Where in God's name does SodaHead get it's info from? Oh yes, that's right. CNN. First of all, it's pathetic that our CIA had a blithering idiot like Valerie Plame on their payroll. Secondly, Dick Cheney did not out that blonde dolt. It was Colin Powell's boy, Richard Armitage who 'outed' Valerie Plame. In July 2003, Armitage told columnist Robert Novak that Ambassador Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, and Novak mentioned it in a column.
Armitage says he didn't come forward because "the special counsel, once he was appointed, asked me not to discuss this and I honored his request." Meanwhile Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald began hauling White House officials and journalists before a grand jury. Fitzgerald had an agenda all his own. He knew immediately where the leak came from but he wasted miliions of tax-payer $$$$$. And the whole time, Sec. of State Colin Powell was running cover for his Assistant Sec. of State, Richard Armitage. Liberal's, do you see what occurs when facts are offered?
Is Dick Cheney a Traitor for Outing Valerie Plame?
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Joe Wilson and outed CIA agent Valerie Plame just can't seem to move on.
Several years after Plame, who was a covert operative, was outed by former President George W. Bush officials as supposed payback for her husband's Iraq war criticism, they both were on CNN calling former Vice President Dick Cheney a traitor.
"They betrayed the national security of our country," Wilson said. "By betraying the identity of a covert CIA operative, whose identity is kept secret because it's in the national interests that the identity be kept secret, in order for her to be able to acquire foreign secrets on behalf of our country."
A Cheney aide, Scooter Libbey, was charged in connection with the outing. He was convicted of lying to federal investigators. Bush later commuted his sentence.
We could hazard a guess as to why the couple are still beating a dead horse. A movie, "Fair Game," which is about their experience, is coming soon to a theater near you.
Several years after Plame, who was a covert operative, was outed by former President George W. Bush officials as supposed payback for her husband's Iraq war criticism, they both were on CNN calling former Vice President Dick Cheney a traitor.
"They betrayed the national security of our country," Wilson said. "By betraying the identity of a covert CIA operative, whose identity is kept secret because it's in the national interests that the identity be kept secret, in order for her to be able to acquire foreign secrets on behalf of our country."
A Cheney aide, Scooter Libbey, was charged in connection with the outing. He was convicted of lying to federal investigators. Bush later commuted his sentence.
We could hazard a guess as to why the couple are still beating a dead horse. A movie, "Fair Game," which is about their experience, is coming soon to a theater near you.
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Josh 2010/10/22 20:04:56
Figures Tricky Dicky II was in control having been the bureaucratic control freak for decades and with his interests in Halliburton! Iraq need to be invaded at all costs and now the ayatollahs in Tehran are soooooo grateful for the biggest GOP FUBAR ever!
Cheney never outed anyone, and Valerie Plame was never angent. She was a mid-level administrator. And if her position was supposed to be such a secret, why did she pose for the cover of Vanity Fair?
http://www.cbsnews.com/storie...
(CBS) In an exclusive interview with CBS News national security correspondent David Martin, Richard Armitage, once the No. 2 diplomat at the State Department, couldn't be any blunter.
"Oh I feel terrible. Every day, I think I let down the president. I let down the Secretary of State. I let down my department, my family and I also let down Mr. and Mrs. Wilson," he says.
When asked if he feels he owes the Wilsons an apology, he says, "I think I've just done it."
In July 2003, Armitage told columnist Robert Novak that Ambassador Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, and Novak mentioned it in a column. It's a crime to knowingly reveal the identity of an undercover CIA officer. But Armitage didn't yet realize what he had done.
Cheney never outed anyone, and Valerie Plame was never angent. She was a mid-level administrator. And if her position was supposed to be such a secret, why did she pose for the cover of Vanity Fair?
http://www.cbsnews.com/storie...
(CBS) In an exclusive interview with CBS News national security correspondent David Martin, Richard Armitage, once the No. 2 diplomat at the State Department, couldn't be any blunter.
"Oh I feel terrible. Every day, I think I let down the president. I let down the Secretary of State. I let down my department, my family and I also let down Mr. and Mrs. Wilson," he says.
When asked if he feels he owes the Wilsons an apology, he says, "I think I've just done it."
In July 2003, Armitage told columnist Robert Novak that Ambassador Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, and Novak mentioned it in a column. It's a crime to knowingly reveal the identity of an undercover CIA officer. But Armitage didn't yet realize what he had done.
As for the "dead horse" thing. How about you lose your career, be called a liar, and trashed after serving your country honorably for years...then see if it's a "dead horse" issue in your eyes.
What's the matter with you little city slickers?
Can't take a REAL cowpuncher ("cowboy" is an old B Movie term. Not used in reality!)?
Most of these people speak straight from the shoulder, and none of you are men and women enough to take it!
Apparently, Halliburton is in negotiations with the Nigerian government to craft a plea deal that would keep Dick Cheney out of jail. (h/t scribe)
Halliburton is planning to make a plea bargain in former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney’s corruption case, Nigerian officials told GlobalPost.
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Halliburton is in talks with Nigerian officials to make a plea bargain in the case, said Femi Babafemi, spokesman for Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the agency which has pressed the charges against Cheney.
“The companies are asking for a plea bargain, we are reviewing their request, we are talking with them, but we have not gone far with the talks yet,” Babafemi told GlobalPost.
Although Babafemi did not give further details, other sources within the agency said the plea bargain might involve a $500 million settlement.
