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Posted on Mon Feb 12, 2007 at 10:19:51 AM EST
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    So the OVP (none / 0) (#1)
    by Che's Lounge on Mon Feb 12, 2007 at 12:33:44 PM EST
    asked the CIA to investigate the Niger claims. That much is certain.

    The CIA, via the nonproliferation office, decides to send an expert, as suggested (not directed) by one of their supervisors.

    Who cares who he's living with? Wilson was a perfect choice, based on qualifications.

    The OVP ignores his report. Scratch that. They say the complete opposite of what Wilson reports.

    Gee, I wish I had a spouse in high places just so I could have a lavish vacation...

    alone...

    in Niger.

    Perfect qualifications? (none / 0) (#2)
    by Abdul Abulbul Amir on Mon Feb 12, 2007 at 03:43:38 PM EST
    Did he have any investigative experience or training at all?  

    Was he selected to go before the VP asked?  

    Did his wife know his politics before slotting him for the job?

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    Short answers (5.00 / 1) (#9)
    by Repack Rider on Mon Feb 12, 2007 at 11:22:56 PM EST
    Did he have any investigative experience or training at all?  

    Former ambassador to the region AND to Iraq, spoke the languages of both countries, personally acquainted with the members of the government.  It would be very difficult to find anyone in the world better qualified for the job than Joe Wilson.

    Was he selected to go before the VP asked?  

    Until the VP asked the question, there was no reason to have someone answer it.

    Did his wife know his politics before slotting him for the job?

    I'm sure she was aware that he had contributed to the Bush campaign in 2000.  However, Valerie Plame was not in a position to "slot" him for the job.

    Of course, once the administration ruined his wife's career, he switched his allegiance to the Kerry campaign.  Who wouldn't?

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    Citation please (none / 0) (#3)
    by sphealey on Mon Feb 12, 2007 at 04:10:26 PM EST
    > Did his wife know his politics
    > before slotting him for the job?

    To the best public knowledge available, Ms. Plame noted to her superiors at the CIA that her husband, Mr. Wilson, was available for the assignment.  She did not "slot him for the job", having no managerial authority in that organization.

    If you have solid evidence otherwise, please link including details on sources.

    sPh


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    Novak sez (none / 0) (#8)
    by MiddleOfTheRoad on Mon Feb 12, 2007 at 10:27:35 PM EST
    Novak sez that the only qualification for the job was blind and rabid partisanship of the Republican persuation.

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    Abdul (none / 0) (#4)
    by Che's Lounge on Mon Feb 12, 2007 at 04:44:03 PM EST
    Grow up and Google. It's all there. Or try Wikipedia.

    Jeebus

    Wilson's politics (none / 0) (#5)
    by diogenes on Mon Feb 12, 2007 at 06:33:37 PM EST
    I think that if Plame didn't like her husband's politics then she wouldn't have "noted to her superiors" that her husband was available but would have simply have kept quiet.  She advocated for him to the limits of her authority and ability.  
    Of course, I can't see how any of this has to do with a trial for perjury in Libby's alleged coverup a leak he allegedly made in July when the leak was really done a month before.
    If Fleisher didn't get the immunity deal, he'd have been indicted for outing her, no?  
    Actually it's a good thing the Duke boys didn't go in front of the grand jury-then Nifong would have dismissed the rape case but parsed their Grand Jury testimony and come up with some obscure perjury indictment.  
    I can't figure out why a criminal justice site is so interested in chasing down Libby as opposed to known people who undisputably outed Plame.

    Don't worry about Fitzgerald (4.00 / 1) (#6)
    by Repack Rider on Mon Feb 12, 2007 at 07:24:12 PM EST
    I can't figure out why a criminal justice site is so interested in chasing down Libby as opposed to known people who undisputably outed Plame.

    Fortunately, Mr. Fitzgerald is not limited by what you can "figure out."  I guarantee that he knows more about law than you do.  His M.O is to convict a lower level crook, and then suggest that a few years might be knocked off the sentence if he sings pretty.

    You DO want to get to the bottom of who (cough-Dick Cheney-cough) committed a treasonous act by exposing Valerie Plame, don't you?  Our BEST chance to do that is to let Mr. Fitzgerald squeeze some of the scum in the VP's office.

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    Figure out (none / 0) (#7)
    by squeaky on Mon Feb 12, 2007 at 09:50:02 PM EST
    Repack Rider-Something along these lines perhaps:

    What I really want to discuss is the statement Senator Levin made at the end of the week to the effect that after the Feith Report, he intended to call to testify (he was nice, said invite) was the former Chief of Staff to the VP.  On the weekend when Libby and his legal team are deciding the final profile of their defense case, what does one make of Levin making that declarative statement. This is pretty interesting along the lines you are thinking....

    ...Essentially Libby is Chump Change for most of us -- we want the higher ups, and those are Bush, Cheney, Rove, and perhaps a dozen others who worked either in the OVP or the EOP.  Making it worth throwing up long term loyal relationships in order to maybe have a more or less ordinary life with the spouse and kids, eat well, have a car that drives properly, and a little left in the bank -- that is the choice Libby is probably debating this weekend.  In my mind, Levin has just laid on yet one more level of pressure

    Sara

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