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	<title>Comments on: Washington Post Editorial Board Spits Out Baseless Right-Wing Talking Points On Libby Verdict</title>
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		<title>By: Newspaper Computer Business Review Computer</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/post-editorial-libby/comment-page-3/#comment-4342862</link>
		<dc:creator>Newspaper Computer Business Review Computer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Computer Consulting Business: Find the Right Clients&lt;/strong&gt;

If you really want to make a decent living and want to have a good, successful, viable computer consulting business, sooner or later you have to narrow down your focus and develop a keen intuition. Additionally, you have to become good at spotting the ...</description>
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<p>If you really want to make a decent living and want to have a good, successful, viable computer consulting business, sooner or later you have to narrow down your focus and develop a keen intuition. Additionally, you have to become good at spotting the &#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4342862', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Think Progress &#187; Washington Post Misleads, Contradicts Own Reporting, To Attack Pelosi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Think Progress &#187; Washington Post Misleads, Contradicts Own Reporting, To Attack Pelosi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Pelosi just like they got it wrong on the recent Iraq legislation, the U.S. Attorney scandal, the CIA leak investigation, the decision to invade Iraq, and on and on and [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Pelosi just like they got it wrong on the recent Iraq legislation, the U.S. Attorney scandal, the CIA leak investigation, the decision to invade Iraq, and on and on and [...]<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3421591', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Raymond Funamoto</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/post-editorial-libby/comment-page-3/#comment-2068760</link>
		<dc:creator>Raymond Funamoto</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>IT IS REALLY REMARKABLE THAT The Washington Post(tm) CAN BE DOING BOTH HELP AND HARM TO CHIMPya and Bushland Uber Allies by SUCH SHAMELESS PANDERING TO CHIMPya WITH THIS DISMISSING OF Libby&#039;s TRIAL IMPORT ON ONE HAND and Dana Priest&#039;s SPLENDID EXPOSES OF Walter Reed and the CIA&#039;s secret prisons ON THE OTHER--NEWSPAPERS--&quot;THEY ARE ONE CRAZY PEEPUL!!!!&quot; Or as the late John O&#039;Grady(aka Nino Culotta) wrote, THEY&#039;RE A WEIRD MOB(tm)!!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>IT IS REALLY REMARKABLE THAT The Washington Post(tm) CAN BE DOING BOTH HELP AND HARM TO CHIMPya and Bushland Uber Allies by SUCH SHAMELESS PANDERING TO CHIMPya WITH THIS DISMISSING OF Libby&#8217;s TRIAL IMPORT ON ONE HAND and Dana Priest&#8217;s SPLENDID EXPOSES OF Walter Reed and the CIA&#8217;s secret prisons ON THE OTHER&#8211;NEWSPAPERS&#8211;&#8221;THEY ARE ONE CRAZY PEEPUL!!!!&#8221; Or as the late John O&#8217;Grady(aka Nino Culotta) wrote, THEY&#8217;RE A WEIRD MOB(tm)!!!!!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=2068760', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: rickdog</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/post-editorial-libby/comment-page-3/#comment-2067049</link>
		<dc:creator>rickdog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Get a republican judge to preside over the trial, change the course of the trial to go after some lies thereby leading away from the real crime, get a conviction and go back to your day job, everyone else walks away scott free.  brilliant!  

progressives just got fleeced.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Get a republican judge to preside over the trial, change the course of the trial to go after some lies thereby leading away from the real crime, get a conviction and go back to your day job, everyone else walks away scott free.  brilliant!  </p>
<p>progressives just got fleeced.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=2067049', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/post-editorial-libby/comment-page-3/#comment-2064453</link>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Cheneyâ€™s Point-man â€” Libby â€” Carefully Leaked Plameâ€™s Identity To Reporters, White House Staff.

