Whiff of scandal enlivens capital

[BadGimp]

Whiff of scandal enlivens capital


Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., during a Capitol Hill news conference Monday at which he demanded the appointment of a special prosecutor


Whiff of scandal enlivens capital

Democrats stand to gain from prolonged investigation of alleged White House leak

ANALYSIS By Tom Curry MSNBC

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 — It wasn’t just the autumn chill, it was the whiff of scandal that invigorated the senses of jaded Washingtonians Monday. The question of the day: Had anyone in the White House tried to punish Iraq war opponent Joseph Wilson by leaking his wife’s identity as a CIA employee to columnist Bob Novak?

WILSON, THE RETIRED diplomat whom the CIA had assigned in February 2002 to find out whether Iraq had been trying to buy uranium from Niger, has charged that White House officials had endangered his wife by unmasking her as a CIA weapons analyst.
It was, he said, an attempt to attack him for filing a report disputing an Iraq-Niger connection.

THE ‘WHODUNIT’
The sudden excitement in Washington came down to question of: Which would you read first, a 150-page “whodunit” or a 2,000-page treatise on politics?
The leak furor was the whodunit, an art form to which Washingtonians naturally gravitate. The treatise was the ongoing debate over whether Iraq can be transformed into a stable, non-threatening model Arab democracy.
A less-noticed aspect of the whodunit was another mystery, one which raised questions of potential incompetence in the Bush administration.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/973584.asp?0na=x2204Ab6-
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I smell smoke...


sniff, sniff...indeed there be some fire there...

[sonias]

1. Boy did we need a good scandal to enliven the capital too

Timing is everything, just like Andy Card likes to say this is about the right time to roll out new product. The public is paying attention and the DC news corps are actually doing some real work. My favorite part about this is that all of this is happening just when the regime needs to sell their $87 billion continuing war package. Looks like one product roll out is taking the attention away from the other.

Sonia

[KittyWampus]

2. They Make It Sound Like It's Smelling Salts

Or a bracing aftershave or something....

Just a WHIFF of scandal darling...

[RaRa]

3. Whiff?

If half of these Dems had had any spine, the downright putrid stench that we've been exposed to for 2 1/2 years should have given them a rave of a party by now.

[DemoTex]

5. Putrid stench is right, RaRa

And it isn't scandal, it is a hanging offense: Treason in time of war.

[proud patriot]

4. Their sinuses must of just cleared up , cause It's been stinky for awhile

:eyes:

[E_Zapata]

6. Everyone get your fans on and point them toward DC!

In unison. I didn't realize that the thick fog of scandal that has created a haze across the entire nation the last 3 years hasn't made it to DC. Maybe that's why Bush has gotten a free ride? Send the pollution back from whence it came!

[dbt]

7. Ah, but it's a FISHY whiff!

Pardon the olfactory metaphor, but something just doesn't smell right about this whole thing. The bu$h regime has been, at every turn, utterly, coldly Machiavellian in every move it has made since 2000.

Every apparent fuckup has meant profit for somebody so far. It is easy to assume that each "mistake" has been most deliberate.

SO, how does this whiff turn into a bouquet for the bu$histas this time? I mean, it HAS to, doesn't it?

:freak:
dbt

[Bozita]

8. That's because the fish rots from the head on down.

There's something rotten in the White House.

[Mandate My Ass]

9. What disgusting drivel

This entire article frames the debate as dems jockeying for political advantage of this so-called "grand distraction." It does not even come close to addressing what a treasonous action outing Valerie Plame is or what the consequences of that action are to her career, and much more importantly, national security. Contrarily, it has a great deal to say what dems will underhandedly do to undermine the debate whether "Iraq can be transformed into a stable, non-threatening model Arab democracy."

It also tars Wilson as an antiwar mole who used his wife's position to embarrass the WH, while ignoring the fact that two other intelligence reports repudiated the Niger yellowcake rumor.

[Democat]

10. Bush's entire presidency is more than a "whiff" of scandal

It's one full blown scandal after another, all of which the media protects Bush from.

[cliss]

11. Good point, Monica

In my excitement, I forgot about the real issues here. I did read on another post that a few of the CIA operatives had been killed (correct?), and these treasonous leaks could endanger Plame's life, as well as many others.

But then again, lives are a dime a dozen to these guys.