Rove confirmed what Novak already knew in an effort to highlight the ethical breach by Wilson in his claims to be a disinterested "outsider", which he clearly was not. When he was sent was irrelevant. He was recommended by his wife! At my company, a relationship like this is almost an automatic disqualifier for doing business with someone (as a vendor/consultant), and if it were allowed it would have to be approved at a minimum by the CFO of the company. Those are standard ethical guidelines which apparently the CIA feels no obligation to follow.
Not only did Rove confirm her occupation, the spokeman at the CIA confirmed it! I guess she wasn't undercover after all. I laugh at Wilson's credentials, since it turns out that Wilson got almost everything wrong in his report (and his piece in the NY Times). As for Libby, it is clear now that the only reason he is being prosecuted is that he lied to the Feds. I think it is a near certainty that nothing bad happens to him. Maybe a slap on the wrist. If his case is still pending in January 2008, I would not be at all surprised to see a Bush pardon for him. The bottom line in this story is that the hysterics on the part of liberals and the MSM about the damage to national security and intelligence from her "outing" is a load of BS. Another fevered conspiracy theory from the tin-foil hat club. On 7/11/06, Gruss wrote: > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/ > > So Novak still hasn't revealed his primary source but it's suspected > to be Richard Armitage, and inadvertently. > > My take on the whole thing: > > Plame was confirmed as CIA by Rove in an effort to kill the Joe Wilson > story. Basically he was telling the press, "hey, stop talking about > Wilson because you'll just embarrass yourself: he's anti-war and was > sent there on a boondoggle by his wife who's CIA". > > Despite the fact that there's various logic problems with that (he was > sent before the war, he had impeccable credentials to go, etc) it > looks like the administration was attempting to kill the story rather > than punish Wilson. That is, her outing wasn't a leak. > > That having been said, Libby sounds like he went too far once the > information was out, which explains his indictment, and you certainly > don't hear any prosecute-the-journalists mumbo jumbo about Ms. Plame's > outing. -- --------------- Robert Munn www.funkymojo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:5/messageid:210989 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
