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[LoungeMachine]

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Rock 'n Rove: Johnny Rivers Hit Inspires 'Secret Agent Plame'

By E&P Staff

Published: October 12, 2005 9:25 PM ET

NEW YORK Finally the Valerie Plame/CIA leak scandal has a song some (perhaps only the left) can dance to: a takeoff on the old Johnny Rivers hit, "Secret Agent Plame."

It's featured on the soundtrack of a DVD film about Karl Rove that's available at TakeBackTheMedia.com, titled "Rove's War." The song is written and sung (also with lead guitar) by someone whose name appears to be Symbolman. He also produced and directed the film.

The Rivers song itself was the theme to the TV series "Secret Agent Man."

The Web site has a link to an mp3 of the song and a 12-minute preview of the film.

Other possible parodies based on old songs come to mind, such as "Spy in the House of Rove" or a play on a Springsteen/Zevon number that could be called "Judy Needs a Scooter." Other suggestions can be sent to: letters@editorandpublisher.com.

Here are the "Secret Agent Plame" lyrics:

SECRET AGENT PLAME

There's a gal who led a life of danger
Everyone she met she stayed a stranger
With every move she makes, another story breaks
Odds are her old pals won't see her tomorrow

Secret agent Plame, secret agent Plame,
Rove took away your number and gave away your name

Beware of yellow cake that you can't find, gal
The news'll drag your name right through a minefield
Not caring what they'd say
The White House gave you away
Odds are Bush's pals will get a medal,

Secret agent Plame, secret agent Plame
Rove took away your number and gave away your name

[lead guitar break]

Spying on the Saudi Arabs one day
Being in the paper's headlines next day
Oh Karl let the wrong word slip
And Bob Novak had loose lips
Traitors in the White House can't be fired,

Secret agent Plame, secret agent Plame
Rove took away your number and gave away your name



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E&P Staff (letters@editorandpublisher.com)

[Warham]

So when is he getting his indictment handed down?

[LoungeMachine]

As early as today.

Perhaps tomorrow


Enjoy.

[Warham]

Yeah...I'm sure.

Wanna bet on that one?

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by Warham
Yeah...I'm sure.

Wanna bet on that one?

sure. how much?




Prosecutor Nears Decision in CIA Probe
By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer

Thursday, October 13, 2005



(10-13) 13:50 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --


Two years after the White House assured the public it had not leaked a CIA officer's identity, a prosecutor is nearing a decision on whether to file criminal charges after assembling evidence that top presidential aides had numerous contacts with reporters in the matter.


Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has a variety of options as he weighs whether anyone broke a law that bars the intentional unmasking of a CIA officer. Defense lawyers increasingly are concerned Fitzgerald might pursue other charges such as false statements, obstruction of justice or mishandling classified information.


Before those decisions are made, presidential confidant Karl Rove will make a fourth grand jury appearance, as early as Friday. Rove did talk about CIA officer Valerie Plame with two of the reporters who published her identity and has been summoned by the prosecutor to answer additional questions.


Plame is the wife of Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson. A former U.S. ambassador, Wilson attracted the White House's attention in 2003 for saying that the administration had manipulated prewar intelligence on Iraq.


Rove's appearance carries risks.


"Criminal defense lawyers cringe at a witness going back a fourth time," said Kirby Behre, a white-collar defense attorney. People in the spotlight "feel if they don't cooperate it could mean their job."


Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis I. "Scooter" Libby, also is gaining additional scrutiny after New York Times reporter Judith Miller belatedly turned over notes showing the two had a third, previously undisclosed, conversation about Wilson.


That conversation occurred even before Wilson's public criticism of the administration's handling of intelligence.


The White House originally made strong denials two years ago that Rove and Libby never leaked the identity of Wilson's wife, and Bush pledged to fire anyone who did. As the evidence has emerged, the strategy has changed.


Bush now says he will fire someone only if the person committed a crime. Also, lawyers no longer contest that their clients discussed the identity of Wilson's wife with reporters. Instead, the lawyers are trying to make the case that exposing her covert status was inadvertent and not part of a conspiracy.


"Did Karl purposely set out to disclose Valerie Plame's identity in order to punish Joe Wilson for his criticism? The answer is, 'No,'" said Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin.


Whatever the outcome, Fitzgerald has burnished his reputation as a tough, hard-charging prosecutor. He got a judge to send Miller to prison for 85 days for refusing to testify and the prosecutor persuaded other reporters to cooperate.


It was Fitzgerald's letter to Libby's lawyer in September that helped resolve the impasse over Miller, resulting in her testimony.


A U.S. attorney with a Republican pedigree, Fitzgerald has a reputation for being willing to take on politicians of either political party in corruption probes. Currently, Fitzgerald's office is prosecuting a former Republican governor of Illinois.


For the White House in 2004, the good news about Fitzgerald's investigation was that it didn't become an issue in the presidential campaign, even though Bush and Cheney both were questioned.


Rove, a Texas political consultant who rose through the ranks of Republican politics with the late GOP adviser Lee Atwater, was the architect of Bush's successful re-election. Libby was at Cheney's side during the campaign.


"They are good individuals," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said of Rove and Libby on Oct. 7, 2003, when asked whether they had leaked the identity of Wilson's wife. "They are important members of our White House team. And that's why I spoke with them, so that I could come back to you and say that they were not involved.

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by Warham
Yeah...I'm sure.

Wanna bet on that one?

YES I WANT TO BET.........BETTER HURRY, TIME'S RUNNING OUT FOR YOUR TURD BLOSSOM

[LoungeMachine]

Chicken shit Warham.

Name the bet.

[Warham]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
As early as today.

Perhaps tomorrow


Enjoy.

If I would have bet, you would have lost. It's been two days and notta.

Go home.

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by Warham
If I would have bet, you would have lost. It's been two days and notta.

Go home.

Point is, he WILL be indicted

[Warham]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine


Point is, he WILL be indicted

And if he isn't, you'll eat crow, right?

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by Warham
And if he isn't, you'll eat crow, right?

Yes, just as YOU will when he is.

[Warham]

I don't consider people guilty before an actual trial takes place, unlike certain liberals here who I won't name.

[FORD]

Originally posted by Warham
I don't consider people guilty before an actual trial takes place, unlike certain liberals here who I won't name.

It's possible for people to be guilty even after a trial, regardless of what a piece of paper says......

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by Warham
I don't consider people guilty before an actual trial takes place, unlike certain liberals here who I won't name.

Unless it's a certain fomer President that I won't name?

[Warham]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
Unless it's a certain fomer President that I won't name?

He was found guilty by a judge of committing perjury. I didn't call him guilty until the verdict came down.