If this is true why are they all not convicted?</description>
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<p>If this is true why are they all not convicted?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=2064453', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Dave</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/post-editorial-libby/comment-page-3/#comment-2064196</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s not like the Post to get it right. It is entirely routine for the left to get it wrong...because their wiring is off.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s not like the Post to get it right. It is entirely routine for the left to get it wrong&#8230;because their wiring is off.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=2064196', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Marie</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/post-editorial-libby/comment-page-3/#comment-2061366</link>
		<dc:creator>Marie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;#95
Isnâ€™t that another paper owned by Rupert Murdoch you little troll.
Comment by Shane â€” March 7, 2007 @ 5:59 pm&lt;/em&gt;

It is not owned by Murdoch - you may be thinking of the Sun Times (Robert Noavk&#039;s outlet) and its own scandals.  the Tribune is a decidedly conservative, Republican newspaper.
It is part of a large ownership of conservative media (radio, TV and the paper.)  I hate that I don&#039;t have a fair and balanced newspaper in the Chicago area.  It&#039;s all Republican, all the time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>#95<br />
Isnâ€™t that another paper owned by Rupert Murdoch you little troll.<br />
Comment by Shane â€” March 7, 2007 @ 5:59 pm</em></p>
<p>It is not owned by Murdoch &#8211; you may be thinking of the Sun Times (Robert Noavk&#8217;s outlet) and its own scandals.  the Tribune is a decidedly conservative, Republican newspaper.<br />
It is part of a large ownership of conservative media (radio, TV and the paper.)  I hate that I don&#8217;t have a fair and balanced newspaper in the Chicago area.  It&#8217;s all Republican, all the time.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=2061366', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ValiantVenusGrewFromUranus</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/post-editorial-libby/comment-page-3/#comment-2053241</link>
		<dc:creator>ValiantVenusGrewFromUranus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Looks like they are finallly coming out of their long liberal nightmare. They have grown!
Comment by Patrick1 â€” March 7, 2007 @ 3:39 pm&lt;/em&gt;

Wow, you&#039;re a st*pid c*nt.  You quote an &#039;editorial&#039;, as though it&#039;s &#039;journalism&#039;?  You right wingnuts are born with your heads up your *sses aren&#039;t you?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Looks like they are finallly coming out of their long liberal nightmare. They have grown!<br />
Comment by Patrick1 â€” March 7, 2007 @ 3:39 pm</em></p>
<p>Wow, you&#8217;re a st*pid c*nt.  You quote an &#8216;editorial&#8217;, as though it&#8217;s &#8216;journalism&#8217;?  You right wingnuts are born with your heads up your *sses aren&#8217;t you?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=2053241', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: stevesh</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/post-editorial-libby/comment-page-3/#comment-2052547</link>
		<dc:creator>stevesh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;#95&lt;/strong&gt;   &lt;em&gt;Comment by Shane â€” March 7, 2007 @ 5:59 pm&lt;/em&gt;

No.  And why do you hate the Cubs?

