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VIDEO: Valerie Plame Confirms Her Covert Status Prior To Novak Leak»

This morning, in her testimony under oath before the House Government and Oversight Committee, Valerie Plame Wilson asserted that she was in fact a covert officer at the time that columnist Robert Novak revealed her employment at the CIA. “In the run-up to the war with Iraq, I worked in the Counterproliferation Division of the CIA, still as a covert officer whose affiliation with the CIA was classified,” Plame sad in her opening testimony.

She added, “While I helped to manage and run secret worldwide operations against this WMD target from CIA headquarters in Washington, I also traveled to foreign countries on secret missions to find vital intelligence.” Watch it:

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The right-wing, aided by the mainstream media, have engaged in an unhalting effort to spread false claims that Plame was not covert, despite the fact that the CIA, Plame’s former colleagues, and Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald have all previously reported that she was covert. The conviction of Scooter Libby only intensified conservatives’ efforts to further propagate their lie:

Washington Post editorial: “The trial has provided…no evidence that she was, in fact, covert.” [Washingotn Post, 3/7/07]

Mort Kondracke: “I frankly don’t think since Valerie Plame was not a covert officer that there was a crime here.” [Fox, 3/9/07]

Sean Hannity: “She did not meet the criteria, in any way, shape, matter or form as a covert agent.” [Fox, 3/6/07]

Robert Novak: “No evidence that she was a covert agent was ever presented to the jury.” [Fox, 3/6/07]

Brit Hume: “Whether the woman was covert, Valerie Plame was covert within the meaning of the law, remains at this point, still unclear. Unlikely she was.” [Fox, 3/6/07]

Victoria Toensing: “Plame was not covert. She worked at CIA headquarters and had not been stationed abroad within five years of the date of Novak’s column.” [Washington Post, 2/18/07]

We await their apologies and statements of correction.

UPDATE: On September 30, 2003, National Review editor Jonah Goldberg claimed, “Wilson’s wife is a desk jockey and much of the Washington cocktail circuit knew that already.” But today Plame rebutted Goldberg, stating, “It was not common knowledge on the Georgetown cocktail circuit that everyone knew where I worked.”

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Transcript:

My name is Valerie Plame Wilson, and I am honored to have been invited to testify under oath before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the critical issue of safeguarding classified information.

I am grateful for this opportunity to set the record straight.

I’ve served the United States loyally and to the best of my ability as a covert operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency. I worked on behalf of the national security of our country, on behalf of the people of the United States, until my name and true affiliation were exposed in the national media on July 14th, 2003, after a leak by an administration official.

Today I can tell this committee even more.

In the run-up to the war with Iraq, I worked in the Counterproliferation Division of the CIA, still as a covert officer whose affiliation with the CIA was classified. I raced to discover solid intelligence for senior policymakers on Iraq’s presumed weapons of mass destruction program.

While I helped to manage and run secret worldwide operations against this WMD target from CIA headquarters in Washington, I also traveled to foreign countries on secret missions to find vital intelligence.

I loved my career, because I love my country. I was proud of the serious responsibilities entrusted to me as a CIA covert operations officer. And I was dedicated to this work.

It was not common knowledge on the Georgetown cocktail circuit that everyone knew where I worked. But all of my efforts on behalf of the national security of the United States, all of my training, all the value of my years of service, were abruptly ended when my name and identity were exposed irresponsibly.

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269 Responses to “VIDEO: Valerie Plame Confirms Her Covert Status Prior To Novak Leak”


  1. Patrick1 Says:

    Her job ended when she sent her idiot husband to Niger.


  2. thomas Says:

    neither would Bush or Cheney, right, Patrick1?


  3. Patrick1 Says:

    I also like the picture with the moonbat on the backrow….liberals fools are like flies all over crap.


  4. VerbalKint Says:

    But you would lie, Patrick.



  5. ForTruth Says:

    Patrick it states in Scooter’s indictment that she was undercover at the time.


  6. norbizness Says:

    Who knew Virginia Madsen was that deep cover!


  7. dlet Says:

    So now if she lied under oath she will be prosecuted. See how easy it is to tell the truth.


  8. Operation Northwoods III Says:

    IMPEACH!


  9. Patrick1 Says:

    If she was covert she had to be the worst covert agent in CIA history.


  10. cyncialgirl Says:

    It was brought up during the hearings that Victoria Toensing was going to testify today that she was not. How would she know? I can’t wait to hear her spin this.


  11. Ty Hutchinson Says:

    I am amazed that these right-wing hacks seem to know about the inner works of the CIA and it’s covert agents.


  12. Jay Randal Says:

    GOPers twist facts into pretzels, and lie about everything, so they tried to claim that Valarie Plame Wilson was an openly known CIA agent, when she was in fact an undercover operative.


  13. ForTruth Says:

    I like how the code pink lady is in the background. IMPEACH.


  14. goose1 Says:

    #2 Her job ending by doing her job? (The CIA sent her husband)


  15. Jay Randal Says:

    Patrick > calm down > you would be the worst CIA agent in history > lol.


  16. ForTruth Says:

    Even if she was the worst Patrick1, its still illegal to out her, I think its treason.


  17. VerbalKint Says:

    Patrick it states in Scooter’s indictment that she was undercover at the time.
    Comment by ForTruth — March 16, 2007 @ 11:25 am

    Salient observation, but it is well-established that facts mean nothing to this idiot.

    Patrick, shouldn’t you be back at the Walter Reed thread answering my questions?


  18. Operation Northwoods III Says:

    KKKarl Rove must have not stopped off at Krispy Kreme’s today : working overtime crafting a political diversion away from Goonzales and the Plame testimony.


  19. VerbalKint Says:

    If she was covert she had to be the worst covert agent in CIA history.
    Comment by Patrick1 — March 16, 2007 @ 11:27 am

    Watch poor little Patrick scramble back and frantically retrench. Again. And again. And again…


  20. Gdog Says:

    Hey Patrick, stop making it about liberals Vs. consevatives and start making it about truth vs lies. How anyone could defend Cheney or Bush on this is beyond any level headed American’s comprehension. IMPEACH!!!!!!


  21. Patrick Doesn't Have 1 Says:

    Troll Alert: Everyone ignore Patrick 1


  22. Charles Says:

    Patrick1 says “…if she was covert she had to be the worst…” Dumbass, the fact that you say “if” belies the fact that NOBODY KNEW SHE WAS AN AGENT prior to her being outed by the senior figures of the Bush administration - hence SHE WAS A DAMN GOOD COVERT AGENT. Bush1 said that anyone outing a CIA agent ought to be burned at the stake. I agree.


