Joseph Wilson and Panel

[hang a left]

On C-Span now discussing Weapons of Mass Deception

[Terwilliger]

1. well...noone is willing to go too far on this panel

Joe Wilson is talking straight, though, and he's pretty compelling.

[Marlie]

2. Saw it yesterday

It was wonderful. The people in the room who asked questions
were an example of what reporters should be like and many
were very, very angry at Bush's lies and very critical of
the press. Margaret Carlson looked stunned and came up with
BS excuses for letting Bush get away with murder, kinda
blaming the democrats for not bringing up the issues so the
press could dissect them. What a crock. Anyway, it was a
great program - don't miss it.

[TacticalPeek]

3. One of the things that irked me in that discussion...

is when a blond guy in the audience asks about all the other nuke lies/deceptions, etc. in the SOTU, and why they have not received the amount of coverage the Niger lie received, and the guy on the panel guesses that Niger had a personality associated with it, Wilson, "enabling" coverage, and then wonders where are the "Wilsons" that could step forward and embody these other controversies.

It irks me because it's saying that there is little or no investigative journalism in this critical period. No digging out the story yourself, and becoming the target like Woodward and Bernstein became. Without a whistleblower, without pictures of charges and counters, most of the press is barely interested, and reports only facts and disputes fed to them.

They "waited" for Wilson. Real reporters could have long before tracked down the Italian journalist, obtained copies of forgeries germane to high national policy, googled for a couple of hours and produced a big-time scoop. Junior journalist becomes celebrity talking head, book deal to follow.

Or instead, wait for the next character on the stage of our national soap opera. Irks me.

[lfairban]

4. 5 DU threads

Wilson said we knew about a lot of Yellow Cake that Iraq purchased a long time ago, and where it was stored, but the military did not secure it quickly, and by the time they got there, a lot of it was missing!

Video available here

There are four other DU threads on this broadcast, maybe more:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=129693&mesg_id=129693

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=128&topic_id=296&mesg_id=296

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=127735&mesg_id=127735

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=109&topic_id=567&mesg_id=567

[RainDog]

5. thanks for the link

kick. till I can check it out.

[RainDog]

6. That was great.

and, of course, you will not see or hear this on CNN or Fox or any other commerical station, if previous practice holds.

But shouldn't Americans hear about two white house administration officials who breached national security concerning a vital issue..WMD...in order to intimidate others who would tell the truth?

How can the media continue to ignore this???

As Wilson noted, it's on par with Alrich Ames outing agents to the Soviets.

What's the difference between this incident and Robt Hansen's betrayal of this country?