TRIBUNE is one of the countryâ€™s top media companies, operating businesses in publishing, interactive and broadcasting. It reaches more than 80 percent of U.S. households and is the only media organization with newspapers, television stations and websites in the nationâ€™s top three markets. In publishing, Tribuneâ€™s leading daily newspapers include the Los Angeles Times, &lt;strong&gt;Chicago Tribune&lt;/strong&gt;, Newsday, Baltimore Sun, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Orlando Sentinel and Hartford Courant. The companyâ€™s broadcasting group operates 23 television stations, Superstation WGN on national cable, Chicagoâ€™s WGN-AM and the Chicago Cubs baseball team. Popular news and information websites complement Tribuneâ€™s print and broadcast properties and extend the companyâ€™s nationwide audience.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>#95</strong>   <em>Comment by Shane â€” March 7, 2007 @ 5:59 pm</em></p>
<p>No.  And why do you hate the Cubs?</p>
<p>TRIBUNE is one of the countryâ€™s top media companies, operating businesses in publishing, interactive and broadcasting. It reaches more than 80 percent of U.S. households and is the only media organization with newspapers, television stations and websites in the nationâ€™s top three markets. In publishing, Tribuneâ€™s leading daily newspapers include the Los Angeles Times, <strong>Chicago Tribune</strong>, Newsday, Baltimore Sun, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Orlando Sentinel and Hartford Courant. The companyâ€™s broadcasting group operates 23 television stations, Superstation WGN on national cable, Chicagoâ€™s WGN-AM and the Chicago Cubs baseball team. Popular news and information websites complement Tribuneâ€™s print and broadcast properties and extend the companyâ€™s nationwide audience.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=2052547', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: John Moyers</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/post-editorial-libby/comment-page-3/#comment-2052139</link>
		<dc:creator>John Moyers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You guys ought to get a tape of Rush Limbaugh&#039;s opening monologue on Tuesday, 3-6-07, and compare it to the WP editorial -- the parallels are noteworthy... Guess the Rush and the WP editors are in touch with the same sources.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You guys ought to get a tape of Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s opening monologue on Tuesday, 3-6-07, and compare it to the WP editorial &#8212; the parallels are noteworthy&#8230; Guess the Rush and the WP editors are in touch with the same sources.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=2052139', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: the fly-man</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/post-editorial-libby/comment-page-3/#comment-2052110</link>
		<dc:creator>the fly-man</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The State of the Union would have hung around his neck forever if he had left those words in. They knew the Intel was not supporting their meme, not as Roger puts it as faulty . They had the choice and they ran it up the flag pole and they got caught. It wasn&#039;t faulty Intel, I guess Roger has been reading too much into the notion that the Vice President never spent anytime going over Intel briefings with the President. Everyone in the White House has been on the same page with Intel since 9/11, the President thrives on it. Let&#039;s wait and see what George Tenet&#039;s new book has to say about who was in the loop and how the Intel got digested. Intel isn&#039;t like handing someone a rental car and letting them drive it blindfolded. Sorry people think it was just as simple as faulty Intel. They abused the CIA like they do any other national resource, for their pleasure and power enhancement. Time to vote for some more correction.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The State of the Union would have hung around his neck forever if he had left those words in. They knew the Intel was not supporting their meme, not as Roger puts it as faulty . They had the choice and they ran it up the flag pole and they got caught. It wasn&#8217;t faulty Intel, I guess Roger has been reading too much into the notion that the Vice President never spent anytime going over Intel briefings with the President. Everyone in the White House has been on the same page with Intel since 9/11, the President thrives on it. Let&#8217;s wait and see what George Tenet&#8217;s new book has to say about who was in the loop and how the Intel got digested. Intel isn&#8217;t like handing someone a rental car and letting them drive it blindfolded. Sorry people think it was just as simple as faulty Intel. They abused the CIA like they do any other national resource, for their pleasure and power enhancement. Time to vote for some more correction.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=2052110', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Shane</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/post-editorial-libby/comment-page-3/#comment-2052023</link>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>50Plameâ€™s identity, if truly a secret, was thinly veiled
BY JOHN CREWDSON
Chicago Tribune
Comment by stevesh 

Isn&#039;t that another paper owned by Rupert Murdoch you little troll.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>50Plameâ€™s identity, if truly a secret, was thinly veiled<br />
BY JOHN CREWDSON<br />
Chicago Tribune<br />
Comment by stevesh </p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t that another paper owned by Rupert Murdoch you little troll.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=2052023', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Arn Gunnutes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Arn Gunnutes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>FACTS:

Libby is a CONVICTED FELON and TRAITOR to the USA.

Bush is a TRAITOR coxucker PUNK.

The Wilsons and Fitzgerald are AMERICAN PATRIOTS.

Patrick1 is a Nazi azzhole-licking troll.


USA! USA! USA!</description>
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<p>Libby is a CONVICTED FELON and TRAITOR to the USA.</p>
<p>Bush is a TRAITOR coxucker PUNK.</p>
<p>The Wilsons and Fitzgerald are AMERICAN PATRIOTS.</p>
<p>Patrick1 is a Nazi azzhole-licking troll.</p>
<p>USA! USA! USA!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=2051938', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Fitz for president</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/post-editorial-libby/comment-page-2/#comment-2050594</link>
		<dc:creator>Fitz for president</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>by the way, what are we to make of the &quot;bi-partisaned&quot; Senate Intel Report of three years ago that CON men love to reference that contradicts Wilson?

the report makes some interesting and damaging conclusions about Wilson&#039;s Niger trip...  i tend to believe it&#039;s a smear job by Pub Senators Bond, Hatch and Roberts on Wilson&#039;s credibility, but it&#039;s a rock the CON men bloggers love to harp on...

