Good looking out. I’m in here with the Searched The Page For Cult And Found The Only Person Talking About It Is The Person Complaining About It crowd. We’ve pulled back the folding wall and are mixing it up with the If You Don’t Acknowledge Who You Are Speaking To Then Don’t Bother With Your Left-Field Remarks That You Think Are Clever But Really Aren’t group. Fun crowd.
Across the hall is the The Guy Who Extracted Fascism From The Italian Subconscious And Gave It A Name Has No Say In How It Is Defined room. Haven’t mingled with them much. You may fit in there.
[url=http://abcnews.go.com/sections/nightline/US/CIAleak031001.htmlEmbassador Joe Wilson.
Exposing the name of an undercover CIA operative is a felony and jeopardizes the lives not only of that agent but the lives of anyne that agent has cultivated as contacts.
This was an extremely vicious thing for the White House to do and it was done purely to get revenge on a guy who busted Shrub for lying about uranium in his State of the Union address.
The only person divulging her identity is Robert Novak. He passed it off as administration officials. His precious source protecting is total bullshit in this case. As far as I’m concerned Novak released her name as his name is on the article.
Well, your link needs to be fixed but nothing in your extracts, or even the entire article, suggests Wilson’s wife was the target of assassins. “Fair game” could as easily mean she could be the subject of a detailed investiagtion and/or criminal charges. Even the author of the article doesn’t dare claim a hit was ordered, no doubt because he and ABC News would be subject to charges of libel. You, however, with your anonymous posting, can feel safer.
But then, I’ve never doubted your ability to jump to the worst, most inflammatory, most panic-stricken conclusion when it lines up with your personal politics.
This isn’t your day for working links, is it? Fixed. Anyway, I don’t know if John Dean is exactly an unimpeachable witness, pun intended.
In any case, the threat to Valerie Wilson is only potential, and saying the Bush administration is “putting out hits” is preposterous. I sense recklessness and stupidity from the unnamed senior officials, but not a murder plot.
Wilson gave her name in his autobiography! And she wasn’t an operative, she worked as an office assistant in Langley, VA. But, rant on. Tell us how the election was stolen again.
she was an undercover operative, you stupid fuck, can you read at all? Novak says he was told that she wasn’t operative but what he was told wasn’t true.
(Well, since the thread has run off the road and into the verge anyway…)
When I got here over seven years ago, I was impressed by the HK-wielding policemen in front of every single bank.
One day, I foolishly asked one what sort of weapon it was. He smiled and gave me the thing. In a fit of childishness, I thne had him give me his extra magazine.
Of course nowaday we take security much more seriously, but I often lok back on the Good Old Days.
Like a bunch of others I must respectfully disagree with your statement about armed soldiers in airports. Prior to Sept 10th 2001 I distinctly remember seeing them in Skopje Macedonia, Vienna Austria, London Gatwick, Frankfurt Germany, Madrid Spain and Rome (Fiumencino) Italy. In London and Frankfurt it was MP5s, In Skopje it was AK-74’s and in Rome and Spain I believe it was Berrettas (can’t be sure of Spain but am fairly positive about Rome).
The reason I recall it that well is simply that it surprised me that there were constantly such an armed presence in europe compared to the US. Skopje was really impressive as the soldiers there were wearing ceramic body armor and field helmets and the Terminal still had some bullet holes in the wall and the attitude was more serious than in the other airports.
Your experience doesn’t seem to be the norm in this regard.
Didn’t you guys hear that Valerie Plame was shot? Good thing she was wearing that scarf and glasses, or the shot could’ve really done some damage. Her fear is palpable.:rolleyes: