PLAME SHOULD POSE FOR PLAYBOY
All those who are tired of Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame, please raise your hand. Okay, everybody put your hand down.
If you’ve been following the recent developments in the CIA leak story you’re probably aware that it has become the biggest non-issue of modern times. Here are the undisputed facts of the case.
1. After a trip to Niger, Joe Wilson came back to the CIA and reported that officials he spoke to said Iraq HAD been inquiring about acquiring uranium. That Wilson report is part of the Senate report on the Uranium in Africa question.
2. A year later Joe Wilson changed his story and wrote an article in the New York Times saying he found no evidence of Iraq seeking uranium. He then went on the campaign trail for Democrats and became the poster boy for the “Bush Lied, People Died” crowd.
3. In reaction to Wilson changing his story, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Lewis Libby and others sought to discredit lies Wilson decided to start telling. That effort had a two pronged attack. The first was demonstrating that Wilson was either lying then or he was lying now. The second was to point out that Wilson didn’t have much experience in intelligence gathering and probably got the assignment to go to Niger because his wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA muckety muck.
4. Robert Novak recently revealed that his confirmation that Valerie Plame was in fact Joe Wilsons wife came from 2 sources. #1, The Who’s Who listing that Wilson purchased, wherein he names his wife and published her photo and #2. A simple phone call to the CIA’s public information office.
5. Liberals saw an opportunity to prop this lie up and use for political gain and therefore forced a taxpayer funded investigation into the matter.
6. Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor spent several years and millions of dollars to find….NOTHING!
7. The only charge offered by Fitzgerald was a perjury charge against Lewis Libby for allegedly lying about whether or not he met with a certain reporter on a certain date.
8. Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson are now on speaking tours and negotiating book deals that could make them millions. Oh, yes. They’re also suing everybody they can think of because their lives and their childrens lives were put in harms way.
ANYONE CARE TO DISPUTE THOSE FACTS?
The only thing I wish would happen is to see Valerie Plame do a Playboy spread. Since she is the Darva Conger of the spy world, it would seem to me to be the perfect ending to this story.
nutslikebush Says: August 23rd, 2006 at 12:11 pm
When Plame was outed by Scooter and company the CIA lost its capability to monitor Iran’s nuclear program development. Plame was one of the top CIA operatives working on that project and when her identity was revealed to the world via administration leaks many of her contacts and informants were severely compromised. It was a major setback to the CIA. And remember, it was the CIA (not democrats etc) who asked for a special prosecutor to investigate this leak. The CIA takes it very seriously because they were hurt and our nation was endangered by this mindless act of revenge by the Bush administration. The general public doesn’t seem to grasp that fact.
Joy Says: August 31st, 2006 at 6:22 pm
Ref. #1
And the song is…”I’ll ride this dead horse in my LA LA Land, until the world comes to and end, - And that, too, will be Bush’s fault”
Alas and alack, Valerie Plame held the safety of America in her incognito hands and now…NOW, we have no one, NO ONE to save us! How deep is my grief! Sorrow and shame pour from my heart in a race with the fear of knowing we are no longer safe. How can I ever sleep nights again? Whatever shall I do? Wherever shall I go? Valerie! Valerie! Is there no mask you can wear? No disguise? Can you have a sex change and once again hold back the forces of destruction? Please! Please! I beg you! For the sake of all the little kiddies around the world! Will you not drop this tired claim and find a way to save us single-handedly…as you so obviously were doing? Valerie! Valerie! You are our only hope! Please, Valerie! Please! Do it for the kiddies.
(Scene fades to a laughing and chatting Valerie at a cocktail party with the oil shieks)
WRHiggins SGT Says: August 31st, 2006 at 7:03 pm
Joy,
That was really funny. I thoroughly enjoyed reading that. Now, can anyone help me get a post beyond the realm of Draft status. How do I submit it for moderation?
Joy Says: September 2nd, 2006 at 6:50 am
Sgt. Higgins,
I sign in, click on the tiny Site Admin link, choose Write option at the top, then choose Publish option at the bottom right when the draft is done.
nutslikebush Says: September 4th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
Joy,
It seems like you are just belittling the work of public servants like Plame in your post. Is this your general opinion of people who work in the CIA? If that really is your impression, your brain has short-circuited and perhaps all messages that enter your sensory systems are just garbled messes. That is the sort of thing that makes me think that your type is just hopeless.
nutslikebush Says: September 4th, 2006 at 6:33 pm
What did she do wrong? She has just been a target of idiot conservatives who simply can’t think.
nutslikebush Says: September 5th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
Interestingly, in an article published in “The Nation” today, it is claimed that Valerie Wilson was in charge of the Joint Task For on Iraq operations group. This group of counterproliferation undercover operatives, which Wilson directed, produced a number of reports that failed to support claims by the Bush administration that Iraq had WMD. The world would be a better place today if the JTFI intelligence had been used properly by the Bush administration. Joy, it seems that you owe Valarie Wilson, and other reasonable people, an apology.
