Coddling Kofi Annan

[ODShowtime]

ok, time to tune out until 5

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by DEMON CUNT
Who in their right mind pays attention to Novak (R Treasonous Sack of Shit) anyway?

That's a good point...Doesn't he have better things to do like revealing CIA agents names so they can be killed by our enemies?

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by DEMON CUNT
So all of a sudden you care about the Iraqis?!? I didn't have any global politicians doing jack shit. I have always been against the sanctions.

This ain't about my sig. It's about dead human beings.

And then you sucked my balls.

How can a "Demon Cunt" have balls? Hmm?

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
That's a good point...Doesn't he have better things to do like revealing CIA agents names so they can be killed by our enemies?

IF you ever did any research ( I know that's asking a bit too much), you'd realize that agent was revealed by her OWN HUSBAND. Go look it up...I won't do your work for you.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
IF you ever did any research ( I know that's asking a bit too much), you'd realize that agent was revealed by her OWN HUSBAND. Go look it up...I won't do your work for you.

Yeah, sure...That's why Novak was interviewed by the FBI.

[DEMON CUNT]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
IF you ever did any research ( I know that's asking a bit too much), you'd realize that agent was revealed by her OWN HUSBAND. Go look it up...I won't do your work for you.

What the fuck? See! Conservatives simply make shit up! If they repeat it enough, it becomes their truth.

And I cannot figure out why BigBlandbrian always drinks that cup of poop at the end of each post.

And then you sucked my balls.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
IF you ever did any research ( I know that's asking a bit too much), you'd realize that agent was revealed by her OWN HUSBAND. Go look it up...I won't do your work for you.

No matter what you say, or "research" indicates, that cunt broke the story and then got off scott free while a REAL (Time magazine) journalist will languish in prison.

And by the way, it's still under investigation by the FBI.

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by DEMON CUNT
What the fuck? See! Conservatives simply make shit up! If they repeat it enough, it becomes their truth.

Tit for Tat.

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
IF you ever did any research ( I know that's asking a bit too much), you'd realize that agent was revealed by her OWN HUSBAND. Go look it up...I won't do your work for you.

Fucking BullSHIT

But you know that.

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
Tit for Tat.

That's about as good a reason to make shit up as you've ever had:D


But mom, they did it first

[DEMON CUNT]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
Tit for Tat.

Douche for bag.

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
Fucking BullSHIT

But you know that.

Uh Uh. Go do it.

[LoungeMachine]

At Leak Inquiry's Center, a Circumspect Columnist
By LORNE MANLY and ADAM LIPTAK

Published: December 31, 2004


n 41 years as a pundit, Robert D. Novak has rarely shied from controversy.

As a syndicated columnist and fixture on cable-news shoutfests, Mr. Novak has opined from the right about some of the biggest stories of his time. He has been a stout cold warrior, a critic of Israeli policies and a passionate defender of military veterans who criticized Senator John Kerry's Vietnam War record.

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But now Mr. Novak, 73, finds himself a central figure in perhaps the gravest confrontation between the government and the press in a generation, and he has been uncharacteristically circumspect.

With a federal judge having ordered two reporters to jail for refusing to name their sources to a grand jury investigating the disclosure of a covert C.I.A. officer, Mr. Novak, whose column identifying the officer set off this showdown, has been under increasing pressure in recent weeks to explain his role.

But he determinedly maintains his own counsel. On the C-Span "Washington Journal" this month, he calmly swatted away one caller who asked how it felt to watch others face jail. Then, when queried by Brian Lamb, the program's host, about the matter, he referred dismissively to the reporters, Judith Miller of The New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time magazine.

"I don't know why they're upset with me," Mr. Novak said. "They ought to worry about themselves. I worry about myself."

The confrontation began when Mr. Novak revealed the identity of the C.I.A. officer, Valerie Plame, in his column in July 2003. Mr. Novak's column is not one for grand ideological pronouncements. His stock in trade is whispered inside-the-Beltway tidbits, from an undoubtedly conservative - and sharp - point of view. Outing Ms. Plame, the wife of Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former diplomat who had written an Op-Ed article for The Times the week before that was critical of the Bush administration, was a prime one.

Mr. Wilson had written that based on a trip he made to Niger sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency, he thought some intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program that the administration had relied on as a basis to go to war was "twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat."

Mr. Novak responded in his column: "Wilson never worked for the C.I.A., but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me his wife suggested sending Wilson to Niger."

It can be a crime to name a covert C.I.A. officer, and a federal grand jury and a special prosecutor have been pursuing administration officials who may have leaked the information to Mr. Novak. The investigators have also reached into the White House and drawn in other journalists as they seek information about conversations about Ms. Plame.

Although grand jury proceedings are secret, people called before them are free to talk about how they responded to grand jury subpoenas. All five of the other reporters known to be caught up in the investigation have done that. Some testified, with what they said was their sources' blessings. Ms. Miller and Mr. Cooper have been held in contempt for refusing to do so.

Mr. Cooper and two colleagues at Time wrote an article questioning the administration's motives for disclosing Ms. Plame's identity. Ms. Miller conducted interviews for a potential article but did not write one.

But, Mr. Novak has not revealed whether he was subpoenaed and if so how he responded. He has said he is staying mum on the advice of counsel. His office declined to make him available for this article and referred questions to his lawyer, James Hamilton, who declined to comment.

Lawyers for other reporters in the investigation say Mr. Novak's role is a mystery. It is inconceivable, they say, that he has not received a subpoena from the independent prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald.

But they add that none of his possible responses - naming his sources, objecting on First Amendment grounds or asserting his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination - seem to fit any plausible scenario in this case, given Mr. Novak's few cryptic statements. A spokeswoman for Mr. Fitzgerald declined to comment.

A growing number of media ethics specialists, lawyers and journalists are criticizing Mr. Novak as failing as a journalist by not outlining for the public his dealings with the investigation.

"He has become part of the story," said Lucy Dalglish, the executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. "He should disclose what's going on. Everyone else has."

[LoungeMachine]

SO MUCH FOR THAT THEORY, B3

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
SO MUCH FOR THAT THEORY, B3

Your column says nothing of what I said. It only says something of what you are saying. Get my drift?