> From: John D. Giorgis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> At 04:33 PM 11/15/2003 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > I would also point out that half of Washington has known > >Valerie Plame was a CIA agent for years, so it's not > >as if it's a major security breach either. None of > >this, of course, came out in the press. > > Indeed, I am sure that the intelligence services of the rest > of the world > were *shocked*, shocked I tell you, to learn that the wife of an > ambassador was a spy.
What I find so wonderfully hypocritical about this attitude is that if this had happened under the Clinton Administration every conservative in the country would be calling for Clinton's head or blaming Hillary or something. They would tie it into Whitewater somehow. And say it was another case of the Clinton's using their power to get back at someone who disagreed with them!
- jmh
But the left isn't doing that? (joking)
I just thought the answer is that it is not true, that Wilson himself blew this up as a Big Deal, but the news people see it isn't. That it's more along the lines of the "Clinton has had people killed" line of stories, interesting to those who want to believe it, but factually false.
Are we to assume that Novak calling the CIA asking for confirmation is a lie? There is the obvious rebuttal, that the CIA can't oust it's own agent, but it reads like Novak would have dropped it if there was a problem.
How about Wilson saying the problem was in using her maiden name Palme, but his own website listed it? Again there are the obvious replies.
I know the Pres had said he'll get to the bottom of it, but nothing has happened. (Other than that wonderful leaked story about him demanding the leaks stop). I always wondered: aren't all phone calls recorded? Maybe it's only incoming calls, but I thought Gore was knocked about back in '95 because he was making campaign calls from the Old Executive Building, which was illegal. So at the worst, can't they tell where the phone calls Novak received came from, what the originating phone number was?
Kevin T. - VRWC time for bed
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