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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (70847)	11/24/2005 12:07:08 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

AIM Urges The Washington Post to Identify Source in CIA Leak Case; Charges Paper with Obstructing Justice November 16, 2005 WASHINGTON – Accuracy in Media (AIM) editor Cliff Kincaid charged today that The Washington Post and its top investigative reporter, Bob Woodward, have been caught obstructing justice and concealing information in the CIA leak case. "The new disclosures demonstrate that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald conducted a flawed investigation that did not get to the true facts of the case," Kincaid said. "It appears Fitzgerald was used and manipulated by the CIA and the press." Woodward has revealed for the first time that he was told by an official in mid-June 2003 that Wilson's wife was a CIA analyst, and that her affiliation did not appear to be either classified or sensitive. This was before Robert Novak published information about her CIA identity and an investigation was launched into the disclosure. Woodward said he provided this information to the grand jury in the CIA leak case on November 14 -- just two days ago -- and that he testified that "according to my understanding an analyst in the CIA is not normally an undercover position." What's more, Woodward said that he was contacted by Fitzgerald about providing this testimony after the official went to the Special Prosecutor and disclosed his conversation with Woodward. Woodward, however, said he has not been authorized to publicly name the official who gave him this information. "If her CIA affiliation was not sensitive or classified and if she was not undercover, then the CIA's request for an investigation of the Novak disclosure was based on a false premise," said Kincaid. "If it turns out that Woodward's source was a CIA official, then the CIA request for an investigation looks even more suspicious. In any case, Woodward's failure to come forward with this evidence – until Fitzgerald confronted him and demanded the testimony – amounts to obstruction of justice." aim.org

To: TideGlider who wrote (70847)	11/24/2005 12:23:52 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 81568

Murtha? How About Sam Johnson? 11/23/2005 investors.com Iraq War: Rep. Sam Johnson is a decorated war veteran too, one who spent seven years in a Hanoi prison. Why has nobody heard of him or his opinion on the war? Johnson represents the 3rd District in Texas. He served in the Air Force for 29 years, flying combat missions in the Korean and Vietnam wars. If you haven't seen him on the Sunday talk shows or the nightly news, there is a reason. He is a Republican and he supports the liberation of Iraq. In an op-ed for Human Events Online, Johnson asked the same question Vice President Dick Cheney asked in front of the American Enterprise Institute, one that Rep. John Murtha, Democrat of Pennsylvania and media darling for his call for immediate withdrawal, failed to ask. Johnson wondered: "What would Iraq be like if the United States pulled out — allowing dangerous people like the head of al-Qaida, al-Zarqawi, to run the country. What would that mean for the region? The world?" His is a voice crying in the wilderness. What a difference from Murtha. After he sounded retreat, the media fell over themselves praising the man only Beltway wonks had heard of. ABC called him an "influential Democrat," while CBS opined that "on military matters no Democrat in Congress is more influential." Not to be outdone, NBC's Brian Williams gushed: "When one congressman out of 435 members of Congress speaks out against the war in Iraq, it normally wouldn't be news. But it was today, because of who he is." And just who is John Murtha? He is a decorated war veteran. But then so is Sen. John Kerry and Gen. Wesley Clark, two other media favorites. Bravery does not impart brilliance. Kerry has warned against the "swift-boating" of John Murtha, but there are a few things the media has left out of Murtha's biography. As Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center has pointed out, on May 10, 2004, John Murtha, Democrat "hawk," stood next to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and said the war in Iraq was unwinnable. In The New York Times of Sept. 17, 2003, Murtha complained that the top Pentagon brass should be fired since it misled him into voting for the war. Far from being a profile in courage, Murtha has been an anti-war curmudgeon for years. The significance of the amount of coverage given to Murtha is not lost on Vietnam vet Johnson, who notes: "In case people have forgotten, this is the same thing that happened in Vietnam. Peaceniks and people in Congress — and America — started saying bad things about what was going on over there." And the media eagerly reported every word as our enemies, who could not win on the battlefield, waited for morale and support for the war to erode. Our opponents in the war on terror know this lesson of Vietnam all too well, as shown in a July 9 letter written to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi from Osama bin Laden's No. 2 man, Ayman Zawahiri. "(W)e are in a battle," Zawahiri wrote. "And more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media." That is why, without the prospect of military success or any alternative to democracy to offer the Iraqi people, who will soon once again risk their lives to march to the polls, Zarqawi and his ilk focus on headline-grabbing car bombs and mounting American casualties as their only hope. As Zawahiri wrote, "The aftermath of American power in Vietnam — and how they ran and left their agents — is noteworthy." He hopes we will not learn from history, and repeat it. Sam Johnson hopes the opposite. investors.com