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DEMON CUNT
04-07-2006, 08:34 AM
How many times did fucking fat boy deny this leak bullshit to the lap dog press? This shoulda been a motherfucking feeding frenzy! What the fuck happend?

This fucking pisses me off! Be afraid America!

Excerpt:
...on route to Bush’s speech in North Carolina, reporters asked McClellan about immigration, terrorism, Katrina and Iran. But there wasn’t a single question about President Bush authorizing Scooter Libby to share highly classified information with reporters.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/06/press-corps-fails

http://mikelynaugh.com/Editorial/2004/Images/IMG_4268.jpg

KISS MY ASS!

DEMON CUNT
04-07-2006, 08:42 AM
From the website of a certain movie director...

"If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is."
-- George W. Bush, September 30, 2003

"If anyone in this administration was involved in it, they would no longer be in this administration."
--Scott McClellan, September 29, 2003

Libby papers:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com//archive/0406061libby1.html

Hardrock69
04-07-2006, 10:04 AM
I looked in the local newspaper this morning.

The story should be front page news.

Yet it is on page 4.

And there is NO MENTION OF IT AT ALL ON THEIR WEBSITE!

Seems the White House is able to exert pressure on the press.

LoungeMachine
04-07-2006, 10:10 AM
What wrong with you DC?

You know the White House doesn't comment on ongoing investigations.

or indictments.

or ethics scandals by Republicans.

Oh, and even though Chimp may have taken a picture with this Libby fellow, that doesnt mean he KNOWS him. The pResident takes thousands of pics a year with people.

Roy Munson
04-07-2006, 10:17 AM
1. Scott McClellan is a fucking douchebag. He's the worst press secretary ever.

2. I think that what they were referring to when they said "leak" was specifically pertaining to the Valerie Plame situation and NOT the military intel. I could be wrong on this. It almost seems as though they are taking a page out of Clintons' book on this one in regards to how certain words are to be interpreted.

3. If it is proven that the Plame leak came directly from the the President then that's a different story. I haven't read anything that directly links the the Pres to mentioning Plame.

4. Once again, I think the question of Plames exact status also comes into play. Was she really covert?

5. I don't like this as much as any of you. It all reaks of betrayal and power play. However, I think there are more variables to this than one might think and it just doesn't seem like a slam dunk against the Bush admin quite yet.

Hardrock69
04-07-2006, 11:27 AM
Yes, Plame WAS covert.

We will be extremely lucky if we ever see any evidence linking Chimpy to the Plame case.

This is likely as close as we will ever get.

Even so, Dickless Wonder might be the first to get the axe.
Chimpy has to have someone else to blame it all on.

Perhaps Chimpy and his criminals in the White House think if they pretend there is nothing wrong, it will all go away....as is usually the case when the government wants stuff swept under the carpet.

:rolleyes:

BigBadBrian
04-07-2006, 01:55 PM
Originally posted by Hardrock69
Yes, Plame WAS covert.



No, she was not. It's a common misconception among the liberal Mains Stream Media.

It was common knowledge among her neighbors and friends and others in the beltway that she was a CIA agent. That IS NOT covert.

:gulp:

Warham
04-07-2006, 02:28 PM
Maybe it's a non-story?

They didn't even talk about it on the news last night on TV.

FORD
04-07-2006, 02:31 PM
Scottie the Duck doesn't even need to show up for briefings anymore. Just play a tape loop that says "We won't comment on an ongoing investigation. Quack quack quack!!"

Warham
04-07-2006, 02:32 PM
Originally posted by BigBadBrian
No, she was not. It's a common misconception among the liberal Mains Stream Media.

It was common knowledge among her neighbors and friends and others in the beltway that she was a CIA agent. That IS NOT covert.

:gulp:

Hell, she was even on the cover of Vanity Fair with her husband before her name was leaked.

Just picture it, the Vanity Fair photo shoot: the photograher giving directions...

'Alright Mr. Wilson and Mrs. Covert CIA Agent Who Shall Remain Nameless, if you'll look this way and say cheese!'

FORD
04-07-2006, 02:34 PM
Originally posted by BigBadBrian
No, she was not. It's a common misconception among the liberal Mains Stream Media.

