Rick Moran at The American Thinker:
For indeed, most have given up trying to alter the narrative, soon to be immortalized in film as the portrayal of an evil administration, hell bent on going to war, which tried to stifle and smear the heroic Mr. and Mrs. Wilson to hide their nefarious plans.
The narrative is tailor made for Hollywood. The truth, as Mr. Novak points out in this article in The Hill, is a little less dramatic and quite a bit more problematic for the Wilsons:
Columnist Robert Novak said Saturday Ambassador Joe Wilson did not forcefully object to the naming of his CIA operative wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, when Novak spoke to him prior to the publication of a column that sparked a federal investigation and sent White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter†Libby to jail.
“He was not terribly exercised about it,†Novak said.
Instead, Wilson focused on not being portrayed as simply an opponent of the Iraq war. Wilson also stressed that his wife went by his last name, Wilson, rather than Plame, Novak said.
Wilson seems to be following the age old Hollywood publicists plea, “Say what you want about me, just make sure you spell my name right.”
Apparently, only when the media and the left began to make a big deal about the “outing” of Valerie Plame Wilson did Ambasador Joe begin to ratchet up the outrage. Once Wilson hopped on the gravy train, his fake anger went from mild to white hot – intimating first that exposing his wife’s position at CIA had ruined her career then building on that theme until Wilson was saying outright that the incident was threatening to her life. The more the left lionized him, the more aggrieved he appeared to get. It was a classic performance matched by his wife’s before the House Oversight Committee where she perjured herself several times trying to explain how her recommendation that the CIA send her husband to Niger came about.
Heroes. Victims. Bullshit.
>>>>Heroes. Victims. Bullshit.
Democrats.
I knew he was good in Ghostbusters, but had no idea was a political thinker.
Pssst….
“It’s a ….print!”
After a week of senators and congress wieners propagating the Rush lie, it’s just par that Wilson pops up. He’s just like a gassy turd that escapes the swirly.
Smells worse, though.
Hop on board the fame-train! You have an E-Ticket; Destination – Excitement!
The 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act,
Defined by the primary contributing author Bruce Sanford, Esq
Legislators emphasized in crafting the The 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act, to “EXCLUDE “ the following
1.The possibility that casual discussion, political debate,
2.The journalistic pursuit of a story on intelligence
3.The act was “NOT” intended to target executive branch officials who make disclosures, whether carelessly, out of personal or bureaucratic animus, or in pursuit of an important foreign-policy objective, while talking about national security matters with reporters.
Indeed, even “if” Congress wanted to criminalize a journalistic pursuit or a casual discussion, political debate, which it in fact congress and the authors emphatically “excluded ” the executive branch.
BACKGROUND:
Congress passed The 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act, over one individual named Mr.Philip Agee during the 1970s, Mr.Agee acts defined the term “outing†of CIA covert agents stationed abroad, Mr.Agee knowingly, willfully and purposefully ” outed “ agents abroad intentionally to disrupt the agency’s operations.
The 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act, was written in unusually specific language and requires a prosecutor to show that a person has disclosed information that identifies a “covert agent†(not an “operativeâ€Â) while actually knowing that the agent has been undercover within the last five years in a foreign country and that the disclosed information would expose the agent. For a person who had no classified access to the outed agents identity, the law provides the additional hurdle of proving a pattern of exposing agents with the belief that such actions would harm the governments spying capabilities. As a practical matter, this high degree of proof of willfulness or intentionality would be almost impossible to find in any circumstances other than in a Philip Agee clone
The democrats “knew and did know” all the above
Facts are for the little people.
I don’t believe in leprechauns.
Not even the ones that are hot-wiring your car right now?
The feeling’s mutual, bud.
If a leprechaun can get my car started, he’s doing better than me.
I am not sure why, but Leprechauns do not bother me at all. The Plames on the other hand, worse than midgets. Lying crapweasels.
Narratives are for the beautiful people.
Leprechauns sabotage my website every effing damn year.
Hates ’em, I does.
– A bit ancillery in topic, but is it finally safe to conclude that the Bergerman definately has the keys to some of the Clintons skeleton closets. I can’t imagine any other reason for her to give the Reps such a juicy target to tee off on. Its better than the Plame fiasco, because it is so timely.