Reply With QuoteLewis I. Scooter Libby was similarly hounded from his post as Chief of Staff to Vice-president Dick Cheney. Yet nobody officially claims that Libby might have wrongfully divulged the identity of liberal political hack and CIA employee Valerie Plame, but rather that during nearly two years of questioning by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, Libby apparently got his facts jumbled to no significant or pertinent degree. Nevertheless, Fitzgerald pressed for indictments, which he now pursues with obsessive determination.
Interestingly, during the past few weeks, Fitzgerald himself was forced to correct bogus statements that he had made in relation to the case.
Yep, PERJURY and GIVING FALSE STATEMENTS TO INVESTIGATORS, not a thing about Valerie Plame.
The CIA fired a top intelligence analyst who admitted leaking classified information that led to a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about a network of secret CIA prisons, government officials say.
The officer was a senior analyst nearing retirement, Mary McCarthy, The Associated Press learned.
"The officer has acknowledged unauthorized discussions with the media and the unauthorized sharing of classified information," Agency spokesman Paul Gimigliano said. "That is a violation of the secrecy agreement that everyone signs as a condition of employment with the CIA."
Why has THIS not made the nightly news at 9???
And yes, it's Bush's fault (this time I'll let him take some blame properly).
It might appear that some culpability for the present situation lies with President Bush. Under the auspices of his misbegotten new tone, he allowed far too many appointees from the Clinton Administration to retain their offices and continue their corrosive activity from within the halls of power.
But who could blame him for failing to anticipate the depths of treachery to which they were willing to sink in their pursuit of political power? Nevertheless, with each passing day, they prove their willingness to corrupt the system in perpetual service to their sordid cause.
The damage they have inflicted is grave, and the sooner their likes are broomed from critical positions, the better the nation will fare. It is a hard-learned and bitter lesson that real America should never forget.
