By: Civil_Disobedient
mediareport - I'll take that bet, too. No way is Bush going down. The man could take a .44 magnum out at a press conference and blow away reporters that ask questions he doesn't like, and still the...
View ArticleBy: alicesshoe
yellowcake, yellowcake George's man find me some yellowcake as fast as you can find it, ship it and mark it with a "G" and put it in the oven for Georgie and me! Wheee. Seeming as how kindergarten...
View ArticleBy: Artifice_Eternity
matteo: Raines crusaded on topics like the Augusta golf club, but at the same time, missed huge stories of historic import that went sailing by while he nursed his obscure obsessions. I.e., he allowed...
View ArticleBy: matteo
I don't know, the story is obviously newsworthy, it's very important, but if I were Keller I'd be very, very wary too. Raines, bless his arrogant heart, among many other things tried to turn the Times...
View ArticleBy: kablam
hattifattener: I think the world is just the opposite of black and white. In fact, when espionage is involved, expect John LeCarre novel complexity, but as written by Hunter S. Thompson, then edited by...
View ArticleBy: stonerose
David Corn, who broke the story in The Nation, has written an update here, which recaps the White House's attempts to evade the issue.
View ArticleBy: mediareport
Bush is not going down. Nothing can stick to Mr. Magoo. $20 says you're wrong. I get an exemption if there's a radioactive terrorist event in the summer of 2004, though.
View ArticleBy: mecran01
Bush is not going down. Nothing can stick to Mr. Magoo. If Reagan was covered in teflon, Bush is covered in adaptive camouflage.
View ArticleBy: hattifattener
Thanks for the excerpt, stonerose; I hadn't read that particular article. Yeah, unless Newsday's completely off track, this seems like it is in fact the criminal act it sounded like. kablam, not so...
View ArticleBy: shadow45
God, I hope Bush goes down for this. Jeb definitely got the smarts in that generation of Bushes
View ArticleBy: Ignatius J. Reilly
Actually, he sounds close to HW Bush's administration, which is a much different thing. It seems like he respected them enough to go to Niger, but not enough to cover for their lies.
View ArticleBy: kablam
Further info: The ambassador himself: "Served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council. Ambassador Wilson is a career member of the...
View ArticleBy: Ignatius J. Reilly
It's a sign that something is all fucked-up when the spin of your supporters is a couple of steps ahead of your own. Bush/Rove's crowning genius was making certain morons believe that Hussein was...
View ArticleBy: stonerose
For those who insist that we don't yet know whether she was undercover, please read the links before commenting: The identity of an undercover CIA officer whose husband started the Iraq uranium...
View ArticleBy: stonerose
The whole controversy is that the White House may have named this woman. Why do you want the paper of record to to do the same thing you're so angry with the White House for doing? Do you really need...
View ArticleBy: kablam
indirect queries. Has anyone actually specified what she is alledged to do at CIA? My point being that 99% of their jobs are not "operatives", but their employer is obscured like for those who work for...
View ArticleBy: Tin Man
Just more evidence of the Times ceding its eminence to the WaPa What's the WaPa? I was hoping Bill Keller would be better than Howell Raines, but whatever is broken over there hasn't been fixed....
View ArticleBy: raaka
The whole controversy is that the White House may have named this woman. Why do you want the paper of record to to do the same thing you're so angry with the White House for doing?
View ArticleBy: tittergrrl
Interestingly, last night Ambassador Wilson was on The Daily Show last night for a couple segments, and Jon Stewart seemed to want to pull the story out of him, asking about retribution, etc, and all...
View ArticleBy: hattifattener
This has the potential to be a huge story, or it could be a complete fizzle. It all hinges on whether Ms. Plame was in fact a CIA operative under NOC. If her CIA affiliation was not actually secret...
View ArticleBy: delmoi
The bush admin was horrible for outing Valerie Plame! The NYT was horrible for not outing Valerie Plame!!!!
View ArticleBy: Ignatius J. Reilly
Also, can you imagine what Novak and the rest of the right-leaning punditry would be saying right now if say, Maureen Dowd had revealed the identity of a CIA operative? Whoo boy. Now shit. People's...
View ArticleBy: pitchblende
One possible explanation is that both the Post and the Times are digging around (actual investigative reporting?!) trying to determine the identities of the administration officials who blew her cover...
View ArticleBy: evening
I think Artifice_Eternity is right, the NYT should be all over this, but the story has sadly been missing in too many of the nation's top dailies. Combined stories about this situation (scandal?) in...
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By: stonerose
Isn't this like a triple post at this point? Pike? Mmm, I don't think the pike is called for. This has the potential to be a truly huge story, and the fact that it isn't (yet) calls for our attention....
View ArticleBy: Artifice_Eternity
<tangent>As for USAToday, FWIW, they are demonstrably more liberal than the "liberal" NY Times these days.</tangent>
View ArticleBy: Artifice_Eternity
Ignatius: Well put. I was hoping Bill Keller would be better than Howell Raines, but whatever is broken over there hasn't been fixed.
View ArticleBy: Ignatius J. Reilly
Artifice_Eternity: I think I agree with you, I'm just saying that in general high expectations of the Times are no longer warranted. Forget Jason Blair. I've had jobs where I bullshitted and slipped...
View ArticleBy: Artifice_Eternity
Ignatius: the wire service story in the NYT today is about New York Senator Chuck Schumer formally asking the head of the FBI to investigate this. It's now not only a national story, but a New York...
View ArticleBy: mr_crash_davis
Well, this story pops right up on a search for "CIA operative" so it looks like the Times just isn't too keen on spreading her name around.
View ArticleBy: Artifice_Eternity
Mark Gisleson at Bushwarsblog.com notes that the story has also been covered by the following media outlets: Arizona StarNational Post & Canadian PressMother JonesNew York Press [second item]...
View ArticleBy: Ignatius J. Reilly
Or maybe they just don't want to drag her name through the mud as well. In all honesty, though, that would be a nonsense pursuit as everyone else has already done so. Just more evidence of the Times...
View ArticleSearching for Valerie Plame
Search the New York Times website for any occurrence of the words "Valerie Plame" during the last week ...and you'll find nada, zilch, zip. The so-called "paper of record" has remained totally mum on...
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