The entire Plame Affair was a combination of office politics and an attempt to embarrass Bush the Younger because he invaded Iraq unilaterally. God help this country if Valery Plame Wilson serves this country as a U.S. Senator the same way she served ‘my’ country in the CIA:
Plame told the Washington Examiner she would "like another opportunity to serve my country."
Omar and Friends: Democratic Activist Who Said Jews Are Driving Wars Plans Senate Run
BY: Jeffrey Cimmino
March 29, 2019 3:20 pm
https://freebeacon.com/politics/activist-who-said-jews-are-driving-wars-plans-senate-run/
BY: Jeffrey Cimmino
March 29, 2019 3:20 pm
https://freebeacon.com/politics/activist-who-said-jews-are-driving-wars-plans-senate-run/
Beginning with the Nigerian Yellow Cake story, media coverage from start to Scooter Libby’s conviction was so slanted against the Bush White House, especially Dick Chaney, it can only be called media muck. Media coverage of the Plame fiasco was muck as filthy and disgusting as anything the Left ever got up to. Remember that it was Valery Plame Wilson who used her position in the CIA to get her husband the yellow cake gig in Niger:
January 11, 2014
Proof that the Plame case was a hoax
Clarice Feldman
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/01/proof_that_the_plame_case_was_a_hoax.html
Proof that the Plame case was a hoax
Clarice Feldman
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/01/proof_that_the_plame_case_was_a_hoax.html
Here is a very brief summary of events for anyone not familiar with the travesty. Notice whose name pops up:
U.S. Attorney James B. Comey was appointed Deputy Attorney General for the purpose of appointing U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald as "Special Counsel" to lead the investigation into who "leaked" Valerie Plame's identity as a C.I.A. employee to the press. It was all choreographed.
The Valerie Plame case: The man who was appointed to appoint Patrick Fitzgerald “Special Counsel”
Thomas Barton, Investigative Reporter
http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2013/0...o-appoint-patrick-fitzgerald-special-counsel/
Now go to Richard Armitage:
When Richard Armitage finally acknowledged last week that he was my source three years ago in revealing Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee, the former deputy secretary of state's interviews obscured what he really did. I want to set the record straight based on firsthand knowledge.
Armitage told the CBS Evening News that he did so inadvertently.
"I feel terrible," Armitage said. "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."
In a column published on July 14, 2003, Novak, citing two senior administration officials, noted that Plame was a CIA operative. The column was primarily about Plame's husband, Joe Wilson, a former career diplomat and critic of the intelligence underlying the invasion of Iraq.
Novak has never revealed the original source of the information about Plame. However, he has confirmed that President Bush's chief political strategist, Karl Rove, confirmed the information and was the second source cited in the column.
Novak has said he would not reveal the identity of the original source unless the source came forward. However, he said Fitzgerald learned who the source was independently.
Last month, sources told CNN that Armitage had revealed Plame's role at the CIA in a casual conversation with Novak.
Armitage was not indicted by the federal grand jury that investigated the disclosure of Plame's name to Novak and other journalists. He told CBS that the special counsel investigating the leak, Patrick Fitzgerald, "asked me not to discuss this, and I honored his request."
After Novak's column ran, Wilson accused Bush administration officials of leaking his wife's name in retaliation for his criticisms about intelligence used to buttress the case for invading Iraq. (Full story)
Because deliberately revealing the identity of a CIA operative can be a crime, Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago, was appointed in September 2003 as a special counsel to investigate whether any laws were broken.
While no one has been indicted for actually leaking Plame's identity, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, has been charged with perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators for allegedly giving false information about his discussions with journalists about Plame.
Libby has denied any wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty.
Armitage, 65, was No. 2 at the State Department under former Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2001 to 2005. He left his post after Powell resigned at the beginning of Bush's second term.
Armitage told the CBS Evening News that he did so inadvertently.
"I feel terrible," Armitage said. "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."
In a column published on July 14, 2003, Novak, citing two senior administration officials, noted that Plame was a CIA operative. The column was primarily about Plame's husband, Joe Wilson, a former career diplomat and critic of the intelligence underlying the invasion of Iraq.
Novak has never revealed the original source of the information about Plame. However, he has confirmed that President Bush's chief political strategist, Karl Rove, confirmed the information and was the second source cited in the column.
Novak has said he would not reveal the identity of the original source unless the source came forward. However, he said Fitzgerald learned who the source was independently.
Last month, sources told CNN that Armitage had revealed Plame's role at the CIA in a casual conversation with Novak.
Armitage was not indicted by the federal grand jury that investigated the disclosure of Plame's name to Novak and other journalists. He told CBS that the special counsel investigating the leak, Patrick Fitzgerald, "asked me not to discuss this, and I honored his request."
After Novak's column ran, Wilson accused Bush administration officials of leaking his wife's name in retaliation for his criticisms about intelligence used to buttress the case for invading Iraq. (Full story)
Because deliberately revealing the identity of a CIA operative can be a crime, Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago, was appointed in September 2003 as a special counsel to investigate whether any laws were broken.
