Has the story about the "outing" of Wilson's wife died?

[loudnclear]

Is there going to be no follow up, investigation?

[frank frankly]

1. if it isn't dead, it is hibernating

so far, BushCo has ratfucked the entire planet and gotten away with it.

I guess the CIA just ain't as tough as the BFEE.

[blm]

5. Well...look at all the people working AGAINST the intel community

right here at DU. These guys have decided to line up behind Kerry so he can make their case for them during the election and so many here are working to keep Kerry's voice unheard in 2004. The media is bad enough, but now there are Dems working hand in hand with the BFEE owned media.

[frank frankly]

10. does your arm hurt, blm?

after a reach like that?

wow! that is talent!

[blm]

16. I'm dead serious, frank.....

I've been a serious BFEE watcher for almost 15 years. The intel community breaking with Bush is BIG to me and others who understand its import. This is no game or horserace for us.

[frank frankly]

18. Okay, sorry.

And if you've been watching the BFEE for 15 years, thank you for your effort and determination.

I hope Joe Wilson et all will not stop their work if Kerry does not win the nomination.

Is the CIA an organization that assassinates democracies and destroys with crack/heroin...or is it a company of patriots?

We will see. It isn't a game to me either, brother.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

34. bureaucracy is never that simple

"Is the CIA an organization that assassinates democracies and destroys with crack/heroin"

There are crooks and boy scouts in every organization.

[blm]

35. Exactly. And the good guys are lining up behind Kerry

and need him to make their case. They know what Kerry knows already and can add to that case. The links between BCCI, IranContra and 9-11 and Iraq CAN be made by the right spokesman. A Dem nominee with a thorough understanding of the entire picture.

[salin]

2. I think it is on haitus... rather than dead.

It has gone into hibernation before... only to be pushed back to the forefront. Supposedly the documents are now from the Wh to the DOJ... before long Ashcroft will probably declare "move on, nothing to see here..." Except that I would bet that there will be a few more leaks around that time (there are some big time disgruntled folks in the professional intel world)... and sensing yet another potential feeding frenzy that could boost some ratings - look for another round of the Wilson story. Those who have been digging in the interrim will push their wares at that time as well. Then it will probably go on another haitus.... and so on and so on...

[rfranklin]

7. The "intelligence committee memo" was used to supplant it...

It occured to me this morning as I listened to the news on NPR that the Bushistas have pumped up this "memo-gate" pseudo scandal to get the heat off them for committing the crime of outing a CIA agent. They committed a crime, now they're using the cover of something that might have happened in the future. Good one, eh?

[salin]

13. one always has to watch the ball with these guys

it goes so fast - and they juggle about 18zillion balls at a time. Dizzying.

[0007]

29. LOL!! You got that right, they spin both ways at the same time!

Seriously it is still alive on the senate floor.

It kind of like rock hunting, if you keep going, you'll always find another to take the place of the prettiest rock you found. So the republicans will leak, spin, leak, spin, leak, spin until ya don't know which end is up!! Rove is good. Wish the Dems had him.

[leetrisck]

37. You got it - that's exactly what I

believe - I'm not exactly sure what a political plan (memo) has to do with the Wilson incident but they've made the memo sound soooo serious. Gosh - the Wilson incident is extremely serious - I wouldn't want to be Wilson, his wife or children now. This is a disgrace and the Democrats should speak out much stronger than they are.

[leftofthedial]

3. can anyone list all the Bush Cabal ratfucks that have worked?

the energy meetings coverup

the presidential records coverup

the Enron and other corporate scandals coverup

the SOTU lies

the Plame outing

Is there an exhaustive list somewhere? This junta has given the media a million times more ammunition and smoking guns than Clinton ever did and NADA!

[0rganism]

6. One thing for sure, the presidential papers are going to be hilarious

if they're ever made public. This'll make Nixon's bullshit look pardonable by comparison.

[tom_paine]

14. They will NEVER be made public.

We have passed the point (unless the Busheviks are stopped) where the Imperial Subjects of Amerika can learn anything "secret" that their leaders have done.,

That privilege belongs to Free Nations, and while our lives at the "little people" level are still good and mostly free-feeling, Amerika no longer technically is a Free Nation.

Though I pray that it will be one day again...

[tom_paine]

11. Amazing, isn't it?

You'd think we lived in a Totalitarian Empire or something...

[0rganism]

4. It's been displaced by the "outing" of Democrats

Forget about those other intelligence leaks we've perpetrated, look at this new intelligence leak! Democrats are asking questions! How DARE they!

