National / World Politics 11 Mar 2007 08:14 am
Mark Steyn (((ping)))
Here is a good summary of the debacle that started with the “16 words” in what I recall was the President’s State of the Union message in 2005 that Joe Wilson said was a lie (in a NYT OP ED piece) only later to be proved that Wilson was lying… The vendetta continued from there.
A paragraph from the article below:
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The prosecutor knew from the beginning that (a) leaking Valerie Plame’s name was not a crime and (b) the guy who did it was Richard Armitage. In other words, he was aware that the public and media perception of this ‘’case’’ was entirely wrong: There was no conspiracy by Bush ideologues to damage a whistleblower, only an anti-war official making an offhand remark to an anti-war reporter. Even the usual appeals to prosecutorial discretion (Libby was a peripheral figure with only he said/she said evidence in an investigation with no underlying crime) don’t convey the scale of Fitzgerald’s perversity: He knew, in fact, that there was no cloud, that under all the dark scudding about Rove and Cheney there was only sunny Richard Armitage blabbing away accidentally. Yet he chose to let the entirely false impression of his ‘’case’’ sit out there month in, month out, year after year, glowering over the White House, doing great damage to the presidency on the critical issue of the day.
for the entire article – click on this link
http://www.suntimes.com/news/steyn/291111,CST-EDT-steyn11.articleprint
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