I’m scheduled to be on the Guy James Show tomorrow at 3:30 PM. We’ll be discussing the l’affaire plame.
What’s on your mind?
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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L’Affaire Plame: bottom line is that BushCo has got to pay for this Constitutional travesty.
I’m utterly sick & tired of drooling lunatics in positions of undue influence & command.
Honestly.
Give ’em hell, BooMan!!!
Joe is always hedging his bets.
C&L has Joe Lieberman saying he’ll see how the primaries turn out and just maybe he’ll run as an Independent.
Same Joe who held unto his senate seat as he ran for veep. Just in case. What does that say about the man?
Not much.
Congratulations, BooMan!
(Sure, then there’ll be a book, yet more media attention and a yearly convention in Las Vegas named after you. Where will it all end? 😉 )
Vegas?
I don’t think so. You’ll all have to come to Philly and eat cheesesteaks.
I only traveled to Philly once, but got a cheese steak from “lunch truck” parked on one the small side streets near Temple Univ. yumm.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You quoted the Fitzgerald finding saying that multiple White House, people in the White House were involved in revealing your wife’s identity or talking about your wife’s identity. It says that there was a plan to discredit, punish or seek revenge against Mr. Wilson. Are you going to file a civil suit against the White House or against individuals in the White House?
WILSON: Well, we’re holding all our options open. At the end of the day, it seems to me that first and foremost, the White House needs to come clean on this matter. My own view of this is that the White House owes the American people and particularly our service people that have been sent into war an apology for having misrepresented the facts.
Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame are on my mind.
Would that I could wake tomorrow morning, and buy my New York Times and read an article by Joe Wilson:
What I didn’t find in Iran.
Great good luck tomorrow, Booman.
The workers of France have scored a victory against corporate interests. I find that encouraging.
Greg Palast wrote an editorial for Buzzflash; he was a federal investigator before he became a reporter. He says revelation that Bush declassified papers and encouraged dissemination of information shifts legal liabilities for Bush and Cheney, actually increasing their legal exposure. Here is the link
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/04/con06129.html#top
Another question I have on this issue is who the real target was. While it appears to be an effort to demean wilson, perhaps the real jackpot was the elimination of Brewster Jennings who were investigating WMD and Iran.
How widespread is CIA disapproval of Bush’s actions?
Woodward, in his PLAN OF ATTACK (chap. 18) wrote that the President gave a speech in Cincinnati October 7, 2002, to curry public support (on Oct. 11, the Senate voted 77 to 23, supporting the resolution to attack Iraq). In a circulated draft of the speech there was a line that the Saddam Hussein regime had been caught trying to buy uranium oxide from sources in Africa. The basis for this was a report from British intelligence; Joe Wilson IV had been sent to Niger to check and found nothing to substantiate it. The CIA memo recommended that any reference be dropped from the speech, and it was.
The CIA also said that the evidence was Hussein’s opponents had been executed, not “decapitated” as Bush’s speech read. Nevertheless, Bush retained “decapitated” in his speech.