  23. eisengard Says:

    some of you just love the blame game …what your forgetting here is whether she was covert or not, doesn’t make it right what (they) did to her …it’s like saying “she wasn’t covert so screw her to the wall?” ~you’re pathetic


  24. What?? Says:

    SSHHHH!!! dont tell Sean, Rush, Medved, Coulter, NOvak, the right wing slime machine, or all of Faux “news”. It could ruin their coverage of Anna Nicole, Brittany spears,and Duke Lacross updates.

    The silence on Faux “news” will be deafening tonight. I’ll bet colmes does not even mention it. not to mention O’Lielly


  25. Peter Says:

    OK, Patrick1,

    There’s her written testimony. Refute it with facts, please. Provide links.

    No? …

    I thought not.


  26. Zooey Says:

    Well done, Valerie Wilson.

    If Patrick is any indication, the trolls will be in a frothing frenzy today.


  27. Big Picnic » Explaining the Two Theories on Plame’s Covert Status Says:

    […] Valerie Plame’s testimony has established, yet again, that she was a covert agent. […]


  28. TripMaster Monkey Says:

    Patrick1 sez:

    She wouldn’t lie..LOL

    Well, Patrick, she is under oath, so if her statements are found to be false, she’s liable to prosecution.

    On the other hand, you lords and masters refuse to testify under oath at all…got anything to say about that?


  29. Patrick1 Says:

    It is good however, that this Al Qaeda mole is no longer in the CIA.


  30. What?? Says:

    Patrick, You need to but down the Jim Jones brand GOP kool-aide and read a fricking newspaper or a different channel than Faux. you are embarrassing yourself and your party (if that can be any worse) with your blatent disregard for the facts or just plain ignorance. you choose.


  31. Angry One Says:

    For all the latest CIA leak/PlameGate, legal documents, timelines and other essential materials surrounding the Bush administration’s outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame and its politics of payback against Joseph Wilson, see:
    “The CIA Leak/PlameGate Resource Center.”


  32. GSD Says:

    She wouldn’t lie..LOL

    Comment by Patrick1 — March 16, 2007

    George W. Bush’s new CIA Chief General Hayden confirmed that she was “a covert operative”.

    Are you calling George W. Bush’s new CIA Chief a liar?

    -GSD


  33. Clyde the Ripper Says:

    I have a few minutes and no brains to spare and I am looking for a job. Where do I apply to be Patsy’s replacement? It would be hard work pushing the Refresh button on TP to be the first to comment on a post and obviously it is impossible for Patsy to think up a meaningful reply on such short notice. I have a quick trigger finger (and a middle one for Patsy as well) and a book called “14,000 Quips and Quotes” that I could use so at least my comments might get a chuckle or two.

    To stay on thread I submit the only thing overt about the Plame affair was the complete Bushco lack of brains.


  34. pgw Says:

    “if i wear camouflage, how will people see me?”
    –patrick1


  35. GSD Says:

    Republicans lie under oath. Repeatedly.

    Ollie North was turned into a Republican icon for lying to Congress.

    The truth means nothing to Republican authoritarian worshippers.

    Hey Patrick, Karl Rove dunks his balls in the Kool-Aid that you drink daily.

    -GSD


  36. Operation Northwoods III Says:

    Thank you, Angry One


  37. pgw Says:

    “It is good however, that this Al Qaeda mole is no longer in the CIA.”

    you mean repub rep dana rohrbacher?


  38. j swift Says:

    We should pity Patrick1 somewhat. After all it is hard to struggle with cognitive dissonance. Lack of integrity and arrogance helps but it is still a struggle. I am sure Patrick1 will come through this though and be the same blind sycophant he was before.

    I am here to support you Patrick1 in time of need. Just ask buddy, I will do what I can.


  39. gummitch Says:

    Is this official enough for the wingnuts?

    The question of whether Plame was a “covert” agent when her identity was revealed in 2003 has been greatly debated. The issue is important because leaking the name of a “covert” agent violates a specific law designed to protect such operatives.

    Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., just said he has been told by the CIA, in a statement authorized by CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden, that “Miss Wilson’s CIA employment status was covert.”


  40. the fly-man Says:

    Can’t wait for sticky vicky…..


  41. DRxJ Says:

    Patrick1,
    You really are a goof, aren’t you!
    Please provide facts, and links if possible, proclaiming that she was an Al Qaeda
    mole.
    Also, please refute this statement, made under oath:
    While I helped to manage and run secret worldwide operations against this WMD target from CIA headquarters in Washington, I also traveled to foreign countries on secret missions to find vital intelligence
    Please take your time in not responding.

    Ohhhh, for extra credit, please compare and contrast Clinton’s oral favors as an impeachment offense to this administrations outing of a covert CIA agent gathering important, imperative security information around the globe.
    Please, do take your time in not debating


  42. R Says:

    Good for you, Valerie, standing up to this puke and bile-ridden administration. Good for any of us that do the same. Anyone that continues to support this administration is, as far as I’m concerned, part of it and liable for whatever punishment befalls. I would love to see them all interned in a terrorist prison camp, personally. That’s where they conduct thier best business and professional work, anyway.


  43. Patrick1 Says:

    No question that she may have been covert, but once her husband divulged sensitive information, she needed to be outed.


  44. eisengard Says:

    Patrick 1 just needs a swift kick in the balls. Hey Patrick …how would you like me to kick you so hard your nuts get lodged in your nostrils? Better yet, come on up to Alaska, I’ll take you on a “hunting trip”:)


  45. Brownback's Closet Says:

    I think they’re trying to distract everyone from the 400 lb. gorilla in the center of the room, which is the fact they’re basically admitting they were using revenge tactics to smear, regardless if she was covert or overt, which of course, is besides the point.


  46. bs Says:

    Her job ended when she sent her idiot husband to Niger.

    Comment by Patrick1 — March 16, 2007 @ 11:23 am

    it has been proven in court that she did not in fact send her husband there. 3 members of the cia testified that they cia did.


  47. R Says:

    She wouldn’t lie..LOL
    Comment by Patrick1

    Who is this Patsy person? She sounds a little angry. Maybe she needs to go potty- and I mean the real potty, not in her panties- like a bad, little girl.

