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Monday, January 05, 2009

Hmm...

A report is out that Vice President Dick Cheney has admitted to FBI investigators that he altered certain talking points to the press so Valarie Plame's name would come to light. Murray Waas is the reporter that somehow got access to the document, still highly classified, and wrote about what he saw.

Waas, you may recall, is an investigative journalist who helped break the Iran-Contra scandal. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and has won the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, awarded by the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on The Press. So the guy is no hack.

I'm going to wait until the report comes out before I completely believe Mr. Waas. I suspect it won't be out until later this year. If it is true, will we have enough balls to put Cheney in jail?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Armitrage, at State and definitely not part of the Cheney gang, was the FIRST person to 'out' Plame.

I know that doesn't fit the evil-conspiracy narrative but it is still a MOTHERFUCKINGFACT. Deal with it.

Mark Ward said...

Juris, look at the time line again. I don't know why you are clinging to the Cheney is innocent fantasy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair_timeline#June_2003

Sometime before 8 July 2003 does not mean "MOTHERFUCKINGFACT." That means it is not known when it happened, therefore not a fact.

Cheney was the start of this whole thing on June 12, 2003 when he told Libby where Plame worked. In addition, Cheney wrote this on the Wilson editorial on July 6, 2003.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cheneysnotes.jpg

Cheney is a pretty smart guy. He knew that by asking Libby about Wilson's wife that would set into motion a series of events that would threaten the Wilsons in payback for not doing as they were told.

And if this FBI report is true, are you still going to cling to your Armitage (see: fall guy who gets pay off to be on board of oil company) fantasy?

Anonymous said...

Novak first got the Plame info from Armitrage. That is beyond dispute. Armitrage was never part of the Cheney gang. That also is not in dispute.

Yet the conspiracy-theorists can't quite deal with that. Probably because it blows the conspiracy all to hell. That's why it's a MOTHERFUCKINGFACT.

Mark Ward said...

No, it's not. Did you even bother to look at the links? That's not conspiracies, dude. Those are facts as stated in testiomony.

Again, "sometime before July 8th" is not a fact. Juris, I'm surprised you are so close minded on this. You sound like a zombie and, based on previous posts, I don't think you really are one.

Anonymous said...

I'm closed minded because all accounts that initiate the sequence of events with Cheney OVERLOOK Armitrage's disclosure to Novak.

I don't like Cheney*, but you have to a have a full blown case of BDS to believe this nonsense.

And dammit M., you know that while Wiki is handy it is NOT authoritative on controversial topics, so stop pointing to it as the end-all, be-all.


*even though I'm not a lawyer, I sure wouldn't want to go hunting with him.