Comments on: Power Grows Arrogant

By: Joshua Claybourn's Domain

Joshua Claybourn's Domain — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 14:15:31 +0000

Uniter, Not a Divider part II

More possible smear campaigns from the White House. I’ll just report the facts and let y’all comment on this one.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:00:13 +0000

conspiracy theories are rampant these days...left leaning bob somerby has a level headed take on this: http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh071503.shtml

By: felix

felix — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:10:30 +0000

You mean W is not the God-fearing, compassionate conservative, American patriot that he pretends to be?

Next thing, you’ll tell me Clinton lied about a blow-job!

Merde alors!

By: Chris Farley

Chris Farley — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:00:22 +0000

Your turning into a conspiracy buff. Can you tell me who killed JFK?

By: Jon H

Jon H — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:28:53 +0000

Conor wrote:
“There’s no way the president himself is saying, ‘Let’s blow this guy’s wife’s CIA cover just to get him back.’”

Don’t be so sure. See below.

” Is ABC really just an open conduit for any leaked information, with no filter? It would seem so.”

The story first came out through conservative columnist Robert Novak, in his Sun-Times column.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/printrn20030714.shtml

quote:

Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson’s wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him.

(end quote)

It turns out that the administration officials sought out Novak to give him this information. He didn’t go looking for it. (See below)

More information today at http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/iraq/ny-uscia0722,0,6160519.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

quote:

Novak, in an interview, said his sources had come to him with the information. “I didn’t dig it out, it was given to me,” he said. “They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it.”

quote:

Novak reported that his “two senior administration officials” told him that it was Plame who suggested sending her husband, Wilson, to Niger.

quote:

A senior intelligence official confirmed that Plame was a Directorate of Operations undercover officer who worked “alongside” the operations officers who asked her husband to travel to Niger.

(end quotes)

By: Conor

Conor — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:43:21 +0000

There’s no way the president himself is saying, “Let’s blow this guy’s wife’s CIA cover just to get him back.” And why the heck is the media reporting this, anyway, if they think this is damaging to her? Is ABC really just an open conduit for any leaked information, with no filter? It would seem so.

By: Jon H

Jon H — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:42:01 +0000

Wilson’s charge isn’t just a smear, it’s a crime, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

(Ironically enough, the law was pushed for by George H. W. Bush in 1982.)