Novak on MTP: Plame recap
posted at 3:32 pm on July 15, 2007 by Bryan
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Columnist Robert Novak explained the Plame game on MTP one more time today.
Link: sevenload.com
The Plame investigation never made any sense from a security perspective. As Novak explains above, Armitage outed himself to the Justice Department before Fitzgerald’s appointment. The CIA never stated to Novak prior to his infamous column that any laws had been broken in Armitage’s disclosure of Plame’s name to Novak, and (Novak doesn’t get into this in this clip, but it remains a fact) Plame apparently had the habit of outing herself to paramours.
Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson both happened to alight in Washington, their jet-set schedules intersecting, and spotted each other across a cocktail party filled with foreigners. “I saw this striking blonde,” he recalled, still sounding smitten six years later. At first she said she was an energy analyst, but confided sometime around the first kiss that she was in the C.I.A. “I had a security clearance,” grinned Mr. Wilson, then a political adviser to the commander of U.S. forces in Europe.
If her status had been so all-fired secure, she wouldn’t have told Wilson that she was CIA until the relationship had progressed well beyond the first kiss, if at all. Why Plame and Wilson haven’t been investigated themselves remains a mystery, and probably always will.
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Try to tell this to anyone on the left. They simply will.not.listen.
bikermailman on July 15, 2007 at 3:48 PM
For a Dem activist and liberal nitwit CIA mole and hair dyer, I still say she’s hot.
Jaibones on July 15, 2007 at 3:49 PM
Exactly. I would love to know the answer to that, and why the NYT is not investigated for printing national secrets on the front page, and why Sandy Burglar got off so light, and what he stole.
CrimsonFisted on July 15, 2007 at 3:49 PM
Armitage would be in jail if there were any covert agent status blown, regarding Plame.
The law is about revealing the names of covert agents.
Clearly, she could not have been one.
Why Fitzgerald was not confronted with this detail by Libby’s lawyers (outside of the courtroom -if it was not allowed inside by the judge- every damned day, until it penetrated the consciousness of the public) is odd.
In effect, they agreed to the railroading.
By agreeing to the false premise of the entire case in the first place.
Strange, all around.
profitsbeard on July 15, 2007 at 3:49 PM
I don’t understand why she is refusing to go back to the committee. Davis wrote to come back and/or respond the the discrepancies in all her various testimony and she won’t…
Topsecretk9 on July 15, 2007 at 4:00 PM
Impossibly slow video stream.
infidel4life on July 15, 2007 at 4:10 PM
Once again, the hyprocrisy of the Democratic Party is on display.
georgej on July 15, 2007 at 4:16 PM
georgej on July 15, 2007 at 4:16 PM
Oh its far more than mere hypocrisy, the dems have built a house of cards upon Plame and Wilson’s statements, which were entirely lies. Expose those lies and the house comes tumbling down. Since the media helped build that house of cards there is no way they are going to admit their part in the scandal so they will do whatever they have to to ensure that the truth never comes out.
doriangrey on July 15, 2007 at 4:24 PM
That’s because the libs and Dims are desperate to see someone, anyone from this administration serving jail time. Justice be damned, they want their “frog walk and they will not rest until they get it.
Mallard T. Drake on July 15, 2007 at 4:40 PM
The only thing that Valerie Plame has going for her these days is that she is guaranteed to someday being a question in a future edition of Trivial Pursuit.
pilamaye on July 15, 2007 at 4:47 PM
Cut a deal? Immunity from prosecution?
Mazztek on July 15, 2007 at 4:49 PM
Novak is a A-hole for letting this get so far out of hand.
Wade on July 15, 2007 at 4:57 PM
That video feed is teh suck.
Purple Fury on July 15, 2007 at 5:10 PM
They should try Wilson for having a trophy wife.
Wade on July 15, 2007 at 5:21 PM
Novak fails to mention that Armitage DID NOT come forward on the first leak to Woodward the month before disclosing to Novak.
Novak fails to mention that the reporter Libby remembers (as Russert!) telling him about Wilson’s wife on July 10 was possibly Novak himself.
Russert and Novak fail to analyze the possibility that between them they got an innocent man railroaded. Russert of course would rather zing president Bush.
boris on July 15, 2007 at 5:26 PM
boris on July 15, 2007 at 5:26 PM
Hmmm, something about his “Christmas surprise”…
doriangrey on July 15, 2007 at 5:39 PM
So why is blondy not being prosecuted for perjury?
conservnut on July 15, 2007 at 5:45 PM
Meet the Depressed is a revisionist history program, especially with those two on it. Do you think they got their lies sorted out this time, or will they be back to try again?
