Sorry for not having posted in a week, but The Madman was in the center of Wilma's wrath and without power. Not to fear, the Mad family is well and with power once again, so you can expect my normal daily postings to begin tomorrow.
Quick political rundown:
*Good riddance to Supreme Court candidate Miers. How about a qualified conservative, Mr. Bush?
*Big vote in the Knesset coming Monday. If Sharon doesn't get his appointments approved in this vote it's time for new elections! Let us pray for this sorry government of appeasement to fall at last.
*Plamegate: Dems take a big loss as only Scooter Libby gets indicted.
*White Sox win a world series finally. Now that the Red Sox and White Sox have broken their jinxes, anyone taking bets on the Cubs winning it all next year?
-MZ
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A government official leaks classified information and you brush it off as a "big loss" to Dems that "only Scooter Libby" was indicted? Are threats to national security not important to you?
Mark, exactly when did you earn the right to pronounce guilt? Perhaps in your country this is considered acceptable but here one has to prove their case in court.
Regarding Dem dissapointment with this, I find it hard to believe that you think they wanted to nail Scooter...you know better than that, Mark.
Also, if and when Wilson is indicted for treason will you feel the same way about pronouncing early guilt?
-MZ
Hmmm. My browser crashed as I hit the publish button last time and my comment appears to have gone AWOL. Ah well, here we go again.
I'm not pronouncing guilt anywhere guilt hasn't already been pronounced.
The fact that Valerie Wilson was undercover was classified information. Since only certain government officials have access to classified information, the fact that it appeared in a newspaper means that a government official leaked that information.
That's a fact. If it wasn't a fact then the investigation into who leaked the information would never have been started. It's also all I said in my last post.
Larry Johnson, former CIA official, said that the fact that Valerie was a NOC meant that she had "agreed to operate overseas without the protection of a diplomatic passport. If caught in that status she would have been executed."
George H.W. Bush said that he has "nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors." - http://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs/speeches/1999/bush_speech_042699.html
My question to you is why did you dismiss the fact that a CIA agent was outed with something so puerile as "Dems take a big loss as only Scooter Libby gets indicted"? Do you support placing undercover government agents in danger? If not then where's your outrage MZ?
My outrage comes from when a desk jockey leftwing activist for the CIA conspires with her leftwing activist husband to leak info and forward bogus accusations to try and get John Kerry elected.
I also am outraged when someone who is entrusted with national security matters lies before the senate when caught.
This from the Washington Post:
The [bipartisan senate intelligence] panel found that Wilson’s report, rather than debunking intelligence about purported uranium sales to Iraq, as he has said, bolstered the case for most intelligence analysts. And contrary to Wilson’s assertions and even the government’s previous statements, the CIA did not tell the White House it had qualms about the reliability of the Africa intelligence that made its way into 16 fateful words in President Bush’s January 2003 State of the Union address.
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Valerie Plame was not a desk jockey. From Larry Johnson's article "The lies by people like Victoria Toensing, Representative Peter King, and P. J. O'Rourke insist that Valerie was nothing, just a desk jockey. Yet, until Robert Novak betrayed her she was still undercover and the company that was her front was still a secret to the world. When Novak outed Valerie he also compromised her company and every individual overseas who had been in contact with that company and with her." http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/7/13/04720/9340
I'm not denying that Wilson used his information to back John Kerry, which in my opinion also undermines his credibility.
However, this does not detract from the fact that someone in the Bush administration has leaked the name of a covert agent. Someone George H.W. Bush has described as the "most insidious of traitors".
You still haven't answered my previous question. I'll ask it again (in case you've forgotten). Do you support placing undercover government agents in danger? If not then where's your outrage MZ?
Specifically who in the Bush administration has been proven to have leaked Valerie Plame? Please show links to credible sources which will back your allegations.
I will also thank you in advance for not just throwing out the opinion that because Novak knew about her sufficiently proves anything, as I can obviously refute this with my own sources rather easily.
As for as "my outrage", well I answered that in my previous comment above, so please read it again more thoroughly as I hate repeating myself.
-MZ
You don't like repeating yourself but you continually force me to. Once again, nobody specific has been charged, but the information was still leaked and has to have come from someone who had access to such information. Time will tell who did it I guess. The fact of the matter MZ is that Novak knowing about her DOES prove something. It proves that he got access to information that he shouldn't have. To do that there would have to have been a leak somewhere. That's the whole focus of this investigation. Don't you realise that? As for your outrage, yeah you're outraged at the leftwing activists sure. The fact that the administration have done nothing to find the source of the leak? You don't seem to give a toss. Why is that?
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