Smearing Joe Wilson, Again - By Robert Parrry

[kpete]

Smearing Joe Wilson, Again
By Robert Parry
September 1, 2006


In a world that wasn’t upside-down, the editorial page of Washington’s biggest newspaper might praise a whistleblower like former Ambassador Joseph Wilson for alerting the American people to a government deception that helped lead the country into a disastrous war that has killed 2,627 U.S. soldiers.

The editorial page http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/31/AR2006083101460_pf.html also might demand that every senior administration officials who sought to protect that deception by leaking the identity of a covert CIA officer (Wilson’s wife) be held accountable, at minimum stripped of their security clearances and fired from government.

But the United States, circa 2006, is an upside-down world. So the Washington Post’s editorial page instead makes excuses for the government deceivers, treats their exposure of the CIA officer as justifiable – and attacks the whistleblower by recycling the government’s false spin points against him.

If future historians wonder how the United States could have blundered so catastrophically into Iraq under false pretenses and why so few establishment figures dared to speak out, the historians might read the sorry pattern of the Post’s editorial-page attacks on those who did dissent.

more at:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/090106.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/31/AR2006083101460.html

[kentuck]

1. Is there more going on here than we see ?

At the very least, there was a "cover-up" of the information about Mr. Armitage. Several people seemed to know it was he but no one said anything? He appears to this untrained eye as the classical "fall guy". More questions come to mind. Is the Special Prosecutor about to come out with charges and this is meant to head it off at the pass? And who is Mr Armitage exactly covering for?

[blm]

3. Parry's telling us AGAIN the REAL PROBLEM we face - a NEWSMEDIA coopted

by the corrupt fascists.

This has been an over twenty year effort by the BFEE so that another Watergate would NEVER happen.

That IranContra, the S&Ls, and the BCCI crimes would never get fully understood by the general public.

That the next Democratic president would be impeached successfully.

That no Democratic campaign would get a fair hearing.

That the election fraud tactics they developed would go unreported to the American people.

And that the incompetence and criminality of BushInc would never be strung together in a coherent way for the avearge voter.

[captcorajus]

2. TREASON!

I a world that makes sense, all those who had a hand in exposing Ms Plame would be either up on charges of treason, or drummed out of public service at the very least.

In this case, they hold the whistleblower accountable. Insanity rules... the terrorists are the least of our worries.

[acmejack]

4. An unattributed vicious personal attack on the editorial page of the Wapo

Is past offensive. It demands attribution! Only a coward of the basest sort would hide while assassinating a man's character in this manner. It speaks volumes about the editorial integrity of the Washington Post as well, especially when taken with the weight of the past.

edit for grammar