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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (249221)	11/21/2007 5:15:23 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

"Bush lied to the American people when he stood before them a proclaimed to get to the bottom of the Plame affiar and take care take care of those involved" Bush didn't lie - he commuted Libby's sentence. I'm sure he'll do the same for any other staffers implicated in the future. I'm sure he's going to grant Libby and anyone else a full pardon on the way out. I suspect that that really isn't enough for Libby to hold his mud and take the fall solo, and that he's been promised back-end compensation once Bush is out of office - probably from Cheney, who's profited more than Bush from his position. There are those in America and on these threads that find the entire thing delightful! I think the entire thing stinks to high heaven. A special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate the President's and the Vice President's roles in this matter immediately by AG Mukasey. It should be Fitzgerald. In his closing statement, he mentioned the Z"cloud" over the Vice President.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (249221)	11/21/2007 6:13:49 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Steve, can we please, at least on this thread, stop with the Plame nonsense. Richard Armitage 'outed' her while dishing gossip to Robert Novak. He has admitted it, and obviously he was not a Bushie and wasn't doing it for the White House. It would be more realistic to say that bigmouth Joe Wilson outed his wife the minute he published that NYT op-ed, because naturally every politically connected person in town wanted to figure out how in the world a former mid-ranked diplomat without WMD experience who was also working for the Kerry campaign had been allegedly sent by the CIA at Dick Cheney's behalf to investigate WMD ties to Niger. Inquiring minds wanted to know. From there it was the shortest of hops to figuring out that his CIA WMD-specialist wife had gotten him the gig.