Comments on: It's All Libby All The Time In Media

The Skinny: Guilty Verdict Dominates Nation's Major News Outlets, But Does Anybody Else Really Care?

[notblue]

karlimhof, if what you mean by collateral damage is they got rich off this self created fiasco, then I would love some of that damage myself, don't you just love America!

[jebby_one]

Liberal Neo-Commies seem to be conducting their own Kangaroo court on this case.

The Jury said Libby was guilty of lying and obstructing justice. The case had nothing to do with outing a CIA agent. Actually, no one official evet said that a CIA agent was outed.

[susanhelit]

Cheney asked the CIA to look into the uranium story - he says he did, the CIA says he did - there's no dispute of this.

The CIA got it's experts in that area together (including Plame), and decided to send Wilson - no dispute of that either.

And this is the story Wilson has always told, the truth - an unfamiliar and terrifying thing in our White House right now.

For telling the truth, the White House decided to attempt to discredit him, with a feeble lie, and a bit of treason to let slip a formerly covert (and still secret) CIA agent's name and operations!

The CIA is outraged, and their credibility, secrecy, and operations are severely damaged. How do you recruit spies when your government may blow their cover at any time? Everyone Plame ever talked to is now outed - every single person who helped the USA out by giving information is now in danger, and no doubt some have been killed if they didn't run fast enough.

[frankly6]

tcoleman12


Yawnnnnn............

[susanhelit]

The CIA says that yes, this was illegal, wrong, and they were so outraged when Bush tried to just ignore this damage to the CIA and their operations that they DEMANDED an investigation. I'll take their word for it.

[tcoleman12]

Just like the libs...selective outrage on most issues. Lying is suddenly wrong? Not recalling events, sloppiness...
Clinton lying under oath: Not wrong
Kennedy lying to cops about car wreck: Not wrong
Burger lying about stolen documents: Not wrong
Burger stealing the documents: Not wrong
Scooter lying about outing a non-covert CIA agent where the real leaker was already known: Hell no we can't have that...Burn Him!!!

[frankly6]

deception5

Wilson NEVER claimed that Cheney sent him anywhere. The talking head pundits you get your info from are paid millions to lie to the American people. Do you do it for free?

You need to get on the gravy train brother.

[doc18d]

Thank you perception5

No COVERT CIA Operative was outed.
It is not illigal to disclose the name of an individual simply because they work within the CIA. There never should have been a two year investigation. There was no crime. But, lets go ahead and crucify someone in the Bush admin. Lets blame Libby and this time lets forget that the Clinton administration made it acceptable to lie to a grand jury, Just like they taught our kids that a &*%$ job is not ***. I NEVER HAD *** WITH THAT WOMAN!

[rharrin1]

Libby Libby Libby that is how you keep bush and cheney out of this news.

[perception5]

Mr. Wilson should be going to jail for consistently lying about the facts of what "really" happened...... from the Washington Post this morning, the facts of this case:


"In conversations with journalists or in a July 6, 2003, op-ed, Wilson 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'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's name. The trial has provided convincing evidence that there was no conspiracy to punish Mr. Wilson by leaking Ms. Plame's identity -- and no evidence that she was, in fact, covert."- Washington Post

[karlimhof]

Plame and Wilson made millions of a situation they created - notblue


not serious, notblue

the real fight was between Cheney and CIA. The Wilsons were collateral damage.

Office of Special Plans was Cheney's preferred intel source - it gave what he wanted.

Reasons to go to War.

[lochlan-2009]

Media care about nothing but selling their product. The nation is head over heals that we're seeing atleast miniscule justice from this completly corrupt Administration, so of course we're buying. We're all waiting to see whether there really is justice in this country, or if we're going to get the typical slaughtered goat, before they let the media sweep all the lieing and robbing of the American people by their government under the rug.

[us_infidel]

'It's All Libby All The Time In Media'

The only good thing to come from the verdict is that we don't have to listen to any more ANNA NICOLE cr*p!

[notblue]

Plame and Wilson made millions of a situation they created and were given the ultimate leftwing media smokescreen letting the public hear only part of the truth. Thank CBS and the rest for all the money made. Rest assured this story is not over, Plame and Wilson will eventually be shown for what they truly are. Shame on CBS for enabling there plan.

[frankly6]

notblue


So why would Scooter lie and obstruct a FEDERAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION into who outed a COVERT CIA OPERATIVE?


Why would he do that?

[rpriddy]

The media constantly asserts that the Libby trial is of no interest outside the media or outside Washington. That's simply wrong. The Libby trial has brought to light some of the everyday subterfuge of this administration, particularly that of the vice president. Unfortunately, the media%u2019s constant downplaying of the importance and scope of this story is uncomfortably similar to the backseat approach they took to roll out of the Iraq war. The so called liberal media is so afraid of taking on the neo-conservatives they literally let them get away with%u2026 well what would you call the deaths of 3,000 American service people?

[actornaught]

i couldn't believe this headline

and who said 'left wing press'? is that the same press that swamped us with the wonderfulness of the 'contract on america'? or the 'endless clinton trials that finally went nowhere' congress?

i'm sure it's the same press that's making a capitalist's wetdream killing (pardon the pun) on Anna Nichole whatsername....

[karlimhof]

by seymour hersh, www.newyorker.com ;

US Vice President *** Cheney. Now, instead of launching a war against Iran, Cheney with Bush%u2019s complicity, has pulled the trigger on a covert war of global proportions pitting Sunnis against Shias.

According to Hersh, Cheney%u2019s covert plan involves massive US financial backing for militant Sunni groups that are known to be inimical to the Shia militias of the Badr Brigades, the Mahdi Army, Hamas and Hezbollah all of whom support the revolutionary government of Iran. The US-backed Sunnis include the Muslim Brotherhood, a vast and powerful multinational organization, who are definitely on friendly terms with Al-Qaeda and its allies, including the Taliban. The government of Saudi Arabia is Sunni, although they are deeply despised by the Muslim Brotherhood, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda because of their subservience to their masters in big oil and George Bush%u2019s America.

The Israeli right and a rogue faction of the royal family of Saud who are loyal to Prince Bandar bin Sultan are backing Cheney%u2019s covert plan. The ultimate objective of Cheney%u2019s redirection of US strategy in the region is to redraw the national boundaries of the Middle East and to give an explosive multiple birth to a sprawling litter of new cantons, colonies, domains, enclaves, protectorates, statelets and territories all pledged to American and Israeli dominance of the region and its precious oil, gas and energy reserves.

[notblue]

Why is it libby all the time?? Easy, leftwing mainstream media. All the lefties in these comment areas are either stupid or naive to think the media is nit agenda driven and biased and that the dems are not as corrupt politically as the republicans. HELLO!!!!!

[mebrian1-2009]

So as an observer of this thread, what I find disturbing is the so-called 'left wingers' in this discussion choose to resort to nasty name calling rather than a substantive dialog. I find it difficult to handle being called a Nazi. It is sad that some of you so quickly and nonchalantly through that term out at people simple because they are Republican. If you want to discuss the facts and difference of opinions between political views, then why don't you do that? Instead, you choose to reduce your argument to name calling. If you really want people to read your post and consider your views why don't you drop the nonsense? I bet you through a fit though when Coulter used the term f@ggot the other day.