On 7/13/06, Gruss Gott wrote: > Novak, by putting 2+2 together after speaking with some people > (probably 1st off Sec Armitage) figures out that Ms. Plame was Mr. > Wilson's husband. Novak also knows that this would make a great > story: discredit Mr. Wilson by spinning up a > it-was-all-partisan-nepotism story.
Spinning? Wouldn't it be considered standard background disclosure? > So Novak runs around confirming Ms. Plame's identity intending solely > to discredit anyone questioning Mr. Bush's contention that Hussein was > a Nuke waiting to go off. (Which, ironically, we now know he wasn't.) It was about the attempted purchase of yellowcake, which is still strongly believed to be true. Wilson confirmed the meeting. > Of course Rove is all in on a smear-the-questioners approach and > probably encourages it. Bill Harlow, CIA spokesman, confirms it as > well but warns Novak against revealing it. Yesterday you said Rove was trying to steer people away from an embarrassing story. > Novak disregards Harlow's warning in his zeal to personally destroy a > Bush detractor and writes about it. When is it an attack and when is it information that people should know? > The dishonorable way to approach it is to take a Scorched Earth > approach: destroy your dissenters thus leaving yours as the view. > This is the approach that the current administration takes as well as > many of its supporters. Such as Novak did here. So now your back to the belief that Wilson did no wrong and Novak is Bush's evil henchman? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:211128 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