any help with ammunition in response to their Alamo?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>by the way, what are we to make of the &#8220;bi-partisaned&#8221; Senate Intel Report of three years ago that CON men love to reference that contradicts Wilson?</p>
<p>the report makes some interesting and damaging conclusions about Wilson&#8217;s Niger trip&#8230;  i tend to believe it&#8217;s a smear job by Pub Senators Bond, Hatch and Roberts on Wilson&#8217;s credibility, but it&#8217;s a rock the CON men bloggers love to harp on&#8230;</p>
<p>any help with ammunition in response to their Alamo?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=2050594', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Patrick1</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/post-editorial-libby/comment-page-2/#comment-2049211</link>
		<dc:creator>Patrick1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The fall of this skilled and long-respected public servant is particularly sobering because it arose from a Washington scandal remarkable for its lack of substance. It was propelled not by actual wrongdoing but by inflated and frequently false claims, and by the aggressive and occasionally reckless response of senior Bush administration officials -- culminating in Mr. Libby&#039;s perjury.

Mr. Wilson was embraced by many because he was early in publicly charging that the Bush administration had &quot;twisted,&quot; if not invented, facts in making the case for war against Iraq. In conversations with journalists or in a July 6, 2003, op-ed, he claimed to have debunked evidence that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger; suggested that he had been dispatched by Mr. Cheney to look into the matter; and alleged that his report had circulated at the highest levels of the administration.

A bipartisan investigation by the Senate intelligence committee subsequently established that all of these claims were false -- and that Mr. Wilson was recommended for the Niger trip by Ms. Plame, his wife. When this fact, along with Ms. Plame&#039;s name, was disclosed in a column by Robert D. Novak, Mr. Wilson advanced yet another sensational charge: that his wife was a covert CIA operative and that senior White House officials had orchestrated the leak of her name to destroy her career and thus punish Mr. Wilson.

The partisan furor over this allegation led to the appointment of special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald. Yet after two years of investigation, Mr. Fitzgerald charged no one with a crime for leaking Ms. Plame&#039;s name. In fact, he learned early on that Mr. Novak&#039;s primary source was former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage, an unlikely tool of the White House. The trial has provided convincing evidence that there was no conspiracy to punish Mr. Wilson by leaking Ms. Plame&#039;s identity -- and no evidence that she was, in fact, covert.

It would have been sensible for Mr. Fitzgerald to end his investigation after learning about Mr. Armitage. Instead, like many Washington special prosecutors before him, he pressed on, pursuing every tangent in the case.

The Washington Post

Looks like they are finallly coming out of their long liberal nightmare. They have grown!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The fall of this skilled and long-respected public servant is particularly sobering because it arose from a Washington scandal remarkable for its lack of substance. It was propelled not by actual wrongdoing but by inflated and frequently false claims, and by the aggressive and occasionally reckless response of senior Bush administration officials &#8212; culminating in Mr. Libby&#8217;s perjury.</p>
<p>Mr. Wilson was embraced by many because he was early in publicly charging that the Bush administration had &#8220;twisted,&#8221; if not invented, facts in making the case for war against Iraq. In conversations with journalists or in a July 6, 2003, op-ed, he claimed to have debunked evidence that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger; suggested that he had been dispatched by Mr. Cheney to look into the matter; and alleged that his report had circulated at the highest levels of the administration.</p>
<p>A bipartisan investigation by the Senate intelligence committee subsequently established that all of these claims were false &#8212; and that Mr. Wilson was recommended for the Niger trip by Ms. Plame, his wife. When this fact, along with Ms. Plame&#8217;s name, was disclosed in a column by Robert D. Novak, Mr. Wilson advanced yet another sensational charge: that his wife was a covert CIA operative and that senior White House officials had orchestrated the leak of her name to destroy her career and thus punish Mr. Wilson.</p>
<p>The partisan furor over this allegation led to the appointment of special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald. Yet after two years of investigation, Mr. Fitzgerald charged no one with a crime for leaking Ms. Plame&#8217;s name. In fact, he learned early on that Mr. Novak&#8217;s primary source was former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage, an unlikely tool of the White House. The trial has provided convincing evidence that there was no conspiracy to punish Mr. Wilson by leaking Ms. Plame&#8217;s identity &#8212; and no evidence that she was, in fact, covert.</p>
<p>It would have been sensible for Mr. Fitzgerald to end his investigation after learning about Mr. Armitage. Instead, like many Washington special prosecutors before him, he pressed on, pursuing every tangent in the case.</p>
<p>The Washington Post</p>
<p>Looks like they are finallly coming out of their long liberal nightmare. They have grown!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=2049211', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: big papa</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/post-editorial-libby/comment-page-2/#comment-2048887</link>
		<dc:creator>big papa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Looks like Bushiva...

