Matt Cooper to sing and reveal source in Treasongate.

No, Travelsong, you are not retarded. I have a hard time following this one myself. If it wasn't for folks trying to slam Karl Rove I wouldn't be paying any attention to it. It's basically inside baseball about reporters and sources, etc.

 

This is abject fatuity, nothing more. You have provided us with your observation on their behavior, which does not constitute proof. Were you this upset when the "liberal media" was attacking President Clinton?

Ah, so free speech is the same thing as giving aid and comfort to the enemy? Interesting.....

What about the despicable acts of Mr. Novak? Is taking down a CIA operative and everyone associated with her "giving aid and comfort to the enemy?"
What about Oliver North selling weapons to Iran? Would that be "giving aid and comfort to the enemy?"

 

Drudge is saying that Mrs. Wilson is the one who got her husband sent to Africa. She was no undercover CIA operative but some sort of desk worker in town who lived openly.

 

from an article by David Corn

"Rove's overworked attorney, Robert Luskin, defends his client by arguing that Rove never revealed the name of Valerie Plame/Wilson to Cooper and that he only referred to her as Wilson's wife. This is not much of a defense. If Cooper or any other journalist had written that "Wilson's wife works for the CIA"--without mentioning her name--such a disclosure could have been expected to have the same effect as if her name had been used: Valerie Wilson would have been compromised, her anti-WMD work placed at risk, and national security potentially harmed. Either Rove knew that he was revealing an undercover officer to a reporter or he was identifying a CIA officer without bothering to check on her status and without considering the consequences of outing her. Take your pick: in both scenarios Rove is acting in a reckless and cavalier fashion, ignoring the national security interests of the nation to score a political point against a policy foe."
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Well the Whitehouse said that Rove never had anything to do with leaking the name but obviously Rove had SOMETHING to do with it so chalk one lie up for the Bush administration. And it is interesting how between Rove mentioning Wilsons wife to Cooper and Novak's comments a name materialized. Wilson' wife had one name and Rove should not get off here on a technicality. He should be fired or the very least resign. There seems to be no end to the scurrilous vindictivenss of the servants of money.

 

David Corn is the flakiest left winger around. Why believe anything he would write about any Republican.

 

Good Judas! Isn't that an oxymoron?

Just who did Ed Meese blow the whistle on?

 

David Corn is the flakiest left winger around. Why believe anything he would write about any Republican. </font>[/QUOTE]The same commentary is being written and reported elsewhere, this article just happened to articulate it best. Anyway,you are not supposed to just take people's word for it, you should analyze the content.

 

David Corn is the flakiest left winger around. Why believe anything he would write about any Republican. </font>[/QUOTE]The same commentary is being written and reported elsewhere, this article just happened to articulate it best. Anyway,you are not supposed to just take people's word for it, you should analyze the content. </font>[/QUOTE]I will take your word that Corn's comments were intended as opinion, not news. He certainly would never truthfully report the news about a Republican.

A question: How does the reader analyze the content of an article or commentary? I know how I analyze it, I look at the author.

Also you never did say who Ed Meese blew the whistle on.

 

David Corn is the flakiest left winger around. Why believe anything he would write about any Republican.</font>[/QUOTE]I don't believe that you read anything he writes anyway......

See previous comment....

 

If it would shut up the liberals I would urge Rove to resign. Unfortunately, his resignation would simply give the liberals a political scalp and the taste of political blood between their teeth and they would simply go bonkers in their attacks even more than already do.

 

Whoever identified Plame (and thereby gave our enemies valuable intelligence against us) should be stripped of citizenship and deported.

That being unconstitutional, we will have to content ourselves with existing laws.

I agree, Rove will probably escape formal punishment. He is powerful, and knows where the bodies are buried.

But we can push to expose as much of the slime as possible.

 

"A question: How does the reader analyze the content of an article or commentary? I know how I analyze it, I look at the author."

For the most part you should not look at the author unless you are dealing in bare statistical fact. Of course you can analyze rationale and reasoning, you do it every day, I hope. Instead of just taking someone's word for it, whether it is your leaders or your peers it is best to abandon that mental laziness and get used to thinking for yourself.


"Also you never did say who Ed Meese blew the whistle on"

Since you insist, The Reagan administration on Iran Contra. You know that.

 

Isn't the truth more important than a technicality. The truth is if Rove names Valerie Plame he names Wilson's wife. If Rove names Wilson's wife he names Valerie Plame. Either way, under the right conditions, an undercover agent is dead. The law was written to keep CIA agents alive not so lawyers can get people like Rove off the hook. At the very least incompentence means Rove should be gone. That is the truth.