Your chuckle for the night.... another crazy Freeper article re: Wilson

I'm sorry - but I'm just having a laugh riot looking at the articles that are being posted on the freeper board about the Wilson Affair.

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/992697/posts
We've been knocking our heads trying to figure out how a minor and well-known story about an alleged CIA "outing" has suddenly blossomed into a Beltway scandal-ette. The light bulb went off reading Monday's White House press briefing.

Right out of the box, Helen Thomas asked if "the President tried to find out who outed the CIA agent? And has he fired anyone in the White House yet?" OK, the point of this exercise is to get President Bush to fire someone. But whom? That answer became clear when the press corps quickly uttered, and kept uttering for nearly an hour, the name "Karl Rove."

Of course! The reason this is suddenly a story is because Mr. Rove, the President's political strategist and confidant from Texas, has become the main target.

....If they can take down Mr. Rove, the lead planner for Mr. Bush's re-election campaign, they will have knocked the props out of his Presidency.

The political goals must be paramount here because the substance of the story is so flimsy. The law against revealing the names of covert CIA agents was passed in 1982 as a reaction against leaks by Philip Agee and other hard-left types whose goal was to undermine CIA operations around the world.

.....An avowed opponent of war with Iraq, Mr. Wilson was somehow hired as a consultant by the CIA to investigate a claim made by British intelligence about yellowcake uranium sought in Niger by Iraqi agents. Though we assume he signed the routine CIA confidentiality agreement, Mr. Wilson blew his own cover to denounce the war and attack the Bush Administration for lying. Never mind that the British still stand by their intelligence, and that the CIA's own October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, since partly declassified, lent some credence to the evidence.

This is the context in which Mr. Novak was told that Mr. Wilson had been hired at the recommendation of his wife, a CIA employee. This is hardly blowing a state secret but is something the public had a right to know.

.....In any event, Mrs. Wilson was not an agent in the field but is ensconced at Langley headquarters. It remains far from clear that any law was violated.

The real intelligence scandal is how an open opponent of the U.S. war on terror such as Mr. Wilson was allowed to become one of that policy's investigators. That egregious CIA decision echoes what has obviously been a long-running attempt by anonymous "intelligence sources" quoted in the media to undermine the Bush policy toward Iraq.

...At least we can be thankful that Democrats buried the independent counsel statute during the Clinton years. "Leak" investigations are notoriously fruitless in any case and typically a waste of Justice Department resources.

To: Chad Fairbanks

I know. That's not the point of this thread. The point is that WILSON is claiming the revelation of her maiden name in 2003 compromised her work. Yet his own bio revealed it in 2002.


8 posted on 09/30/2003 11:53 AM PDT by Wolfstar (NO SECURITY = NO ECONOMY)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/992399/posts

the FReepers realize just how serious this is. They're still convinced it's just a conspiracy by the Democrats to take their beloved pResident down. And apparently they don't watch the "real" news... the lie about Valerie Plame being an analyst has been debunked repeatedly today and they are still spouting it every chance they get.

I have been laughing all night. :silly:

our target is Rove. Damn. :7

The Chimp is in charge!

that's the tip off...sounds like it's written by 'sources' at Ground Zero...
When their done spinning this...they can go back to the bin laden air flights from last week, or the Bush fiasco at the UN from the week before...or the 'original' point about the Yellowcakes being fed-ex'ed to Iraq to be ultimately hidden in 'ghost ships' or sent to Syria or I give up...
It all seems like some diabolical Platonic exercise...Based entirely on rhetoric with no reference to the subjects memory span

Those poor freeper's heads must be spinning. First they were spoonfed the story that there was NOTHING to this - whole thing was nothing more serious than having an overdue library book.


THEN 2 hours later - they post THIS article:

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/992747/posts

"The outing of Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife as an undercover CIA agent (if that is what she was) would be contemptuous — not to say felonious. As former President Bush said in 1999 of those who expose intelligence agents, they are "the most insidious of traitors." We fully agree. While we do not yet know most of the facts, what is beyond doubt is that "two senior administration officials" did the deed. The eminent journalist, Robert Novak, used that phrase to describe his sources for the story. No experienced Washingtonian will doubt Mr. Novak's veracity in characterizing a source.

....The president has days, not weeks or months, to snap into action. He does not need a Justice Department investigation at this point."

To: kattracks
"This is disappointing from the Times.

This woman was not considered undercover or someone who's identity needed to be secret. I don't consider her name "leakable" because there was no cover to blow. If anyone wants to criticize the administration for it's handling of the matter, that's fine with me but demanding heads to roll is outrageous.

To harken back to a previous administration's scandals, this "doesn't rise to the level" of a terminable offense."

the FReepers live in an alternate universe.