valerie plame

Has anyone else seen this ad and, if so, did you get as big a kick out of it as I did? If you can't watch it, it's a one-minute campaign ad shot like a trailer for a action movie, with voice-over to match.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18924679/ People like Mary Matalin, Victoria Toensing, et al surely knew this as they went on the talk show circuits. Matalin was personally involved in the whole affair when she talked directly to Lewis Libby about how to handle Joe Wilson. It strains credulity...

Alright, here is what happened in a nutshell. Richard Armitage told Bob Novak that Plame worked the CIA. Then Slate comes to the crux of the matter here: Novak also suggests that Plame couldn't have been covert because before he published his 2003 column naming Plame, CIA spokesman Bill Harlow...

Last month, Robert Novak said that two of his sources for the column in which he identified Valerie Plame as a CIA operative were Karl Rove and Bill Harlow (CIA public information officer), but he refused to name the third source. Yesterday Newsweek named Richard Armitage as that source. Novak...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/13/politics/main1802721.shtml They are asking for unspecified monetary damages. I'll bet quatloos to donuts that the case never sees the inside of a courtroom.

Can't believe there isn't a thread on this. http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/11/cia.leak/index.html I'm sure others will correct me but based on my shaky memory, the following is basically how things played out (paraphrasing the details). Bush to America - I will fire anyone in the White...

Here's something I'll bet you won't see on the front page of the NYT. Maybe they will run the story as "Rove avoids endictment" come to think of it. That still makes him sound a bit sinister.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4885100.stm I am Melendwyr's total lack of astonishment.

Libby: Bush OK'd Secret Intel Leak Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

I've been listening to various Republican taling points for awhile on the Plame leak. I just thought it might be interesting to get them all down in one place and see how true they are: 1. Leaking Plames CIA role was OK because she wasn't really a covert agent. 2. Wilson was a liar so...

This from The Washington Note. http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001031.html Speculate now! How many indictments? Who?

Events are unfolding rapidly. Here's my speculative take: * NY Times reporter Judith Miller's "noble" stance in protecting her sources appears to have been no more than self-serving BS, antithetical to any notion of journalistic standards. This is based on the fact that the primary...

Our old thread was getting long in the tooth. I decided it was time to start a new one and to also get everyone on the same page with the current facts/quotes. To this end I recommend everyone read: FactCheck.org's Timeline The only thing missing from this timeline is Joe Wilson's book which...

Reuters Reporter on June 10, 2004: And do you stand by your pledge to fire anyone found to have done so? And … Mr. Bush: Yes.

http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=2155Here is the http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/

article Besides the glaring open questions, it's curious that Bob Novak, the person who actually disclosed Plame's name, is absent from the list. I wonder if he spilled the beans.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 — The CIA has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations that the White House broke federal laws by revealing the identity of one of its undercover employees in retaliation against the woman’s husband, a former ambassador who publicly criticized President Bush’s...