    XO- R


  48. pgw Says:

    “No question that she may have been covert, but once her husband divulged sensitive information, she needed to be outed.” says someone who spends their time trolling web sites. amusing.


  49. RemoveBush Says:

    People….. FACTS don’t mean anything to Patrick….

    He is so much a lemming that he can’t see any light unless GW yawns…..

    Don’t wast your time with him/her/it.


  50. Anonymous By Choice Says:

    That Code Pink PERSON looks like a man. I’m not saying it as an insult, it just really looks like it.

    And I’m kind of pissed they were a distraction in the video. It’s fine to distract from the liars of the government, but now we have Plame finally able to speak. Back OFF and let this woman speak. Get you annoying pink outfits out of the frame for a few seconds and let there be some serious talk without the flamboyant wardrobes.


  51. gummitch Says:

    No question that she may have been covert, but once her husband divulged sensitive information, she needed to be outed.

    Comment by Patrick1

    The only sensitive information her husband divulged was that the administration was lying. Boy, that’s a traitor for you.

    Outing a CIA agent is a federal crime, stupid boy. There is no justification for it, especially when the justification is entirely political.


  52. Brownback's Closet Says:

    Patrick it’s obvious you don’t even believe a word you’re paid to type, for real. So this woman was some kind of traiter because her and her husband dared tell the truth about a Niger transaction and you’re blaming her. Fcuk off dickweed.


  53. DRxJ Says:

    Patrick1,
    You really are a goof, aren’t you?
    No question that she may have been covert
    No…..you can’t state a definitive with a doubt, no matter how small.
    Let me help your asinine statement.
    No question that she was covert.
    but once her husband divulged sensitive information, she needed to be outed.
    Her husband divulged that the Nigerian purchase was bogus, is considered sensitive? And outing Valerie, a covert agent, is an appropriate reprimand?
    Dude, are you over compensating for something significantly small, by posting here with complete nonsense?
    Just askin…


  54. powkat Says:

    # 23 - I agree. Truthfully, I must admit that watching the right wing become increasingly illogical is fun. The more reality spreads across their delusions, the more insane they become.


  55. GSD Says:

    Republican Bush Cultists have entered the Kool-Aid/Koresh phase. The truth doesn’t matter, just the ramblings of their exhalted leader.

    Time to really ignore these asschappers.

    -GSD


  56. Brownback's Closet Says:

    Question they ought to be asking the Bush Admin:

    “So, you support mudslinging revenge on those who dare call you out on bogus intelligence as long as it’s considered legal?”

    And I thought Jesus Christ was his favorite philosopher, yet Bush has a thing for revenge. Sounds like he follows the Satanic Bible instead.

    Hail Satan Bush!


  57. Patrick1 Says:

    Bill Clinton!


  58. Jay Randal Says:

    Well Patrick will be busy tomorrow getting drunk for St. Patricks Day > lol.


  59. R Says:

    She wouldn’t lie..LOL
    Comment by Patrick1

    Who is this Patsy person? She sounds a little angry. Maybe she needs to go potty- and I mean the real potty, not in her panties- like a bad, little girl.

    XO- R


  60. marcella Says:

    Ignore Patrick1 maybe he’ll go away. Further, what can you say? This administration lies and lies and lies. I hope that sooner or later they are all taken down and exposed for what they are.


  61. Joe Sixpack Says:

    No question that she may have been covert, but once her husband divulged sensitive information, she needed to be outed.
    Comment by Patrick1

    Hey Patrick you need to reread what you just posted. Do you see how utterly, friggin’ stupid you sound with a lame statement like that?

    You need to haul your sad ass back to school before your parents find out you skipped again today.


  62. Robert Says:

    Mort Kondracke, Sean Hannity, Robert Novak, Brit Hume, Victoria Toensing, et al: We’ll be waiting on the mea culpa’s….

    Chirrrrp Chirrrp Creeeeel Creeeeek.


  63. Brownback's Closet Says:

    LOL patrick1nut - your arguments have turned to $h!t when you’ve finally resorted to just yelling “Bill Clinton” …but then I know your fascination with him and your obsessive attention to gay sex gives you such a hardon.


  64. Brownback's Closet Says:

    Patrick1 supports the golden rule of the Satanic Bible:

    Revenge.

    Jesus loves revenge.


  65. Patrick1 Says:

    The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence disposed of Wilson’s fable on pages 443 - 444 of the report:

    … The plan to send the former ambassador to Niger was suggested by the former ambassador’s wife, a CIA employee. The former ambassador’s wife suggested her husband for the trip to Niger in February 2002.

    … On February 12, 2002, the former ambassador’s wife sent a memorandum to a Deputy Chief of a division in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations which said, “[m]y husband has good relations with both the PM [prime minister] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity.”

    … Rather than speaking publicly about his actual experiences during his inquiry of the Niger issue, the former ambassador seems to have included information he learned from press accounts and from his beliefs about how the Intelligence Community would have or should have handled the information he provided.

    … The former ambassador told Committee staff that he, in fact, did not have access to any of the names and dates in the CIA’s reports and said he may have become confused about his own recollection after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported in March 2003 that the names and dates on the documents were not correct. Of note, the names and dates in the documents that the IAEA found to be incorrect were not names or dates included in the CIA reports.

    … While the CIA responded to the Vice President’s request for the Agency’s analysis, they never provided the information gathered by the former Ambassador.

    … The Committee found that, for most analysts, the former ambassador’s report lent more credibility, not less, to the reported Niger- Iraq uranium deal.


  66. Lucifer Says:

    I’ll be waiting for you in Hell Patrick1. I can’t wait - I love the taste of souls full of lies and those corrupted with revenge.


  67. And You Thought REAGAN Was Stupid Says:

    Bush and his flunkies would must be squirming in their seats right now. To see Valerie Plame testifying just brings another few days of focus to their politically motivated lies and their blind pursuit of a war in Iraq; a war that has failed on every front.

    It must really be horrifying when a plan you’ve been trying to execute for years — the invasion of Iraq — turns out to be an outright failure. Bush has no ideas how to fix it any more. His only hope is to keep this potato up in the air until he leaves office, then blame it on someone else.


  68. gummitch Says:

    And over on the board where I used to knock my head against the wall, arguing with wingnuts, the spin on this has become: a cohort within the CIA is out to get Bush. That explains the statement from the CIA Director. He’s just another Bush-hater.

    So little reality-based thinking.