[ILeft]

8. D-E-A-D. Just like every other "This is it! Drip, drip!" story.

They own the media; they own the voting machines; they ain't going down.

[On the Road]

21. Dead? Bush is at 48% in the Polls

If those other stories have died, they've taken Bush's support with them. The drip, drip, drip has worked, and it's still working.

[David Zephyr]

9. Let Me Turn Down the Lacy/Stacy Peterson Story. Who Did You Say?

Don't worry, Johnny Ascroft is investigating this for all of us.

[raysr]

12. Dying

Dying with "executive privledge to commit treason". Someone should kick the shit out of Novak(If I was Wilson it would be me)until the old bastard tells!

[Spirochete]

15. Yanking fingernails

would probably work better. That I would like to see. I hate Novak.

[DrFunkenstein]

19. LMAO

Thanks for the laugh!

[i have issues]

17. Joe Wilson has been on

(preaching to the choir) Pacifica radio, two or three times inthe last week... sigh.

[blm]

20. They'll keep him off the big news channels now.

They don't want Kerry to win the primary.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

22. I like to think of the Wilson-Plame story as the opening move toward...

...removing Junior from the office in which he is illegally squatting. Since that time, all kinds of information has hit the fan to include:

1) interviews of U. S. troops in Iraq that feel betrayed by the Bushies;

2) several stories about the strong financial connections of Prescott Bush and Herbert Walker to the Nazis before and during the early years of WWII;

3) stories about hundreds of sick and wounded troops at Ft. Stewart and other military facilities that are not being treated by medical personnel;

4) several rulings by conservative Federal judges that have slapped down the stated desires of Ashcroft;

5) the failure of the Bushies to either muzzle or or have CIA Director Tenet removed from his job;

6) the inability of the Bushies to muzzle the real U. S. economic news despite recent attempts to show how well GDP is growing;

7) the recent willingness of the mainstream press to report anything that makes Junior look bad;

....I could go on but I'm tired.

[tlb]

23. Lawrence o'Donnell predicted this story would last 30 days.

He was pretty close.

Wilson himself did more danage to his own credibility then anything the republicans did. EVERYTHING he did played into thte model of a democrat/egotist trying to attack the republicans, so nobody was terribly outraged when the republicans struck back.

Kerry advisor and contributor, hostile editorailist for the New York Times, conferences with Hill democratic, musings over who would play him in the movie, and best of all, telling the press his vision of the obit as " the man who did the most harm to George Bush."

He did well to hold the spotlight as long as he did

[Must_B_Free]

24. no its simmering for just the right moment

just like the truth about election 2000

[blm]

32. The focus of the American people.

The best chance is during the general election. Wilson's candidate and the candidate of the intel community who want Bush out is John Kerry.

Yet, so many here at DU are trying to prevent that from happening.

[Resistance Is Futile]

25. <sniff, sniff>

Smells dead from here.

Smells really dead from here.

Someone call an undertaker before the vermin start feasting on the corpse.

[dusty64]

26. Amazingly another HUGE

scandal has been swept under the rug. Unfortunately, we can't simply blame the corporate media for this. When was the last time a Democrat even brought this up? All they would have to do is link all the secrecy to allow the public to form a logical conclusion. The stonewalling of the 9/11 committe, the refusal to turn over the energy papers, the treasonous leakage of names of those undercover, etc. What are they hiding?

[Octafish]

27. Kick it to the fore.

Joe Wilson is still plenty pissed.

So am I.

Are you, DU?

[gulliver]

28. Nope. Watch for it to emerge again when Ashcroft ...

... informs everyone that his Justice Department couldn't catch the two perps in the White House. At that time, I would expect to see a call for Bush to investigate. He'll refuse saying it is old news. Then the Dem candidate will beat Bush up over it throughout 2004.

There have been no new developments because the ball is in the JD court. That's all. No one has forgotten who has the ball.

[snippy]

30. Agreed. Plus possible additional leaks from the CIA.

[Gin]

33. I personally think it will re-emerge with names from one who was called..

and asked to repeat the story...This has not died...and the Dem memo leak shows how desperate the thugs are.

The time is not right for the names yet...give it a few weeks...this is not dead...and..lot's of people are pissed.

[BeFree]

31. "..who has the ball" Or, as the case may be

Who has the Hot Potatoe!

[Jackpine Radical]

36. Dan Quail..

Didn't know you posted on DU, but I'd recognize you anywhere!

[mandyky]

38. We need to revive it, if

it has. This combined with the new one saying Saddam was trying to surrender before we invaded.