It was common knowledge among her neighbors and friends and others in the beltway that she was a CIA agent. That IS NOT covert.

:gulp:

Valerie Plame was a covert "Non Official Cover (NOC)" agent working under the facade of a fake energy corporation known as "Brewster Jennings".

Do some damn research and turn off FAUX.

Brettt
04-07-2006, 02:50 PM
Originally posted by BigBadBrian

It was common knowledge among her neighbors and friends and others in the beltway that she was a CIA agent. That IS NOT covert.


Did you copy paste that Novak column into The Front Line? I must have missed it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/images/mind/disgust/morescience_disgust/toilet.jpg

Brettt
04-07-2006, 02:54 PM
Originally posted by Warham
Hell, she was even on the cover of Vanity Fair with her husband before her name was leaked.


Of course you are going to back this up, right?

Or are you just making shit up as usual?

Warham
04-07-2006, 03:17 PM
http://www.nrk.no/img/500186.jpeg

There's the spread, now I have to find out when it happened.

Brettt
04-07-2006, 03:21 PM
Originally posted by Warham
http://www.nrk.no/img/500186.jpeg

There's the spread, now I have to find out when it happened.

Yeah, nice try. This article was published after Bush leaked her name and commited treason.

Warham
04-07-2006, 03:32 PM
Bush leaked her name? When did that happen?

I thought it was Scooter than leaked her name?

Guitar Shark
04-07-2006, 03:36 PM
Originally posted by Warham
http://www.nrk.no/img/500186.jpeg

There's the spread, now I have to find out when it happened.

Isn't the caption of the picture enough to give you a hint that it happened AFTER she was exposed?

Brettt
04-07-2006, 03:37 PM
Originally posted by Warham
Bush leaked her name? When did that happen?

I thought it was Scooter than leaked her name?

Leaked her name? But she wasn't covet, remember! Ha ha! Burn!

Now stay on task. You said the cover of Vanity Fair. Where is it?

Warham
04-07-2006, 03:40 PM
Double Exposure? Wouldn't that mean two people are being exposed?

Warham
04-07-2006, 03:41 PM
Originally posted by Brettt
Leaked her name? But she wasn't covet, remember! Ha ha! Burn!

Now stay on task. You said the cover of Vanity Fair. Where is it?

Yeah, you said Bush leaked her name. Prove it!

:)

While your at it, I want proof that he committed treason as well.

Guitar Shark
04-07-2006, 03:44 PM
Here's a timeline for you, War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_scandal_timeline

Warham
04-07-2006, 03:45 PM
Thanks, Sharkie.

:)

LoungeMachine
04-07-2006, 03:46 PM
While you're demanding everyone show proof, Warham.....

How about YOU proving the VF cover was PRIOR to her being outed, regardless of WHO in the Administration did it.

YOU made the claim

YOU posted the pic

YOU should either provide proof, or admit you were WRONG.

Right?

LoungeMachine
04-07-2006, 03:47 PM
Originally posted by Warham
Yeah, you said Bush leaked her name. Prove it!

:)

While your at it, I want proof that he committed treason as well.

I want, I want, I want........

FORD
04-07-2006, 03:48 PM
Originally posted by Warham
Double Exposure? Wouldn't that mean two people are being exposed?

The second "exposure" was Joe Wilson revealing that the BCE's myth about Iraq importing yellowcake uranium from Niger was a LIE.

Brettt
04-07-2006, 03:51 PM
Originally posted by Warham
Yeah, you said Bush leaked her name. Prove it!

While your at it, I want proof that he committed treason as well.

Don't puss out now!

Quit with the distractions. Vanity Fair cover, go!

Brettt
04-07-2006, 03:52 PM
Originally posted by Warham
Double Exposure? Wouldn't that mean two people are being exposed?

You should try reading the story while you are looking at the pretty pictures.

Warham
04-07-2006, 03:56 PM
Originally posted by LoungeMachine
I want, I want, I want........