  69. R Says:

    IT’S FRIDAY, YA BASTARDS!


  70. Backhand Patrick1 Says:

    Patrick1, keep up the talk - you’re driving more moderates to the left each time you open your fat mouth.


  71. Patrick1 Says:

    Questions for Plame you won’t hear at this political show trial.

    Questions for Valerie Plame Wilson:

    Since the CIA maintains an office which is responsible for contacts with the press, on what date did you report your May 2 and 3 contacts with Nicholas Kristof to that office?

    Did you also inform that office of the nature of your contacts? Who did you speak to?

    Specifically what did you report?

    What is the procedure at the CIA for reporting that classified information has been compromised? What typically takes place after a report is made?

    Have you ever followed that procedure? How many times, and on what dates?

    Did you disclose the nature of the conversations between your husband and reporters to the CIA?

    When did you first inform Joe Wilson that you worked for the CIA?

    What did you tell him was the nature of your job at the agency?

    When you informed him that you worked for the CIA, was he aware that you wanted to keep your identity protected?

    Did you and he discuss the methods of keeping your identity protected?

    Your name, Valerie Plame, was listed in Who’s Who in America from 1999 through 2005, under your husband’s listing? Did you seek special permission from the CIA to be included in that entry?

    Did you accompany Joe Wilson to the 2003 EPIC Iraq forum?

    Did your husband consult with you before including your maiden name in his bio published at that conference? Did you seek and obtain permission from the CIA for that disclosure?

    Did you discuss this publication with your bosses at Langley?

    Is it common practice for CIA agents to donate to political campaigns? When you contributed to the Gore campaign in 1999 under your own name, did you have any obligation to report that to your superiors?

    At the time of the alleged disclosure by Richard Armitage that you worked at the agency, your husband was working for the Kerry campaign, correct?

    Did you also donate money to Senator Kerry’s campaign? What about organizations trying to help elect Senator Kerry?

    When you informed Joe Wilson that you worked at the CIA, did you file a report that your identity had been compromised?

    When you became aware that your husband had identified you in Who’s Who in America, did you make a report that your identity had been compromised?

    When you learned that your husband had included your name in his bio for the EPIC Iraq forum, did you make a report that your identity had been compromised?

    When you learned that Joe Wilson had included your name in his bio at the Middle East Institute, did you make a report that your identity had been compromised?

    When you learned that your husband included your name in his bio with the CPS Corporate & Public Strategy Advisory Group, did you make a report that your identity had been compromised?

    At anytime did you, or anyone at the CIA, ask Joe Wilson to stop exposing your identity?


  72. RemoveBush Says:

    “IT’S FRIDAY, YA BASTARDS!”

    Obviously a Randi Rhodes listener!!!!

    Go Randi!!!


  73. Patrick1 Says:

    A cohort within the CIA is out to get Bush! That explains the statement from the CIA Director! He’s just another Bush-hater!


  74. Karl Rove Says:

    #66- … You do… ?


  75. Wayne Says:

    Why even respond to troll patrick?
    It is now in the Congressional record that she was in fact covert before she was outed by the CRIMINAL Bush administration.

    That he is still disputing FACTS, just shows he is a representative of the 29%ers who barely have enough brain function to keep breathing.


  76. GSD Says:

    Patrick 1,

    Read Larry Johnson, former CIA analyst, who takes on those incredibly stupid questions.

    Please resume drinking Kool-Aid and fluffing for Rove and Bush.

    The jig is up on you clowns.

    No Quarter.

    -GSD


  77. R Says:

    What a stupid putz. Patsy gets mad and pasts all over the walls. Bad little girl, Patsy! Just you wait ’til your “Daddy” gets home.


  78. Mike Hunt Says:

    Poor Patrick seems to be having a bad day. Have you considered playing in traffic on the DC beltway about 5:00 this afternoon, Pat? That would ease some of your anguish.


  79. Zooey Says:

    Patrick can cut & paste. Are you gonna give credit to whoever wrote all those hard questions, Patrick? Cuz we know you couldn’t manage all them words.


  80. Patrick NO One Says:

    Isn’t this little Troll the one who threatened to blow up the NYT building?

    What was done to Plame & what Patsy said are both treasonous.

    How’s it feel Patsy? Want to expound on anything else?

    Just because your head Chimp has some juice now, do you really want to end up where they’re all going?

    Could I get some OJ with that waterboarding?


  81. Backhand Patrick1 Says:

    Ah Patrick1 can copy and paste someone else’s talking points; naturally you couldn’t come up with any of that yourself. Or would it be more accurate to call it Plagiarism?

    Plame is not on trial here - she’s not accussed of breaking the law. But you fuxtix love to blame the victim. Somehow, she’s the traitor?

    You’re a fake.


  82. tom baker Says:

    They all love to lie for Charlie - that’s how it works in the family.


  83. shane Says:

    Peadick1 - I’ve heard of eye tracking problems as a learning disorder but before you nobody’s ever had one eye up his ass and one on his p#nis.
    No wonder your the stupidest troll ever. I’m contacting NIH because they should investigate. Maybe scan your brain to see how this happened.
    Its possible their are others with the same defect - I suspect about 29% of the country that got us into this pile of shit we’re in.


  84. thomas Says:

    Oooh patrick1 @ post #71 - you most definitely should’ve been on that panel! And I am MOST positive that in no way would you even be laughed out of court at all! Har-har!


  85. EvilPoet Says:

    “Even though I’m a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.” -George H.W. Bush


  86. chimpeach Says:

    #44 Patrick1

    No question that she may have been covert, but once her husband divulged sensitive information, she needed to be outed.

    But you said she wasn’t. And that sensitive information? You mean letting the country know that they were being lied into a war? And then please explain how that justifies exposing a covert agent who is trying to keep terrorists from acquiring nuclear weapons.

    You are one f*cked up individual, Patrick1


  87. Patrick1 Bends Over Says:

    Notice putrick is the only one of our usual trolls who’s stupid enough to take such a position with the obvious 400 LB Gorilla in the room!


  88. CarolSoprano Says:

    OK, so now that she has testified under oath that she was a covert officer, and now that it’s been confirmed by CIA director Gates, CAN THEY GET ON WITH IT AND IMPEACH THE BASTARDS????? This is certainly a high crime and misdemeanor … there is clear evidence of a crime here. Between this and the U.S. Attorney fiasco, there’s got to be enough to go on now to institute impeachment proceedings against both Bush and Cheney.


