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Without the MSM to spin and fabricate about this non-story, it would have been over three years ago.  Wretched excess.

Media uncovers more Palin stories in one weekend than Obama stories in two years. Still no bias detected

Obama: more experienced than Bristol Palin

Robert you know I hate disagreeing with you, but it wouldn’t have been over, it never would have started.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Who is dailynewsrush, and is she a hot babe? That is the only relevent question I can come up with regarding the Wilson/Plame pile-o-shit.

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Apparently, Saint Valerie told the committee that she had nothing to do with Joe’s trip to Niger.  In this she is contradicted by by Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report, and her own memo which was entered into evidence at the Libby trial.

She also implied that Joe’s CIA-sponsored trip was in response to a request from VP Cheney.  But we already know that her memo suggesting Joe for the trip was dated the day BEFORE the VP’s briefing and his memo requesting follow-up information.

If she doesn’t know any better than to contradict her own memo from nearly 4 years ago, then maybe there is actually some truth behind all those blonde jokes we’ve been hearing for years and years.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Rush was saying that she is claiming that the idea was some junior somebody who suggested it to her.

So if a junior somebody suggests something and you take it up, you’re (in this case V Plame) responsible for the decision.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

But Val’s not too bad…

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

Apparently, Saint Valerie told the committee that she had nothing to do with Joe’s trip to Niger.

She should definitely get “Scootered” for that one.  She is hot, though… Even with the nose job.

Media uncovers more Palin stories in one weekend than Obama stories in two years. Still no bias detected

Obama: more experienced than Bristol Palin

Robert you know I hate disagreeing with you, but it wouldn’t have been over, it never would have started.

Absolutely right!  I’ll take that sort of disagreement anytime.

Media uncovers more Palin stories in one weekend than Obama stories in two years. Still no bias detected

Obama: more experienced than Bristol Palin

I’ve lost the link but I did read Gen. Hayden(?) describe her as “under cover” and that her employment was “classified.” FWIW.

"The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced if the nation doesn’t want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
Cicero, 55 BC

FWIW… As I have noted before, with the exception of certain public spokespersons and politically appointed senior level individuals, just about everyone who is employed on CIA’s payroll is “classified.” The release of such a bit of information, whether deliberate or inadvertent, does not qualify as a violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act which is the controlling federal statute.

Unlike the publication by the NYT of the NSA Surveillance program, the so-called “outing” of Valerie Plame was not a violation of federal law.  Period.  If there HAD been such a IIPA violation, then presumably there would have been an indictment against the person(s) having done so.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Doesn’t the IIPA also require the intention to out the spy? That’s why I don’t think the outing was a crime...IMHO of course.

"The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced if the nation doesn’t want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
Cicero, 55 BC

Mike A,

Good Point.  IIPA requires that the individual being “outed” must have been posted overseas in a covert status within the previous 5 years, that the individual doing the “outing” must be shown to have known at the time that the target is covert (as defined by IIPA… not by the target individual at a congressional hearing or in a Vanity Fair puff piece), and that the “outing” was a deliberate or knowingly willful action by the accused.

Obviously, a reasonable evaluation of the circumstances surrounding the Plame revelation show that none of the requirements for a federal violation of IIPA were met.  Thus no indictment.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Vanity Fair

I like Atlantic monthly. And furthermore, it appears as if Plame is still undercover:

My favorite part is when she listed her employer on political contributions disclosure forms in the mid-’90s. Take wild guess whose Presidential campaign she contributed to?

Her neighbors told reporters at the start of all this crap that they all knew she worked for CIA. Her husband made no secret of the fact at any point during their marriage. The social register for Northern Virginia/DC region listed her as employed at Langley. Where, exactly, was the secret? And why has Richard Armitage, the person that has admitted to telling Libby and several reporters about the Wilson/Plames, not been arrested for outing a known CIA employee?

Curiouser and curiouser.

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Curiouser and curiouser.

I love it when the media and politicians set out to figure things out! You just know that $5 billion later you still won’t know shit.

I don’t suppose it matters much, since a partisan hack like Chairman Henry Waxman is hardly going to make an issue of the disparity between what Ms. Plame/Wilson said in testimony yesterday and what is already on the record, but according to this transcript of her testimony, she WAS in fact sworn in, making her misstatements of fact, lapses of memory, and any outright lies, subject to the same prosecution as those of Scooter Libby.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat
Her memory is just a bit foggy.

She gonna get “Scooterized”.

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IIPA requires that the individual being “outed” must have been posted overseas in a covert status within the previous 5 years…

I believe the rejoinder to this point is that the term used in the Act is “served” rather than “posted” thus allowing for the interpretation that service overseas does not necessarily require a posting.

"The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced if the nation doesn’t want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
Cicero, 55 BC