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cynatnite

(31,011 posts)
Fri Aug 17, 2012, 05:54 PM Aug 2012

Nonpartisan my big fat ass!

Where in the hell was the outrage when Valerie Plame was outed when she worked for the CIA on the proliferation of nuclear weapons?

In response to Joe Wilson's allegation last year that George Bush deceived the country about Iraq's supposed attempts to get uranium yellowcake from Africa, two "senior administration officials" outed his wife Valerie Plame as a covert CIA operative.

A few days later the White House declassified and released carefully selected portions of an October 2002 CIA report that bolstered its case against Wilson.

High-res video of Osama bin Laden taken in late 2000 was leaked to NBC's Lisa Meyers last week, apparently in a preemptive attempt to show that Bill Clinton had a chance to take bin Laden out but didn't. This is a guess on my part, but isn't this kind of video among the most sensitive intelligence data we possess? Despite this, the White House seemed remarkably unconcerned that it showed up on the evening news.

On Wednesday, in response to charges in Dick Clarke's recently published book, the White House took the unusual step of allowing Fox News to publish an August 2002 briefing that was originally done off the record.

Also on Wednesday, Condoleezza Rice read to reporters the "unclassified sentences" of an email Clarke sent to her shortly after 9/11.


http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_03/003547.php

This is for those douchebags who have the audacity to be outraged now, but not when the previous administration lied about Iraq, outed a CIA agent, and to this day continues to have the blood of hundreds of thousands on their hands.

Don't you fucking tell me you're nonpartisan!

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Nonpartisan my big fat ass! (Original Post) cynatnite Aug 2012 OP
One of those douchebags was just on Hardball. Tennessee Gal Aug 2012 #1
Obama should be honored, they usually reserve the swiftboating for those w/ military records. JaneyVee Aug 2012 #2

Tennessee Gal

(6,160 posts)
1. One of those douchebags was just on Hardball.
Fri Aug 17, 2012, 05:58 PM
Aug 2012

Claimed it was non-partisan. He was pounded pretty good by Smurkonish and the other guest.

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
2. Obama should be honored, they usually reserve the swiftboating for those w/ military records.
Fri Aug 17, 2012, 05:59 PM
Aug 2012

It means they're DESPERATE.

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