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To: Sully- who wrote (7991)	3/27/2005 4:00:44 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Remember Valerie Plame? Blogs for Bush Just to jog the memory; she was the CIA agent "outed" by Robert Novack after her husband made a complete ass out of himself regarding Saddam's attempts to gain nuclear material in Africa. It is a long and rather boring tale of political gamesmanship but the crux of the matter was that the liberal/left in the United States was absolutely convinced that there was a nefarious plot afoot. Ms. Plame's outing, in the fevered imagination of the left, was a direct result of an attempt by President Bush and his henchmen to destroy her and her husband because of the "exposure" of President Bush's "lies" about Saddam's attempts at nuclear bargain-basement shopping. I remember when this first hit; liberal and left people were dead certain that this was worse than Watergate and was sure to bring down the President. Well, it turns out its not quite like that (from Best of the Web Today): <<< "The nation's largest news organizations and journalism groups" filed a brief in federal court Wednesday... ...The 40-page brief, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, argues that there is "ample evidence . . . to doubt that a crime has been committed" in the case, which centers on the question of whether Bush administration officials knowingly revealed the identity of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame in the summer of 2003. (emphasis added) washingtonpost.com >>> The election is over and now the anti-Bush MSM is just tidying things up a bit; while there was a chance to beat President Bush on the issue, the MSM kept it alive, darkly hinting at the horrible nature of the accusations; now that there's no more to be gained, its time to drop it and point out what we on the right said all along...there was no crime committed. Posted by Mark Noonan blogsforbush.com

To: Sully- who wrote (7991)	4/13/2005 6:58:34 PM
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Maybe Lugar And Kerry Did Mess Up JustOneMinute blog By The MinuteMan The NY Times has a follow-up to yesterday's widely debunked AP story about loose Senatorial lips sinking ships: <<< Though Mr. Armstrong had been identified in news reports two years ago about his dispute with other officials over intelligence involving Cuba, that was when he was the national intelligence officer for Latin America, and his name was no secret. When the Bolton nomination resurrected the old accounts, however, the C.I.A. asked news organizations to withhold his name. On Monday, Mr. Lugar announced that aides on the Foreign Relations committee had interviewed Mr. Armstrong. Later, Mr. Kerry mentioned him by name while questioning Mr. Bolton. The hearings were televised, and transcripts were widely published. On Tuesday morning, The Associated Press mentioned the disclosure and identified Mr. Armstrong. "Did Otto Reich share his belief that Fulton Armstrong should be removed for his position?" Mr. Kerry said during the hearing on Monday, reading from committee records of interviews its staff had conducted. "The answer is yes." Mr. Bolton was not ruffled. "As I said," he replied, sticking to the alias, "I had lost confidence in Mr. Smith, and I conveyed that." At a time when a special prosecutor is investigating how the identity of another undercover C.I.A. officer, Valerie Plame, was leaked to the press, the disclosure of Mr. Armstrong's name did not go unnoticed by reporters on Capitol Hill. Asked about it on Tuesday, Mr. Lugar said simply, "No comment." Mr. Kerry defended himself. "Senator Lugar had already mentioned it," he said, "and it had already been in the press." >>> It is interesting to see how seriously the Senators took this request for secrecy from the CIA. Holman Jenkins of the WSJ is recycled by James Taranto with more. opinionjournal.com And since it reminds us of Kerry's response, let's pitch in Cliff May's "Everybody Knew" defense of Robert Novak and the White House aides on the Plame leak. nationalreview.com justoneminute.typepad.com nytimes.com michellemalkin.com guardian.co.uk mediamatters.org