  89. David O. Says:

    Up = down, black is white, clintondidit, clintondidittoo, we’re winning in eye-rack; its’ just that darned pesky LIBURL media covrin’ it up-
    you CONTURDS and REPUBLI-SCUM are pathetic.


  90. Barbara Bush Says:

    Now, now, Pats- Let’s not get carried away with ourself, now.


  91. TripMaster Monkey Says:

    Comment by Patrick1 — March 16, 2007 @ 12:01 pm

    Hey, Patrick,

    If you’re gonna post pages of cut-n-paste crap, then at least have the minimal intellectual honesty to give credit to the source, rather than try to insinuate that it’s your own work.

    I busted rachel’s chops about plagiarism, and I’m not above busting yours for the same reason.


  92. Patrick1 Says:

    Look, sometimes I like the feel of women’s silky underpants against my smoothly shaved skin. Is anything wrong with that?


  93. pgw Says:

    the only question that needs to be answered is
    “so joe wilson was discredited in order for the iraq war to take place: how’s that iraq thing working out?”


  94. Patrick1 Says:

    I got that list of questions from a very reliable source: Sean Hannity.


  95. Homer Simpson Says:

    Oh, my GOD!


  96. big papa Says:

    This means that Bushiva, L’il Dick and their minons…

    …are guilty of TREASON…

    …Bushiva couldn’t POSSIBLY have the power to DECLASSIFY the covert status…

    …of an agent in the field…

    …Imagine the implications of such a thing…

    …Congress should DEFINITELY shoot for this one…

    …If Bushiva can’t be impeached (or prosecuted) NOW…

    …NO public (or private individual) should EVER be prosecuted for…

    …TREASON…


  97. Ben Says:

    These, (ALL OF THESE) Vile, disgusting republicans in our White House need to be sent to PRISON for the same length of time that Valerie Plame would have been in her grave should she had been killed.

    I’m watching this on CSpan now and by GOD these ‘THINGS’ in OUR public buildings must be put out with all HASTE. These narrow minded, foolish, cruel, arrogant, despotic republican criminals.


  98. Patrick1 Says:

    I can see why they put this Al Qaeda mole on Friday, her testimony has been another disaster for the moonbats.


  99. beijair Says:

    if you noticed, many of the false statements come from Fox News and I wonder why anyone would continue to support a program that continues to preach they are fair and balanced yet provide one sided information? Are there truly that many people in the world that are so ignorant and continue to support such a media outlet? I am not liberal or conservative and figured Fox news was a years ago. I did notice that those who watch Fox, they get their news ONLY from Fox and I have noticed they are usually older individuals….oh yeah, almost all are christian. Seems lies often go with being christian


  100. the fly-man Says:

    let’s not forget that the 16 words were removed, even though Mr. Hadley insisted the facts were still just that, because of a controversy, they were removed. Really?


  101. Patrick1 Bends Over Says:

    That’s something I’ve noticed on many forums …funny how religious fundamentalists, Republicunts, and the like have no problems with plagiarizing someone elses work. I’m half surprised the tool can even press Ctrl+C at the same time without blowing a gasket.


  102. R Says:

    #91- I KNEW IT, I KNEW IT! HAR-HAR-HARDY-HAR!!!


  103. shane Says:

    Patrick 1 just needs a swift kick in the balls.
    Comment by eisengard — March 16, 2007 @ 11:45 am

    eisengard why so much credit to our little eunich?
    That’s why he’s so confused he spends most of the day with his face in his lap looking for the balls all the other little boys have.
    And then there’s the problem with that tiny shriveled up thing he has where the other boys…oh you know


  104. Patrick1 Says:

    Liberals are out to get me. And so is my neighbor’s dog. He wants to eat me.


  105. Ben Dover Says:

    #87. Unfortunately there isn’t enough here for impeachment Carol. Whats missing is the blowjob to get the Republic Party upset. THEN we’ll have all sorts of impeachment talk. If only we could get someone to volunteer. I wonder if Jeff Gannon would do the honor?


  106. j swift Says:

    Another thought there Patrick1:

    The Republicans can tie this thing up with nice neat bow….all they got to do produce one of Plame’s supervisors who will say she was not covert. Just one….her boss at the time Novak blabbed. Just that one person to contradict her.

    Don’t hold your breath waiting for that though Patrick1 you will turn blue and pass out.


  107. R Says:

    Patsy, you’d better bail. I think the water’s getting a little high in here!


  108. hellinabucket Says:

    Don’t even try to crack the nut that is Patrick. Rational people are seeing this and have a lot of question now for those people who kept up the lie that she wasn’t covert. Keep in mind the CIA started an investigation at the time to find out who released her identity for this very reason.

    People like Patrick are either afraid to connect the dots or afraid someone else will.

    The quantity and stupidity of his posts show him and his ilk are very afraid.

    Please have someone try to counter this in court. We so need to hear the other side. In court that is.


  109. Patrick1 Says:

    Pamela Anderson is my girlfriend. She sends me signals through the TV.


  110. Spudge_Boy Says:

    Fu*k Patrick1. He is a traitor to this country and should be hung in a public square where all can see what happens to enemies of the state.

    Stop wasting your time with that turd.

    We now have under oath:

    “In the run-up to the war with Iraq, I worked in the Counterproliferation Division of the CIA, still as a covert officer whose affiliation with the CIA was classified,”

    As has been stated before, if this is a lie, she will be prosecuted. If it is the truth, fu*k Patrick1, he is a anti-American Nazi traitor.


  111. Mike Hunt Says:

    #103. Certainly, Patrick, your neighbors dog has better taste than to want to gnaw on a sea cucumber with an IQ of only 4. I think you give yourself WAY too much credit.


  112. Patrick1 Bends Over Says:

    Hahahaha well, I hate to defend Sean but it’s rather illegal to copy and paste his “blame the victim” questions while attempting to take credit for them yourself (until you got busted for it of course).

    Why doesn’t Sean focus on the 400 LB gorilla - this administration totally supports revenge smear character assassinations just for pointing out contradictory intelligence information. I guess he’s ok with revenge as long as it’s legal. I bet it won’t make any difference to Jesus.

    So why don’t you address that Putrick? Doesn’t the fact that they felt the need to be vengeful clue you in that they were obviously lying just to justify a bogus war.


