So what happened to the Novak/CIA/treason story?

[MoonGod]

Is this just being forgotten? Swept under the rug? Somebody in the White House leaks the name of an undercover CIA operative and nobody's doing anything about it?

This is treason, folks. What do we have to do to shine a light on it?

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[w13rd0]

1. Wilson is still speaking out...

...to whomever will listen, but Rove likely killed anyone interested in the story. Oh, I mean, Rove likely killed any interest in the story. What do we have to do about an Administration that acts above the law? A regime that completely disregards rule of law, international treaties, truth? A cabal that is at their essential core ANTI-American?

Wish I knew...

[MoonGod]

11. Whatever happened to Woodward and Bernstein?

Is reporting like that even possible in this age of entertainment-oriented, bottom-line obsessed news media?

Sure, we have people like Greg Palast and Bev Harris... but they don't work for big media outlets and thus they have to scream and shout to get even the slightest bit of notice.

[Lost_Stash_Of_Dubya]

2. Short attention spans

Without new revelations, there's not much to report, and it's not like any journalists are going to actually investigate it. There's no sex or murder, so it's not much of a story.

[MoonGod]

5. I hardly saw anything reported in the FIRST place

Seems like this would still be news to most of the American people. And I think they'd be interested, too.

When I mentioned it in my speech class (about 2-3 weeks after it happened), they were quite intrigued.

[dkf]

3. NYT Today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/08/national/08WEAP.html

Iraq Arms Critic Reacts to Report on Wife
By DOUGLAS JEHL


ASHINGTON, Aug. 7 — Joseph C. Wilson IV, a retired ambassador who was a secret envoy of the Bush administration to Africa and who publicly voiced doubts about a reported Iraqi weapons program, says he has become a target of a campaign to discourage others like him from going public.

In the prewar effort to uncover information about weapons in Iraq, Mr. Wilson made a fact-finding trip to Niger in February 2002 at the request of the Central Intelligence Agency. His findings challenged contentions in an unsubstantiated document that Iraq was trying to obtain nuclear-weapons material from the West African country.

But it was not until after Mr. Wilson made his account public last month in an op-ed article in The New York Times, to the intense discomfort of President Bush's aides, that the White House acknowledged that it had erred in including the disputed accusations in Mr. Bush's State of the Union address in January.

Days after the column, another chapter opened. Mr. Wilson's wife was identified by name as a covert C.I.A. operative in a column by the conservative columnist Robert Novak, a disclosure that Mr. Novak has attributed to senior administration officials.

[MoonGod]

6. BTW, speaking of the NYT...

... does it seem like the old grey lady herself has been the target of a smear campaign?

I mean, the Jayson Blair thing was embarrassing, but now it seems like every slight inaccuracy in the NYT makes headlines. Even the byline on fricking Bob Hope's obit made headlines. So the obit was written in advance by a guy who's now dead. SO WHAT?

Okay.. sorry.. just needed to vent.. I'll stop hijacking my own thread now :)

[pbeal]

4. please direct your attention to Kobe or Arnold

all intrest in unauthorised news will be rewarded with a stay at the Gitmo re-education camp

[leftofthedial]

7. repukes can't commit treason. What's wrong with you?

move on.

[MoonGod]

8. Oh yeah?

http://enemyoftheearth.org/cartoons.asp?idnum=21

[leftofthedial]

9. I mean other than . . .

Most of the Nixon White House, Ronald Reagan, Ollie North, John Poindexter, George HW Bush, Dick Cheney, George W Bush, Donal Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice . . .

I'm too drunk to keep typing.

[nolabels]

10. I didn't find Bobs name on this list

Maybe they did compile it too quickly

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8425/CIAPRESS.HTM
Journalism and the CIA: The Mighty Wurlitzer
by Daniel Brandt, used with permission

footnotes

Sidebar: Journalists at Work: Who's Watching the Watchdogs?


(snip)
Here is a list of some pundits, news anchors, columnists, commentators, reporters, editors, executives, owners, and publishers. This list was compiled much too quickly, merely by scanning the 1995 membership roster of the Council on Foreign Relations -- the same CFR that issued a report in early 1996 bemoaning the constraints on our poor, beleaguered CIA. It's not a wallet-size card, but keep it handy somehow. The next time someone denounces all conspiracy theories as wacky, check out the name. You might not be surprised.
By the way, first William Bundy and then William G. Hyland edited CFR's flagship journal Foreign Affairs between the years 1972-1992. Bundy was with the CIA from 1951-1961, and Hyland from 1954-1969.
Roone Arledge
Sidney Blumenthal
David Brinkley
Tom Brokaw
William F. Buckley, Jr.
James E. Burke
Hodding Carter III
John Chancellor
George Crile III
Arnaud de Borchgrave
Karen DeYoung
Christopher S. Dickey
Joan Didion
Leonard Downie, Jr.
Elizabeth Drew
Rowland Evans, Jr.
James Fallows
Thomas L. Friedman
Suzanne Garment
Leslie H. Gelb
David R. Gergen
Philip L. Geyelin
Georgie Anne Geyer
Katharine Graham
James L. Greenfield
Meg Greenfield Peter Grose
Jim Hoagland
Warren Hoge
David Ignatius
Robert G. Kaiser
Marvin Kalb
Peter R. Kann
Anne Karalekas
Joe Klein
Morton Kondracke
Charles Krauthammer
Irving Kristol
Jim Lehrer
Joseph Lelyveld
Lee Lescaze
Anthony Lewis
Flora Lewis
Mitchel Levitas
Michael E. Lind
Kati Marton
Jessica T. Mathews
Karl E. Meyer
Sig Mickelson
Judith Miller
Jack Nelson
John B. Oakes Walter H. Pincus
Norman Podhoretz
Dan Rather
Stephen S. Rosenfeld
A. M. Rosenthal
Jack Rosenthal
Diane Sawyer
Daniel L. Schorr
Robert B. Semple, Jr.
Hedrick L. Smith
George Stephanopoulos
Strobe Talbott
Laurence A. Tisch
Seymour Topping
Robert C. Toth
Mark Uhlig
Garrick Utley
Katrina vanden Heuvel
L. Bruce van Voorst
Milton Viorst
Ben J. Wattenberg
Craig R. Whitney
Steven Weisman
Lally G. Weymouth
Roger W. Wilkins
Mortimer B. Zuckerman
For references to more information on this topic, search for the proper names found in this essay by using NameBase Online, a cumulative name index of 500 investigative books, plus 20 years of assorted clippings. http://www.pir.org/ e-mail: [e-mail]