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New Book Alleges Bush Administration Intentionally Forged Documents, Ignore
2008-08-05 17:16:00 Is Scott McClellan At It Again? Nope — This Time It’s Ron Suskind With A Littany Of Allegations Against President Bush And His Administration Another “shocker” —... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the latest rantings of a gun toting liberal with a chip on his shoulder... harsh views, comments expressed.
McClellan: Bush Should Have Fired Rove After Plame Leak
2008-06-02 01:00:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 4:00 PM MST McClellan: Bush Should Have Fired Rove After Plame Leak (VIDEO) AP | BEN FELLER | ...
By: Suzie-Q
The Bane Of McCain Falls Mainly On The Brain
2008-06-01 23:46:00 Bush should've axed Karl Rove in Miss Covert America Valerie Plame CIA leak case. Former press flack Scott McClellan to Tim Russert on "Meet The Press." VideoMaureen Dowd NYT: McClellan did not realize the value of a favorite maxim ? ?The truth shall set you free? ? until he was hung out to dry by his bosses in the Valerie Plame affair, repeating the lies Karl Rove and Scooter Libby brazenly told him about not being the leakers. ?Clearly,? McClellan says, sounding like the breast-heaving heroine of a Victorian romance, ?I had allowed myself to be deceived.? He felt ?something fall out of me into the abyss.?It could be Pillsbury doughboy Scottie McClellan who denies John McCain the presidency. Frank Rich NYT "McCain's McClellan Nightmare": Mr. McClellan isn?t a sizzling TV personality, or, before now, a household name beyond the Beltway. His book secured no major prepublication media send-off on ?60 Minutes? or a newsmagazine cover. But if the tale of how the White House ginned up ...
By: Chickaboomer
Bob Dole On The Dole
2008-05-30 22:32:00 The politician with the most annoying voice in Congress (runner-up Joe Lieberman) will be droning before the mics with Bush turncoat Scott McClellan. Detroit Democratic Congressman John Conyers, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, wants to haul McClellan before a new hearing on the Miss Covert America Valerie Plame CIA leak case. Politico Former Senator Bob Dole brands McClellan a "miserable creature." "Your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique." Me To Bob Dole: "Your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in... on K Street making big bucks as a rich, powerful lobbyist." Shut up, you corrupt old hypocrite! Dole represented Indonesian oil interests; the bizarre deal to let Dubai run U.S. ports. "For a $560,000 fee, Bob Dole, the former Senate majority leader and 1996 Republican presidential nominee,...
By: Chickaboomer
McClellan?s Biggest Revelation? Bush Personally Authorized Leak Of CIA Agen
2008-05-29 21:13:00 anthony @ 20:12 BST By: emptywheel Thursday May 29, 2008 7:08 am Scottie McC doesn’t know it yet. But that’s basically what he revealed this morning on the Today Show (h/t Rayne). During the interview, Scottie revealed the two things that really pissed him off with the Bush Administration. First, being set up to lie by Karl Rove ...
By: Suzie-Q
Hot Scott
2008-05-29 13:49:00 The "get" of the moment Scott McClellan on the "Today" show this a.m with his book #1 on Amazon.There are several kinds of Washington memoirs: ?I Reveal the Honest Truth,? a kiss-up-and-tell designed to settle scores (nod to honesty optional). ?I Was There at the Start,? designed to make the author appear to be the linchpin of history. And, most tedious: ?I Knew It Was a Terrible Mistake, but I Didn?t Mention It Until I Got a Book Contract.? NY Times editorial"...McClellan is an exceptionally nice guy." NYP McClellan's book contrasts sharply with his spin before the jaded WH press corps when he was on Bush's watch. Wash Post ABC News "An affable Texan, McClellan was extremely well-liked by White House press corps regulars and was accessible off-camera. But he never earned a reputation for being particularly helpful or pushing for more information. "I didn't ask about that" was a phrase reporters heard regularly." Thomas DeFrank NYDN
By: Chickaboomer
McClellan whacks Bush, White House - Politico.com
2008-05-28 07:20:00 Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush ?veered terribly off course,? was not ?open and forthright on Iraq,? and took a ?permanent campaign approach? to governing at the expense of candor and competence. Among the most explosive revelations in the 341-page book, ...
By: TexasFred's
Scott McClellan Lashes Out At Bush White House In New Book
2008-05-28 03:46:00 We’ve heard rumors about former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s new book titled, ?What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington?s Culture of Deception” for some time now. Just last November McClellan’s publisher released an excerpt from the book that seemed to implicate the Bush Administration in the Valerie Flame Plame leak case. Just a ...
By: The Hot Joints
ABC sinks to new low in debate, but record won?t stand for long
2008-04-17 21:18:00 I missed last night’s “debate” between Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. From what I can tell this morning, that was the smartest thing I did all day. I’ve read a good bit about it and seen some video and it looks like what transpired in Philadelphia may have been a new low-water mark in American journalism. Let’s see what people are saying. We’ll start at Crooks & Liars, which has video of the debacle. Next let’s check in at the ABC “News” Web site, where the network’s viewers are still engaging in one of the bloodiest nard-stompings I’ve ever seen. Nearly 16,000 comments as I write, and the consensus is not a happy one. SenateGuru explains why G-Steph should be embarrassed. Yes, Charlie, the crowd is turning on you. Because you’re a joke. Jack & Jill Politics called it a “freak show,” a “disgrace” and “a great disservice to the American people a...
Joe Wilson (husband of Valerie Plame) attacks Saint Obama
2008-03-05 03:18:00 Â Over at the Stuffington Roast, serial storyteller Joe Wilson has formally attacked Barack Obama, calling his judgment "hollow" and his record "empty": There is no credible reason to conclude that Obama would have acted any differently in voting for the authorization had he been in the Senate at that time. Indeed, he has said as much. The supposed intuitive judgment he exercised in his 2002
Nicole Kidman será la ex agente de la CIA Valerie Plame a las órdenes de
2008-02-17 07:09:00 Basándose en el libro autobiográfico ‘Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House’ (Juego limpio: Mi vida como espÃa y la traición de la Casa Blanca), Doug Liman ?responsable de ‘Jumper’, ‘Señor y Seño […] Ver nota completa en Blog de cine Innet Tags: Basándose, libro, autobiográfico, ‘Fair, Game:, Life, Spy,, Betrayal, White, House’, (Juego, limpio:, vida, como, espÃa, traición, Casa, Blanca),, Doug, Liman, ?responsable, ‘Jumper’,, ‘Señor, Señora, Smith’, ‘El, caso, Bourne’?, dirigirá, biopic, Valeria, Plame,, quien, dará, vida, Nicole, Kidman., Plame, agente, cuya, identidad, filtrada, medios, altos, cargos, gobierno, norteamericano, justo, cuando, estaba, investigando, sobre, armas, destrucción, masiva, Irak., suma, […]
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Nicole Kidman será la ex agente de la CIA Valerie Plame a las órdenes de Do
2008-02-17 01:14:00 Basándose en el libro autobiográfico ‘Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House’ (Juego limpio: Mi vida como espía y la traición de la Casa Blanca), Doug Liman ?responsable de ‘Jumper’, ‘Señor y Seño […] Ver nota completa en Blog de cine Innet Tags: Basándose, libro, autobiográfico, ‘Fair, Game:, Life, Spy,, Betrayal, ...
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BREAKING: Nicole Kidman Outed as Valerie Plame - SendMeRSS
2008-02-14 15:37:00 BREAKING: Nicole Kidman Outed as Valerie PlameNearly a year after Warner Brothers announced their intention to make a biopic of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame, the identity of the actress who will play her has finally been leaked to the media ? and you can only find it on MTV News. “Nicole Kidman,” director Doug Liman revealed. “She’s perfect if you’ve ever met Valerie. Nicole was supposed to play Jane Smith in ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith.’ We owe a movie together! That's an unrequited thing between me and an actor where I fell in love with them for a role and never get to consummate it.” That Doug Liman himself is attached to the project is something of a surprise all by itself, but a perfect fit, the “Jumper” director said, based on his history working with [REDACTED]…his training in [REDACTED]…and, above all, his unique approach to the material - perhaps a necessity given that the Plame’s memoir, “Fair G...
By: El Cine
Nicole Kidman Cast as Outed CIA Agent Valerie Plame - SendMeRSS
2008-02-14 15:16:00 Nicole Kidman Cast as Outed CIA Agent Valerie Plame The Bush administration has certainly given Hollywood a lot of fodder, most of it mediocre. Rendition and Lions for Lambs, for instance, were pretty much forgettable. The Kingdom was a might better, but a well-worn topic. And here soon comes the uninteresting Stop Loss. Through all these lackluster productions, there seems to always be Hollywood A-Listers attached. Our friends over at MTV bring us the latest news on this political, celebrity-filled subset of film: Nicole Kidman will star as outed CIA agent Valerie Plame in a biopic directed by Doug Liman (Jumper, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the Bourne series). Now, how one tries to make a successful biographical film about a covert CIA agent that is anywhere near adjacent to non-fiction is a bit beyond me. Breach and The Good Shepard, while largely accurate and descriptive, were nevertheless slow-paced and stunted at the box-office. Even Plame's own book, "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My ...
By: El Cine
Valerie Plame Wilson Describes Sibel Edmonds Disclosures as 'Stunning'
2008-02-14 15:13:00 The UK Sunday Times Published a series of three articles releasing information that may have been covered by Sibel Edmonds' Bush Administration gag order. She has been claiming her gag order was covering up a scandal. Perhaps the UK articles represent the real story, or at least part of it. Plame now calls the Times articles "stunning" and decries the media black out of the story in the US. There is no freedom of the press in the Bush era. The BRAD BLOG Former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson says the recent disclosures in the UK's Sunday Times concerning the sale of U.S. nuclear secrets to the foreign black market, as aided by high-ranking government officials, are "stunning"... The previously covert agent, who had worked in the agency's counter-proliferation division for years monitoring traffic in the nuclear black market under the guise of a cover company named Brewster Jennings until being outed by Bush Administration officials, was asked about the recent series of ex...
Where The Sun Don't Shine
2007-12-07 17:16:00 I'll be back. I'm going to my other safe house in Witness Protection Program Land. Since I'm on the subject of spies, Miss Covert America Valerie Plame tells the DC Examiner that she's not posing for Playboy. But it's a trip having Warren Beatty "pull out..." her chair for her at a Hollywood dinner party. The Washington Post Reliable Sources gossipistas report that 15 people paid $275 each to dine with Miz Valerie at a trendy DC restaurant. The Spy Museum refused to say how much Plame was paid. If they told you they'd have to kill you. The CIA killed the terrorist interrogation videotape smoking guns. Are you shocked? Wash Post The coverup smells as bad as the NYC doorman suspended for having bad breath. WCBS TV Why now? The guy's been working there 40 years! Mr. Supersize Me Morgan Spurlock turns from fast food to fast ones. Spurlock's latest movie takes a page from Matt Lauer's lame "Where in the world is Matt Lauer?" Like we give a s**t. "Where In The World Is Osama?" NY...
By: Chickaboomer
Good Riddance To Them All
2007-11-22 05:32:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 9:35 PM MST By Joseph L. Galloway | McClatchy Newspapers Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 There was little for the unindicted co-conspirators of the Bush administration to give thanks for this week as the clock winds down on the 14 months they have left in power. With former White House press secretary Scott ...
By: Suzie-Q
McClellan Publisher Deflates Tantalizing Snippet on C.I.A. Leak, Liberals C
2007-11-22 00:37:00 Just as I suspected, the snippet released yesterday from Scott McClellan’s book turned out to be a misinterpretation. Although, clearly it was done on purpose to generate buzz and of course it worked. From the NYT: A 151-word excerpt from the memoir of Scott McClellan, chief spokesman to President Bush in 2006, was not meant to be ...
By: The Hot Joints
Got 'Em
2007-11-21 22:49:00 I don't know if this will spark a censure or impeachment movement in Congress, but it's definitely not what this administration needs right now.At this point, does it really matter...there's only 13 months, 29 days left of this administration
By: Nicks Notes
Spillsbury Dough Boy
2007-11-21 18:38:00 The usual suspects out of the political woodwork. Democratic presidential nowhere man Sen. Chris Dodd calling for an investigation. Miss Covert America Valerie Plame blowing her pretty blonde stack. E & P Deadeye Dick Cheney spotted digging a grave at Fort Marcy Park. The "misled" "Scottie" McClellan issues 121 words from an unfinished book rocking Bush's political world that he lied when he spun the one-note-samba to the WH press day after day. That Bush, Rove, and Cheney, Libby had nothing to do with the CIA leak thing. The unwitting McClellan falls on his own sword for those who gave him false info. What a way to get the liberal media vultures tripping over their dicks for McClellen's unfinished book due out in April 08! Politico Slate Scott's 39. His life as he knows it is over. Hope he has a good retirement plan and investments. My take on "Scottie" is that he's a hand-wringing, wussy whining victim. Hate that toxic victim energy. Public Affair Books Jay & The A...
By: Chickaboomer
Ex-White House Spokesman Writes Tell-All Book
2007-11-20 21:14:00 Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has written a 400 page book about his time in the Bush inner circle. The book is called What Happened and it chronicles among other things the Valerie Plame leak case. His publisher released a little taste of what you can expect in the book: The most powerful leader ...
By: The Hot Joints
TDS - Valerie Plame Wilson
2007-11-01 18:51:00 Jon Stewart gives a pretty good interview. Probably the best part of the interview was when she comments on Robert Novak. She doesn’t say that he was a worthless neocon tool. But she does say something about as good, “He has about as much credibility as this administration.” I love it. comedy, Jon Stewart, robert novak, ...
Valerie Plame: ?I?m not going away?
2007-10-29 16:07:00 Outed spy Valerie Plame says she isn’t going away, no matter what the folks at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue want. God help us if that’s true. I don’t think I’ve ever wanted anyone to go away more than covert, super-spy, 007, Valerie Plame. And her husband too. Even though we all know Richard Armitage is the one who ...
By: The Hot Joints
Valerie Plame Wilson on Keeping Her Marriage Together
2007-10-28 13:10:00 PEOPLE Q&A: The onetime covert CIA agent talks about her new book More: continued here
By: Feed Me Gossip
Countdown - Valerie Plame
2007-10-24 09:33:00 Valerie Plame’s new book is out today. Plame said - “There is no doubt that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons.” This is true. We have known that for over 10 years. Q&A with Keith Olbermann Did George Tenet know about the leak before he referred the case to Justice? She didn’t know. Did the media, who published so much information surrounding the leak, did they get any of it right? Many stories were right. The Libby trial revealed the relationship between the media and the administration. There was no confirmation of stories that the White House feed the media. A lot of her book was redacted. Ms. Plame believes that the CIA will not acknowledge that she worked at the CIA before 2003. She believes that it is an ongoing effort to diminish her importance. This is a very good interview. It is 1000% better than the Katie Couric thing. bush administration, National Intelligence
Valerie Plame Finally Has Her Say On Both 60 Minutes And In Her New Book
2007-10-22 17:31:00 Our friends at Crooks and Liars have the entire 60 Minutes Interview of Valerie Plame Wilson, conducted by the (at times) “testy” Katie Couric. All in all, nothing new here for anybody who has followed the treasonous outing of the former high level C.I.A. operative by members of the Bush Administration based purely upon ...
Valerie Plame?s Mission - Keep Iran Nuke Free
2007-10-22 03:01:00 CBS News has confirmed, in advance of a 60 Minutes interview with outed CIA agent Valerie Plame to be run this Sunday, that Plame “was involved in operations to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons.”
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Rove: Valerie Plame ?Fair Game?
2007-10-21 10:54:00 anthony @ 09:50 BST Plame Tells of Betrayal in New Memoir Truthdig | Posted on Oct 20, 2007 washingtontimes.com In her new memoir, former CIA officer Valerie Plame tells of her shock as the Bush administration presented evidence in 2003 that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction??I knew key parts of it were wrong,? she says?as well as her take ...
By: Suzie-Q
Valerie Plame Wilson Speaks Muzzled
2007-10-20 15:49:00 by Larry C. Johnson Four years and three months after waking up on a Sunday morning and learning that her career as a clandestine intelligence officer was over because of a stupid column by Robert Novak, Valerie Plame Wilson finally gets to meet the public and tell some of her story. Sunday night she appears on 60 Minutes, and kicks off a book tour that will start Monday morning on the Today Show and include stops at Larry King Live and the Daily Show. Unfortunately, Val cannot be totally forthcoming. I am not talking about revealing sources or methods that would compromise intelligence operations. She is a solid professional and would never entertain such nonsense. But the CIA succeeded in getting a Federal judge to block Val from admitting that she started working with the CIA in September of 1985. It is as if Rod Serling has returned from the dead with a 21st Century version of the Twilight Zone. The CIA won the initial round in Federal Court and insists...
The Plame Truth
2007-10-18 15:35:00 "It was more trouble than it was worth." Miss Covert America Valerie Plame to Katie Couric on that scandalous Vanity Fair photo she posed for after the CIA leak thing broke. (left). She tells Katie (and not in these words) that she got her ass kicked by CIA brass. The gorgeous ex-spook's "60 Minutes" spin runs Sunday. Plame's raking in a bloody fortune in book and movie deals over her "ordeal."
