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These "folks" may yet "kill off" the real story here. If they fail, it won't be from a lack of trying. IBD.com attempts to discredit Wilson and blame our traitors' smear campaign on "partisan politics. There is not mention in their editorial that Wilson was praised for his service in Iraq under Bush '41, or that the "senate committee" did not agree that Wilson "lied". Sen. Pat Robertson and two other Republican senators on the intelligence committee participated in the Rove NEPOTISM "OP", as Novak earlier did, all of them, IMO, aiding and abetting a traitorous act. The future freedom and wellbeing of you and your family may rest now in the hands of prosecutor Fitzgerald. Pray for him, and for the country.
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http://www.investors.com/editorial/issues.asp?view=1
Investor's Business Daily
Issues & Insights
Thursday, July 14, 2005
The Plame Game
Security Leaks: Seems that talking to reporters is OK if you're Deep Throat or a Democratic congressman at war with the CIA. But if you're the guy who helped get George W. Bush elected twice, you're a criminal.
John Kerry, with Hillary Clinton nodding at his side, said that "Karl Rove ought to be fired" after the disclosure that Rove, in an e-mail to Time magazine's Matt Cooper in July 2003, said a trip that former Ambassador Joe Wilson took to Niger for the CIA was arranged by "Wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency." He didn't provide her name.
This was said to be retaliation for Wilson's claim in a New York Times op-ed piece after the trip that Bush lied in his State of the Union speech that British intelligence had learned Saddam operatives were trying to buy yellowcake uranium in Africa. Wilson also made three appearances on NBC's "Meet The Press."
Wilson, a Democrat who worked in the National Security Council under President Clinton, is a physician in need of healing himself when it comes to truth-telling.
On July 9, 2004, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence issued its report on the CIA's prewar intelligence on Iraq. The report concluded Wilson lied when he denied his wife got him the Niger assignment. The report also said Wilson lied when he told The Washington Post he knew the Niger intelligence had been based on forged documents. The CIA didn't obtain the document said to be a forgery until eight months after Wilson returned from Niger.
On July 14, 2003, Robert Novak wrote a column naming Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA employee. Novak did not name his source, but Wilson accused Rove, swearing that he would see Rove led out of the White House in "handcuffs."
In a column the following October, Novak said "the disclosure of Wilson's wife working at the agency . . . was not much of a secret" and that it "was well-known around Washington that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA."
Her name was certainly no secret, appearing in Wilson's "Who's Who In America" entry. Nor were her political affiliations and those of her husband. It could be argued that Mrs. Wilson blew her own cover when she made a contribution to the Al Gore for President campaign and listed her CIA cover company as her employer in the FEC filing.
Her husband Joe also made a contribution to the Gore campaign and, coincidentally enough, signed on with the Kerry presidential campaign as an unpaid foreign policy adviser and speech-writing assistant. He also campaigned for Kerry in six states.
The 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which Rove is accused of violating, was written following a scandal involving Philip Agee, a rogue former CIA agent who published the names of 700 of his CIA colleagues before fleeing to the worker's paradise of Cuba.
The law was designed to protect the CIA from subversion and treason by those who wished harm upon the agency and the U.S. It was not designed to protect the identities of agents and their spouses who freely inject themselves into one side of a national political debate. If Karl Rove is a criminal, exactly what was the crime?
The act protected only those who were "serving outside the United States or (have) within the last five years." It's not clear how Mrs. Wilson would qualify as an undercover covert operative when she was a weapons of mass destruction analyst sitting at a desk in Langley, Va., and not a spy.
Pure politics is behind the outrage of liberals such as Kerry and Clinton who suddenly feel protective of the CIA after spending decades blaming the organization and its covert operatives for all manner of mischief. Where was the outrage back in the '90s, when Democrats gave one of their own, then-Rep. Bob Torricelli, a pass when he blew the cover of a real CIA operative in Guatemala?
The usual suspects who got even with Newt Gingrich for electing a Republican Congress are now trying to settle the score with the architect of Bush's two election victories. Wilson now goes around Washington saying, "Neo-conservatives and religious conservatives have hijacked this administration, and I consider myself on a personal mission to destroy both." He's not alone, it seems.
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http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/glandrith_20050714.html
and.... more from the Rove NEPOTSIM "OP"....will it work for them ?