While no one has been indicted for actually leaking Plame's identity, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, has been charged with perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators for allegedly giving false information about his discussions with journalists about Plame.
Libby has denied any wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty.
Armitage, 65, was No. 2 at the State Department under former Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2001 to 2005. He left his post after Powell resigned at the beginning of Bush's second term.
Armitage’s Leak
By Robert D. Novak
Thursday, September 14, 2006
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/13/AR2006091301572.html
By Robert D. Novak
Thursday, September 14, 2006
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/13/AR2006091301572.html
I believe that Powell gave his boy, Richard Armitage, instructions to out Valerie Plame in order to punish Bush & Chaney because he, Powell, looked like a liar in the United Nations. The Plame Affair gave the Bush Administration a severe case of the trots. Colin Powell thoroughly enjoyed the Bush White House’s discomfort —— kind of like watching a political Montezuma’s Revenge. The injustice in the whole thing ended with Scooter Libby ultimately taking the rap for Armitage’s leak:
Libby was indicted by a federal grand jury on five felony counts of making false statements to federal investigators, perjury for lying to a federal grand jury, and obstruction of justice for impeding the course of a federal grand jury investigation concerned with the possibly illegal leaking by government officials of the classified identity of a covert agent of the CIA, Valerie Plame Wilson, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV. Pursuant to the grand jury leak investigation, Libby was convicted on March 6, 2007, on four counts of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements. He was acquitted of one count of making false statements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Libby
Powell’s love for the United Nations is on par with every Democrat traitor’s devotion to global government. Bush the Younger committed the ultimate sin when he invaded Iraq unilaterally without the U.N.’s final approval. In addition, Powell was bitter because he did not return to the U.N. coalition glory days of Desert Storm —— only in Iraq when then-Secretary of State Powell failed to broker another U.N. coalition to deal with Iraq.
The flaw in Powell’s thinking was that U.S. won the first Gulf War militarily, but lost the peace before the first shot was fired when Powell and Bush the Elder gave the U.N. veto power over total victory. Had Bush the Elder gone on to Baghdad in Desert Storm there would have been no Iraq War 12 years later.
If justice delayed is justice denied President Trump at least corrected the record after so much time passed:
“I don’t know Mr. Libby, but for years I have heard that he has been treated unfairly,” Trump said in a statement from the White House. “Hopefully, this full pardon will help rectify a very sad portion of his life.”
Trump pardons Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney's former chief of staff
Willa Frej
Apr 13th 2018 1:29PM
https://www.aol.com/article/news/20...-dick-cheneys-former-chief-of-staff/23410778/
Willa Frej
Apr 13th 2018 1:29PM
https://www.aol.com/article/news/20...-dick-cheneys-former-chief-of-staff/23410778/
Finally, a few special words about Karl Rove.
Everybody in the Bush White House knew that Scooter Libby DID NOT out Valerie Plame. Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald knew that Libby DID NOT out Plame, but he prosecuted Libby as though as though he was guilty.
Everybody on the planet knows that no Democrat president would ever let his Justice Department prosecute a guilty Democrat let alone prosecute one who was being framed the way Libby got railroaded.
Bush and Karl Rove stood by and did nothing even though it was clearly a witch hunt looking to burn Dick Cheney.
The New York Sun reported this in January of 2007:
WASHINGTON — The long-awaited obstruction-of-justice trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr., who served as Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, opened with the defense suggesting that the prosecution is an outgrowth of an effort in the White House to protect President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove.
"Karl Rove was the president's right-hand man. … He had to be protected," Mr. Libby's lead defense counsel, Theodore Wells Jr., told the jurors.”
Wells added that Libby was being sacrificed to save Rove.
"Karl Rove was the president's right-hand man. … He had to be protected," Mr. Libby's lead defense counsel, Theodore Wells Jr., told the jurors.”
Wells added that Libby was being sacrificed to save Rove.
Libby Defense Points Finger At Karl Rove
By JOSH GERSTEIN, Staff Reporter of the Sun | January 24, 2007
https://www.nysun.com/national/libby-defense-points-finger-at-karl-rove/47271/
By JOSH GERSTEIN, Staff Reporter of the Sun | January 24, 2007
https://www.nysun.com/national/libby-defense-points-finger-at-karl-rove/47271/
Bottom line: Rove deliberately let Libby take a fall for a bum rap. Then Rove watched Libby drown rather than throw him a life jacket.
No liberal could damage conservatism from the outside more than Rove did from the inside. If Rove hated liberals as much as he hates Tea Party conservatives he might not be missed. Sad to say FOX will keep Rove on the air forever, but I doubt if there is a rank & file conservative in this country who will be sorry to see him gone from the airwaves.
Here is a thought. FOX will never tune out Rove, but conservatives can tune out FOX.