By: Chickaboomer
Choke The Monkey
2007-08-07 17:23:00 Bush cuts off conservative flamethrower and Valerie Plame outer, Bob "Prince Of Darkness" Novak's manhood. Congress pays lip service to "draining the swamp." Congress no fun anymore without rich, cloying lobbyists up the ass plying Members with food, drinks, free planes, trips, real estate, babes, and hard cold cash. [NYT]
By: Chickaboomer
Plame-Out: Judge Dismisses Valerie Plame?s Lawsuit Against Bush Administrat
2007-07-19 23:14:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s lawsuit against members of the Bush administration Thursday, eliminating one of the last courtroom remnants of the leak scandal. Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had accused Vice President Dick Cheney and others of conspiring to leak her identity in Plame said ...
By: The Hot Joints
VALERIE PLAME IS A SPY
2007-07-19 23:08:00 Predator Press [LOBO] Valerie Plame screwed up our perfectly good exclusive today by admitting she was a spy in Federal Court. We've known for weeks that she was a spy; it's written all over the bathroom wall at the White House.And today, just as we're about to stuff this heaping helping of Truth down your gullet, she just flat out blurts "Hi. I'm Valerie Plane, and I'm a spy", right into cameras and microphones that broadcast it all over the world. Seriously! So we figure it's not a total loss, right? Maybe we'll be there to get the footage of when she leaps up and kills all them guys with a teeny concealed machine gun in her watch, or hurls a laserbeam stiletto hairpin into some important guy's heart. Or maybe she just vaporizes them with a satellite death ray, and escapes in a sports car that turns into a submarine! Hell, now that would be a pretty kickass story too. And it seems, after all, the least she could do after we've gone through all this trouble, ...
By: Predator Press
Rudy: Drool On Me
2007-07-16 20:57:00 The political equivalent of girl-on-girl jello wrestling. The singing Obama Girl v the Rudy Chick's jiggling jugs in a pillow fight. [Barely Political] The evolution of this new political genre capturing today's youth. Miss CIA Covert America's husband is drooling all over Hillary. Hillary gives the heads up first to the Blogosphere. If Hillary wins Joe Wilson rises like the Phoenix with a cabinet appointment payoff.
By: Chickaboomer
The Emperor Has No Clothes
2007-07-03 19:00:00 The White House should be more concerned about what reporters are asking than what they're wearing. Wolves in sheep's clothing. The new dress code: Professional attire is required for all media covering presidential photo opportunities/ events in the West Wing (Oval Office, Cabinet Room, Roosevelt Room and other pooled events with the POTUS)No beach attire or flip flops.No shorts.No torn, frayed, or soiled clothing.No collarless t-shirts. Neat, long sleeved shirts or collared golf shirts (business casual) is advisable. IS advisable? Grammar police: ARE advisable. Bush is mooning the media while his henchmen are obsessing over unpressed pressies. The dress code isn't the only edict insulting reporters' intelligence. The WH press corp went batshit today on spokespinner Tony Snow on Scooter's 11th hour save from the slammer. The Pardon is coming... Huffington Post has the video.
By: Chickaboomer
Get Out Of Jail Free!
2007-07-03 00:16:00 Just hours after a federal appeals court turned down Scooter Libby's plea to stay out of jail, Prez Bush commuted the 30-month sentence. "Excessive," he justified. [ABC News] [MSNBC]Bush didn't blow off the $250,000 fine and probation. That's harsh enough, he rationalizes, for Libby's conviction for lying and obstruction of justice in the Valerie Plame CIA leak case. This isn't a pardon. It's "executive clemency." Read Bush's statement.
By: Chickaboomer
Scooter Libby: Go Directly To Jail
2007-07-02 18:31:00 Scooter loses his appeal to stay out of the slammer. A federal appeals court said nyet just moments ago. No word on when the new inmate's checking in... Deadeye Dick Cheney's former chief of staff was convicted on obstruction of justice charges in the CIA Valerie Plame leak case.
By: Chickaboomer
Scooter: Go Directly To Jail. Do Not Pass Go.
