No, she _really_ wasn't a covered agent. The RNC could have put out a commercial denouncing Joe Wilson and telling the country his wife was the CIA agent who suggested he go to Niger, and nobody would have gone to jail..
Moreover, the so-called leaker was Richard Armitage at the State Department--no confidant of Cheney or Libby in the Iraq war policy. The irony is that Libby once represented Armitage pro bono in a libel case, but Armitage let him hang out to dry under clouds of suspicion for two years. The prosecutor knew the "leaker" was Armitage from very nearly the beginning of the investigation. Yet everyone was allowed to believe the leaker was in the VPs office or Karl Rove or anyone BUT who it really was. Notice the actual leaker didn't get indicted. In fact, he didn't get dragged in front of the grand jury ten different times in an effort to put him in a perjury trap. It was all very brief and cordial, according to official accounts. So, let go of this stupid notion that Plame was a covert agent. In fact, she hadn't been one for more than five years. Even the representative who wrote the statute pointed this out, well before the full truth came out about this sham of an investigation. The jury had been worked up into a conspiratorial frenzy by a run- amok prosecutor and process, and felt obligated obligated to convict SOMEBODY. It could have been a ham sandwich at the stand, and they would have voted to convict it. Some of them even said they regretted having to do it to Libby but since no one else was on the stand... they let him have it. It was nuts from the beginning. Bush was wrong not to pardon Libby entirely. But I guess he did deserve being punished for acting paranoid. It's like the Gonzoles case. All they need to say is "You're damn write the firings were political. They are political appointments, and they serve at the pleasure of the President, period---yea, even a Republican president. Now shut up." Now why isn't the government anywhere near this interested to find out who the "leakers" of all manner of national security issues happen to be to the New York Times, which of course patriotically spatters the front page with supposedly secret information all the time, and nobody goes to jail? - Bob On Jul 3, 2007, at 2:46 AM, Kristyne McDaniel wrote: > Madigan, > >> Except that she wasn't covert. > > That one has been beaten to death. I realize your cronies have > explained > away the treason by saying she wasn't "really" covert (wink wink), but > they're filling your head full of BS because it fits their agenda > and you're > buying it because you want to. > > That doesn't make it true, but it does make you gullible. > > Nothing new there, of course. You'll swallow anything Hannity and > his ilk > shove down your throat without even looking at it. > > Kristyne McDaniel > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