  113. TripMaster Monkey Says:

    To the author of comments #91 and #93:

    Although it may seem tempting on occasion, please don’t namejack other posters, no matter what the provocation. Namejacking is truly crossing the line….one of the most heinous offenses possible in an online community. Nothing justifies it.


  114. Zooey Says:

    We all know what Patrick is, can we ignore him now?


  115. Tom3 Says:

    How much is Karl Rove paying Patrick1 to troll in here?


  116. Mark Says:

    The right wing slaps her and her husband around because they claim that the Wilson’s said the VP sent her husband and they also claim she sent her husband. Both are untrue. The office of the VP did not send Joe Wilson and Joe Wilson never claimed that. Also she did not send her husband and they have never proven that she had anything to do with it other than to say that she mentioned him in conversation. What the right wings hate machine avoids is discussing the actual notion that the Niger claims were false, that the White House knew they were false and that the White House still used these known false claims to bolster their case for war.

    As to her being covert or not, the right wing hate machine pretty much ignores that it was the CIA that initiated the whole proceedings. They also ignore reality quite easily and in a conscious free manner. Take Novak for instance discussing the trial, true no evidence that she was covert was brought forth at the trial, but that was not the issue, the issue was lying to a grand jury and continuing to lie even when given an opportunity to escape from his lies. Others comment that since she was not covert there was no crime to lie about. Since consensual sex between consenting adults is legal is there an underlying crime when one man lies about his infidelities? Or is that still the worst crime in the history of man kind? But I digress even if you are questioned about what you had for lunch and you purposefully lie about it to a grand jury, you have committed perjury and it is a crime.

    Any right wingers care to take this one one…without resorting to the BS answer about his memories benign jumbled because he was a busy man (because you do not rise to that level by being a confused scatterbrain, just as with OJ playing the crippled old man, hint…OJ made his living by 1) controlled violence lasting 5 - 15 seconds and 2) by acting both notions lost on the jury) but please explain in coherent thought exactly why Libby could not seem to tell the truth and why lying to the grand jury is not a crime in this case.


  117. Patrick1 Bends Over Says:

    Patrick1 keep it up - show the world how you conservatives are a bunch of sexually repressed, bigoted a$$holes…swing those moderates to our side! You’re a better recruiter for libs than Bush was at rallying terrorists against us.


  118. Tom3 Says:

    Someone should offer a $10,000 reward to any CIA person who can prove Valerie Plame was not NOC undercover when she was outed.

    There’s a $10,000 reward to any Air Force pilot who can verify that they flew with Chimpy in Alabama. So far, nobody has claimed that reward.

    Repukes are liars, crooks, and traitors.


  119. RemoveBush Says:

    “I did notice that those who watch Fox, they get their news ONLY from Fox and I have noticed they are usually older individuals….oh yeah, almost all are christian. Seems lies often go with being christian

    Comment by beijair — March 16, 2007 @ 12:13 pm”

    You hit the nail on the head…….

    I have a friend who is in his mid 40’s, and a christian, who only watches FOX news. When we talk politics, which is rare now because I provide facts that he did not get from FOX, he is spouting the same nonsense that is aired by FOX.

    I have asked him how FOX is “fair and balanced” when they really don’t present both sides of the story, and he tried to claim they do…. I nailed him on that once.

    It’s really sad that FOX can program intelligent people like my friend….


  120. R Says:

    A-hem! You know… This Valerie Plame testimony is going to wreck havoc on the already existing, ongoing U.S. Attorney scandal and cause the nerve endings in Chimpy’s head to short circuit and make his brain implode, most likely. We’d better plan for the inevitable.


  121. Patrick1 Says:

    Suck on this namejacker, TripMaster.


  122. Joe Sixpack Says:

    #71. Questions for Plame you won’t hear at this political show trial.

    Hey, lame brain. You still don’t get it do you? Its not about going after Valerie Plame and what she shared with her husband and the CIA. Its about the Bush Administration compromising the secret status of an intelligence agent in order to damage the credability of someone they wanted to destroy.

    While you and Faux News Network (R) might be content to have this sordid affair glossed over, I would rather see an example made so this doesn’t happen again.

    What is more important and yet unasked by the media or any of the politicans is how many of her foreign contacts, agents, and associates (and their families) have been killed or eliminated for having contact or suspected of passing secrets to Plame? If even one could be proved then team Cheney/Libby and their cohorts should be charged with murder.


  123. TripMaster Monkey Says:

    “Patrick1″ sez:

    Suck on this namejacker, TripMaster.

    Good afternoon, rachel.


  124. Homer Simpson Says:

    My GOD, that was too funny! Now, let’s get back to work.


  125. Denis Robert Says:

    Plame was covert. This was established early in the court proceedings, over a year ago, when Judge Tatel confirmed her convert status There was no need for Fitzgerald to even discuss it in the recently concluded proceedings.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11179719/site/newsweek/
    http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/ docs/ common/ opinions/ 200502/ 04-3138a.pdf#page=80
    The PDF proves that Tatel accepted Fitzgerald’s contention that Plame was covert under the definition used by the IIAA.

    CASE CLOSED!


  126. sarah Says:

    I love the hot pink “Impeach Bush Now” T-Shirt in the back row!!!


  127. Joe Sixpack Says:

    Suck on this namejacker, TripMaster.
    Comment by Patrick1

    Patrick is just frustrated. Unlike that skank Ann Coulter, Plame is a fox! I think I can speak for both of us when I say we would love to get into Valerie’s pants.


  128. Arne Langsetmo Says:

    UPDATE: On September 30, 2003, National Review editor Jonah Goldberg claimed, “Wilson’s wife is a desk jockey and much of the Washington cocktail circuit knew that already.”

    Is Goldberg just confirming that people didn’t know what she did?

    Sing hallelujah.

    Cheers,


  129. krazeeinjun Says:

    GOP + Patrick1 = Traitors. To hell with impeachment. String them all up now!


  130. Dilbert Says:

    Why hasn’t Richard Armitage been charged with a crime?


  131. Bluedog49 Says:

    The silliest thing about this thread is that so many people are paying attention to Patrick. Lying to congress while under oath is a felony. She’s under oath. This should be the end of the argument. Victoria Toensing, Robert Novak and the gang over at FOX news have been lying in peoples’ faces for months now. That ’s just painfully obvious to anyone who is not a delusional Bush cultist. I now expect subpoenas and indictments. It just doesn’t matter what someone like Patrick says. He’s so clearly a buffon, that it’s embarassing that so many people are playing his game. Come on people. Wise up!


