Victoria Toensing in live WaPo chat at 2 EST -- submit questions!

[grasswire]

Here's your chance to rag the hag. Submit your questions NOW for this live chat.

In case you didn't know, Toensing has an op ed piece demanding the end of the investigation into the Plame matter. Says there's no criminality there.

http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/04/r_editorial_Sanford.htm

[grasswire]

1. here's a snip from her commentary

Why have so many people rushed to assume that a crime was committed when someone "in the administration" gave columnist Robert D. Novak the name of CIA "operative" Valerie Plame? Novak published her name while suggesting that nepotism might have lurked behind the CIA assignment of her husband, Joseph Wilson, to a job for which he was credentially challenged: The agency sent him to Niger to determine whether Iraq was interested in acquiring uranium from that country, although he was an expert neither on nuclear weapons nor on Niger.

Journalists are being threatened with jail for not testifying who gave them information about Plame -- even journalists who did not write about Plame but only talked with sources about her. Ironically, the special prosecutor has pursued this case with characteristic zeal after major publications editorialized that a full investigation and prosecution of the government source was necessary. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution even claimed that the allegations came "perilously close to treason."

It's time for a timeout on a misguided and mechanical investigation in which there is serious doubt that a crime was even committed. Federal courts have stated that a reporter should not be subpoenaed when the testimony sought is remote from criminal conduct or when there is no compelling "government interest," i.e., no crime. As two people who drafted and negotiated the scope of the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act, we can tell you: The Novak column and the surrounding facts do not support evidence of criminal conduct.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2305-2005Jan11.html

[kskiska]

2. Why did your husband leak unsubstantiated and unsourced

stories to the media regarding Bill Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky? When he found they were printing his allegations that the Secret Service had seen Clinton and Monica getting it on in the White House screening room, he called to try to get them to retract the story, knowing it was a lie.

[grasswire]

4. gee

It was her hubby who protected GHW Bush from the fact that he raided Bill Clinton's file with the draft board. He fixed the investigation.

They are FIXERS. She worked for Dan Burton, for cryin' out loud.

[grasswire]

3. my question

I wonder if Victoria Toensing would be interested in debating the director of the organization "Media Matters" regarding this media-related investigation? I'd pay money to watch such a debate.

This, of course, refers to the night when Toensing's hubby blew up like a Ball Park frank when David Brock calmly took him apart. It was the best bit of television I've ever seen.

[grasswire]

5. come on DU --- this is your big chance

Apparently no one remembers Toensing.