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2007-03-17 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-17 12:07|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 what kind of dipshit spends 3 years complaining that the W admin "outed" your covert status, yet testifies this week that she doesn't even really know if she was covert? Lil Ms. Plame, of course. Covert status has a definition in the law and in the CIA biz jargon, and if she really was covert, Fitz would've gone after someone besides Libby. What a farce, and what a preening pair of lib narcisissts in the Wilson marriage. She and her husband have now both lied under oath

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-03-17 13:31|| 2007-03-17 13:31|| Front Page Top

#2 but bush lied, and people died, and scooter liby is going to jail...

Dont try and confuse us with facts, our mind is made up. /msm

Posted by abu do you love 2007-03-17 13:36|| 2007-03-17 13:36|| Front Page Top

#3 The same kind of dipshit that allows her diplomat husband to name her in his entry in Who's Who. I'm still surprised the CIA didn't pink slip her then -- she clearly doesn't have the brains to work there.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-17 13:39|| 2007-03-17 13:39|| Front Page Top

#4 What an amazing non-secret. The fact that seems to have fallen off the table is that Valerie worked as an analyst. She wasn't a deep cover 00-super-secret agent. She had a desk job.

Non-rhetorical question: is the CIA good for anything nowadays?

Posted by SteveS 2007-03-17 13:49|| 2007-03-17 13:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Might have been the biggest mistake Truman made, in retrospect.

TW, so naive. This whole Plame Game has been a CIA dirty trick. It's all they cna do any more. G_d knows what little bureaucratic tussel with Cheney or Bush they lost and are using this to get even with. All my respect for the CIA has disappeared. Even though there are undoubtedly patriots left in the CIA, they are so outnumbered by the Plames that thes best thing is to dissolve the CIA and start from scratch with DIA amd military retirees.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-03-17 14:51|| 2007-03-17 14:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Whoops. Looks like I did't copy

I'm still surprised the CIA didn't pink slip her

properly, not to mention PIMF.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-03-17 15:11|| 2007-03-17 15:11|| Front Page Top

#7 The absurdity of this whole chapter beggars description. Sadly, while the villainy and bad form is mostly confined to the Wilson/Dem/MSM side, the stupidity is not. The administration's response to the preposterous op-ed was and remains an unfathomable blend of cluelessness and ineptitude.

They could have/should have dispenses with Wilson's silly piece in a few hours - literally. Instead, they walk back from the perfectly well-founded Sixteen Words, start pointing fingers at each other, and then engage in this idiotic gossip campaign (to some extent, which I find uninteresting and unimportant, insofar as Plame's ID was not sensitive).

If one looks back, this was the starting gun for administration bumbling on the political/PR side. They somehow managed to hang on and defeat the worst presidential candidate in a century in '04 - but amazingly that opponent got more than 50 electoral votes.

The whole affair was a one-stop reminder/revelation that many players were not ready for prime time: Rice, Tenet, Hadley, press office ..... Rove? Cheney? Libby? Bush? We've since seen lots of confirmation on that score.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-03-17 15:26|| 2007-03-17 15:26|| Front Page Top

#8 agreed Verlaine, they blew a LOT of opportunities to shut this down in its' infancy. BTW are you attending the St Pat's parade/party in Balboa Park? Should be 10X the antiwar demonstration by Horton Plaza

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-03-17 16:15|| 2007-03-17 16:15|| Front Page Top

#9 As I read these comments it came to me where the term 'dipshit' must have come from - 'dip(lomatic bull)shit. If not, it could have.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-03-17 18:38|| 2007-03-17 18:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Dang, Frank, didn't really know about, so probably not. Met a guy I've known since 2nd grade the other day - he's been a SD cop for decades, said to call him about something going on today, did so but he didn't get back to me yet. Probably will limit myself to a restrained bit of consumption at a bar near the Mission - just got a call from someone there.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-03-17 21:25|| 2007-03-17 21:25|| Front Page Top

#11 old Smokey's or Camel's Breath Inn on Friars? :-)

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-03-17 21:36|| 2007-03-17 21:36|| Front Page Top

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