NRO about the Plame affair - Wilson and David Corn responsible for leak

[Mass]

Latest version of RW talking points thru NrO (already heard on FOX earlier).

Joe Wilson is the one who exposed his wife. Where will they stop?

http://www.nationalreview.com/may/may200507150827.asp

Who Exposed Secret Agent Plame?
How about the least likely suspect?

This just in: Bob Novak did not reveal that Valerie Plame was an undercover agent for the CIA.


Read — or reread — his column from July 14, 2003. All Novak reports is that the wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson is “an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction.”


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So if Novak did not reveal that Valerie Plame was a secret agent, who did? The evidence strongly suggests it was none other than Joe Wilson himself. Let me walk you through the steps that lead to this conclusion.

The first reference to Plame being a secret agent appears in The Nation, in an article by David Corn published July 16, 2003, just two days after Novak’s column appeared. It carried this lead: “Did Bush officials blow the cover of a U.S. intelligence officer working covertly in a field of vital importance to national security — and break the law — in order to strike at a Bush administration critic and intimidate others?”

[wallwriter]

1. This is fundamentally idiotic.

Revealing the fact that someone works for the CIA when that position is supposed to be a secret is revealing the secret, whether you say you're revealing the secret or not.

Novak, July 14, 2003: Wilson's wife works for the CIA

Corn, July 16, 2003: It was a secret that WIlson's wife works for the CIA

Republicans now: Corn revealed the secret, not Novak.

How utterly fucking stupid can you be!!

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. You said it!

[Verve]

2. You have to give Repugs credit for being persistent at trying to cover up

their mistakes. This new lie reeks of Turd blossom's work. He's working hard to save his own butt this time.

[berni_mccoy]

3. If this were true, there would not be an investigation.

Thankfully, neither the CIA or the special prosecutor would think b.s. like this is plausible even in a Bizzaro world reality.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Are they sure the leak was not

Teri Schiavo's husband. :sarcasm:

[madaboutharry]

6. They are so immature

This just sounds so sophomore high school student food fight crap. Look, everyone in Washington D.C. knows what "The Agency" means. "The Agency" = CIA.

[Voltaire]

7. They remind me of nothing so much

as the perp on all the cop shows who is being chased down an alley by the cops and throwing everything he can in their path to slow them down and effect his escape. Filthy, rotten rat bastards every one of them.