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Cheney and three other top executives could face sentences of three years in a Nigerian prison if convicted of the charges in the 16-count indictment, said Babafemi.
http://emptywheel.firedoglake...
Go figure; anti-war, anti-Bush, anti-Chaney, CNN. The dems were wanting to impeach Bush and Chaney like a bunch of vampires on steroids. But that's what they do best. Nothing for Clinton for releasing a waiver to sell upgraded satellite technology to the Chinese; so if an ICBM get launched at LA.......................????
He's also a traitor for MANY other offenses.
Plame outed herself several times before the press ever picked up on it. It's unclear whether anyone else assisted her outing or did anything more than point to what she had done to herself. If they did, shame on them - but it doesn't seem to have been Cheney who merely commented on it after the fact... the villain!
The bottom line is that the best thing that ever happened to her was when someone pointed out the inconsistencies in her stories to the press. Once they started digging and caught-on about her shenanigans, voila! She could start whoring her story out for bucks. ...which seems to have been in the plan of either her or her husband all-along.
She can cry victim all she wants. Who wouldn't love to be victimized that same way? Who would hate to have publishers fighting over who gets to hand you a million-dollar book deal where you can make stuff up and smear people you don't like?
This is SO not a news story as the TRUTH was revealed half a decade ago ...
FTA:
Richard_ArmitageIn their book Hubris Isikoff and Corn reveal — as both Armitage and syndicated columnist Robert Novak acknowledged publicly later — that Armitage was Novak's "initial" and "primary source" for Novak's July 2003 column that revealed Plame's identity as a CIA operative and that after Novak revealed his "primary source" (Novak's phrase) was a "senior administration official" who was "not a partisan gunslinger," Armitage phoned Colin Powell that morning and was "in deep distress." Reportedly, Armitage told Powell: "I'm sure [Novak is] talking about me."
SodaSuck is in dire need of an honest editor. ;o)
Obama is a TRAITOR serving FOREIGN NATIONALS HERE ILLEGALLY.
Three Arizona counties the size of the entire State of Delaware were taken over by Mexican nationals and, instead of sending in troops to liberate those counties and to vanquish the enemy, Obama CEDED those counties, while warning U.S. citizens to stay out of them. Further, to aid and abet the enemy, Obama incredibly filed a federal lawsuit against those he should instead be defending and protecting!
Obama has also been serving FOREIGN NATIONALS HERE ILLEGALLY, by trying to give them amnesty, "free" healthcare, and just about everything else, even a "Dream Act" to go to college!
Obama has also committed countless CRIMES.
For federal law says it's a felony crime, punishable by 5 years prison and $5,000 fine EACH count, to aid or abet, or to encourage or harbor, an illegal alien ... exactly what Obama has been CRIMINALLY doing ... but for many MILLIONS of them. Ergo, MILLIONS OF CRIMES.
See:
http://www.americanpatrol.com...
Additionally, Obama has committed still other crimes: OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, in violation of federal criminal statute 18 USC Sections 1503, ET SEQ.
Obstructing justice by ordering his puppet Eric Hold...
Obama is a TRAITOR serving FOREIGN NATIONALS HERE ILLEGALLY.
Three Arizona counties the size of the entire State of Delaware were taken over by Mexican nationals and, instead of sending in troops to liberate those counties and to vanquish the enemy, Obama CEDED those counties, while warning U.S. citizens to stay out of them. Further, to aid and abet the enemy, Obama incredibly filed a federal lawsuit against those he should instead be defending and protecting!
Obama has also been serving FOREIGN NATIONALS HERE ILLEGALLY, by trying to give them amnesty, "free" healthcare, and just about everything else, even a "Dream Act" to go to college!
Obama has also committed countless CRIMES.
For federal law says it's a felony crime, punishable by 5 years prison and $5,000 fine EACH count, to aid or abet, or to encourage or harbor, an illegal alien ... exactly what Obama has been CRIMINALLY doing ... but for many MILLIONS of them. Ergo, MILLIONS OF CRIMES.
See:
http://www.americanpatrol.com...
Additionally, Obama has committed still other crimes: OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, in violation of federal criminal statute 18 USC Sections 1503, ET SEQ.
Obstructing justice by ordering his puppet Eric Holder to drop the slam dunk criminal prosecution of the Black Panthers for voter obstruction.
Obama also committed other crimes obstructing justice by similarly ordering that the DOJ drop its prosecution-investigation of ACORN, not once, but TWICE.
Accordingly, I urge everyone to get on the phones, telling your fed senators and reps to IMPEACH both Obama and Holder, and have them prosecuted by an independent prosecutor, or call for a bi-partisan prosecution.
And also impeach all the other TRAITORS in Congress serving foreign nationals here illegally [trying to give them amnesty, the Dream Act, etc.]. Starting with Reid, Schumer, Durbin, Gutierrez and the rest.
all the events.. all the events...that took us to Iraq and beyond for oil and precious minerals.. hey baby. if we want it.. we find a way to get it and collateral damage is fundamental. And on the domestic front: Our wonder gov't both parties, I might add, allows this experimentals of our food supplies.. factory meat, GMO grains.. leading to wide spread ill health. For profit? See DVD Foodmatters. See DVD "Iraq for Sale: War for profit" .. read all you can.. while you still can..
The news was the news, and not opinionated commentary with a political agenda attached.