"I want a world where Frank Jr, and all Frank Jrs. can sit under a shady tree, breathe the air, swim in the ocean,
and go into a 7-Eleven without an interpreter. I want a world where I can eat a sea otter without getting sick. Where the Democrats put somebody forward worth voting for."

Warham
04-07-2006, 03:57 PM
Originally posted by Brettt
Don't puss out now!

Quit with the distractions. Vanity Fair cover, go!

I was mistaken.

It was an article.

And it was put out AFTER her identity had been released (my thanks again to Sharkie for providing that info).

Now, when did Bush leak her identity?

LoungeMachine
04-07-2006, 03:58 PM
This is usually where Warham finds something in real life to keep him from posting proof to his claims........waiting for everyone to forget about it

LoungeMachine
04-07-2006, 03:59 PM
Originally posted by Warham
I was mistaken.





: falls over in disbelief :


:D

Warham
04-07-2006, 03:59 PM
Originally posted by LoungeMachine
This is usually where Warham finds something in real life to keep him from posting proof to his claims........waiting for everyone to forget about it

No, I've got time today. :)

Guitar Shark
04-07-2006, 03:59 PM
Originally posted by Warham
I was mistaken.


May I suggest this as your new sig, Lounge? ;)

Warham
04-07-2006, 03:59 PM
Originally posted by LoungeMachine
: falls over in disbelief :


:D

I told you I was a changed mod.

:p

Warham
04-07-2006, 04:00 PM
Originally posted by Guitar Shark
May I suggest this as your new sig, Lounge? ;)

Shit, he's got alot better stuff from me that he can use for his sig. lol

Hardrock69
04-07-2006, 04:01 PM
January 17, 2004

That was the issue with her and hubby on the cover...


http://www.slate.com/id/2091907/

FORD
04-07-2006, 04:02 PM
Originally posted by Warham


While your at it, I want proof that he committed treason as well.

Poppy certainly thinks so....

"Even though I'm a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors."
-- George Herbert Walker Bush, 1999

Warham
04-07-2006, 04:02 PM
I was corrected.

It was an inside spread, not the cover.

Oh, the humanity of being wrong...

Warham
04-07-2006, 04:04 PM
Originally posted by FORD
Poppy certainly thinks so....

"Even though I'm a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors."
-- George Herbert Walker Bush, 1999

FORD, you have new respect for George Bush?

Hardrock69
04-07-2006, 04:06 PM
Who could respect HIM? He is just as much a criminal as the rest of 'em!
:D

Warham
04-07-2006, 04:07 PM
Originally posted by Hardrock69
Who could respect HIM? He is just as much a criminal as the rest of 'em!
:D

I like how FORD quotes Bush to prove his point, even though he considers Herbert Walker the most evil man alive.

LoungeMachine
04-07-2006, 04:09 PM
No, Barbara Bush is the most evil man alive

Guitar Shark
04-07-2006, 04:10 PM
Originally posted by Warham
I like how FORD quotes Bush to prove his point, even though he considers Herbert Walker the most evil man alive.

Reminds me of his other glaring inconsistency -- on one hand, Junior is a mindless chimp, yet on the other hand, he is capable of orchestrating some of the most complicated government conspiracies imaginable.

FORD
04-07-2006, 04:12 PM
Originally posted by Warham
I like how FORD quotes Bush to prove his point, even though he considers Herbert Walker the most evil man alive.

Well, Poppy's an evil son of a bitch, there's no doubt about that. And there's an entire section of Hell already reserved for him. But even a bastard like him has limits. And his own son - along with the treasonous fucks who surround him - have even violated those limits.

When a drug smuggling terrorist training assassination supervising bastard like Poppy looks like the cautious and sane one in the family, you KNOW you're in deep shit. One thing you could never call Old Man Bush is "stupid". Unlike his monkey-assed offspring.

Warham
04-07-2006, 04:13 PM
Originally posted by LoungeMachine
No, Barbara Bush is the most evil man alive

Isn't Karl Rove the Most Evil Man Alive®?

Warham
04-07-2006, 04:14 PM
Originally posted by FORD
Well, Poppy's an evil son of a bitch, there's no doubt about that. And there's an entire section of Hell already reserved for him. But even a bastard like him has limits. And his own son - along with the treasonous fucks who surround him - have even violated those limits.

