Even though at the time I didn't know if he was the only one, so I made it general. Guess it's time for another letter.
What news organization does Mr. Greggory work for?
My Activist Assignment on the ROVE issue from a different perspective, just in case they are feeling "full up" on ROVE RANTS...
in case anyone is interested.
WARNING - I have included an update about another reporter's death as well - he was killed in Haiti and found 7/14/05.
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RE: Journalism Still Has It!
I loved the way the press on Monday July 11th doggedly asked Scott McClellan the questions I wanted to ask about Karl Rove! It's a pity Scott hid out and wouldn't answer, but at least the press is showing some grit. "Hurray!"
Perfection is a long way off, but when the press is forced to become a squawk box for the administration we ALL lose.
I think it's ridiculous that:
1) The reporter who actually outed Valerie Plame(Robert Novak) hasn't gotten any heat from the courts.
2) The reporter (Judith Miller) who didn't even write an article but whose testimony could partially establish a pattern of wrong doing by those attempting to leak the story is in jail for not revealing her sources.
3) The reporter (Matt Cooper) who nailed the administration to the wall for their LIES was outed by his bosses. Still he was prepared to go to jail if Karl Rove hadn't "rescued" him.
Matt Cooper wrote the TRUTH - as evidenced by the Downing Street Minutes and the fact that the US was BOMBING Iraq months before even asking to go to war. That came out in General Tommy Franks book before anyone had a chance to see the British legal advisor’s report. Distributed with the Downing Street Minutes - the report said the US was bombing illegally at that time, many months before Congress was even asked.
"Going" to war was literally a "done deed" many months old prior to the Downing Street Minutes.
Matt didn't lie. Joe Wilson didn't lie.
Karl Rove did. Scott McClellan did.
Unless Bush fires Rove, he's a liar.
Novak may be telling the truth as it seemed to him at the time... but it's just "convenient" enough to qualify for a "weasel" to me.
Novak openly admits that he was asked by a CIA official to NOT mention her name, but somehow he just felt he "had" to do it.
As a trained investigative reporter how was it that he couldn't connect the dots and realize that exposing someone who had worked under cover in the CIA would endanger her life? Any 8 year old kid who watches cop shows knows you don't blow someone's cover.
Last words: If WE THE PEOPLE want Media to be the Fourth Estate, WE need to STAND Behind them and Speak UP for Shield laws. We must also pursue prosecution for wrongful deaths to those in the Media just doing their job getting at the truth and holding it up for our review.
63 journalists* and media assistants** have been killed in the line of duty since the start of the war in Iraq 3 years ago.
It took TWENTY YEARS to kill that many reporters in Vietnam. TWENTY YEARS.
How many reporters will die because of Iraq in the NEXT TWENTY YEARS if WE THE PEOPLE are too cowardly to PUT A STOP TO IT? September 24-26, Washington DC, BE THERE. Let YOUR VOICE be HEARD.
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Sad footnote: In Hati Yesterday another journalist was found murdered.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=14384<clip>
Haïti15 July 2005
Dismay at murder of kidnapped journalist Jacques Roche
Reporters Without Borders voiced shock and outrage today at the "barbaric and heinous" murder of Jacques Roche, the editor of the daily Le Matin's arts and culture section, whose handcuffed body was found in a chair on a Port-au-Prince street yesterday, four days after he was kidnapped. He had been shot several times and his body bore the signs of torture. "The Haitian press has just lost a renowned journalist and Haiti has lost a leading advocate of its culture, and we call on the authorities to find and punish his murderers" the press freedom organisation said. "We also hope that with MINUSTAH's help, they will succeed in curtailing the prevailing violence and anarchy, in which journalists inevitably number among the victims."
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Source Material
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http://www.rsf.org/special_iraq_en.php3 >
Novak's Response
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame#Exposure_of_Plame_by_Robert_Novak
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At the CIA, the official designated to talk to me denied that Wilson's wife had inspired his selection but said she was delegated to request his help. He asked me not to use her name, saying she probably never again will be given a foreign assignment but that exposure of her name might cause "difficulties" if she travels abroad. He never suggested to me that Wilson's wife or anybody else would be endangered. If he had, I would not have used her name. I used it in the sixth paragraph of my column because it looked like the missing explanation of an otherwise incredible choice by the CIA for its mission."
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In other interviews Novak confirmed that his sources warned him not to mention Plame. His motivation to disregard the warnings is suggested by this comment in "The CIA Leak:" "I was curious why a high-ranking official in President Bill Clinton's National Security Council (NSC) was given this assignment." Just four days before he revealed Plame's name Novak wrote, "Bush's Enemy Within." Therein Novak excoriates the Bush Administration's appointment of Frances Fragos Townsend to an important national security post explaining she could later betray Bush because two of her former superiors were liberal democrats and she had served in the US Attorney's office in Manhattan. According to Novak this office was "notoriously liberal laden."
(In Novak's own words - his outing of Valerie was purely based on political reasons, an apparent attitude that to be liberal is enough to make one betray others.)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1660300_2,00.html
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Elizabeth Wilmshurst, one of the Foreign Office lawyers who wrote the report, resigned in March 2003 in protest at the decision to go to war without a UN resolution specifically authorising military force.
Further intensification of the bombing, known in the Pentagon as the Blue Plan, began at the end of August, 2002, following a meeting of the US National Security Council at the White House that month.
General Tommy Franks, the allied commander, recalled in his autobiography, American Soldier, that during this meeting he rejected a call from Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, to cut the bombing patrols because he wanted to use them to make Iraq’s defences “as weak as possible”.
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