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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 01:03 AM
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The rePukes Are Threatening To Subpoena Plame, And This Is What They Have...
Link (.pdf file): http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/Media/Hearings/20070613GSA2/Plame_Asked_and_Answered.pdf

Notice that they rely heavily on the "uncontested Additional Views of three senators on SSCI".

That would be Kit Bond, Orin Hatch, and Richard Burr.

And notice when they choose to quote, and when they choose not to quote.

Looks like they are ramping up to refight this.

Byron York:

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On page 205 of the newly released 226-page Senate Intelligence Committee report on pre-war intelligence, Bond has posted “additional views” that address the question of Plame’s testimony about her husband’s trip, the purpose of which was to check out reports Iraq had sought to buy uranium in Niger. The evidence Bond provides in his additional views contradicts Mrs. Wilson’s version of events.

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Link: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjRkMjU3YmQ2MzIwZjhhNDkwYWE3NWI1ZjhhZmRkMmY=

Representative Davis:

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During last week's hearing with Lurita A. Doan, the Administrator of the General Services Administration, who was found to have violated the Hatch Act by politicking in a federal workplace, Davis attempted to refocus the session on Plame's testimony.

"Valerie Plame Wilson's sworn statements to this committee are irreconcilably inconsistent with her statements to the CIA inspector general and the Senate Intelligence Committee," he said in last Wednesday's hearing. "I would move the committee direct the chairman to issue a subpoena to Valerie Plame Wilson....She should be summoned to appear before this committee and address the irregularities in her sworn testimony."

And...

Still, the Congress members McNicoll represents made clear that their effort to subpoena Wilson was meant to fight back against Waxman's investigation of President Bush's push for the invasion of Iraq. Calling the Doan hearing "a witch hunt," Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN), the former chairman of the committee during the Clinton administration, assailed Waxman for his attempts to subpoena Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

"To pursue this the way you're doing it when you won't bring Sandy Berger or Valerie Plame before this committee and yet you'll subpoena the Secretary of State, who's got a little bit to do around this world. It just doesn't make sense to me," Burton said during the Wednesday hearing.

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Link: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Republicans_ready_to_threaten_Valerie_Plame_0618.html

Shouldn't Burton be out in his backyard shooting watermelons or something???

:wtf:
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rwenos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 01:07 AM
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1. A Tactic Destined to Backfire
Valerie Plame has already testified under oath. She was cross-examined then by committee counsel and the Pubbies. She stood up pretty well, as I recall.

Sometimes it's better to just let your client be subpoenaed. "When would you boys like Valerie to testify? We'll be there with bells on."

SCARE ME, big bad Pubbies. Bring it on, fuckers.
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 01:53 AM
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2. Will someone please inform those assholes that they have NO subpoena power!
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 02:40 AM
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3. Bad Move...Its their Best Defense is an Attack OFFENSE Card...
When you ain't got nuthin...ALL IN Bluff....
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