Fox News' John Gibson exposes Joe Wilson

[NYCGirl]

And just to be sure you understand the title —
:sarcasm:

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/03/07/gibson/index.html

Over the past 24 hours, Fox News commentators have been rising to the defense of the recently convicted Scooter Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. Apparently not content to let others hog all the fun, John Gibson jumped in as well yesterday, offering the fairly unoriginal thesis that "there was a cabal inside the CIA working against the president's policy and they wanted to hide behind their secret status while they did what was essentially an anti-war political hitjob."

This cabal, of course, was fronted by exposed former CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson, who was apparently sent on his fact-finding mission to Niger as part of his wife's plan to undermine the administration's plans for war in Iraq. As proof, Gibson offers the observation that Wilson "says in his own book he didn't even believe in deposing Saddam back in the '91 war."

My God! What an awful, radical position that is. Surely this is the final proof that Wilson is a godless Communist hellbent on bringing down everything good and pure in America.

Well, maybe not. What Gibson doesn't mention is that Wilson's admission that he didn't want to see Saddam deposed after the first Gulf War doesn't exactly put him in rarefied company. There were, in fact, plenty of other people who had the same position on the issue -- people like, for example, the first Bush administration, including now Vice President Dick Cheney, who allegedly played a key role in orchestrating the campaign against Wilson and Plame.

[walldude]

1. LMFAO! So now it's a "Cabal" fronted by Valerie Plame

oh my god they are getting desperate. You know it's funny, in all the years this has been an issue I have not heard one Faux reporter mention the name Brewster Jennings. I wonder why that is?

[yellerpup]

7. Wow! A cabal run by a low-level administrative assistant?

You really need a program to figure out who's who at the cia.

[NYCGirl]

8. In the addled minds of the right wing, they've promoted her from CIA secretary.

:evilgrin:

[yellerpup]

18. Exactly the job title you'd expect for the person assigned

to protecting the world from weapons of mass destruction. "Get me some coffee, honey, then you can go back to running that little cabal of yours."

[NYCGirl]

19. Perhaps most of them can't wrap their little shriveled minds around someone

having the kind of responsibility that Ms. Plame did — and actually being competent at it.

[Canuckistanian]

17. It's known as the "Desk Jockey Cabal"

Run by non-classified CIA members.

[Double T]

2. And the 30%ers will swallow this 'fish story' hook, line and sinker.......

as THEY attempt to 'right' the wrong that has been done to their 'leaders'.

[Sapere aude]

10. I have a coworker who, I bet, will repeat this to me in the near future.

The last time I talked to him he asked me(after the Academy Awards) if I thought Inconvenient Truth was a political movie or a documentary.

His answer would be that it was a political movie, therefore it is not truthful and is really some kind of left wing propaganda.

I told him I didn't give a shit either way. I said that just to get away from him.

[xxqqqzme]

3. guess darth's been harboring that hate a long time.

Wilson must have stepped on darth's toes @ some point. Revenge is mine sayeth the dark lord.

[snowbear]

4. I just saw this photo on my local Reuters news page..

I'm not sure if they got it from Media Matters, or where.. they just put it on there to show how screwed up Faux news is.



I can't believe ANYONE watches that crap..

[JuniperLea]

11. Those FreepTard 30%ers will swallow anything

I'd like to come up with something to sell them! I'd raise a bunch of money and get them all tutors to boost their intellect!

Sheesh!

[Dr.Phool]

14. As soon as the verdict was announced yesterday

Someone posted that thats haow Faux would try to spin it!

Unbelievable.

[Cabcere]

5. What the hell?! Why is Gibson reporting on this nonsense, when

there's REAL news to be covered - like ANNA NICOLE SMITH!!!11!!!1! :sarcasm: :eyes:

[NI4NI]

13. She's dead, but still has more color in her complexion than he in his

[azurnoir]

6. Wilson apparently didn't play right

Bush1 and co. wanted Saddam as a convenient bad guy. Wilson went for the hard truth, that maybe just maybe Iraq was better off with Saddam then with the PNAC alternative. On that thought is it possible that if B1 had won the '92 election we would have been at war with Iraq 10 years earlier?

[aquart]

9. How are Fox's ratings?

[soothsayer]

12. I hope there IS a cabal inside the CIA working against the crooks

in the WH. Mebbe they're the sources for Seymour Hersch, for instance.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

15. Nah.

Just the Illuminati and Free Masons. Sheesh. EVERYONE knows that.

Hey, I know the Free Mason Guy in Monroe Cty PA who is in charge of Enslavement of All Mankind, for his lodge.

Really. No, really.

[leveymg]

16. At the same time Cheney outed Val and CIA, WHIG also screwed the Joint Chiefs

Or, rather, the JCS had their suspicions confirmed when the May 28, 2003 initial report of the Iraq Survey Group was circulated. That report showed, essentially, that someone had lied about alleged Iraq WMD in order to get the U.S. military to invade Iraq.

The Pentagon brass were livid - they told many of the the neocons at OSP to leave the building. The brass did something else - they called in the FBI, and that led to the arrest of Larry Franklin and his AIPAC co-conspirators. The Mossad Chief of Station, Naor Gilon, fled the country. Scooter was indicted. Cheney's central role came out at trial. The MSM is finally putting together the pieces, and in recent days has started asking why the Administration prematurely shut down the AQ Khan program in North Korea managed by CIA Counter-Proliferation Division (CPD) -- the same program that also covered Iraq and Iran within CPD, the office where Val worked.

[Gabi Hayes]

20. Best concise explanation of the VITAL importance of what these traitors did to us!

You should start a thread with this as the header, and also spread it far and wide.

NOBODY in the M$M, cable gasbaggery, or anywhere else near the widespread media has summed it up this well.

thanks!

send it to Conyers....seriously

[leveymg]

21. Thanks. I have a detailed account of that posted at DKos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/2/7/112015/2282
OUTING THE CIA (Pt. 2): Cheney Attempted to Destroy CIA Counter-Proliferation
by leveymg
Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 09:11:44 AM PST

Ambassador Wilson wasn’t the only target of the outing of Valerie Plame. Plame’s employer was. Virtually from the day it took power, Bush-Cheney dismantled the CIA’s weapons control regime and counter-proliferation programs that had targeted countries purchasing nuclear technologies from Pakistan.

The real effect of the Bush-Cheney Administration's actions was the destruction of the CIA Counter-Proliferation Division (CPD), where Valerie Plame worked in the Iran and Iraq units.

The intentional exposure of Valerie Plame on July 14, 2003 wasn’t just a personal vendetta or attempt to silence critics, it was the culmination of a program to undermine the work of a U.S. intelligence program that had been tracking a global nuclear proliferation network centered in Pakistan, run by A.Q. Khan, and financed by Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Countries.

MORE below

[gratefultobelib]

22. I agree--great summary. I've copied and pasted it to my e-mail.

[leveymg]

23. Thanks. I have a dog who looks like that.

Answers to "Mr. Barley". He thanks you too!