September 06, 2006

• Suddenly I'm hungry for a big piece of cake.
• While the mainstream media have attempted to make this situation about whether a journalist has the right to withhold sources and why was this information leaked, the larger question in my mind has always been how was this information newsworthy and why was it published in the first space? Why was the fact that someone's wife was in the CIA worthy of being published in the first place? It seems as if the journalists had all this integrity and thirst for "the truth" they would have been asking themselves this before the name ever appeared. What possible public good could come from knowing that Wilson's wife was in the CIA? Call me crazy but I think "the guy who says the intellegence on Iraq is wrong has a wife in the CIA" isn't nearly as newsworthy as, "This person from the government contacted me with classified information and asked me to publish it!"
• When you're Bob Novak, I guess you get to decide what's newsworthy on your own. And whatever Karl Rove tells you is newsworthy.
• I never understood how outing Plame was supposed to undermine Wilson's story in the first place. It seemed like just some tangential bit of information for the freepers to spam while the rest of us were trying to decide if invading Iraq was really such a good idea.
• As I read it (now), it wasn't to undermine Wilson's story as much as it was to punish her for not helping to lie in order to go to war. If she's outed she can't continue working there, and it undermines Wilson's story and the political danger is next to zero? Do it! Then deal with the first-born sons of each house, etc.
• You think Senator Elizabeth Dole's ideas have merit? Ha! Bob Dole takes Viagra, talk about THAT!
• ?Que?
• If anyone has earned the right to all the Viagra he wants, it's Bob Dole.
• I called this.
• *fetches cake*
• Yellow cake? Fucking terrorist.
• *retches yellow cake*
• hey!
• Hay is for horses.
• Well, the news is that someone at the White House committed treason. Because it's treasonous to reveal the name of an active agent.
• I think the Reagan-era law that makes that the case is a little tricky tho. Or maybe Bush just decided not to comply with it because he doesn't have to. We're at war so he can do whatever he wants. Even though we're not. And he can't.
• Bob Novak Blasts Armitage, Wilsons Add Armitage to Lawsuit
• Eeexcellent.
• Novak Slams Jon Stewart
• Six Questions for Dr. Emile A. Nakhleh on the CIA and the Iraq War
• 2. What accounts for the failure of American policy in Iraq? The main reason for our failure in Iraq was not looking at the “morning after.” It was obvious that the military campaign would succeed, but there was also an ideological view among some administration officials that we would be received as liberators. Those people did not understand that just because the Iraqis hated Saddam, that didn't mean they would like our occupation. Bush: Dumb? Yes.
• Ach! The main reason for the failure in Iraq was willfully ignoring any opinion not in alignment with the desire of the administration to attack Iraq, no matter how well-informed that opinion may have been. =stupid
• Cheney On Libby Witness List
• Go f*k yourself, your honor.
• The main reason for our failure in Iraq was not looking at the “morning after.” I'm gonna have this next drink because it'll be FUN, and because it makes me feel funny and smart and attractive and POWERFUL, and because I CAN HANDLE IT, DAMMIT. Same with this next line of COKE. I'm serious.
• Oh yeah right, like Daddy can't bail us out if we get in trouble. *smashes expensive vase* Hee hee!
• CIA panel blocks book by outed agent Valerie Plame
• The magazine noted that while other former CIA officers have published books, all of which cleared the panel, few with nonofficial cover have. Ironical. Hey Scooter's trial starts next week!
• Jon Stewart Explains the Scooter Libby Trial
• We're getting closer to critical meme status. Stand by for termification phase.
• A Call to Investigate All of the President's Men
• Plame was ‘covert’ agent at time of name leak: Newly released unclassified document details CIA employment
• Meh, so what? Save your posting finger, Homunculus. Absofuckinlutly none of it matters. Dunno why there's any news reported anymore. Isn't it freakin' obvious that this administration could eat small babies and there wouldn't be one single sanction that would stick? Teflon indeed.
• I think it's actually Boron Hah?! Hah?! . . Ehhhhh. Besides, tha H-dogg only post what he know the people need to survive! Although I give you that it's way beyond ridiculous at this point. I hear Bush is trying on olive-branch tiaras
• Conservative Movement Sleeper Cells
• “He Has Subverted the Rule of Law and the System of Justice” -- Former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson Reacts to Bush’s Commutation of Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jail Sentence in Outing of Valerie Plame
• A Memo for David Brooks
• Yep, he's been perverting justice since he got into the WH.
• Perverts.
• That [Memo for David Brooks] was fantastic! Should make for some interesting future backyard BBQs.
• Valerie Plame's lawsuit dismissed
• Judge John D. Bates, the judge who dismissed today’s suit, also dismissed the lawsuit over Dick Cheney’s energy task force records
• Well, isn't that an interesting coincidence.
• He has a bright future.
• Well, Bush hasn't been stuffing the Federal Courts for nothing... And the "Teflon Don" 'aint got 'nuthin on Chimpy & Co.
• Every time I read the news out of Washington, I wish some nut-job assassin brave soul would KILL SOMEBODY. And you know the somebody I mean.
• GramMa, wishing Valerie Plame dead won't make the problem go away!
• More Injustice for Valerie Plame
• Cooper Contradicts Rove: He’s ‘Dissembling’ With ‘Nonsense’ About The Plame Leak
• Plame Book Criticizes Bush, Journalists
• What Happened To Those Who Worked With Valerie Plame?
• It just goes on and on, and nothing is ever done about it. Damn, I hate BushCo and their lies.
• CBS confirms 2006 Raw Story scoop: Plame's job was to keep nukes from Iran
• Valerie Plame Wilson Speaks Muzzled
• White House Offers Convenient New Excuse For Not Talking About Plame Leak
• After Fair Game: The Story Valerie Plame Couldn't Tell
• George Bush Authorized the Leak of Valerie Wilson’s Identity