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Corn Denies Charge in 'WSJ' That He Outed Plame
Editor and Publisher ^ | 9/15/06 | By E&P Staff

Posted on 09/16/2006 6:42:57 AM PDT by Laverne

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1 posted on 09/16/2006 6:42:59 AM PDT by Laverne
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To: Laverne
The fact that Novak did not state she was a 'covert' operative is utterly meaningless.

Depends on what the meaning of "is" is.

2 posted on 09/16/2006 6:44:53 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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To: Howlin

ping


3 posted on 09/16/2006 6:45:51 AM PDT by Mo1 (Think about it .. A Speaker Nancy Pelosi could be 2 seats away from being President)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Maybe Corn should be paying Scooter Libby's legal bills too.


4 posted on 09/16/2006 6:46:43 AM PDT by Thebaddog (Labs Rules! Brilliant!)
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To: Laverne
"operative" is a figure of speech; "covert operative" is an occupation.

Corn is covering up something really damaging here ~ maybe Valerie herself told him.

5 posted on 09/16/2006 6:46:53 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Laverne
"At this point," he adds, "her cover--whatever it might have been--was blown to bits. The fact that Novak did not state she was a 'covert' operative is utterly meaningless. (Does the CIA employ non-secret 'operatives'?)"

I thought, Novak asked the CIA first; Hum .... Must have been meaningless to the CIA too.

6 posted on 09/16/2006 6:47:55 AM PDT by the_daug
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To: muawiyah

Maybe Corn was doing Plame and she told him in the heat of the moment.


7 posted on 09/16/2006 6:48:06 AM PDT by zarf
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To: zarf

LOL


8 posted on 09/16/2006 6:49:18 AM PDT by Laverne
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To: Laverne
David Corn belongs here! Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
9 posted on 09/16/2006 6:51:46 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (NY Slimes the paper of record for OBL!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

glad Corn is on board: he didn't "out" Plame because as we all know Plame wasn't "covert."


10 posted on 09/16/2006 6:53:50 AM PDT by avital2
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To: ClearCase_guy

Thats what I first thought too


11 posted on 09/16/2006 6:55:22 AM PDT by woofie
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To: zarf
Corn's "demeanor" doesn't suggest he's involved with women..

Then there is that irresistible urge to "bitch slap" the bastard that is overwhelming.

All that, his "lisp" and "corn cob walk" -- causes one to pause.

Semper Fi

12 posted on 09/16/2006 6:55:45 AM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Laverne
Another must read:

The Case of the Missing Crime

13 posted on 09/16/2006 6:55:53 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: ClearCase_guy

Seems to me that once the Libs saw the word "Operative" used by Novak, they took off and used it in their mythbuilding campaign. To date no one has explained her real status and whether the law was broken by naming her. The fact that Novak was able to confirm her employment over the phone with the CIA, shows that she wasn't not covered by a covert program.


For Corn to rely on the choice of words used by Novak for the entire basis of his claims is irresponsible journalism. I still don't know why the RNC couldn't come up with a way to defuse this whole fairy tale.


14 posted on 09/16/2006 6:56:03 AM PDT by Wristpin ("The Yankees announce plan to buy every player in Baseball....")
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To: zarf

OR, "where are you honey, oh please come out", "tee hee, tee hee", "Oh, there you are, under cover again", "tee hee".


15 posted on 09/16/2006 6:57:56 AM PDT by muawiyah
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FYI: Corn is supposed to be on CSPAN's washington Journal on Monday discussing the story. You can try to call in and ask him whatever question you want.


16 posted on 09/16/2006 6:58:43 AM PDT by FreedomNeocon (Success is not final; Failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts -- Churchill)
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To: Laverne

Lady on CSPAN, "David Corn sounds like two toilet seats flapping together."

Novak never said she was covert just that she worked in some dept there. The CIA never said she was covert. Only Corn did to pump the story up and damage the President for leaking "sensitive" information. He is the one who first claimed covert which she wasn't. She was as covert as the janitors.

Pray for W and Our Troops


17 posted on 09/16/2006 6:59:48 AM PDT by bray (Voting for the Rats is a Deathwish)
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To: avital2

Can we just get this done with? Was she or was she not "covert"? Let's just bring an end to this ambiguity. Dang.

(I'm frustrated at the ongoing discussion, not at you.)


18 posted on 09/16/2006 7:03:41 AM PDT by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: Laverne
Who Exposed Secret Agent Plame?  National Review  Clifford May  7-15-05   The first reference to Plame being a secret agent appears in The Nation, in an article by David Corn published July 16, 2003, just two days after Novak’s column appeared. 
19 posted on 09/16/2006 7:07:42 AM PDT by windchime (One war~many fronts.)
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To: bray
Either that woman or another one came on just after a man who claimed to be a Republican recited the standard Joe Wilson propaganda spiel and pointed out that that was a standard technique used by people who weren't Republicans at all (since C-SPAN has no way to verify that those calling on the Republican line really are), and Bob Novak agreed with her.

Novak said he believed that President Bush realized Armitage was the leaker by December 2005 but didn't know how much earlier than that he had found out.

20 posted on 09/16/2006 7:10:01 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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