...is calling in his corporate chits...&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Looks like Bushiva&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;is calling in his corporate chits&#8230;</strong><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=2048887', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Roger_Roger</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/post-editorial-libby/comment-page-2/#comment-2048844</link>
		<dc:creator>Roger_Roger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#82  They had to remove those words because they could verify if it was true or not at the time.  Furthermore, A British intelligence review released July 14 calls Bushâ€™s 16 words â€œwell founded.â€  A separate report by the US Senate Intelligence Committee said July 7 that the US also had similar information from â€œa number of intelligence reports,â€ a fact that was classified at the time Bush spoke.  Both the US and British investigations make clear that some forged Italian documents, exposed as fakes soon after Bush spoke, were not the basis for the British intelligence Bush cited, or the CIA&#039;s conclusion that Iraq was trying to get uranium.

Basically, he wasn&#039;t allowed to use those words because they couldn&#039;t be verified.  Either way, that certainly doesn&#039;t prove Bush or Cheney knew any of the intel was false beforehand.  The CIA was still concluding that Iraq was trying to get Uranium and probably had it.  This evidence was provided to the UN and our congress.  Many Dems who I assume checked this stuff out themselves before voting came to the same conclusion Bush did.  You folks even Blame Clinton for voting yes.  It isn&#039;t hers or Bush&#039;s fault that some of the evidence turned out to be faulty.  They simply didn&#039;t know at the time.  They both obviously trusted their gut and went with what the CIA and the British Intel forces said.  It is damn regretable that the intel was wrong and I have said many times the Iraq war was a mistake.

Trying to currently take it further and put specific blame on someone like the President is unfounded without facts.  He didn&#039;t know the intel was faulty nor did Clinton, Kerry, or any other Congress member.  Kinda tough to blame them using Hindsight without proof any of them knew the intel was wrong before approving the war.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#82  They had to remove those words because they could verify if it was true or not at the time.  Furthermore, A British intelligence review released July 14 calls Bushâ€™s 16 words â€œwell founded.â€  A separate report by the US Senate Intelligence Committee said July 7 that the US also had similar information from â€œa number of intelligence reports,â€ a fact that was classified at the time Bush spoke.  Both the US and British investigations make clear that some forged Italian documents, exposed as fakes soon after Bush spoke, were not the basis for the British intelligence Bush cited, or the CIA&#8217;s conclusion that Iraq was trying to get uranium.</p>
<p>Basically, he wasn&#8217;t allowed to use those words because they couldn&#8217;t be verified.  Either way, that certainly doesn&#8217;t prove Bush or Cheney knew any of the intel was false beforehand.  The CIA was still concluding that Iraq was trying to get Uranium and probably had it.  This evidence was provided to the UN and our congress.  Many Dems who I assume checked this stuff out themselves before voting came to the same conclusion Bush did.  You folks even Blame Clinton for voting yes.  It isn&#8217;t hers or Bush&#8217;s fault that some of the evidence turned out to be faulty.  They simply didn&#8217;t know at the time.  They both obviously trusted their gut and went with what the CIA and the British Intel forces said.  It is damn regretable that the intel was wrong and I have said many times the Iraq war was a mistake.</p>
<p>Trying to currently take it further and put specific blame on someone like the President is unfounded without facts.  He didn&#8217;t know the intel was faulty nor did Clinton, Kerry, or any other Congress member.  Kinda tough to blame them using Hindsight without proof any of them knew the intel was wrong before approving the war.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=2048844', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Jim Girzone</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/post-editorial-libby/comment-page-2/#comment-2048810</link>
		<dc:creator>Jim Girzone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald can&#039;t be doing anything but shamefully, &#039;pounding on his &#039;heartless,empty chest&#039; after spending millions in demolishing the character and reprutation of a HUMAN BEING with his &quot;Quixotic and Pyrrhic&quot; victory(?).  He is a literal disgrace to the legal and Justice establishment in this Country!

