I'm quite confident we're going to find out that it started kind of as gossip, as chatter,..
Just what Woodie wants us to believe, although he failed to disclose his first hand information about Armitage. Armitage may be a gossip but I remain totally unconvinced that he merely let this information slip out.
Posted by Marie at March 6, 2007 01:01 PMYou are far too polite for the likes of them.
This should be rubbed in their face for eternity.
You forgot the one from Richard Cohen in Washington Post where he asked Fitzgerald to pack his bags and go away.
Posted by Pete at March 6, 2007 01:34 PMI see where the jurors considered Tim Russert "very credible". Its hard to believe that these people have never seen Meet the Press.
Posted by T2 at March 6, 2007 02:43 PMOooh, do Woodward/Broder/Cohen have egg on their faces today.
On an added note, is this a bad day for the Bush administration or what? Libby convicted, the Walter Reed scandal in overdrive, the purged U.S. attorney scandal heating up with those riviting hearings, Iraq in chaos (nine of our soldiers killed yesterday, 93 Shiite pilgrims killed by suicide bombers today), etc. I know a lot of administrations in tough times like to say they are "under siege," but the Bushies really are.
Posted by gf120581 at March 6, 2007 02:50 PMAnd after this verdict, those cocktail weenies got smaller.
Posted by TIKI AL at March 6, 2007 04:22 PMThey don't think in terms of "black eyes." Fred Hiatt and his ilk think in marketing terms, every idea is a commodity to attempt to "sell" to the reader. They don't worry about what others think, by the time they are expected to pay a price for their malfeasance, they're halfway to their tropical getaway.
Posted by Mr Blifil at March 6, 2007 06:16 PMPersonally, I never did buy the Armitage story. It was just a little to contrived for my logical mind.
Posted by Judith at March 6, 2007 06:25 PMMore than anybody else -- more than Rove, more than Bush, more than Libby, more than Cheney himself -- nobody came out of this trial looking more like a little bitch than this country's mainstream press.
They knowingly or unknowingly aided and abetted this crime.
From Judy Miller going to prison to protect people out to destroy the national security of this country for partisan political gain; to Broder excusing the unexcusable; to Russert being nakedly revealed as the stupid tool he is, no matter that his testimony was key; the press has been revealed by this trial to be the whore it is.
From Watergate to this state of affairs in barely more than 30 years, you ought to be ashamed, Woodward.
Mainstream media, fucking get off you knees, wipe this administration's collective cock out of your mouths, take those bills they've thrown at you and burn them, and then stand up! Show some pride, reporters, and start doing your job. Quit whoring for this administration and show some stones. C'mon.
Posted by Brian Bell at March 6, 2007 10:19 PMIf this is just an overblown, tempest in a teapot, alleged CIA leak case then let's see the CIA's damage assessment report commissioned in 2003 shortly after Valerie Plame's cover was blown, a report that occurred around the same time that the CIA demanded that a formal investigation be conducted into her outing.
I mean, c'mon, if the CIA's damage assessment report shows "no harm, no foul" then we'll all know what an overblown, tempest in the teapot case this has been against Libby and other top officials in the Bush administration.
On the other hand, if this damage report is not forthcoming then we can only conclude that a major national security breach occurred, similar to previous instances in which Soviet moles in the U.S. government have compromised our national security.
Thus, there is nothing "alleged" about this CIA leak case at all. National security was compromised. The one's responsible in the Bush administration should go to jail or be executed as previous traitors have been. No one is above the law.
Posted by The Oracle at March 7, 2007 02:03 AMJoe Wilson's response on either Larry King Live or Anderson Cooper to these idiotic claims from these idiotic WaPo "journalists" repug hacks was excellent.
(paraphrase here and he used his calm, cool, collected diplomatic style and voice when he said it)He said that those on the editorial side of WaPo should read the news division side of the paper that disputed those claims. He said, if the editorial side of the paper (wapo)can't be bothered to read the new side of the paper, then why should he......(zing...touche!)
Posted by emal at March 7, 2007 04:41 AMSo here's a dilemma. We have a blog-world that knows the MSM was gamed. We have a stellar example of how they were played and a long paper trail on how wrong they got the story. What we lack is a person/persons of enormous persuasion and celebrity to come out IN the MSM somewhere and talk over their heads to the public, and say."Look, public, at who you've been listening to for 6 years. Do you really want to trust these guys anymore? Do you really want to believe them?"
The HuffPo screen capture of Fred Barnes and the caption about Libby Found Not Guilty----that really captured "it" in a nutshell. But the readers of WaPo and NYT and Newsweek and the watchers of Russert and Matthews haven't been presented with the icon that makes the lightbulb go on.
Posted by cromulant at March 7, 2007 05:21 AMMore drivel from the WaPo:
http://tinyurl.com/22rw3m
"Mr. Fitzgerald was, at least, right about one thing: The Wilson-Plame case, and Mr. Libby's conviction, tell us nothing about the war in Iraq."
Posted by kebmodee at March 7, 2007 10:27 AM