A Question of Intelligence
By
Bat1
on August 25, 2006 at 10:12 am
AP has a story, quoted by The Smoking Gun, that a Federal Judge has denied a request by Joe and Valerie Plame/Wilson that their home address be kept secret during the prceedings involving their lawsuit against VP Dick Cheney and other officials of the Administration.
Two years ago, I looked up the Wilson’s home address in the District of Columbia property tax records (4612 Charleston Trace, NW) and questioned how it was that a retired Department of State employee and his CIA analyst wife could manage to buy a home for $1.2 million with no mortgage.
It’s still a perfectly valid question. But this attempt by Wilson and his wife to "safeguard their privacy" raises another, more pertinent question. Namely, just how really stupid are these people?
Both of these two have acting been like first class media whores for several years now. Wilson is a proven liar of epic, self-serving proportion. Valerie may have had some modest intelligence skills years ago, but over the past 5 years has shown herself to be about as capable as Inspector Clouseau. Their infamous lawsuit was filed, with great fanfare, earlier this summer, and these two are only now figuring out that they might be better off if everyone and his grandmother couldn’t look them up at the click of a mouse?
If Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame are in any way representative of the intellectual capability of this country’s previous diplomatic and intelligence efforts, the question isn’t how did 9-11 happen five years ago. The question is how the hell did it not happen sooner.
AUGUST 25--A federal judge yesterday turned down a request from former CIA agent Valerie Plame and her husband that the couple's address be kept secret in court filings in her lawsuit against Bush administration officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney. In an August 11 motion, Plame and Joseph Wilson argued that their privacy would be jeopardized if their Washington, D.C. residential address was included in court pleadings. But that request was rejected by Judge John Bates, who noted in an order filed yesterday that, "in less than thirty minutes, the Court was able to ascertain plaintiffs's residential address from multiples publicly available sources, including a database of federal government records." Bates added that the couple's lawyer, Christopher Wolf, has been quoted in one newspaper saying that he is Plame and Wilson's next-door neighbor, "and the residential address of that attorney is readily ascertainable."
Two years ago, I looked up the Wilson’s home address in the District of Columbia property tax records (4612 Charleston Trace, NW) and questioned how it was that a retired Department of State employee and his CIA analyst wife could manage to buy a home for $1.2 million with no mortgage.
It’s still a perfectly valid question. But this attempt by Wilson and his wife to "safeguard their privacy" raises another, more pertinent question. Namely, just how really stupid are these people?
Both of these two have acting been like first class media whores for several years now. Wilson is a proven liar of epic, self-serving proportion. Valerie may have had some modest intelligence skills years ago, but over the past 5 years has shown herself to be about as capable as Inspector Clouseau. Their infamous lawsuit was filed, with great fanfare, earlier this summer, and these two are only now figuring out that they might be better off if everyone and his grandmother couldn’t look them up at the click of a mouse?
If Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame are in any way representative of the intellectual capability of this country’s previous diplomatic and intelligence efforts, the question isn’t how did 9-11 happen five years ago. The question is how the hell did it not happen sooner.