If he feels no SHAME for his dogged determination to destroy, simply for the self-satisfaction of appeasing and &#039;feeding to the Lions&#039;, the &#039;bloody remains&#039; of Mr.Libby, to the virtual &#039;Collisium&#039; of the &#039;blood-thirsting, salivating media, then he is beyond redemptiom as a human being.  His blatent, purely ego-driven objective of the political assination of a fellow human exposes him to being totally lacking in character, principle and scruples, terms, the likes of which, I would consider the HALLMARKS of a severe character disorder of a unsatiable appetite of monstrous proportions.  

This entire prosecution and his obsession to achieve the &#039;annihilation&#039; of Mr. Libby was no more than naked, unashamed and an all-consuming, near-sadistic crusading scourge.  And he can look in the mirror and se NOTHING because that is THE BEST he can present of himself.  He and Mr. Wilson AND &#039;Mrs. Wilson&#039; are despicable people &#039;cut from the very same cloth&#039; in my opinion.

James E. Girzone
Troy, New York</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald can&#8217;t be doing anything but shamefully, &#8216;pounding on his &#8216;heartless,empty chest&#8217; after spending millions in demolishing the character and reprutation of a HUMAN BEING with his &#8220;Quixotic and Pyrrhic&#8221; victory(?).  He is a literal disgrace to the legal and Justice establishment in this Country!</p>
<p>If he feels no SHAME for his dogged determination to destroy, simply for the self-satisfaction of appeasing and &#8216;feeding to the Lions&#8217;, the &#8216;bloody remains&#8217; of Mr.Libby, to the virtual &#8216;Collisium&#8217; of the &#8216;blood-thirsting, salivating media, then he is beyond redemptiom as a human being.  His blatent, purely ego-driven objective of the political assination of a fellow human exposes him to being totally lacking in character, principle and scruples, terms, the likes of which, I would consider the HALLMARKS of a severe character disorder of a unsatiable appetite of monstrous proportions.  </p>
<p>This entire prosecution and his obsession to achieve the &#8216;annihilation&#8217; of Mr. Libby was no more than naked, unashamed and an all-consuming, near-sadistic crusading scourge.  And he can look in the mirror and se NOTHING because that is THE BEST he can present of himself.  He and Mr. Wilson AND &#8216;Mrs. Wilson&#8217; are despicable people &#8216;cut from the very same cloth&#8217; in my opinion.</p>
<p>James E. Girzone<br />
Troy, New York<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=2048810', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: po</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/post-editorial-libby/comment-page-2/#comment-2048806</link>
		<dc:creator>po</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The leaker was not got.  The case is likely closed, but only because Scooter lied.  The problem is not solved and the money to convict this liar under oath was not money well spent, but was spent necessarily.  Those of your ilk aren&#039;t really in doing the people&#039;s business, so don&#039;t even pretend.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The leaker was not got.  The case is likely closed, but only because Scooter lied.  The problem is not solved and the money to convict this liar under oath was not money well spent, but was spent necessarily.  Those of your ilk aren&#8217;t really in doing the people&#8217;s business, so don&#8217;t even pretend.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=2048806', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: big papa</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/post-editorial-libby/comment-page-2/#comment-2048797</link>
		<dc:creator>big papa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Comment by katy #83

katy,

&lt;strong&gt;Seems like TP has installed some new software that...

...makes it difficult...

...to get more than one post on a thread...

...at least that&#039;s been the case for me...

...since they installed their new &quot;server&quot;...

...don&#039;t even know if THIS one will post...

...HERE GOES!&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comment by katy #83</p>
<p>katy,</p>
<p><strong>Seems like TP has installed some new software that&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;makes it difficult&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;to get more than one post on a thread&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;at least that&#8217;s been the case for me&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;since they installed their new &#8220;server&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;don&#8217;t even know if THIS one will post&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;HERE GOES!</strong><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=2048797', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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