  132. Bluedog49 Says:

    By the way, I think the woman in pink in the back is Darral Hannah, the actress. May be wrong, but I know she’s politically active.


  133. freeman Says:

    Most of whats posted here is about a troll who only shows up to pull your chains and distract from the issues !Next the insults and obscenities directed at him fill most of 100 posts ,making our mostly shared viewpoints look ridiculous and childish .He rushes up and posts the first comments and you fall over yourselves refuting what is his obviously nonsense .
    “Even though I’m a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.” -George H.W. Bush
    What more needs to be said ?


  134. TripMaster Monkey Says:

    krazeeinjun sez:

    To hell with impeachment. String them all up now!

    Now now…I certainly understand your frustration, but if we do that, it makes us no better than them.

    Impeach them, then try and convict them for treason, then hang them.*

    *That is, for whichever members of this corrupt and criminal administration the ICC doesn’t call dibs on.


  135. Arne Langsetmo Says:

    #44 Putzhead1:

    No question that she may have been covert, but once her husband divulged sensitive information, she needed to be outed.

    Wow. Candidate for appeals counsel for Libby ringing in.

    But spelling errors make it look unprofessional. That’s “embarrassing” and “drawn and quartered”.

    Cheers,


  136. freeman Says:

    Theres a new type of troll on the website ,he/she seems to be a friendly but is only posting obscenities and garbage and probably refuting it as another poster.


  137. BK Says:

    Just finished watching round one of the Hearings on C-Span.
    Trust me folks, if you want the truth on the Hearings, watch
    them yourself on C-Span. To rely on any of the Mainstream
    media sewers, will only give you a Left or Right slant, on what
    is being presented. Unless Slant is what your after, as opposed
    to the Truth. Lots of people already know the truth, but prefer
    the slant.

    The most telling part of this mornings hearings, Only 1 of the
    Republicans (besides the ranking member) even bothered to
    show up, and ask a single question. Its clear the Republicans
    have their own agenda, and will remain in Lock/Goose Step
    with the Official Party line. Ms Plame made it very clear that she
    was indeed a “Covert” and “Under Cover” agent of the CIA.
    She also brought out very wisely, that the Senate report, done
    under the auspices of our loyal Republican Brethren, had in
    the end, twisted many of the facts, and had cherry picked the
    facts as presented in their “Investigation” and Report of the
    Plame affair. No suprise here. Protect the Emperor at all cost.

    She also explained very clearly, that she was not the originator
    of the idea to send her Husband to Niger, that the idea was
    by one of the other Officers in her department, and that she
    was asked, to make a request to her Husband, to come into
    the Agency office the following week, to discuss, Mr Wilson
    going to Niger. She infact did not want her Husband to go to
    Niger, as they had just had twins, and she needed him at home
    to help with the new children.

    So the lies in the Press, by certain persons, have finally been
    set straight, out of the Horses mouth so to speak. Not that
    it will make 1 damned bit of difference. The truth never matters
    in America these days.

    Now the 2 Vestals from the White House are using the Sargent
    Schultz defense, “I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I know and
    knew nothing”. Again, completely expected, and true to form.
    Mr Knodell just stated that “everything” took place before his
    tenure in his position. Again, “I know Nuthink”. Sending a man
    with absolutely no knowledge of anything was expected. He did
    however just state, that, Absolutley no investifgation has been
    done, in any fashion, by the WhiteHouse, of the entire affair.

    Indeed.


  138. freeman Says:

    Shine the light and watch the cockroaches scurry .


  139. Jack Moss Says:

    This is called perjury:

    “I did not recommend him, I did not suggest him, I did not have the authority.”

    Also her General analogy is stupid. One can be a cop and not be an “uncover” cop.

    “Woman Please!”

    http://www.macsmind.com/ wordpress/ 2007/ 03/ 16/ plame-game-garbo-speaks/


  140. ScrewBush Says:

    NO WHITE HOUSE INVESTIGATION EVER !!!!

    There’s never been any White House investigation into the leaking of Valerie’s name.

    NEVER !!!
    NONE !!!
    ZIP !!!


  141. Patrick1 Says:

    That is because her husband leaked her name.


  142. dlet Says:

    There’s never been any White House investigation into the leaking of Valerie’s name.
    Comment by ScrewBush

    Saddest thing is the President could find out by asking what the heck happened. Although it may be tough since he was involved. So no questions. It’s good to be the king.


  143. Zooey Says:

    Comment by BK — March 16, 2007 @ 12:50 pm

    Thanks for that run-down, BK.

    Very telling about the Replublicans hardly bothering to show up.


  144. Spudge_Boy Says:

    dlet,

    Bush just needs to stand in front of a mirror and ask “Who leaked her name?”


  145. Kevin Hayden Says:

    How many of the previous 42 administrations deliberately or accidently outed a covert CIA agent? None.

    How many attacked a former diplomat who was considered a war hero by the president’s own father? None.

    About the uranium, who was proven right, the White House or the diplomat? The diplomat.

    Have the President and Vice-President already been proven to tell lies about this case? Yes and no. Only the President said anyone involved in leaking the agent’s name to the press would no longer be part of his administration. And several people, including Rove and Cheney, were demonstrated to be complicit in those activities.

    Thus we have a proven liar as president, a vice-president who actively sought to discredit a war hero diplomat, and both inadvertently did something no predescessor has ever done: ineptly burning an intelligence agent and network dedicated to discovering the very information we supposedly went to war for. And the people they discredited and burned were correct, while the administration wasn’t.

    Spin away righties, all you want. But what is your motive when these facts are clear? You care only to undamage the damage done by the administration instead of complaining about the way the nation’s security was damaged.

    Partisanship above patriotism. Dishonesty above security.

    I’m glad such righties never went into the military, because no-one could trust them to guard their backs. Betrayers, they are as dangerous as our sworn enemies.


  146. Nat Says:

    Her job ended when she sent her idiot husband to Niger.
    Comment by Patrick1 — March 16, 2007 @ 11:23 am

    Her job ended when her husband proved that the Bush administration was filled with a bunch of liars who were hell-bent on invading Iraq.


  147. Parrotlover77 Says:

    …classified,” Plame sad in her opening testimony…

    TP: Spelling mistake there… “Plame said”


  148. drtomaso Says:

    Lets say you live in Saudia Arabia. You work at a hardware store. Everyday, you see the same guys coming in for parts and tools you know could be used to make a bomb. You have heard rumors these guys are related to Al Qaeda somehow, and are plotting to attack a US embassy.

