Basically it comes down to:
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah an element of ‘Gotcha’ blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah White House misled blah blah blah like that’s news blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
Oh wait – There it is - Because Rove didn’t actually name the CIA agent it’s not likely that he will be charged with any crime blah blah blah blah bury the lede why dontcha blah blah blah blah blah.
Geez. The biggest nothing story of all time. It sure makes you appreciate the ‘Blue Dress’ days doesnt it?
He missed something in the translation: blah blah blah blah we hate Bush blah blah blah hate him blah blah blah hate blah blah blah blah hate him so much blah blah blah…
July 19th, 2005 at 8:50 am
The Art of Translation
The Anchoress is a superb, and anonymous, blogger who has a knack for seeing beyond the superficial and, in her posts, capturing a bit of the eternal. Not that we’d expect any less from an anchorite, of course, even one…
July 19th, 2005 at 12:23 pm
The credibility of the press, melting away with each cry for Rove’s head! But we want Karl gone! Don’t want Hillary to face him! Want Bush embarrassed! Ignore everything that’s been learned since, return to the speculation of the original stories…Bush operatives planting stories in the press to discredit Wilson! Forget that Rove was called by that reporter for Newsweek, by his own notes. And her name was never mentioned, nor her covert status, nor was it learned by access to secret documents–all reguired elements for any crime to have occured… Forget that she worked at Langley and her name was in the phone directory for goodness sakes! Imply there is some debate as to whether a crime was committed! None! None whatsoever!
At the same time completely ignore a real crime–Jay Rockefeller, Dick Durbin and Ron Wyden revealing National secrets, the stealth satellite program. Information they learned through their oversight role, one you have to be vetted for and sign documents attesting to your knowledge of the penalties involved for ever betraying those confidences. Durbin and Wyden should be facing additional charges because Rockefeller is not a vetted member!
July 19th, 2005 at 2:59 pm
Keep that spin machine in high gear friends, because today’s Wall Street Journal (that commie rag) reports:
“A classified State Department memo that may be pivotal to the CIA leak case made clear that information identifying an agent and her role in her husband’s intelligence-gathering mission was sensitive and shouldn’t be shared . . . “
July 19th, 2005 at 6:57 pm
What’s that say again? Don’t get your hopes up, LM…Don’t try to be clever either. It doesn’t suit you. Sorry, such a memo doesn’t carry the weight of Law…CYA for some Carter-era SD chap…Would you want to admit you sent Wilson based on who’s recommendation??? His wife? For Pete’s sake!!! Tell me one more time about that lovely mint tea, Joe!
And just for the record, The news side of WSJ is as Left as can be. The editorial side leans Right. The editorial side would report such a memo, mind you, that’s what the Right does…give all the relevant info…They might even look at who leaked such a classified memo from the SD…There might be a crime there…
July 20th, 2005 at 12:55 am
By the way, anyone remember the story that came out about one month after the fall of Baghdad, about finding an empty Fedex package from Niger containing yellowcake(U3O8) residue? Shipping weight 2.2 lbs ? USN&WR? I wonder why the MSM never checks its own libraries?