When a drug smuggling terrorist training assassination supervising bastard like Poppy looks like the cautious and sane one in the family, you KNOW you're in deep shit. One thing you could never call Old Man Bush is "stupid". Unlike his monkey-assed offspring.

Why would a man you've compared to the Antichrist have limits?

Doesn't he want his son to become the Emperor of the USA?

FORD
04-07-2006, 04:16 PM
Originally posted by Guitar Shark
Reminds me of his other glaring inconsistency -- on one hand, Junior is a mindless chimp, yet on the other hand, he is capable of orchestrating some of the most complicated government conspiracies imaginable.

Junior isn't the one orchestrating them. He's just the monkey in front of the microphone.

http://www.wtv-zone.com/buckone/animals/chimp.jpg

Warham
04-07-2006, 04:18 PM
Sharkie,

The evil genius Karl Rove is behind all this.

You have to remember that somebody with his superb level of genius would be grateful to be a member of George W. Bush's staff instead of say, being president himself.

Guitar Shark
04-07-2006, 04:19 PM
If Junior is as dumb as FORD says he is (and I can't disagree), then he would have made some moronic statements by now giving away the vast government conspiracies.

FORD
04-07-2006, 04:20 PM
Originally posted by Warham
Sharkie,

The evil genius Karl Rove is behind all this.

You have to remember that somebody with his superb level of genius would be grateful to be a member of George W. Bush's staff instead of say, being president himself.

He's too damned ugly to be president himself.

Warham
04-07-2006, 04:21 PM
Originally posted by FORD
He's too damned ugly to be president himself.

We've had ugly presidents before.

FORD
04-07-2006, 04:43 PM
Originally posted by Warham
We've had ugly presidents before.

Yes, but not since television was invented.

Think about it......

Warham
04-07-2006, 04:45 PM
Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford...all lookers for sure!

FORD
04-07-2006, 04:51 PM
Originally posted by Warham
Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford...all lookers for sure!

Johnson and especially Ford weren't supposed to be President. Besides, Ford looked goofy, but not neccessarily ugly. And Nixon's ugliness was far more internal than his looks.

Some would say the Chimp is better looking than John McCain. Think that played a role in the 2000 primary?

Or Bill Clinton over Paul Tsongas in 1992?

Warham
04-07-2006, 04:55 PM
Bill Clinton and George Bush are good looking?

FORD
04-07-2006, 05:07 PM
Originally posted by Warham
Bill Clinton and George Bush are good looking?

Obviously Clinton's never had a problem getting laid.

Blackflag
04-07-2006, 05:10 PM
This whole thread has turned very gay.

I think it started with the guy who took a picture of himself with a cancer stick, trying desperately to look cool. Gay? Very.

They need to rename this forum "The Bonesmuggling Line"

LoungeMachine
04-07-2006, 05:16 PM
Originally posted by Warham
Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford...all lookers for sure!

2 of the 3 you just listed were never elected President

Blackflag
04-07-2006, 05:17 PM
Speak of the choadtickler.

LoungeMachine
04-07-2006, 05:17 PM
Originally posted by Blackflag
This whole thread has turned very gay.

I think it started with the guy who took a picture of himself with a cancer stick, trying desperately to look cool. Gay? Very.

They need to rename this forum "The Bonesmuggling Line"


Just noticed you're from Crackima.

That explains everything.

The only people who still live in Yakima are either too stupid, or too poor to move.

:cool:

floyd95
04-07-2006, 05:18 PM
you fucking guys crack me up

some funny shit in here...

FORD
04-07-2006, 05:18 PM
Originally posted by LoungeMachine
2 of the 3 you just listed were never elected President

Uh.... LBJ was elected President in 1964.

Though most people were probably voting to extend the JFK administration and his policies.

BigBadBrian
04-07-2006, 05:18 PM
Originally posted by FORD
Valerie Plame was a covert "Non Official Cover (NOC)" agent working under the facade of a fake energy corporation known as "Brewster Jennings".

Do some damn research and turn off FAUX.