Here is another example of Karl and Novak at work on Jan. 12, 2005:
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http://mediamatters.org/items/200501140005
Victoria Toensing failed to disclose friendship with "No Disclosure" Novak in Wash. Post op-ed
...........Toensing and Sanford argued that Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney investigating the Plame leak, lacks legal justification to compel reporters to identify the government sources that purportedly leaked Plame's name because neither the original government sources nor Novak committed a crime by disclosing Plame's identity:
When the [1982 Intelligence Identities Protection] act was passed, Congress had no intention of prosecuting a reporter who wanted to expose wrongdoing and, in the process, once or twice published the name of a covert agent. Novak is safe from indictment.
But they failed to explain what "wrongdoing" Novak was seeking to expose in outing a CIA operative whom no one has accused of wrongdoing. Novak reported Plame's name as part of an effort to discredit her husband, Joseph C. Wilson, whom the CIA sent to Niger to investigate whether Iraq had in fact sought to purchase uranium from Niger, as Bush had claimed in his January 2003 State of the Union address as a justification for invading the country. Wilson wrote in a July 6, 2003, New York Times op-ed that he found no evidence that Iraq had made such an attempt. <h3>Does Novak's claim that Plame "suggested sending [her husband] to Niger to investigate the Italian report" constitute the kind of "wrongdoing" (if that word even applies) whose exposure Congress may have wanted to ensure, even at the cost of exposing a covert operative, as well as risking the exposure of everyone with whom she came into contact?</h3>
In discussing the law's applicability, Toensing and Sanford also argued: "If it were known on the Washington cocktail circuit, as has been alleged, that Wilson's wife is with the agency, a possessor of that gossip would have no reason to believe that information is classified -- or that 'affirmative measures' were being taken to protect her cover." But presumably only their government sources' knowledge of Plame's covert status is relevant to whether they violated the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. Are they really suggesting that government sources who happened to hear gossip that someone might work for the CIA are free to divulge that the person is in fact a CIA operative?
The argument that the leakers may not have known of Plame's covert status was also challenged by reporter and blogger Joshua Micah Marshall of TalkingPointsMemo.com, who reported that Novak consistently referred to undercover CIA agents as "operatives," while reserving other titles for CIA employees whose names are publicly available. Marshall's findings were noted in a January 4, 2004, editorial in the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Surely a prosecutor of his experience won't fall for the line the administration -- and most recently right-wing attorney Victoria Toensing -- has been floating, namely that perhaps Bush administration officials leaked Plame's name to the media but didn't commit a crime because they didn't know she was an undercover agent. "It could be embarrassing but not illegal," Toensing said in a Friday Washington Post story.
While theoretically possible, this is highly implausible. As journalist Joshua Micah Marshall wrote Friday in his online Talking Points Memo, the July 14 column by Robert Novak that outed Plame said she was an agency operative. "In the intelligence community, the word 'operative' is a term of art. And it means someone who is undercover. It doesn't refer to an analyst," he wrote, adding that "a review of all of Novak's columns in the Nexis database shows that he always uses the term in this way." Besides, it would be easy for senior administration officials to determine her status before making a call. Why wouldn't they?..............
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July 14, 2005
More Bad Faith Political Posturing
George C. Landrith
If speculation about Supreme Court nominees isn't the biggest story in the Nation's Capitol, allegations that Karl Rove leaked the name of a covert CIA officer is. The ultra-liberal MoveOn.org argues Rove must be fired and investigated. Representative Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y) said Rove "should be thoroughly investigated and prosecuted." Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) called for the immediate cancellation of Rove's security clearances. Representative Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) said that Rove should be subjected to a full congressional inquiry. It all sounds pretty serious. That's how political gamesmanship is played - making something of nothing.
The game is played by claiming there is smoke everywhere and then pointing at your political adversary and saying, "where there's smoke, there's fire." But there's no fire and no actual smoke. Just a lot of political gamesmanship and posturing.
We now know that a reporter was about to write a story that Vice President Dick Cheney had asked former Clinton-appointed ambassador Joseph Wilson to travel to Africa in 2002 to investigate reports that Iraq had tried to buy uranium used in nuclear weapons. <h3>However, the story was untrue. It turns out that Wilson was involved in a massive case of political nepotism.</h3> Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, a CIA employee, had arranged the trip. Rove simply revealed this fact. However, Rove did not know or reveal her name or her position. He simply told the reporter that it was "Wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency [the CIA] on WMD [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip.".............
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<h3>Are these just the "stragglers" of Karl's "OP", trickling in, or is this only the beginning of a massive wave of desperate, transparent, disinformation?</h3>
64 "items" in google news....and counting:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ne...nG=Search+News
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