    You’re not a bad guy- you’d like to make sure they can’t hurt anyone. But if you tell someone, say, the CIA, and the T’s find out, you and your family will be killed in creative and painful ways.

    So the question is, can you trust the US government to keep your identity secret?

    Make no mistake about it- regardless of whether she was covert enough or how much she “deserved” to be outed for the political transgressions of her husband, the United States is not going to receive human intelligence it would have had this leak not occurred.

    This is why it is illegal to reveal the identity of a covert agent. Its not just because they might lose their job.


  149. Linus Says:

    Re # 59: Well Patrick will be busy tomorrow getting drunk for St. Patricks Day > lol. Comment by Jay Randal — March 16, 2007 @ 11:56 am

    What do you mean “tomorrow,” Mr. Randal? Patrick1 sounds like he surpassed mere drunk looooong before he ever typed comment #1 here. Anyway, let’s hope it’s the alcohol talking. Anyone as stupid or as willfully ignorant as Patrick1 sounds is just a waste of oxygen.


  150. Valerie Plame Puts Critics to Shame | The Moderate Voice Says:

    […] by MvdG Think Progress has a good post up about Valerie Plame’s testimony “under oath before the House Government and […]


  151. Patrick1 Says:

    Was she so covert that people didn’t see her behind the desk she jockeyed?


  152. Pete Bogs Says:

    this is amazing… at this very moment Bush officials are testifying about the Plame Affair… FoxNews.com’s’ top story? Anna Nicole Smith’s “medicine chest!”

    they sure are covering the important stories people need to know about!


  153. shano Says:

    Patrick is probably Jonah Goldberg. or his clone.

    There was a nice thread at Town Hall where the Rude Pundit slammed Jonah to the wall. Goldberg, chicken that he is, deleted the entire Plame thread and stopped taking comments.
    Ha, townhall does not want the truth. or any comments not approved by Rove.


  154. Patrick1 Says:

    Well the clown has left the circus. But we didn’t really get to hear all sides of Val Plame’s story. To the dismay of Republican Congressman, Hank Waxman allowed one brief round of questioning then let Val leave the building, questions unanswered. She came in, related part of her version of events, then left. It didn’t add up, but she is glamorous and blonde, and the media loves this stuff.

    The most interesting thing about the hearing was the skanky blonde in the audience wearing a tiara fashioned of pink construction paper; when she stood, her t-shirt read something like: “Impeach Bush now!” Chairman Waxman, the boss of House Oversight, oversaw the circus.

    If you missed it on C-SPAN, it was a non-event, just like the nonsense about a “leak.” Wait for the movie.


  155. Mark Says:

    I found it interesting that Plame brought up regardless of whether she was covert or not, when anyone in the White House saw that she was connected with the CIA that should have thrown up a red flag and brought national security issues into the conversation.

    Any rightwingers want to comment on why it was a good thing to expose Plame? Anyone wannt to tackle why the White House used information they knew was false even before they ever used it?


  156. jdw Says:

    The smack of Goldberg is great.

    John


  157. Jake Says:

    Patrick1:

    Was the skanky blonde even a “her” to start with? In addition to the quick clip, the only thing I heard was that GOP members were given a list of questions they were NOT allowed to ask!! What’s up with that?

    My first question would have been:

    Ms. Plame, prior to July 14, 2003 had you personally told anyone outside of the CIA that you worked for the CIA (other than your future husband after your second date)?


  158. Jake Says:

    Mark:

    I agree that IF Plame was “covert” no one from the White House should have leaked that information. If she was only employed as a janitor at Langley, would you at least agree that would be OK?


  159. Broadsword Says:

    Patrick dutifully cuts and pastes from the NRO, and I suppose, thinks we won’t notice.

    GOP congressmen, gaggle of cowards that they are, had every opportunity to ask *all* of those questions this morning and didn’t.

    Wanna guess why, Patrick?


  160. Nat Says:

    Was she so covert that people didn’t see her behind the desk she jockeyed?
    Comment by Patrick1 — March 16, 2007 @ 1:23 pm

    Come on now; give it up. That desk jockey crap won’t fly anymore.


  161. shane Says:

    Saddest thing is the President could find out by asking what the heck happened. Although it may be tough since he was involved. So no questions. It’s good to be the king.

    Comment by dlet — March 16, 2007 @ 1:00 pm

    Maybe dumbass Bush thinks that don’t ask don’t tell applies to everything involving government.


  162. Zooey Says:

    Ms. Plame, prior to July 14, 2003 had you personally told anyone outside of the CIA that you worked for the CIA (other than your future husband after your second date)?
    Comment by Jake

    Since a good attorney never asks a question to which he doesn’t already know the answer, what answer would you anticipate?


  163. Broadsword Says:

    “That is because her husband leaked her name.

    Comment by Patrick1 — March 16, 2007 @ 12:58 pm”

    What are you, f&*(ing stupid, Patrick? That question answers itself, actually.

    Everybody knows who the source of the leak is. I’ll give you a hint; he likes to shoot his friends in the face on hunting trips…


  164. big papa Says:

    they get their news ONLY from Fox and…oh yeah, almost all are christian.

    Comment by beijair

    No they aren’t…

    …NONE of them are “Christian”…


  165. Patrick1 Says:

    Any rightwingers want to comment on why it was a good thing to expose Plame?em>

    Ask her husband or Dick Armitage they are the ones that did it.


  166. Jake Says:

    Zooey:

    I completely expect she would answer that question “no” or take the 5th. I have plenty more questions where that came from ; )

    Broadsword:

    As I heard from the radio, the GOP members of the committee were given a list of questions they could NOT ask. I wonder if my question was one of those? Also, is Joe Wilson willing to testify under oath about who he told?


  167. shane Says:

    If you missed it on C-SPAN, it was a non-event, just like the nonsense about a “leak.” Wait for the movie.

    Comment by Patrick1 — March 16, 2007 @ 1:29 pm

    That’s intresting Peadick but the hearing is still going on. Your girl Victoria Toensing is on now.


  168. shane Says:

    Comment by Jake — March 16, 2007 @ 1:36 pm

    That’s cute Jake you and Peadick1 are friends. Did you remember to take your alzheimers medicine today? Why aren’t you watching Fox News? I hear they’ve come up with some bullshit that Anna Nicole might have been murdered. That should keep you old farts passified all day.