"My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity," - Joe Wilson

:gulp:

Blackflag
04-07-2006, 05:19 PM
And I see that you've not yet realized that people don't use accurate information on the internet.

Go smoke a cigarette, or a dick, whatever suits you today. I'm sure you think either one makes you look cool.

LoungeMachine
04-07-2006, 05:21 PM
Originally posted by FORD
Uh.... LBJ was elected President in 1964.

Though most people were probably voting to extend the JFK administration and his policies.

You're right.

I was wrong. [ see how easy that is, warham?]

But Ford was elected to neither the VP, nor the P......

So it all balances out

:D

FORD
04-07-2006, 05:22 PM
Originally posted by BigBadBrian
"My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity," - Joe Wilson

:gulp:

You need to look at that statement carefully.

What Wilson was saying was that, by printing both the name of Valerie Plame, AND the name of the false front company "Brewster Jennings", Novakula rendered her cover (and that of all of her associates) instantly useless.

Blackflag
04-07-2006, 05:27 PM
Originally posted by FORD
You need to look at that statement carefully.

What Wilson was saying was that, by printing both the name of Valerie Plame, AND the name of the false front company "Brewster Jennings", Novakula rendered her cover (and that of all of her associates) instantly useless.

What the hell is wrong with you simple-minded political groupies?

Two things can be taken as fact: 1. Plame was covert when her identify was disclosed. Otherwise, "Scooter" would not have been indicted.

2. Bush has not been accused by "Scooter" as authorizing the disclosure, yet.

You morons are arguing over settled facts.

LoungeMachine
04-07-2006, 05:29 PM
Oh boy...

Another troll with a penchant for using his back-catalogue of gay references. It's been a while since we had to deal with a member of the Yakima Mensa Chapter.

Let me guess. You're a power bottom who loves Cher, and long walks on the beach.


Jesus Christ why do they always seem to find THIS forum first?

Blackflag
04-07-2006, 05:33 PM
Go ahead and insult me all you like (and I don't even know what a "power bottom" is).

But can you really say with a straight face your picture doesn't look gay.

You look like a high school english teacher trying to find some action in a Wal-Mart.

What is that, a "Pall Mall"?

Dick.

Warham
04-07-2006, 05:36 PM
Originally posted by LoungeMachine
2 of the 3 you just listed were never elected President

LMAO!

:)

FORD
04-07-2006, 05:37 PM
Funny how the troll population tripled in this forum in recent weeks.

It's almost like someone invited them in.........

Warham
04-07-2006, 05:38 PM
Originally posted by LoungeMachine
But Ford was elected to neither the VP, nor the P......

So it all balances out

:D

Who really elects a Vice President? Who even cares who the vice presidential candidate is. lol

Dan Quayle, Al Gore, Spiro Agnew, Walter Mondale all spring to mind as people that were complete winners as VPs. :)

Warham
04-07-2006, 05:42 PM
Originally posted by FORD
Funny how the troll population tripled in this forum in recent weeks.

It's almost like someone invited them in.........

Tripled?

I thought there were more when you were modding around here.

;)

Blackflag
04-07-2006, 05:44 PM
Just because somebody interrupts your little circle jerk and says you're a moron doesn't make them a "troll." You should be thankful.

You still have time to stop being an idiot, but the first step is admitting you have a problem.

Guitar Shark
04-07-2006, 05:46 PM
Originally posted by FORD
Funny how the troll population tripled in this forum in recent weeks.

It's almost like someone invited them in.........

It's really too bad you got demoted, I'm sure you'd be able to stop these terrible trolls. :)

Warham
04-07-2006, 05:48 PM
I find that editing and deleting posts only leads to more trolls, not less.

Blackflag
04-07-2006, 05:50 PM
Originally posted by Warham
I find that editing and deleting posts only leads to more trolls, not less.

I find that systematically ignoring what you don't like to hear leads to ignorance.

EAT MY ASSHOLE
04-07-2006, 05:53 PM
Originally posted by Blackflag
I find that systematically ignoring what you don't like to hear leads to ignorance.

This guy is allll right.

