A few days ago the freepers were saying Plame was an insignificant

[karlrschneider]

employee (one of them used the term "armchair colonel") whose identity wasn't important enough to matter...and now they're claiming she SENT Wilson on his Africa mission, implying obviously that she must have had more than a modicum of authority - after all the facts of the Niger Uranium connection were central to Bushco's march to Iraq invasion.

My bizarre-ometer gots a bent needle.
:eyes:

[still_one]

1. hopefully they are slowly hanging themseleves the more they talk

It will be up to the media, and blogers to keep them honest

[greenman3610]

2. not just freepers

Bob Woodward says it's all a teapot tempest too.

I think the guy has way overstayed his welcome.

[Disturbed]

7. V. Plame was just a file clerk but...

she was so great at filing that she could send her husband on a fact finding trip to Niger, where he was once the Ambassador. Joe Wislon is a Dem so of course he lied about what he found out there. That's it. That will work on the Amerikan public, now let's move on this case is over.

[stepnw1f]

3. Republicans Have Become the Fringe Party

and the American people are watching.

I will add that they deserve what's about to come their way. That's for putting your eggs in one basket (Bush Administration). The right wing conspiracy is exposed at an even greater rate, and yes I do believe more is to come. This is just getting started.

Hey Rove? Get your KY Jelly!

[dogday]

4. Looks like the got their talking points in the mail today

say it enough, they will start to believe it...

[Tesla]

8. Oh you know like them women folk do

Nagged him right into going to Niger.

[emulatorloo]

5. Lowly File-Clerk or Head Of CIA? Which is it?

I guess Mr. Mehlman will get the spin straight for them soon enough

[bpilgrim]

6. they are still using the OLD material...

wait'n on RUSH (& clones) to give them the MSG of the day ;->

peace

[DoBotherMe]

9. OH THE IRONY!

:crazy:

[aeolian]

10. You're looking for logical consistency at FR?

Good luck. :eyes:

[karlrschneider]

12. Well, they say even a blind pig finds an acorn occasionally...

;-)

[Jack Rabbit]

11. You can't have it both ways

This is also the oxymoron in what Rove was leaking to the press. If she could decide who would go on a special assignment, then she was something more than a file clerk. If she was a top-level administrator sending her husband on a government-paid junket, then the report he wrote would not have gone forward; in fact, he probably wouldn't have written a report.

The truth appears to be that Ms. Plame was neither a low-level munchkin nor a top-level administrator at the CIA. Perhaps the reason Wilson was chosen for the assignment has less to do with the fact his wife worked in the agency than the following:

• Wilson was once acting ambassador to Iraq (1990-91);
• Wilson was once ambassador to Gabon (1993-95);
• Wilson is considered an expert in African uranium mining industries.

In short, Wilson was more than qualified for the assignment. It couldn't be regarded as a junket, because he took the assignment without pay.

The assignment was requested by Mr. Cheney's office. They had some information about Saddam attempting to purchase yellowcake from Niger that they wanted investigated. Perhaps to their disappointment, Wilson came back reporting that the information was false. That didn't fit into the regime's program of fixing facts and intelligence around the policy.