Joy Says: September 8th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
I guess that all depends on if your definition of “seems” and “reasonable”
seems reasonable. (Sort of an indirect quote from a former un named Commander in Cheif who did whatever he could to pull the rug out from under the ones who helped keep this country free)
You seem big into apologies…on other peoples parts. The US ’should apologize to the world’. Conservatives should apologize for breathing sacred air fit only for those whom you deem “reasonable”.
Maybe it’s time you apologized for using your intelligence in such destructive ways.
If you really are a embryonic stem cell researcher, perhaps you should apologize for the lies, deceit and propoganda which your type of embryonic stem cell research is based on—and for your furthering of the same.
If you don’t know it’s lies, deceit and propaganda, then perhaps you should apologize for posing as intelligent.
Perhaps you should apologize for being part of the liberal propaganda machine against truly rational people who don’t happen to see things the same as you.
Next time Valerie sees me, I’ll apologize for saying I saw her at that coctail party. Perhaps she was incognito and I wasn’t advised…see, her husband was proudly telling me what she did for a living. Remember?
I’m sorry, what did you say the sources were again?
nutslikebush Says: September 9th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
Joy,
I only do adult stem cell research. But I understand its limits and support researchers, my colleagues, who wish to take cells that will otherwise just be thrown away and use them to make new discoveries instead. I actually get along very well with conservatives in real life. You have a dramatically wrong impression of me - I think you are blending what you learn about me on this site with mostly imagined stuff that you dream up about me on your own.
nutslikebush Says: September 9th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
The source of the article about Valarie Wilson was “The Nation” magazine. You should read the article for yourself and evaluate it open mindedly. Divorce yourself from your theory for a while and start all over from the middle. It is refreshing and can open a whole new world to you. We all need to take our own beliefs to task and make them stand up to our toughest scrutiny. Most of what we believe can probably be found to be false ultimately. that is our job, to do whatever it takes to rid ourselves of false beliefs, no matter how much we like them. The worst seduction is to believe things just because we wish they were so - the ultimate betrayal of reality.
nutslikebush Says: February 14th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Isn’t is interesting now that we have all of the evidence from the trial in front of us (the defense is closing as I type) that every single point (even about the charge(s) - you forgot obstruction of justice and it wasn’t a single charge, there were 5 counts against Libby) that Buck made in this “article” has proven to be wrong. Phenomenal! Either you had really bad sources or you were trying to mislead your readers.
We also learned that indeed Rove was one of the numerous leakers who used national security information to advance political agendas. These dudes are bad for democracy, through and through. We deserve much better.
The Other Side Says: July 5th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
conservatives will believe anything that protects their own interests. libby lied and severly hindered an investigation of the bush administration. wilson found the lie that the administration used to invade iraq and his wife’s career suffered for it. thats a harsh way of squashing dissent in america.
now libby is commuted and will probably be pardoned. the people who were on the clinton impeachment bandwagon think perjury is different for one of their own. hypocrisy runs rampent on the right.
and what ever happened to bush punishing the person who was involved in the outing? its amazing the amount of scandals that were found when the democrats got into power. issues that the republican majority seemed to never look for or care about. but now republicans are complaining that the democrats are doing too much oversight. that would be true, but they keep finding stuff to validate their argument. how much deceit has this administration pulled off?
