Safire Shilling for the Bush Administration

[AlexHamilton]

In response to William Safire's article"First, Find the Forger", I wrote the following letter of recommendation. Please join me in telling William that it is hypocrisy to expect that Dan Rather be held to standards higher than the President of the United States of America. You can reach him at William Safire([e-mail]). Feel free to use the letter that I have written below.

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Mr. Safire:

I take your article, "First, Find the Forger", to mean that you know that it is indeed customary to investigate a felonious activity. I hope that you will pursue with equal zeal the felony perpetrated by a senior administration official, or officials, that outed undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame in a Robert Novak column. In addition, I also hope that you will immediately call for a thorough independent investigation into the president's personal use and interpretation of prewar Iraq intelligence.

As you said so well: "liberals should stop pretending that noble ends justify fake-evidence means."

If that is the case, perhaps you should stop pretending that a noble ends in Iraq justifies fake evidence means, and start applying the same standards to the President of the United States that you are applying to Dan Rather.

Alex Hamilton

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Alex
Impeachment by the People(http://www.ibtp.org)

[jpgray]

1. Sort of a Dog Bites Man subject you have there

But yes, the glaring inconsistency there is very clear--in fact The Daily Show just recently blasted the double standard there. And welcome to DU!

:toast:

[AlexHamilton]

6. I see your point...

But the main point is that Rather's transgression was small if existent at all while Bush's led our nation into a war under false pretenses. Did they point out the inconsistency in general or with respect to that article? Thanks for the feedback!

Alex
http://www.ibtp.org

[ComerPerro]

2. Good letter

And good points

[Lady_Liberty]

3. The memo wasn't the story!

Mrs Knox and that nice man who got W in the Natl Guard (cant remember his name) both confirmed the facts of the CBS Report.

[aquart]

4. Here's mine.

SUbject: First, Find the Forger

Yes, indeed. Are you willing to REALLY look for him? Who does this kind of
thing, do you know? You did work for Nixon, right? I'm sure it's liberal
bias that causes recent history to record only instances of Republicans
pulling stunts like this. Roger Stone, for instance. Or Karl Rove. What he
did to that poor Fortunate Son author was so mean.

I'm eager to find the spider who wove this plot. Are you?

[punpirate]

5. Keep in mind...

... that Safire, despite his pretensions, has always shilled for the right.

I recall some comment from the Nixon tapes in which some matter needed to be leaked, and Nixon said, "give it to Safire, he'll leak anything from us."

Safire long ago revealed his affinities.

[George_S]

7. My post

Mr. Safire,

“Whoever, as a result of having authorized access to classified information that identifies a covert agent, intentionally discloses any information identifying such covert agent to any individual not authorized to receive classified information, knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such covert agent and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent’s intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both” --50 USCS § 421. A 1999 amendment stipulates fines ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 and mandates that any term of imprisonment shall run consecutively with any other sentence of imprisonment.

"First, Find the Forger" is an interesting piece with some valid points. Is part II going to be about Robert Novak revealing his source in Wilsongate? Of course it will be. What else could a moral representative do but demand the truth from both sides, especially if a crime may have been commited in that case as well? So you will write part II, unless Jesus tells you not to. Would Jesus tell you that?

I understand. It's a political year. The hell with Jesus.

Thank you.