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  • The Big Lie About Valerie Plame
    13 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/7...
    The Big Lie About Valerie Plame
    By: Larry Johnson
    From: TPMCafe Special Guests
    Jul 13, 2005
    The misinformation being spread in the media about the Plame affair is alarming and damaging to the longterm security interests of the United States. Republicans’ talking points are trying to savage Joe Wilson and, by implication, his wife, Valerie Plame as liars. That is the truly big lie.
    For starters, Valerie Plame was an undercover operations (…)

  • Treasongate: It’s Not Just Karl Rove
    13 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Treasongate: It’s Not Just Karl Rove Ted Rall July 12, 2005 NEW YORK—Since Karl Rove surfaced last week as the White House official who probably unmasked a covert CIA agent, new developments appear to confirm that the deputy chief of staff and chief Bush political strategist has committed treason: Newsweek has published, and Time has authenticated, a Time reporter’s notes about his crucial conversation with Rove. "Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two [minutes] (…)

  • PLAMEGATE - It’s the Cover-Up
    13 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Now who’s ridiculous?
    On October 1, 2003, during the "ongoing investigation" of the Valerie Plame leak scandal, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said it was a "ridiculous suggestion" that Rove was "involved in leaking classified information." Following the recent revelations that Rove identified the undercover CIA agent in an e-mail to a Time magazine reporter, McClellan refused to answer any questions about Rove. NBC White House news correspondent (…)

  • DOES GEORGE BUSH LIE?
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    DOES GEORGE BUSH LIE?
    By Peter Fredson
    July 12, 2005
    If the words someone speaks do not match reality, are they lies? If a person sincerely believes what he is saying but the words are not true, is that still a lie? If a person suffers from megalomania and announces that he is Napoleon or Jesus or a deity, is it a lie from his standpoint? If we strongly disbelieve someone saying they are Napoleon or Jesus or a deity doesn’t that make them a liar?
    When we examine a person’s (…)

  • White House Won’t Comment on Rove, Leak
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Jul 11, 10:13 PM (ET) By PETE YOST
    WASHINGTON (AP) - For the better part of two years, the word coming out of the Bush White House was that presidential adviser Karl Rove had nothing to do with the leak of a female CIA officer’s identity and that whoever did would be fired.
    But Bush spokesman Scott McClellan wouldn’t repeat those claims Monday in the face of Rove’s own lawyer, Robert Luskin, acknowledging the political operative spoke to Matthew Cooper of Time magazine, one of the (…)

  • Mainstream Media Try to Hide the Impeachment Question
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The latest poll shows more support for impeaching Bush now, than there was for impeaching Clinton when Congress did so in 1998. But the mainstream wimpmedia are reluctant to report on this.
    Here are portions of an article that managed to sneak into the Washington Post. by Dan Froomkin More than four in 10 Americans, according to a recent Zogby poll, say that if President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him (…)

  • Rove’s Leak Points to Bush Conspiracy
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A key national security principle for dealing with top-secret information, such as the identity of undercover CIA officers, is strict compartmentalization, often called “the need to know” - which raises the question why George W. Bush’s chief political adviser Karl Rove would know anything about the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame.
    The answer to that mystery - why was Rove involved - may be more crucial to unraveling who was behind the illegal leaking of Plame’s name and the (…)

  • Criminal White House demonstrates it’s fulla shit, again - Video/text
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Press Corp grilling Scotty
    David Gegory: Did Karl Rove commit a crime?
    Scotty: Again David, this is a question relating to an ongoing investigation...
    Raw Story has a rush transcript available:
    Video-QT :
    FULL TEXT: July 11 White House Press Briefing
    WHITE HOUSE REGULAR NEWS BRIEFING JULY 11, 2005 SPEAKER: SCOTT MCCLELLAN, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
    MCCLELLAN: Good afternoon, everyone.
    I want to begin with a statement by the president.
    On July 11th, we remember the tragic (…)

  • Italy Sets Date To Pull Troops Out Of Iraq. Speculation Over Terror Fears As 300 To Leave In Sept
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Italy Sets Date To Pull Troops Out Of Iraq Speculation Over Terror Fears As 300 To Leave In September John Hooper in Rome Saturday July 9, 2005 The Guardian Italy’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, yesterday confirmed that he would start pulling his country’s troops out of Iraq within two months. Speaking at the G8 Gleneagles summit, Mr Berlusconi said the withdrawal of the first of Italy’s 3,000 troops would start in September.
    "We will begin withdrawing 300 men in September," he (…)

  • Blair rejects calls for probe into bombings
    11 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tony Blair will on Monday reject Conservative demands for a government inquiry into last week’s London bomb attacks, insisting such a move would distract from the task of catching the perpetrators.
    As police and security services on Sunday continued searching for the bombers - thought to be Islamist terrorists - Downing Street said the prime minister believed an inquiry now into the outrage which killed at least 49 people would be a "ludicrous diversion."
    Instead, in a statement to the (…)