GOP strategy on the Plame Affair is to flood the coverage

[JackSwift]

and tell so many lies that the press is too confused trying to keep track of them. Repeat till whole democracy thing blows over.

[AP]

1. That's why the Dems saved there stuff for the last four days. They knew

media/GOP would have upper hand unless they brought things down to the wire.

[JackSwift]

2. Ummm, I meant on the Wilson affair

maybe I should edit.

[DemBones DemBones]

3. I just kicked my thread about the need for ALL OF US to write letters

about this. Letters to the editor, letters to your senators and rep, letters to the DNC, the DLC, letters to anyone you can think of. Letters to local papers, not just the NY Times or the Washington Post.

Add a link to a story to my thread if you have a good one.

[Booberdawg]

4. The CIA won't let them get away with it.

The Republican CIA agents I watched on Nightline last night issued a clear warning that this was not a partisan issue and they were not going to stand by and allow Wilson or his wife be bullied by the bush White House or the GOP and it MUST STOP. If their "suggestion" was not heard, more of them would come forward .. and make their presence known.

If there is going to be any ratfucking, it's going to be dished out by the CIA and served up to the GOP and the bush White House.

[Rowdyboy]

5. And I think

you may very well be right. They get real serious when their lives are put in unnecessary jeopardy.

[JackSwift]

6. This isn't just about Plame

It's about how casually the Junta burned a NOC and every foreign operation she has ever been associated with. All the safe houses, front companies and contacts. Decades worth of work down the crapper, scores of foreign contacts burned and left hanging (possibly actually hanging), all because Bush was pissed that someone dared call him on his lies.

And let's stop being coy. Bush is personally responsible. No one else in the administration combines the petty level of vindictiveness and willful ignorance necessary to launch two senior administration offices calling at least six news outlets until they finally found one "journalist" so slow-witted and unpatriotic that he would particpate in such a stupid and vindictive plot.

[Booberdawg]

7. Indeed it is not just about Plame

It was an unconscionable and staggaring act of treason with such vast national security implications it is almost impossible to contemplate. And for petty vindictiveness.

One of the CIA agents gave the analogy of an undercover cop working in a dangerous drug ring operation and making a major buy, and the subject makes a call to the police station to ask if he is an undercover cop. They say yes, he is an undercover cop.

Undercover cop gets his ass blown away.

CIA cannot function under those conditions. Nor can they recruit outside sources in other countries. Not if some asshole in the White House is willing to sacrifice all their lives and everything they've touched to play petty politics with someone to teach them a lesson.

Indeed.

[grasswire]

8. chaos, decoys, blind alleys....

...smoke and mirrors. That's how they muck through scandal after scandal after scandal.

We need to be focused, and strong, and not follow bait.

[Virginian]

9. If they get away with this one,

what's to keep them from doing it again.

They have to be stopped.

What if...
What if it was Bush himself doing the calling? I don't think he did, but what if he did it?

[Booberdawg]

10. No, he wouldn't have made the calls himself

but he had to know about it

[Friar]

12. He would have

if he could the hang of cell phones.

"Hey Karl! How do you turn this *hic* damn thing on?"

[Friar]

11. If Paul Begala had done what Novak did

he'd be in jail. And rightly so.

Write to CNN and request that Robert D. Novak be fired or suspended until the issue is resolved, one way or an other. I did.

Of course I know they will never do it.

Salon suspended all columns by Huffington while she was a California Gubernatorial candidate but then Salon is a "Liberal" outlet and is possesed of a modicum of integrity.