In Case You Have Forgotton
The obfuscation by the national media of the facts of the Affaire Flame have reached epic portions. This article is a great recounting of exactly what the facts are in the Affaire Flame.
Special Report: Judith Miller Exonerates Bush Officials
By Cliff Kincaid
October 17, 2005
The true facts in the CIA-leak case are now becoming astonishingly clear. New York Times reporter Judith Miller's testimony, as she describes it in the Sunday edition of her paper, proves that the wrong people are under investigation. It's not really a story about Bush officials Lewis Libby and Karl Rove and their conversations with the press. Rather, it's a story about a CIA bureaucracy working to undermine the Bush administration through the media and cover up for its own mistakes.
It's now obvious that Bush officials are spending time before a grand jury and big money on lawyers for the alleged "crime" of trying to use the press to get out their side of the story. They trusted the press and got burned. Now, if the media have their way, these officials may be further punished by being indicted by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. This would be a gross miscarriage of justice.
Special Report: Judith Miller Exonerates Bush Officials
By Cliff Kincaid
October 17, 2005
The true facts in the CIA-leak case are now becoming astonishingly clear. New York Times reporter Judith Miller's testimony, as she describes it in the Sunday edition of her paper, proves that the wrong people are under investigation. It's not really a story about Bush officials Lewis Libby and Karl Rove and their conversations with the press. Rather, it's a story about a CIA bureaucracy working to undermine the Bush administration through the media and cover up for its own mistakes.
It's now obvious that Bush officials are spending time before a grand jury and big money on lawyers for the alleged "crime" of trying to use the press to get out their side of the story. They trusted the press and got burned. Now, if the media have their way, these officials may be further punished by being indicted by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. This would be a gross miscarriage of justice.
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I wonder if there is a timetable for declassifying or "removing the secrecy" surrounding grand jury investigations and testimony. This one would probably furnish sufficient evidence about the modus operandi of the progressive juggerrnaut to discredit and eviscerate the New Left movement permanently.... a "reverse Watergate" moment.
Live by the law, die by the law. Lord Acton - Institutions perish through an excess of their first principles...
-FJ
I seem to recall a certain lawsuit where a certain defendent claimed under oath to have not engaged in certain sexual acts with a certain other person and then continued to repeat above story under oath until DNA evidence on a certain blue dress proved him to be a liar and a perjuror. An educated lawyer, he later claimed under oath not know the meaning of either the word "sexual" or "is".
And I believe that perjury is still a crime, even in Texas, and even for lawyers.
-FJ
As they say in politics, "It ain't the lying, it's the perjury, stupid!"
So what are you suggesting Duck? A bronze plaque at the historic spot on the floor in the Oval Office where the act took place? Perhaps a National Park Service produced video of the act to help interpret, for the more prurient visitors, what took place. The former First Prevaricator William Jefferson Clinton would want to play himself. Monica would probably want to take another shot at glory too.
But, I get carried away. As you well know, Mr. Ducky, the bottom line is that William Jefferson Clinton perjured himself. If President Bush did half of what William Jefferson Clinton did you would be soiling yourself.
Mr. Duck, since you emulate ostriches I am not surprised that you profess not to know, and belittle, Cliff Kincaid, an editor with Accuracy in Media. Progressive liberal demoracist anti-free speech activisit whiners in Congress have blocked AIM from appearing before Spector's committee hearings about whether a Federal shield law is needed. Why are you whiners so terrified about free speech?
Cliffy's bio?
-FJ
BB,
I don't think they're so much worried about free speech as they are in getting specially protected speech JUST for themselves (AIM Banished).
The right to lie with impunity, and not having to reveal the lie's sources (if any) or even "existance" to ANYONE, including the DOJ. They want to be able to simply "Cop the 1st" instead of the 5th. It sounds more truthful that way.
-FJ
mr. ducky,
You also claim to be ignorant of the words "sex" and "is". If getting a bj isn't a crime, I wonder what the original lawsuit was about then? I mean, all he did was "ask" for one.
-FJ
I would remind mr. ducky, that it all started out as a "civil", and NOT a criminal, investigation. Civil laws don't apply to civil servants?
-FJ
I wonder what "crimes" Fitzgerald might indict anyone for... perhaps this will offer a clue...
"The letter from then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey gave Fitzgerald added authority to investigate and prosecute "federal crimes committed in the course of, and with intent to interfere with, your investigation, such as perjury, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, and intimidation of witnesses."
Of course, mr. ducky claims that it "it is not illegal to lie on the stand about facts not pertinent to a legitimate criminal investigation." It makes me wonder... since talking to a reporter is no crime, what possible crimes could have been committed by Rove, Libby, et al?
I wonder if revealing a name to a reporter is in any way like revealing a penis to an employee? I suppose that if revealing a person's name and occupation was known to be a crime and done deliberately... it might be like soliciting a bj, but if done in the privacy of an intimate private exchange, something else?
mr ducky, please clarify all these legal technicalities for me.
-FJ
When lies are not lies and perjury is not perjury from NRO.