nutslikebush Says: July 6th, 2007 at 11:43 am
We now know that Plame had a key undercover role in THE CIA program that was responsible for spying on Iran’s WMD program. Rove, in his third appearance in front of the grand jury admitted that he leaked Plame’s identity to the press. Richard Armitage, Powell’s deputy at the State Department, also leaked Plane’s identity. Libby, according to witnesses, also leaked Plame’s identity on multiple occasions and apparently, if the witnesses are to be believed, was highly familiar with who Plame was and her role. The leaks by Rove and Libby were coordinated and intentional. The CIA (not democrats!) asked for an investigation into who leaked Plame’s identity. The DOJ appointed Fitzgerald, a Bush appointee and “a prosecutor’s prosecutor” (according to Bush). He is non-partisan. A jury concluded that the evidence for obstruction of justice and perjury against Libby was overwhelmingly clear - i.e., it was no mere slip or memory lapse. Libby succeeded in preventing a successful investigation into how a covert CIA operative’s name was leaked to the press, protecting his bosses, Cheney and Bush, in the process. The lesson here is clear: if you work for Bush and Cheney and you put them before the good of your country, they will reward you with a get out of jail free card (even your fines and legal bills will be paid by others! And you will be hired by a conservative “think tank” or “stink tank”, in the case of modern conservatives). Want to know how most of the country feels about this, watch this:
youtube.com/watch?v=FU7dY1CXRPk
The Other Side Says: July 6th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
its fun to watch the right-wing pundits try and justify libby’s commutation, especially when they compare it to clinton’s pardons. well clinton was very well-known for pardoning people so seeing him pardon 140 people isn’t odd. also, he pardoned them after they served their sentences.
libby’s sentence was not unfair, the judge looked at the crime libby obstructed and used the severity of outing a covert cia agent to find the sentence fair. libby was not indicted for outing the agent (the underlying crime), but he hindered the investigation that had cheney’s hands all over it.
bush never pardon/commutes anyone, until now. and he commuted someone in his own administration. people are up in arms about this, and rightfully so. bush is only catering to his whiny neo-con base. and for what? so history can show him to be loyal to his friends? he has much worse things to worry about. i’m still waiting to hear the excuses from the white house of why september isn’t going to be the right time to assess the war’s progress.
nutslikebush Says: July 8th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
The Other Side,
Obviously Bush was practicing compassionate conservativism when he commuted Scooter’s sentence. Unfortunately, only neo-cons who work for his administration are eligible for W’s compassion. Heartbreakingly, the twenty-something percent of people who still support Bush think that Libby should have been pardoned because, well, he is Scooter Libby and he was just doing his job when he inquired via the State Department about Plame’s role at the CIA and then proceeded to tell SEVEN! journalists about Plame’s identity and then lie to the FBI about it a few days later when they interviewed him (hardly enough time to forget much about Plame, whom Libby had devoted much effort and time to learning about and talking about with his superiors and reporters - but maybe he really does have a horrible memory problem). The key thing here is that Libby protected Cheney, the original driving force behind the leak of Plame’s identity. Cheney claims that anything that he leaks is automatically declassified so it can’t, technically speaking, legally be considered a leak of classified information. But it would have been problematic for the administration is the American people found out prior to the 2004 election that Cheney had ordered the leak of a CIA operative’s identity as a political vendetta against an administration critic (Joe Wilson). So Libby lied to protect his boss, the VP. Among the 75% of the public that is sick of Bush and Darth, many don’t follow anything that isn’t just a simple story. Americans are not up for thinking about things very deeply. So high treason and the subversion of justice, which is what this case is about, is the sort of issue that goes over the heads of your typical Joe American. Also, the conservative media spews so much misinformation that they have many Americans hopelessly confused about what is going on. You can turn on your radio or tv and have endless streams of misinformation delivered to your ears and eyes and gradually just go brain dead and give up on ever really understanding unless you have the intellectual training and analytical tools, patience, and determination to dissect the rhetoric down to the bones.
The Other Side Says: July 10th, 2007 at 3:32 am
the sad thing is that libby won’t ever have the motivation (jail time) to actually tell the truth. thats also what this commutation is about. it was being “compassionate” and preventing further implications.
this is the perfect time for a corrupt administration to operate. their party is the majority in congress for the majority of the terms. the public was apathetic, still is but less after iraq, which led to bush “winning” a first term, invading iraq and swift-boating his way to a second victory. and there is a conservative leading network that adds to the muddied opinions. the normal american has no idea what to believe. conservatives are louder and spew more emotions that trick the less-informed mind into submission. all of these scandals are happening and still no one cares.
WhyNotObama? Says: July 31st, 2007 at 11:53 pm
Libby is now “a Made Man”….
Prof. M. Says: December 4th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Piffle! LOL!
Prof. M. Says: December 4th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
“Thanks for your comment! It has been placed in the moderation queue, and if it is approved it will be published here soon!” Ah, yes, one can see you believe in ‘freedom of speech’. Haha!
Buck Evinger Says: December 6th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Professor M.
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