Showing posts with label valerie plame. Show all posts
Showing posts with label valerie plame. Show all posts
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Today it's time to just say no mas. David Broder's column today is both erroneous and offensive at the same time. I want to blame it on age. Otherwise, the man is just a horse's ass. Today's column is about the Scooter Libby trial.
Now, many conservatives are up in arms about Walton "throwing the book" at Libby. Part of their criticism is based on their belief that Libby's long and effective government service -- attested to by former secretary of state Henry Kissinger and a host of other worthies-- should mitigate whatever errors in judgment he made in this case.
It goes downhill from here. One would think that referring to Henry Kissinger, Doug Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, et al as "worthies" would be the low point of a column, perhaps even a career, but Broder was just getting warmed up.
Despite the absence of any underlying crime, Fitzgerald filed charges against Libby for denying to the FBI and the grand jury that he had discussed the Wilson case with reporters. Libby was convicted on the testimony of reporters from NBC, the New York Times and Time magazine -- a further provocation to conservatives.
The CIA said Valerie Plame was covert, the Special Prosecutor said she was covert, the congressional testimony showed she was covert. Former colleagues, the judge agreed. How also are conservatives supposed to be provoked here? Libby leaked to all these "liberal" media outlets, whose reporters were willing to go to jail to protect him? It's their fault now?
I think they have a point. This whole controversy is a sideshow -- engineered partly by the publicity-seeking former ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife and heightened by the hunger in parts of Washington to "get" Rove for something or other.
They have a point??? His wife's name is Valerie Plame Wilson. She was a career CIA agent and she is a patriot whose career was ruined by people like Scooter Libby and your friend Karl Rove. You are supposed to be a journalist, not a water carrier. Dismissing her as "his wife" and pretending Karl Rove was a choir boy in all this is a discredit to truth, governmental integrity, and downright boorish.
Like other special prosecutors before him, Fitzgerald got caught up in the excitement of the case and pursued Libby relentlessly, well beyond the time that was reasonable.
A CIA agent named Valerie Plame and her CIA front company Brewster-Jennings were blown by an administration official who did it out of petty spite due to having a problem with her husband. She worked in the field of weapons of mass destruction. Anybody she met overseas was put into danger by this relevation now that their government knows she wasn't a business woman but an undercover operative trying to learn their military secrets.That is old fashioned midwestern values Dave? The mafia has a better code of ethics.
Retire please. What you wrote here was more profane than any common curse word uttered by the critics you too easily dismiss.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
One of the letters written in defense of Scooter Libby was written by Mary Matalin and signed by her husband James Carville, who is working as an adviser to the Hillary Clinton campaign.
The he said/she said act is starting to run a bit too thin at the moment. Mary Matalin was on the White House Iraq Study Group along with Libby cooking up bogus justifications for us to go to war. Love happens. I can accept that. Scooter Libby though is a partisan hack who helped lie us into war, and outed a CIA agent because her husband criticized a Republican administration. He then lied about it on the stand.
James Carville might have thought this letter was going to be kept secret. Ooops. It shows how much of what goes on in D.C. amongst the chattering class is a big game to them.
What Scooter Libby did was serious. He committed perjury about outing a CIA agent, an act that could have gotten her overseas contacts killed. Somebody may have died for all we know. The fact that it was done for partisan politics and Carville is defending the man shows that his time should be over in democratic partisan politics.
Are you listening Senator Clinton?
Monday, March 26, 2007
According to National Review's luxuriously coiffed reporter Byron York, hard hitting intellectual whirlwind congressman Lynn Westmoreland isn't quite satisfied with the testimony that Valerie Plame gave to his congressional committee. Westmoreland, who is known as one of the brightest members of congress, has contemplated the matter further and demands details.
Now, however, Westmoreland wants to know more. In a letter to committee chairman Rep. Henry Waxman Friday, he submitted more questions for Mrs. Wilson and requested that Waxman ask the Senate Intelligence Committee for information that could shed light on issues left unresolved after her testimony.
As part of its investigation into pre-war intelligence, the Senate committee interviewed Mrs. Wilson, as well as some of her colleagues at the CIA. The committee also reviewed CIA documents about the Niger uranium affair. In his letter, Westmoreland asked Waxman to ask the Senate committee for the full text of Mrs. Wilson’s interview with Senate investigators. Westmoreland also asked for the “full text of Ms. Plame’s February 12, 2002 email/memo to her boss regarding sending her husband, Joseph Wilson, to Niger.”
My goodness this Westmoreland fellow is on the ball. I think my readers should know much more about Westmoreland so here is a video clip of Lynn discussing biblical law with crack reporter Stephen Colbert. The wisdom of Westmoreland truly is stunning. If a man like this questions Valerie Plame, we should all be asking more questions.
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Denis Collins, a Washington journalist on the Scooter Libby jury, described sentiments in the jury room reflecting those in the Senate Democratic cloakroom: "It was said a number of times. . . . Where's Rove? Where are these other guys?" Besides presidential adviser Karl Rove, he surely meant Vice President Cheney and maybe President Bush. Oddly, the jurors appeared uninterested in hearing from Richard Armitage, the source of the CIA leak.
Why could that be Robert? Perhaps it was because the trial was focused on the perjury and obstruction of justice and not the leak? Could the jurors have been focused on Karl Rove and Cheney because Ted Wells used his opening arguments saying that Libby was being made a scapegoat for Karl Rove and Dick Cheney then didn't produce any evidence to support that claim? Could that be the reason why they wanted to hear from Rove and Cheney you dick?
The Libby trial uncovered no plot hatched in the White House. The worst news Tuesday for firebrand Democrats was that Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald was going back to his "day job" (as U.S. attorney in Chicago). With no underlying crime even claimed, the only question was whether Libby had consciously and purposefully lied to FBI agents and the grand jury about how he learned of Mrs. Wilson's identity.
Lies, lies, and more damned lies. Patrick Fitzgerald said he couldn't investigate what had happened exactly in the leak because Scooter "threw sand in the umpire's face" so it was impossible to figure out what happened.
It's obvious that things originated with Cheney giving instructions to Scooter Libby. It was Cheney who wanted to investigate Joe Wilson, and who Valerie Plame was. But with Scooter Libby lying about everything, it would be impossible to prove that Cheney was criminal in his actions because it's impossible to know what Cheney exactly told Libby because of the lying and obstruction of justice.
While my column on Wilson's mission triggered Libby's misery, I played but a minor role in his trial. Subpoenaed by his defense team, I testified that I had phoned him in reporting the Wilson column and that he had said nothing about Wilson's wife. Other journalists said the same thing under oath, but we apparently made no impression on the jury.
How fucking stupid do you take us to be Novakula? Rudy Guiliani didn't bang his third cousin, so obviously he didn't sleep with his second cousin either. I think you made a perfect impression of who and what you are on the jury btw. That is why Scooter probably shouldn't have called you to the stand.
Friday, March 02, 2007
Warner Bros. is developing a feature on the lives of Valerie Plame and Ambassador Joseph Wilson, the married couple drawn into a D.C. firestorm.
Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.
The film is a co-production between Weed Road's Akiva Goldsman and Jerry and Janet Zucker of Zucker Productions.
The biggest question for me is casting. I like Will Ferrell for Scooter Libby. Valerie Plame perhaps could be evplayed by Laura Linney. VP Cheney to be played by Satan, and maybe Joe Wilson by Kevin Dunn. This is a movie I will be watching the first night it is released. I can boo at all the bad guys and throw popcorn at the screen. Your ideas for casting?
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
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