2007-06-14 19:34:00 Unless Prez Bush pardons him, he goes to the pen within the next six, eight weeks. The judge wasn't inclined to let Libby stay out of jail during an appeal. Libby was sentenced to 30 months in the slammer for obstruction of justice et al. in the CIA Valerie Plame leak case. My take? The esteemed Judge Reggie Walton figures Bush'll pardon him and wants to make sure Libby gets a taste of life in Club Fed. Cheney's former chief of staff takes one for the team. Judge Walton's decision today was not unexpected.
By: Chickaboomer
Video of the Day: Bill Maher on Valerie Plame
2007-04-07 01:35:00 tags technorati : Bill Maher Valerie Plame HBO CIA Bush Bush administration lie Iraq War Niger agent George Bush WMD Yellowcake Bill Maher on Valerie Plame Decision 2008 keeps you up to date with the issues and candidates in the 2008 presidential elections.
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How Dare Valerie Plame Get Past Her Victimhood
2007-03-25 20:38:00 Bill Maher Conservative pundits seem miffed that Valerie Plame, her cover blown, decided to pose for Vanity Fair or get a book deal or sell her story to Hollywood. Well, what do they expect? She lost her job, her career. She can't become a covert agent for Canada. Or Mexico. And just because she's bounced back doesn't mean she wasn't victimized.It's like saying a woman who was raped can never go to another dance. How raped could she have been if she's daring to smile four years later? Connie Francis still sang "Stupid Cupid" and "Lipstick On Your Collar" after she was raped in a Howard Johnson's in Long Island. It doesn't mean she wasn't raped. But she had to earn a living. She had to keep going. Isn't that an example of personal responsibility that the right used to champion? Isn't that what conservatives used to be all about?
The Problem with Plame's Testimony
Valerie Plame t...
2007-03-17 22:04:00 The Problem with Plame's Testimony Valerie Plame testified yesterday that she "played no part in deciding to send her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, on a mission to Niger in 2002 to assess the reliability of reports that Iraq's then-president, Saddam Hussein, was trying to buy yellowcake uranium from that country for use in a secret nuclear weapons program." According to
Valerie Plame goes to Congress
2007-03-17 00:22:00 After some requests I'm posting Valerie Plames's natal chart (sunrise) with this morning's transits on Capitol Hill. You see that tr Sun is conjunct her n Venus and tr Venus is conjunct her n Sun! Very appropriate given today's comments that she was a "platinum blonde" who looked like a "movie star" as she strode into the hearing room this morning. On a side note--or is it?--Jupiter at
A “Gagged” Valerie Plame Finally Gets Her Chance To “Test
2007-03-16 08:16:00 Get ready to read between the lines, folks. Outed CIA agent Valerie Plame will finally get her chance to “speak out” before Congress, that is… within the confines of her gag order since most of the relevant, and most condemning (to this Administration, that is) information she is in possession of is considered to still be “classified”. Of course, neither President Bush OR Vice President Cheney has any intent of “declassifying’ any incriminating evidence via their magical “declassification powers” found nowhere within the Constitution. A quick breakdown oversimplified, admittedly “biased” relay of the events for those who may just be stumbling into this “Plamegate” thing for the first time, or who hadn’t really paid attention to the details until now. Please bear with me, those of you who already know this story’s ending: Roughly, four years ago, this “former Ambassador” guy spok...
Valerie Plame, the Spy Who?s Ready to Speak for Herself
2007-03-16 05:57:00 [From The Washington Post] Valerie Plame, the Spy Who’s Ready to Speak for Herself Years of Silence Will End Today With Capitol Hill Testimony By Richard Leiby and Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, March 16, 2007 She has been silent nearly four years. Today, the CIA officer whose unmasking fueled a political uproar and criminal probe that reached into ...
By: News for Greens
CIA panel blocks book by outed agent Valerie Plame
2007-01-11 08:35:02 YahooNews WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Central Intelligence Agency has shot down a book by former undercover agent Valerie Plame, whose outing led to an investigation of the highest levels of government, a magazine reported. According to Newsweek magazine, the CIA panel that must approve writings by former employees ruled Plame can’t even mention the widely-known fact she worked for the agency because she had “nonofficial cover,” posing as a private business-woman instead of a government official. “She believes this will effectively gut the book,” one of her advisors told the magazine asking not to be named. The magazine noted that while other former CIA officers have published books, all of which cleared the panel, few with nonofficial cover have. CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield told Newsweek the panel was still having “ongoing” talks with Plame to resolve the dispute. “The sole yardstick,” he said, is that books “contain no...
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