From its very start, the ballyhooed case of who leaked the name of CIA analyst Valerie Plame to columnist Robert Novak has been drenched in partisan politics and media hypocrisy. The more we learn, however, the more it also reveals about the internal dysfunction of the Bush Administration and the lack of loyalty among some of its most senior officials.In other words, the leaker wasn't Karl Rove or Scooter Libby or anyone else in the White House who has been accused of running a conspiracy against Ms. Plame as revenge for her husband Joe Wilson's false accusations against the White House's case for war with Iraq. So what have the last three years been all about anyway? Political opportunism and internal score-settling, among other things.
While conspiracy theories can be used to weave an intricate plotline, the wild-eyed, totally contrived theories promulgated by liberals and their willing accomplices in the media are finally exposed as the deceitful heresy that has become the foundation of the democrat party. If democrats plan to use these fabricated mantras as Fall campaign slogans, the November elections should prove to be very entertaining.
Although Richard Armitage has been outed as the source for the original Rober Novak column, we must remember that there is not now, nor has the ever been a crime committed against Valerie Plame or the United States government. It has been well established the Plame was not an undercover employee any longer, and in any case, she had already outed herself publicly many times over. We explained this in a detailed post on October 23, 2005.
Also, often lost in the devious, democrat, demagoguery parroted by the mainstream media for more than three years is the fact that every assertion by Joe Wilson (aka Clown Wilson) has been proven indisputably false.
"ON JULY 22, 2005, the New York Times published a lengthy, front-page article detailing the work of two senior Bush administration officials, Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, on the Niger-uranium story. A seemingly exhaustive timeline ran alongside the piece. In 19 bullet points, the Times provided its readers in considerable detail with what it regarded as the highlights of the story. The timeline traces events from the initial request for more information on the alleged Iraqi inquiries in Africa to Joseph Wilson's trip to Niger; from the now-famous "16 words" in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union to the details of White House telephone logs; from Bush administration claims that Karl Rove was not involved in the leak to the naming of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, and on from there to the dates that White House officials testified before the grand jury.
As I say, seemingly exhaustive. But there is one curious omission: July 7, 2004. On that date, the bipartisan Senate Select Intelligence Committee released a 511-page report on the intelligence that served as the foundation for the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq. The Senate report includes a 48-page section on Wilson that demonstrates, in painstaking detail, that virtually everything Joseph Wilson said publicly about his trip, from its origins to his conclusions, was false."
Only a media culture in which Bush hatred has become the psychotic, impenetrable template for news could produce news stories that make Wilson appear at all credible. The mainstream media continued today to focus on their own irresponsible vendetta while missing the two key elements of this episode.
Since the embarrassing revelation, the Paul Begala wing of the liberal party has been strangely silent. When any of these strident voices fall silent on any topic, it means more than an admission of defeat, it means that further discussion of the tired issue might endanger Ned Lamont or some other current “cut and run” darling of the extreme left. Valerie Plame and Clown Wilson must be sitting at home feeling like a used woman: they were paid for their services and discarded afterwards.
Others on this topic: Rhymes with Right, Donklephant, Mike's Noise has a Fabulous post.
InstaPundit, GOP Bloggers. Not-A-Pundit.
Mark Levin weighs in..
"So, here is what we have. Valerie Plame uses here married name, her cover name, working at the CIA front company called Brewster-Jennings & Associates, contributes $1,000 to the Gore campaign. The media spins this as a revelation resulting from the Novak article-and of course, Karl Rove. But, this is not what this shows. What this shows is that Valerie Plame blew her own cover because she contributed to the campaign of Gore under the same name that she used for her undercover, her married name, and the name of a CIA front company that she worker for. So, Valerie Plame violates who knows what other kinds of protocol using her undercover name, exposing the existence of a CIA front company and all of this is totally ignored because supposedly her name was leaked and that is how people noticed. Now, this is a clever, clever attempt to try to spin the as she didn't do anything wrong. Why is it perfectly normal for an American and CIA agent to contribute and want to contribute to the Gore campaign."
Also, often lost in the devious, democrat, demagoguery parroted by the mainstream media for more than three years is the fact that every assertion by Joe Wilson (aka Clown Wilson) has been proven indisputably false.
"ON JULY 22, 2005, the New York Times published a lengthy, front-page article detailing the work of two senior Bush administration officials, Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, on the Niger-uranium story. A seemingly exhaustive timeline ran alongside the piece. In 19 bullet points, the Times provided its readers in considerable detail with what it regarded as the highlights of the story. The timeline traces events from the initial request for more information on the alleged Iraqi inquiries in Africa to Joseph Wilson's trip to Niger; from the now-famous "16 words" in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union to the details of White House telephone logs; from Bush administration claims that Karl Rove was not involved in the leak to the naming of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, and on from there to the dates that White House officials testified before the grand jury.
As I say, seemingly exhaustive. But there is one curious omission: July 7, 2004. On that date, the bipartisan Senate Select Intelligence Committee released a 511-page report on the intelligence that served as the foundation for the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq. The Senate report includes a 48-page section on Wilson that demonstrates, in painstaking detail, that virtually everything Joseph Wilson said publicly about his trip, from its origins to his conclusions, was false."
Only a media culture in which Bush hatred has become the psychotic, impenetrable template for news could produce news stories that make Wilson appear at all credible. The mainstream media continued today to focus on their own irresponsible vendetta while missing the two key elements of this episode.
Since the embarrassing revelation, the Paul Begala wing of the liberal party has been strangely silent. When any of these strident voices fall silent on any topic, it means more than an admission of defeat, it means that further discussion of the tired issue might endanger Ned Lamont or some other current “cut and run” darling of the extreme left. Valerie Plame and Clown Wilson must be sitting at home feeling like a used woman: they were paid for their services and discarded afterwards.
Others on this topic: Rhymes with Right, Donklephant, Mike's Noise has a Fabulous post.
InstaPundit, GOP Bloggers. Not-A-Pundit.
Mark Levin weighs in..
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