due to give his speech, dozens of legislators who support leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador marched up to the podium, some with banners calling the president a traitor to democracy. From Sea to Shining Sea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1694743/posts#comment Sun, 3 Sep 2006 11:27:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1693672/posts This does get a little complicated. First, a holdover, liberal CIA employee, Valerie Plame, decided to undermine President Bush’s policies by pulling strings to get her like-minded husband, Joseph Wilson, sent to Niger to discredit the report from British intelligence that Saddam Hussein tried to purchase yellowcake for nuclear weapons development. (This British report was mentioned by Pres. Bush as one piece of intelligence we relied on in concluding that there was a significant risk of WMD in Iraq. The report turned out to be factual.) From Sea to Shining Sea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1693672/posts#comment Fri, 1 Sep 2006 11:47:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1692849/posts It’s been three years since I started trying to combat left-wing lies and anti-Americanism – first with an e-mail group and, now for one year, with my own weblog. I’d always been a news and political junkie, but with the blog I substantially increased my own exposure to world and national issues by putting in 3-5 hours a day of research and writing. My problem is simple: every day I find myself growing angrier and angrier as I more and more discover just how extensive the web of lies and the hate-America fifth column has penetrated areas of government, public... From Sea to Shining Sea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1692849/posts#comment Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:36:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1692217/posts The left and its media and Hollywood accomplices are using this Katrina anniversary once again to smear President Bush. The lies told by the Associated Press about the levees have been well documented (See “Oops, Bush Didn’t Lie, Sorry About That” on my website, in March, 2006), and as ‘Popular Mechanics’ pointed out, “In fact, the response to Hurricane Katrina was by far the largest--and fastest-rescue effort in U.S. history, with nearly 100,000 emergency personnel arriving on the scene within three days of the storm's landfall. From Sea to Shining Sea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1692217/posts#comment Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:43:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692125/posts fighting wordsPlame OutThe ridiculous end to the scandal that distracted Washington.By Christopher HitchensPosted Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006, at 1:02 PM ET I had a feeling that I might slightly regret the title ("Case Closed") of my July 25 column on the Niger uranium story. I have now presented thousands of words of evidence and argument to the effect that, yes, the Saddam Hussein regime did send an important Iraqi nuclear diplomat to Niger in early 1999. And I have not so far received any rebuttal from any source on this crucial point of contention. But there was always another layer... www.slate.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692125/posts#comment Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:36:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1664251/posts Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has informed my attorneys that, after two and one-half years, his investigation of the CIA leak case concerning matters directly relating to me has been concluded. That frees me to reveal my role in the federal inquiry that, at the request of Fitzgerald, I have kept secret. I have cooperated in the investigation while trying to protect journalistic privileges under the First Amendment and shield sources who have not revealed themselves. I have been subpoenaed by and testified to a federal grand jury. Published reports that I took the Fifth Amendment, made a plea bargain with... HumanEventsOnLine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1664251/posts#comment Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:10:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1664031/posts WASHINGTON - Columnist Robert Novak said for the first time Tuesday that he cooperated with the investigation into who leaked the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame. Novak's decision to talk publicly came after he was notified a month ago by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald that he would not file criminal charges against one of Novak's sources, White House political aide Karl Rove. Fitzgerald "has informed my attorneys that, after two and one-half years, his investigation of the CIA leak case concerning matters directly relating to me has been concluded," Novak said in a statement. Novak promised to provide details... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1664031/posts#comment Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:48:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1660323/posts Goodfellow’s BedfellowsWho’s in Bed with the Washington PostBy Fedora Introduction I. A Radical Education: Boston University and Cambridge-Goddard II. Vietnam Roots: Indochina Resource Center A. Luce at International Voluntary Services B. Luce and Cornell’s Hanoi for Lunch Bunch C. Luce’s Tiger Cages and the Indochina Mobile Education Project D. Luce and Branfman: The COLIFAM Connection E. Luce, Branfman, Winter Soldier, and Project Air War F. The Indochina Resource Center: Branfman, Luce, and Goodfellow G. The IRC and the Indochina Peace Campaign: The Hayden-Fonda Link III. Post-Vietnam Transition: Campaign for a Democratic Foreign Policy and Coalition for a New Foreign and... Original FReeper research http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1660323/posts#comment Tue, 4 Jul 2006 20:02:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641768/posts In the infamous Vanity Fair article on Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame (the one with a photo spread of them in their Jaguar convertible), an article obviously sourced by them, Alan Foley is described as Plame’s boss: The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641768/posts#comment Thu, 1 Jun 2006 15:04:08 GMT