-FJ
The wink-wink nudge-nudge say-no-more "pirates code" concerning the issue of perjury in civil trials...
Pirate Ethics"
-FJ
It's called sit back and enjoy the show. After all, you paid for it--AGAIN.
Yep, we are plumb stupid in Texas,
Lyndon B. Johnson
Thirty-Sixth President
1963-1969
George H. W. Bush
Forty-First President
1989-1993
George W. Bush
Forty-third President
2001
The Bushs were born elsewhere, but, have always claimed Texas. Dwight David Eisenhower was born here, but never claimed Texas.
Then there is Massachusetts, home of the big floppers,
Tanked Teddy Kennedy
Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.
Tanker Dukakis
Also ran in 1988 Presidential election. Famously asked, "Can you take my picture with the silly helmet on my head?"
Hanoi John
Also ran as a has been in 2004 Presidential election. Famously responded to Swifties, "Don't be haters, Ho Chi Minh liked me, you lying baby killers."
Go figure. I think the Texas is string is coming to an end for the near future. Probably will be voting for another Virginian in 2008, U.S. Senator George Allen. Added bonus is that he is probably another Big Bubba cousin since I have some Virginia Allen ancestors.
Hope springs eternal from the "progressive" breast. mr. ducky, are you in love with the idea of implicating the Vice President in la'ffaire Plame? For you must ignore all the exculpatory evidence to believe that any "indictment" are in the offing...
NY Times Article
-FJ
I love the progressives. Their current mantra runs that along the lines that all Republican Party members must be expelled from Congress, for they constitute a "culture of corruption".
Fast forward to another "culture of corruption". Ooops, this time it's the London and French "progressives" and their Iraqi terrorist supporters like George Galloway...
Washinton Times
Who knows, maybe they'll move that investigation back across the Atlantic and begin focusing on the American "progressive" movement's UN connections.
That way we might eventually get some media balance, and not merely fabricated, trumped up charges against evil "Republicans". There'll be some real and more serious charges against "Democrats." Let's all just sit back and enjoy the show.
-FJ
I am averse to cultural relativism and other "mythical" propositions. But I am NOT averse to the "truth", or the truth coming out in the light of the sun, instead of the typical media bonfire of the vanities.
And I don't expect my avatars to do anything. I want them to simply be cool like Calvin Coolidge, and keep YOURS from doing anything in the process.
-FJ
au contraire monseur le duck... you give the power back to the people and let the money flow as it naturally does (ala Smith) and...
Walah! Pretty soon the same people have ALL the money, and the same people are poor. For some "values" create more "successful" results than others. Then you implement the ideals of a Joseph de Maistre or Edmund Burke.
And as a result, you have an intelligent and rich elite that consumes only "the best" and a bunch of poor wannbee's who will now attempt to emulate their tastes and culture and aspire to the same values. Up until the nineteenth century, this paradigm worked.
In other words, there were no mass-markets for idle urban "punks" and idolizing of "drug cultures", women who aspired to become unwed mothers living off government subsidies, or rewards for the unproductive non-deserving poor.
All these types either "worked" or "starved" as well they should. They had no money to create mass-markets for their own sub-cultures. They existed, but were relatively "invisible".
Government does NOT create culture in a free society. People do. Rich people. Intelligent people.
You and your kind are the Marie Antoinette's of the world. You want everyone to "eat cake". In so doing, the world gets an upset stomach.
-FJ
And so we have the "results" of 60's "Progressive Politics" beginning to be documented...
Rediscovering the Underclass, by Charles Murray
-FJ
...and others are finally waking up to the problem.
Walter Williams
-FJ
Au contraire senor le duck, I believe that I have done more to create culture than yourself. I have produced one son who is a state university senior studying animation and digital design and aspires to work for Pixar upon graduation, another who is a sophomore musical theater student at a major university and will DEFINITELY make it on Broadway (excellent triple threat actor w/ a classically trained voice that can belt when he wants to), and a daughter who is currently a dance major attending and performing at a major city High School for the Performing Arts and aspiring to study film and theatre in college to become an arts critic and give my sons rave reviews.
All three of my kids are actively engaged in the arts, and will be actively creating and critiquing culture for future generations over the next sixty years. In fact, I just might try and get them all together after graduation in five years, and open my own local theater. I'm thinking of doing nothing but updated Greek, Roman, and Shakespearean tragedies and comedies in an "open air" style. I think I'll write the updated versions myself, and let my wife direct. I'll also shop for a mountain winery "setting". Care to purchase some "advance" tickets? Or will you be attending an Eminem concert in Boston instead?
;-)
-FJ
Funny how a Julliard trained violin prodigy can use their "boring techniques" to entertain thousands as part of a full orchestra with a Brandenberg Concerto, then go sit in with Charlie Daniels Band and lay out a rather innovative smart solo for "Devil Goes Down to Georgia", and then go sit in a play a duet w/Ishtak Pearlman or a string quartet.
It's nice when one practices common skills so that one can also play well with "others" and not live one's life entirely as a "soloist" unable to precisely play what's on the sheet in front of them.
-FJ
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