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Ten days after Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff and the Nation’s David Corn revealed — contrary to Corn’s previous speculation — that the original leaker in the Valerie Plame controversy was former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and not Karl Rove or another of former Ambassador Joe Wilson’s bogeymen, the New York Times finally got around to editorializing on the matter. And what an editorial it was.

Keep in mind that the story broke on Saturday, Aug. 27, The Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune editorialized on the matter on Sept. 1, five days later, the Los Angeles Times ran its editorial on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, the New York Times finally weighed in. Were the Times’ editorial writers doing extensive research and crafting a masterful editorial? Nope.

In its editorial titled “Time for Answers,” after identifying Valerie Plame as a “covert C.I.A. agent” the Times writes: “The revelation tells us something important. But, unfortunately, it is not the answer to the central question in the investigation — whether there was an organized attempt by the White House to use Mrs. Wilson to discredit or punish her husband, Joseph Wilson. A former diplomat, Mr. Wilson debunked the claim that Saddam Hussein tried to buy uranium from Niger to make nuclear weapons.”

Yes, it’s time for answers — from the Times. How does it know for certain that Valerie Plame was both “covert” and an “agent”? The source of those claims is her husband, and other major media organizations have withheld judgment. The Washington Post calls Plame merely a “former CIA employee.” The Los Angeles Times uses scare quotes when describing the “outing” of Plame. But the Times swallows the Wilson line whole.

The Times also, incredibly, persists in asserting that “Mr. Wilson debunked the claim that Saddam Hussein tried to buy uranium from Niger to make nuclear weapons.” Do the Times editorial writers read anything other than their own editorial page? READ THE REST OF THIS STORY FROM THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR

THEN check this out: The liberal bloggers are determined to get “someone” ANYONE in the Bush administration…and make themselves “rich” in the process…

From Firedoglake  

If it  hadn’t been for the groundbreaking work of the blogosphere, and Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel of Kos and The Next Hurrah fame) in particular, the CIA Leak Investigation probably would have turned into another Whitewater — an incomprehensible mess of spin put forward by the Administration and published on the front page of the Washington Post like it actually made sense. Thanks to the tireless work of those who read carefully and publicly held journalists accountable for their work, the abililty of the Administration to do  that was sorely hampered. 

Now the table is being set for a Libby pardon, helpfully abetted by the New York Times, the Washington Post and Bill Kristol among others. Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, who has worked so tirelessly and efficiently on this case, is being smeared by those who either don’t understand what has happened to date or are willfully ignorant of history.

It is for this reason that we are going to be publishing our first book through FDL Books, in order to have Marcy’s work seen by a larger audience.  We hope to publish it in much the same fashion as Glenn Greenwald’s How Would a Patriot Act, in conjunction with Jennifer Nix who did such a great job on that effort. Glenn’s book which was a true internet phenomenon, and we hope we can have a similar impact by publishing this book in conjunction with the Libby trial in February of next year. 

If George Bush wants to pardon Scooter Libby, it is important that he know that there will be a price to be paid for doing so, and that price increases as the truth spreads.  We need 650 readers to give $100 each in order to help us to make that happen. That’s less than 1% of the average readership of this blog on any given weekday.  This is an important story both for the blogosphere and the country to get right, and we need your help to do that.

From Jane “Blackface” Hamsher 

“We’re really looking forward to publishing Marcy’s book and pushing back against the “Libby did nothing wrong, it was all Armitage” narrative. Years’ worth of history has to be forgotten in order to pull that wool over the country’s eyes. “

I remember at the convention while attending the CIA leak portion of Yearly Kos how the people gave that idiot bastard Joe Wilson at huge standing ovation and treated this guy like he was some hero, people gushing over him, I’m talking about serious hero worship for a man who is a bimbo, and I thought to myself the liberal left in this country is really fucked up. This crazy blog group just as white as they can be, just as confused as they can be, and just as angry as they can be.
Anyone with common sense knew this man was a fraud and an opportunist pimping his wife around like a cheap Vegas escort.
I’m not there YET, but I think the kook left Blogsphere will be the ultimate downfall of the Democratic Party.
Many of these bloggers are Cindy Sheehan with editorial skills. If prominent Democratic leaders start relying on the support of these crazy people they are toast.  

BUT, I love liberals they are if nothing else entertaining.

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 7th, 2006 at 9:10 am and is filed under Blog Watch, Liberal Nuts, CIA, We Hate Bush, Conspiracy Theories.
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