Posted on 11/21/2005 2:28:31 PM PST by Fedora
looks to be well worth the reading, many thanks for your efforts!
edpc, your sarcastic response in post #7 was uncalled for, in my opinion. Sometimes it isn't possible to relate something in a handful of words. The Wilson/Plame saga is one of the most tangled news stories in memory. I applaud Fedora for caring enough to try to untangle it.
Thanks for the input. Yeah, I'm sorely aware it could use some editing. One issue I had to work around was that a concise summary would lack supporting detail. Originally I had added a timeline to serve as a summary, but that would've added even more to the length, so I ended up cutting that out. Ideally I'd have reworked it a bit along the lines you suggest, but I was under a time crunch to get it out there and had to cut off editing after a point. Like I say there will be shorter follow-ups, and hopefully that will be able to address the points you raise, which are well-taken.
When the two of you (Cicero and edpc) do the work yourselves, then you can organize it any way you see fit. Until then, it's foolish and petty to complain about form over substance when someone else has taken the time and trouble to do the heavy lifting.
Many thanks for the ping! :-)
Thanks! My Wilson pinglist is kind of informal but I've noted to keep you on it. Regarding the editorial critique, no worries, but thanks :-)
I'm not complaining about the work, which obviously must have taken a tremendous effort, and is very important. It's just my sense that this essay is too important not to make it more easily accessible to readers.
That may just be my own personal reaction.
It has been one of the difficulties of this whole business that it's very complicated. That enables the media to spin it their way. My own view is that what Fedora argues here needs to be said--that the real conspirators are Wilson, Plame, the rogues in the CIA, Rockefeller and his pals on the Intelligence Committee, Daschle and his successor Harry Reid, and apparently French intelligence.
That's a hell of a conspiracy, so the more clearly you lay it out, the better.
I don't have time to read this now...will read it later. Thanks for this research...
"Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction."
If Novak had written, "Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction," it's likely few would ever have paid attention to any part of this story.
Thanks. I'm planning to see what I can do about a condensed version along those lines that would just hit the highlights.
Bump. Please add me to your ping list.
About to open a new pack of paper to print this out...
Pinz
Well, Fedora, it's been long-awaited and I can see why. I will have to take some time to study it.
Suggestion?
Send this to: Washington Office: Bond Federal Building 1400 New York Avenue, NW, Ninth Floor Washington D.C. 20530
Patrick Fitzgerald ;)
I've wondered if Novak would've worded it differently given the chance to rewrite it. I'll be interested to see what he has to say when his promised tell-all on this comes out.
ROFL! Added you to the ping list :-)
So it is Novaks contention or that Tenet didnt know about Wilsons trip until afterward? I think he needs to be questioned as well-just based on the fact he was a Clinton holdover in an agency with rogue elements out to get the Bush admin..
The MSM have damn good reason to be wetting their collective pants. Nowhere in the collective "News" will you see this level of detail. You are the king of the pajamadeen, sir. I doff my cap to you.
Time to run a ream through Mr. Printer.
bump.. whew!
Thanks! Hopefully with some help from the blogosphere at least some of the information can reach Fitzgerald's radar.
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