The Bin Laden video was more accurate and more current, just needs more cowbell.
Bacchus on July 15, 2007 at 5:55 PM
The Prince of Darkness interviewed by The Prince of Twilight.
Only if you look/act like, or are, Joseph Wilson.
There are no noble characters in this plot.
Entelechy on July 15, 2007 at 6:21 PM
Welcome back Bryan, you were missed!
tikvah on July 15, 2007 at 6:22 PM
How come the LEFT has all the lawyers? Why doesn’t someone like Dershowitz put some of his formidable skills and talents to the task of evicerating the case against Libby? People like him don’t “do” Republicans? For Novak to sit there and shrug, the whole world knowing how Wilson boasted about landing the the bleached Mata Hari, while Libby was looking at 30 months of incarceration in P-R-I-S-O-N, and from the way the judge was going, full throttle, it wasn’t going to be one of those Club Feds, but real lockup with men who’d done actual crimes.
If Libby’s appeals lawyers are poised to “Nifong” the entire case, then forget about what was just written and wishing them all the best.
naliaka on July 15, 2007 at 6:26 PM
I just love how Russert brings Novak on to talk about this issue, as if he isn’t deeply involved with the entire Libby case. Russert lied during the case of the trial, and he misled the judge by pretending he hadn’t talked to investigators, not to mention he also changed his story to investigators in order to buttress Fitzgerald’s perjury case…
But oh well! More cowbell! Haha.
Seixon on July 15, 2007 at 6:27 PM
Fitzgerald is just like Mike Nifong and should be disbarred for running a phony investigation and a malicious prosecution for political purposes.
Johnny Sutton is another rogue prosecutor that is out of control.
The whole Justice System in our country has lost its way by becoming corrupt and self serving.
You are guilty unless you prove yourself innocent because Persecutors have so corrupted the legal process.Unless you are a millionaire you have no rights in a court of law.
ScottyDog on July 15, 2007 at 7:03 PM
My thoughts exactly.
Worse, he basically started it and then kept it alive.
Seixon also makes excellent points about little Timmy Russert’s part in this.
Shame, shame, shame but then Libs know no shame.
Jen the Neocon on July 15, 2007 at 7:27 PM
One word, Filegate.
June 23, 1996
(CNN) — A political tug of war continued Sunday over hundreds of FBI background files improperly obtained by the Clinton administration. The president’s staff insists there was no misuse of information, but skeptical Republicans aren’t convinced.
The Dems have the goods on the Republicans, in the White House, in Congress and in the Justice Department. That’s why donks caught with their hand in the cookie jar have had a teflon coating ever since the Clintonistas rifled through top secret FBI files back in the 90s.
Different question. Same answer. Remember, The Clinton’s never disclosed and the public never learned just what was in those files. But they did say they were sorry and promised to never let it happen again.
A promise from the Clintons. That’s a good one.
fogw on July 15, 2007 at 7:35 PM
Let’s also not forget that the CIA suspected her her cover had been blown by Aldrich Ames in 1994.
Pablo on July 15, 2007 at 10:05 PM
Tim Russert is neck deep in this nonsense, and unless he is disclosing that he sang like a canary to the FBI over the phone, then fought a subpoena later to appear all high and mighty, then he just needs to shut the hell up.
Whew! I never thought I would make it to the end of that sentence.
Stormy70 on July 15, 2007 at 10:29 PM
“Why Plame and Wilson haven’t been investigated themselves remains a mystery, and probably always will.”
Perhaps it all comes down to the CIA wanting what the CIA wants. How many of thier shadowy international
‘arrangements’ were disrupted by Bush, and how much do they want to show him who is really boss?
Spys are intersting, complicated people. Sometimes with dual, or false loyalties.
Of course, this all sounds a bit like ‘tinfoil hat’ stuff, but why should ‘twoofers’ have a monopoly on conspiracy theories?
USA, all the way!
ValhallaMike on July 16, 2007 at 12:31 AM
Does anyone know what’s going on with the appeal?
Rose on July 16, 2007 at 12:37 AM
I second Rose’s question posed at 12:37 Monday AM.
Phil Byler on July 16, 2007 at 10:45 AM
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