Comments on: Robert Novak Talks About Plame Leak http://donklephant.com/2007/07/09/robert-novak-talks-about-plame-leak/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:03:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jim S http://donklephant.com/2007/07/09/robert-novak-talks-about-plame-leak/comment-page-1/#comment-369094 Jim S Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:54:13 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/07/09/robert-novak-talks-about-plame-leak/#comment-369094 First, Rich Horton is correct. Secondly, Armitage wasn't the one shopping the story around to other journalists which is something the people who defend the Bush Administration on this issue always conveniently forget. In addition it isn't nepotism when someone suggests someone they know for a job or contract. It is nepotism when they are the ones with the authority to hire and fire and do so. First, Rich Horton is correct. Secondly, Armitage wasn’t the one shopping the story around to other journalists which is something the people who defend the Bush Administration on this issue always conveniently forget. In addition it isn’t nepotism when someone suggests someone they know for a job or contract. It is nepotism when they are the ones with the authority to hire and fire and do so.

]]> By: Rich Horton http://donklephant.com/2007/07/09/robert-novak-talks-about-plame-leak/comment-page-1/#comment-368994 Rich Horton Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:58:54 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/07/09/robert-novak-talks-about-plame-leak/#comment-368994 "Given this, it really seems like Armitage should have been dealt with much more harshly. It doesn’t matter if you ignorantly expose a CIA agent or not…a crime was still committed." Armitage would have to have known she was covert first. That has never been shown, as far as I have ever heard. Accidental outing is not a crime. “Given this, it really seems like Armitage should have been dealt with much more harshly. It doesn’t matter if you ignorantly expose a CIA agent or not…a crime was still committed.”

Armitage would have to have known she was covert first. That has never been shown, as far as I have ever heard. Accidental outing is not a crime.

]]> By: DosPeros http://donklephant.com/2007/07/09/robert-novak-talks-about-plame-leak/comment-page-1/#comment-368988 DosPeros Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:12:51 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/07/09/robert-novak-talks-about-plame-leak/#comment-368988 So much for the Joe-Wilson-Prosecuted-Sage bullshit Her identity was "leaked" in an explanation of how Wilson the Great got the gig only through nepotism. The "story that won't die" is a story of horizontally integrated inanity from the media, to the BDS hacks, to the bungling bureaucrat, to the head-hunting virginal prosecutor, to the Double-0 Bimbo. It is a bonefire of the vanities which almost put a decent man in prison, because some (like Justin Gardner) took such orgaistic schadenfreude with the criminal prosecution of someone (anyone!) in this Administration - especially Dick Cheney's chief of staff. This story is only half over - the rest of it will be a fantastic display of cannibalism on the part of the media and blogasylum. So much for the Joe-Wilson-Prosecuted-Sage bullshit Her identity was “leaked” in an explanation of how Wilson the Great got the gig only through nepotism. The “story that won’t die” is a story of horizontally integrated inanity from the media, to the BDS hacks, to the bungling bureaucrat, to the head-hunting virginal prosecutor, to the Double-0 Bimbo. It is a bonefire of the vanities which almost put a decent man in prison, because some (like Justin Gardner) took such orgaistic schadenfreude with the criminal prosecution of someone (anyone!) in this Administration – especially Dick Cheney’s chief of staff. This story is only half over – the rest of it will be a fantastic display of cannibalism on the part of the media and blogasylum.

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