EAT MY ASSHOLE
04-07-2006, 05:54 PM
Originally posted by Blackflag
I find that systematically ignoring what you don't like to hear leads to ignorance.

Scientists find that Hard Rock constantly taking it in the ass from a homosexual heroin addict like Phil the Stalker leads to AIDS.

Blackflag
04-07-2006, 05:59 PM
Originally posted by EAT MY ASSHOLE
Scientists find that Hard Rock constantly taking it in the ass from a homosexual heroin addict like Phil the Stalker leads to AIDS.

Source?

LoungeMachine
04-07-2006, 06:00 PM
Originally posted by Blackflag
Go ahead and insult me all you like (and I don't even know what a "power bottom" is).

But can you really say with a straight face your picture doesn't look gay.

You look like a high school english teacher trying to find some action in a Wal-Mart.

What is that, a "Pall Mall"?

Dick.


The guy who uses "choadtickler" wants us to believe he's unaware of the term "powerbottom" :rolleyes:

And the pic is HUNTER S. THOMPSON you fucking idiot.

Yakima, where a GED is considered management material

Guitar Shark
04-07-2006, 06:00 PM
Originally posted by Blackflag
Source?

Please don't question him. As his name clearly indicates, he is obsessed with assholes and knows all about them.

EAT MY ASSHOLE
04-07-2006, 06:03 PM
Originally posted by Guitar Shark
Please don't question him. As his name clearly indicates, he is obsessed with assholes and knows all about them.

ALL about them...

Blackflag
04-07-2006, 06:04 PM
Originally posted by LoungeMachine


And the pic is HUNTER S. THOMPSON you fucking idiot.

Yakima, where a GED is considered management material

Are you telling us your hero is a crackhead? That's just sad. Sorry I'm not up on my pop culture enough to be able to pick "Hunter S. Thompson" out of a lineup.

And I already said that I'm not from Yakima, dumbass.

Speaking of "management material," why don't you tell us what you do for a living? Sit in your basement smoking weed and beating off to "Hunter S. Thompson"s drug exploits? Pathetic nimrod.

Warham
04-07-2006, 06:05 PM
Lounge is a former member of Winger.

FORD
04-07-2006, 06:06 PM
Originally posted by LoungeMachine

Yakima, where a GED is considered management material

Found this quote just doing a routine google search......

"Yakivegas is a cultural wasteland of strip malls with a bunch of decent taco carts scattered around town. Night life? You'd be better off in SLC.

I can't imagine why anyone would 'choose' to live in Yakima."

Blackflag
04-07-2006, 06:08 PM
Originally posted by Warham
Lounge is a former member of Winger.

Now that's funny.

Blackflag
04-07-2006, 06:10 PM
"she's only seventeeeeeen....yeah, yeah-e-yeah, yeah, yeah"

Heh heh.

blueturk
04-07-2006, 06:37 PM
What was the topic again? Oh yeah...

White House Faces Barrage of New Questions About Intelligence Leak
By Pete Yost, AP
2:23 PM PDT, April 7, 2006


WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House faced a barrage of questions Friday over the timing of President Bush's decision to declassify intelligence that was then leaked to the press by Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff.

In a tense briefing, White House spokesman Scott McClellan was asked repeatedly to explain his statement from three years ago that portions of a prewar intelligence document on Iraq were declassified on July 18, 2003.


Ten days earlier, Cheney's top aide had leaked snippets of intelligence from the document to New York Times reporter Judith Miller in order to rebut allegations by Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson, the aide has told prosecutors according to documents revealed this week.

I. Lewis Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff, said he had passed the information to Miller after being told to do so by Cheney, who advised Libby that Bush had authorized it, stated a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald.

McClellan told reporters on July 18, 2003, that the material being released on Iraq "was officially declassified today." On Friday, McClellan interpreted his own words to mean that's when the material was "officially released."

Asked when it was declassified, McClellan refused to answer, saying that the matter was part of Fitzgerald's ongoing CIA leak probe that has resulted in Libby's indictment.

Libby faces charges of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI in the Valerie Plame affair. He is accused of making false statements about how he learned of her CIA employment and what he told reporters about her.

