Foxfyre wrote:Bernard and Okie are right on this one. It has been debated ad nauseum, and the evidence is overwhelming. Wilson lied. Plame was working in the area of weapons, but she had no authority re any nuke programs anywhere, she had not been 'covert' for years, and Wilson had 'outed' her on his own website and in "Who's Who in America" well before all this bruhaha about it ever broke. Even if she had been 'outed' by somebody (other than Wilson), she had a safe desk job at the CIA and any work she was doing on anything would not have been compromised in the least. This has been clearly stated by even the special prosecutor who is looking into that. No crime was committed. Nobody was compromised. (And, the one person indicted on this deal for perjury, not for outing Plame, will almost certainly be exhonerated.)
Excuse me? Are you a lawyer now? Where's your source? This is, as usual, your opinion and is not backed up by anything factual. This is a habit of you right leaning nuts......digest this, if you can, and try to keep your minds
open:
QUOTE FROM WIKIPEDIA
During months of inspections, IAEA experts found no evidence of any nuclear program in Iraq. The official U.S. Duelfer Inspection Report found after the war that all nuclear production facilities in Iraq had been destroyed before 1991 and never reconstituted. In March 2003 the U.N. experts asked for a few more months of inspections to verify the chemical and biological weapons disarmament in Iraq, but the U.S. government denied more time for inspections, and invaded Iraq on March 19, 2003.
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald.
After the invasion of Iraq, Wilson publicly criticized the Bush administration in a New York Times opinion column.
Eight days later, Plame's identity as a CIA agent was exposed in conservative pundit Robert Novak's regularly syndicated column, along with an allegation that Plame had a role in sending Wilson to investigate the Iraq-Niger "yellowcake" claim.
The revelation of Plame's identity began a larger political scandal, and
Wilson claimed that Rove had leaked Plame's identity as a CIA operative in retaliation for his public contradiction of Bush administration claims.
A subsequent special investigation was launched and placed under the direction of Patrick Fitzgerald. On October 28, 2005, a federal grand jury returned a 5-count indictment against Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff, on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements to the FBI and the grand jury investigating the matter. When the indictment was announced,
Libby resigned his post as Chief of Staff to the Vice President.
The indictment alleges that Libby had informed several reporters about Ms. Wilson's employment at the CIA, that this information was classified, and that Cheney got the information from CIA sources and brought it to Libby's attention. Libby has been accused of perjury and obstruction of justice for lying about the disclosure to investigators, but has not been criminally charged for releasing Plame's name. Both Karl Rove and Lewis Libby had told reporters about the occupation of Joe Wilson's wife in CIA, but Lewis Libby did it first, according to the investigation, to reporter Judith Miller on June 23, 2003.
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Just to make it clear to those of you who have trouble digesting facts without pablum, Wilson is V. Plame's husband.
Of course, we all know that Libby, Rove and Cheney are innocent. They are honest politicians!
