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Originally Posted by golddustdragon
Okay, Karl Rove is a Machiavellan SOB and that could go for Scooter Libby too. However, just because of what Newsweek is exposing, it doesn't mean there is not another side to this story. Here's another interesting perspective: http://www.counterpunch.org/morris07272005.html
May seem like a conspiracy theory, but anyone can throw around that term to discredit something. In the meantime, the mainstream media peddles bulls*** that is less truthful than "conspiracy theories". Right now, they're doing a sufficient job covering this scandal (though with those London bombings, I don't know) but still, they are just doing enough to get the critics off their backs. Happy reading. |
This might interest you. It's from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/politics/28leak.html?
Case of C.I.A. Officer's Leaked Identity Takes New Turn
By DOUGLAS JEHL
Published: July 28, 2005
WASHINGTON, July 26 - In the same week in July 2003 in which Bush administration officials told a syndicated columnist and a Time magazine reporter that a C.I.A. officer had initiated her husband's mission to Niger, an administration official provided a Washington Post reporter with a similar account.
The first two episodes, involving the columnist Robert D. Novak and the reporter Matthew Cooper, have become the subjects of intense scrutiny in recent weeks. But little attention has been paid to what The Post reporter, Walter Pincus, has recently described as a separate exchange on July 12, 2003.
In that exchange, Mr. Pincus says, "an administration official, who was talking to me confidentially about a matter involving alleged Iraqi nuclear activities, veered off the precise matter we were discussing and told me that the White House had not paid attention" to the trip to Niger by Joseph C. Wilson IV "because it was a boondoggle arranged by his wife, an analyst with the agency who was working on weapons of mass destruction
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