The declassification issue marks the second time in the CIA leak probe that the White House's previous public statements have been called into question.

After checking with Libby and presidential adviser Karl Rove, McClellan said in 2003 that neither aide was involved in the leak of the CIA identity of Wilson's wife. Rove remains under investigation in the leak probe.

Administration critics said the president's actions were a misuse of the declassification process.

Bush's "selective declassification of highly sensitive intelligence for political purposes is wrong," said House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.

Pelosi said a presidential executive order requires a uniform system for classifying, declassifying, and safeguarding national security information and asked, "Why didn't President Bush follow this protocol before authorizing the selective leak of highly sensitive intelligence?"

Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., called for a House Intelligence Committee investigation and for the president to explain in person to Congress.

Last year, a commission appointed by Bush to look into the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq cautioned against leaks for political purposes.

"Policymakers who leak intelligence to the press in order to gain political advantage ... may do so without fully appreciating the potential harm that can result to sources and methods," the commission said.

It said the intelligence community should consider implementing "a widespread, modern-day equivalent of the 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' campaign to educate individuals about their legal obligations and possible penalties to safeguard intelligence information."

On Friday, McClellan said there's a difference between providing declassified information when it's in the public interest, and leaking classified information that could jeopardize national security.

"Now, there are Democrats out there that fail to recognize that distinction or refuse to recognize that distinction," said McClellan. "They are simply engaging in crass politics."

Plame's CIA employment was disclosed by conservative columnist Robert Novak eight days after her husband, Wilson, accused the Bush administration of manipulating prewar intelligence to exaggerate the Iraqi threat from weapons of mass destruction.

The intelligence Libby was authorized to leak to Miller stated that Iraq was "vigorously trying to procure" uranium. Administration officials said in the run-up to the war they were concerned about Iraq building a nuclear weapon.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-040706leak_lat,0,2896514.story?coll=la-story-footer

ODShowtime
04-07-2006, 06:59 PM
Originally posted by BigBadBrian
No, she was not. It's a common misconception among the liberal Mains Stream Media.

It was common knowledge among her neighbors and friends and others in the beltway that she was a CIA agent. That IS NOT covert.

:gulp:

This is at least the second time you morons tried this bullshit. Why would there be an on-going investigation if she wasn't covert? :confused:

No wonder you're all clueless, you demonstrate a complete lack of logical thinking.

Warham
04-07-2006, 07:18 PM
Maybe they had an investigation to waste taxpayer dollars. :)

FORD
04-07-2006, 07:28 PM
Originally posted by Warham
Maybe they had an investigation to waste taxpayer dollars. :)

Hey, why not.... it worked in the 1990's.

LoungeMachine
04-07-2006, 09:05 PM
Originally posted by Blackflag
Are you telling us your hero is a crackhead? That's just sad. Sorry I'm not up on my pop culture enough to be able to pick "Hunter S. Thompson" out of a lineup.

And I already said that I'm not from Yakima, dumbass.





He's my "hero" because I use him as an avatar on a fucking message board? Man I'm glad I don't have your life :rolleyes:

Using THAT logic, your "hero" is a 12 ounce can of carbonated sugar water. Figures. Same IQ level.

And how would I know you're NOT from Yakima as you claim.? Funny how quickly you changed THAT info on your profile.

So you're not a garden variety troll, you're also a liar too ashamed to admit where you're actually from.

Must be a real shit hole to make you pretend to be from Yakima :lol:


Fuck, at least in the past the trolls were attention worthy in some way.

This guy is flatlined.

ODShowtime
04-07-2006, 09:08 PM
Originally posted by LoungeMachine
Fuck, at least in the past the trolls were attention worthy in some way.

This guy is flatlined.

His avatar is making me nostalgic though. I loved Mr. Pibb. That Pibb extra shit is beat.

LoungeMachine
04-07-2006, 09:16 PM
Originally posted by Warham
Maybe they had an investigation to waste taxpayer dollars. :)

Impossible.

"There's a new sheriff in town, and he's dedicated to fiscal discipline"

- Ari Fleicher Oct. 18, 2002 speaking of G.W. Bush