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2005-07-15 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-07-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What they both were actually were heavy donors to the DNC and I think VP herself actually used her "CIA job" in connection to get others to donate as well. I could be wrong in how I recall that last bit. But they were DNC supporters and opend their wallets in a very generous way.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-07-15 03:52|| 2005-07-15 03:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Welcome to the shut-down. Miller goes to jail, Fitzgerald and the grand jury are closing in, and Wilson decides it's time to pull the rug out from under the investigation by removing any possibility that what the grand jury is investigating was actually a crime. Neat trick if they've not expanded their scope to something beyond merely who allegedly leaked Plame's identity.

Posted by AzCat 2005-07-15 04:02|| 2005-07-15 04:02|| Front Page Top

#3 [span class=moonbat]
The traitor! He sold us out! HOW MUCH DID KKKARL ROVE PAY YOU TO ROLL OVER FOR HIM, MR. WILSON?
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Posted by Mike 2005-07-15 06:43|| 2005-07-15 06:43|| Front Page Top

#4 I think that what Wilson meant here was that she was not covert after (not while) Novak blew her identity.

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-07-15 08:34|| 2005-07-15 08:34|| Front Page Top

#5 It is "wll known" that a lot of peopel in CIA that are holdovers from Clinton's political era were very hostile and partisan - and used their jobs to help thier politics along. THis is why the nw director was needed to clean out the CIA, and why the new DNI was needed: the CIA was too rife with politicization of its work to be trusted as the primary source of intelligence for the NSC and the President.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-07-15 08:49|| 2005-07-15 08:49|| Front Page Top

#6 I wonder if ABC/NBC/CBS/BBC/CNN/etc.... will mention this outside of a hushed whisper....

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-07-15 09:15|| 2005-07-15 09:15|| Front Page Top

#7 It makes no difference if Plame was covert the day Novak's article came out - outing her would be a crime if she HAD BEEN covert during the preceding five (I think) years. That is, assuming all the other conditions were met, among others, the source knew she was covert, and the CIA was still trying to preserve her covert identity.
As far as I can tell, it is not clear ANY of those conditions were met, never mind all three.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2005-07-15 09:32|| 2005-07-15 09:32|| Front Page Top

#8 I wonder if Joe Wilson isn't himself the target (as opposed to any number of 'subjects') of Fitzgerald's investigation.

If his story is this variable publically... what did he tell investigators?

Posted by eLarson 2005-07-15 09:41|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-07-15 09:41|| Front Page Top

#9 You mean that wasn't a covert picture of you and your wife in Vanity Fair? I'm shocked!

Posted by Dar">Dar 2005-07-15 10:13|| 2005-07-15 10:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Mikey, your assertion in #4 is just precious... and specious. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and take it that you merely have an amazing capacity for self-delusion -- it would be too unkind to say it is simply 100% USDA apologist dementia. You carry more water for the defunct and corrupt UN, aka The League of Thieves, and for the State Dept's private agenda segment, aka The Saudi Retirement Plan Wannabees (I'll bet your boyz already miss Princey Bandar, lol), than anyone else I've encountered. You're consistent, though I attach no credit to that attribute since you're consistently alone and embattled by the facts and, thus, reduced to spinning and hair-splitting and picking of ze nits - as #4 clearly shows. The Tranzi Moonbat Don Quixote of our time.

Posted by .com 2005-07-15 10:27|| 2005-07-15 10:27|| Front Page Top

#11 Guys,

Rather than re-play this, I think that you need to tie this to the Judith Miller thread at the bottom of page 1.

Plame was not covert after 1997 so the statute didn't apply. The interesting thread is that Miller blew an investigation into a Muzzie group in Texas and that may be what she's covering up.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2005-07-15 11:04|| 2005-07-15 11:04|| Front Page Top

#12 Well said, .com.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-07-15 13:43|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-07-15 13:43|| Front Page Top

#13 My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity.

MS, who are we supposed to believe here, you or Wilson? Wilson says she wasn't THE DAY, you say 'probably meant the day after'. So it's a choice between a liar and a apologist. Tough choice.

Posted by Charles 2005-07-15 14:27|| 2005-07-15 14:27|| Front Page Top

#14 Why is MS always running interference for Annan and Wilson?

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-07-15 15:19|| 2005-07-15 15:19|| Front Page Top

#15 :) Cause he's naturally good hearted?

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-15 15:45|| 2005-07-15 15:45|| Front Page Top

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