- Valerie Plame wasn't "'outed' by Karl Rove. Three quarters of the press corps, the DC social circuit and Vanity [Fair] magazine knew who Valerie Plame was." Indeed, the media leaked Plame to Rove; who even warned the authorities. He had no inappropriate incentives, specifically no incentive to lie.
- Nor was Plame outed by Robert Novak, but by David Corn in The Nation, on July 16, 2003, two days after Novak's story. Or possibly by the New York Times. Or even the CIA itself!
- At bottom, the folks who outed Valerie Plame were Valerie Plame and her husband Joe Wilson, who did so five months before Corn's story.
- But there was nothing to out. According to Wilson himself, "My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity." Nor had she been for at least the previous six years; thus outside the five year window in the relevant statute.
- So neither Rove nor anyone in the White House violated the law or the President's promise. What's the best evidence for that? Why, the left-wing media itself! (see pages 5-13; thanks Bob L.)
- By contrast, Wilson falsified his report about the Niger trip. He and his wife lied when denying she got him the assignment; indeed, she repeatedly suggested Wilson for the assignment, possibly to bias the result (anti-Bush, of course; part of the CIA's war against the Administration). Rove also told the truth about that.
The TV networks ran 58 stories on the Karl Rove-Valerie Plame-Joseph Wilson flap from July 10 to yesterday, although the special prosecutor has never said Mr. Rove is even the target of the investigation.Rich Noyes of Media Research Center amplifies:
Flash back seven years ago to the Lewinsky scandal, when the New Yorker ran an article attempting to discredit Linda Tripp by announcing that she had been arrested for shoplifting as a teenager, but hadn't noted the arrest when she applied for a Pentagon security clearance (because the judge had expunged the arrest from her official record).Biased bastards. I'll quote a lefty quoting me: "The Karl Rove thing? About to blow over. Give it a couple more days."
Bill Clinton's Pentagon spokesman, Kenneth Bacon, eventually confessed to leaking Tripp's confidential personnel file to the New Yorker's Clinton-friendly reporter Jane Mayer, but his "apology" could be described as less than contrite: "I'm sorry that I did not check with our lawyers or check with Linda Tripp's lawyers about this,?" he said at a May 21, 1998, briefing.
But when the victim was an anti-Clinton whistleblower, the networks didn't seem to care that a high-ranking government official had used an illegal leak (violating the Privacy Act) to a reporter in an effort to discredit a critic. From March 1998 to November 2003 (when Tripp was awarded $595,000 from the Defense Department), the ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening shows ran just 13 stories on Clinton's "Leakgate" over five-and-a-half years. Much of the coverage was downright hostile to Tripp, not those who violated her privacy."
By then, they'll be blaming Plame-gate on Judge Roberts.
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I've updated the argument in comments on Kill Righty.
2 comments:
You are presuming that the truth is relevent to the press and liberal agendistas.
Wrong.
Since you are so fanatically obsessed with defending everything your twitchy little God-President does, perhaps you could propose an Exit Strategy? I've got one- on October 15, and all subsequent national elections, let the Iraqis vote on whether our troops should leave. Since they have no WMD, they are no threat to us, and it will divide the opposition between peaceful resisters (who will be de facto accepting the democracy we're now fighting for, since the threat wasn't there) and the terrorists. It also doesn't require any more of our troops. But I suppose you think Iraqi self-determination is un-American. I can't think why Rove didn't think of this- wedge issues are all he does. I guess he's distracted by committing treason.
By the way, the White House was dropping hints about Plame for three weeks before Novak wrote, and that's why her identity was getting to be common knowledge. Dumbass.
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