Which of these news stories interests you the most today?

[AP]

Poll question: Which of these news stories interests you the most today?

I think all these stories are interesting, as I suspect most DU'ers think as well, but I want to know which story has the tightest grip on your attention today.

[Stephanie]

1. Wilson's Wife is the biggest story, IMO

This is the story that will break Bush*. Mark my words.

[AP]

3. Where has there been reporting on that?

[Stephanie]

9. Oh, no one's REPORTING it, of course

If that's your poll question - that the story has to be one that's actually being COVERED, then ignore my answer.

I just think it is the biggest story out there. We had a post the other day by a DUer who had heard Wilson in a Q&A, and Wilson obliquely singled out Rove as the one who tipped off Novak. He also intimated that the FBI and CIA would NOT let this go and that they WOULD investigate. So this is the story that grabs me the most and the one I believe will be the fall of the house of bush.

[LittleApple81]

11. The latest I found on this was in "The Nation" from 8/16/03

http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=888

<snip>

The public may not learn--officially--whether the CIA requests an investigation. The CIA has good reason to keep its decision under wraps. If the CIA or the Justice Department were to announce that the Agency had asked for an investigation, it would be public confirmation that Wilson's wife was (and may still be) a CIA officer. Members of Congress and officials at the CIA and the FBI, though, will be in a position to know if an inquiry goes forward. And news of an investigation--or the lack thereof--will likely slip out. In the meantime, the few Senate and House members who have expressed outrage over the Wilson leak ought to start considering the next step. The only way to assure that there is an honest investigation devoid of bureaucratic intrigues could well be to turn to a special counsel and free Tenet and Ashcroft from deciding whether the Bush White House ought to be probed for a dirty deed that might have threatened national security.

<snip>

From the article it seems doubtful it is going anywhere any time soon.

[Stephanie]

12. Here's the most recent reporting on it, by DU's party_line

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=211244

[LittleApple81]

4. Wilson's wife?

I missed this one. Where?

[Stephanie]

10. Joseph Wilson, diplomat who investigated the Niger/uranium claim

at Cheney's behest, found the claim false, and spoke out publicly after the invasion to say that the admin had to KNOW they were lying in the SOTU (16 words) because he himself had reported back to CIA that it was false. As retribution someone in the WH leaked to Novak, who reported it in his column, that Wilson's wife is a CIA agent. Leaking that info is a felony.

recent story by David Corn:

http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=888


this is old, but:

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/ny-uscia0722,0,2289800.story?coll=nyc-topnews-short-navigation

Columnist Names CIA Iraq Operative
By Timothy M. Phelps and Knut Royce
Washington Bureau
July 21, 2003, 9:48 PM EDT

Washington -- The identity of an undercover CIA officer whose husband started the Iraq uranium intelligence controversy has been publicly revealed by a conservative Washington columnist citing "two senior administration officials."

Intelligence officials confirmed to Newsday Monday that Valerie Plame, wife of retired Ambassador Joseph Wilson, works at the agency on weapons of mass destruction issues in an undercover capacity -- at least she was undercover until last week when she was named by columnist Robert Novak.

Wilson, while refusing to confirm his wife's employment, said the release to the press of her relationship to him and even her maiden name was an attempt to intimidate others like him from talking about Bush administration intelligence failures.

"It's a shot across the bow to these people, that if you talk we'll take your family and drag them through the mud as well," he said in an interview.<more>

[Booberdawg]

2. Hard choice

I can't choose between CA recall and BBV developments. They are both issues that could affect the outcome of the 2004 election in a big way. Not that the others don't have some influence as well, just that the consequences of the CA recall and BBV are more far reaching.

[imhotep]

5. none of the above

I am more interested in the unreported story of 8 million Americans who can not find a job.

[Doomsayer13]

6. Being a Cali Resident

I can't help but be disgusted yet intriuged by this recall.

[Minstrel Boy]

7. We live in interesting times,

unfortunately.

Yesterday I'd have said the 9/11 widows, but today it's Iraq.

[blackcat77]

8. I voted for the Hutton inquiry

I can see the US going down the same path a few months from now.

Hard to believe I used to like Blair when Clinton was in office.

[w4rma]

13. none of the above: the Democratic Primary interests me the most (n/t)

[billbuckhead]

14. Radioactive Wasps?

That could be the best long run story.