Valerie Plame

[BOSSHOG]

Please take a moment and contact your congressional rep if you have not already done so and let them know you are expecting justice in this case. A criminal act was committed by a member of george bush's administration. This is not a conservative or a liberal issue. If you have let your congressman know, then write a LTTE. Please continue to put fuel on this fire until it burns so bright that even dittomonkeys will be burnt by the glow. And a few days from now, write a LTTE to a paper in a neighboring town. We can do it.

[pippin]

1. yes!

[blm]

2. bump.

for all the right reasons. This case IS the key to defeat Bush.

Wilson's website: www.restorehonesty.com

[nightperson]

3. Thanks, blm, for posting the endorsement!

This is still a story to shut up or even convert your local conservatives with. The fact that it has dragged on so long with no concern from Bush is a second important story in itself (cover ups can be scandals too!). Bush's obvious lack of interest in the case plainly destroys his national security credibility. Here's a new John Dean (yes, that John Dean!) article on the developing case-http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20040106.html

[nightperson]

4. By the way,

John Dean is still a Republican, and has thought this was a huge story for a long time. I really hope some Republicans are reading about this story and asking themselves the obvious and serious questions. Remember the final Republican opposition to Nixon!

[i_am_not_john_galt]

5. The Dean article doesn't support the argument that Bush is sitting on this

I don't hold out much hope that this will come to anything, as leaks are rarely solved. But my read of the article is that the Ashcroft et. al. have appointed a good investigator, that Ashcroft's getting out of the way, and that they are effectively putting pressure on administration personnel to get someone to come forward. In his one comment about the affair Bush didn't minimize it - he properly said he was upset by the leak and wanted it thoroughly investigated. Until something breaks, where's the story?

[nightperson]

6. Bush could have found the identities of the leakers in less than an hour,

if he'd wanted to. At least that's what I remember Pat Buchanan saying a long, long time ago (if we're counting the hours).

[i_am_not_john_galt]

7. I'm not saying he's trying to get this actually solved

because leak sources are easy to conceal. I'm saying it will be hard for the media to make the case he's obstructing.

[bobthedrummer]

8. Bush made the following statement to reporters at Camp David

on September 15th, 2001.

"This is an administration that will not talk about how we gather intelligence, how we know what we're going to do, nor what our plans are.".

I've e-mailed my rep and telephoned Senator Feingold's office about this.

[dennis4868]

9. Bush does not have to find the leaker....

because he is not Clinton and it's not about such important issues like the travel office, getting a haircut on air force one and a BJ...come on people, how can you compare the above-stated national security issues with outing a CIA agent?