Twofer: NOVAKula Whines, ELLSBERG Meets PLAME

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/search/sfl-pnovak16oct16,0,1110988.story
.... "This has stayed alive for several reasons," he said. "A lot of people want to use it to bring down President Bush. There are a lot of people -- on the left and right -- who don't like me and would like to discredit me." ....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32462-2003Oct15.html
.... Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers more than 30 years ago, was introduced at the National Press Club yesterday as "the ultimate whistle-blower." But, grinning from the dais, Ellsberg said he'd finally achieved another great ambition: to meet Joe Wilson's wife. ....

He (WILSON) also directly criticized Bush for the first time, saying he was "appalled by the apparent nonchalance of the president of the United States. . . . His attitude toward this simply cannot stand." ....

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[blm]

1. Let's hear it for Wilson, Plame, Beers, Rowley and ALL in the intel

community willing to work for the good guys.

[TacticalPeek]

3. And Greg Thielmann.

There are many.

[jbfam4]

6. the real patriots

These are the Good guys.......the real patriots....

[sattahipdeep]

2. Who is Michael Ledeen?

WASHINGTON - Acting through a prominent conservative with friends at
the Pentagon (news - web sites), a central figure in the Iran-Contra
scandal has passed allegations to the Bush administration that enriched
uranium was smuggled from Iraq (news - web sites) into Iran five years
ago and some may remain hidden in Iraq.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3269882,00.html

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031016/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_uranium_allegations_1

[leftchick]

4. michael ledeen is....

pnac.... http://www.pnac.info/blog/archives/000046.html

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5. Besides Iran-Contra, LEDEEN Was One of BLUMENTHAL's Libelers

from BLUMENTHAL's "The CLINTON Wars", pp 471-2:

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....When I'd first met David Brock in August 1997, he had told me about his ongoing conversations with Drudge about the libel against me. "Drudge said," according to Brock, "that he doesn't care if his reputation is lowered. He said, 'I'll be the brightest star in the sky and Sidney Blumenthal will be nobody.' " And Drudge confided in Brock that he had been put up to libeling me by several Republican sources. One of them, he said, was Richard Carlson, ambassador to the Seychelles during the first Bush administration and a close associate of Richard Mellon Scaife. Drudge also said he had relied for advice upon Michael and Barbara Ledeen; Michael was a figure involved in the early stages of the Iran-Contra scandal who became a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, while his wife worked for the Independent Women's Forum. Drudge suggested that another source was John Fund, an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal who had been a ghostwriter for Rush Limbaugh and was close to Newt Gingrich. ....Tucker Carlson, Richard Carlson's son...."

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7. Here's His AEI Bio

http://www.aei.org/scholars/filter./scholar_byname.asp

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http://www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.35,filter./scholar.asp
Michael A. Ledeen
Resident Scholar in the Freedom Chair
Ledeen is an expert on U.S. foreign policy. His research areas include state sponsors of terrorism, Iran, the Middle East, Europe (Italy), U.S.-China relations, intelligence, and Africa (Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe). A former consultant to the NSC and to the U.S. State and Defense Departments, he has also written on leadership and the use of power. His latest book is entitled The War against the Terror Masters.

Professional Experience
-Commissioner, U.S.-China Commission, 2001-
-Consultant, NSC, State and Defense Departments, 1982-1986
-Senior fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 1982-1986
-Special adviser to the Secretary of State, 1981-1982
-Senior staff member, Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1977-1981
-Rome correspondent, The New Republic, 1975-1977
-Visiting professor of history, University of Rome, Italy, 1975-1977
-Instructor and assistant professor of history, Washington University, 1967-1974

Education
Ph.D., history and philosophy, University of Wisconsin
M.S., history and philosophy, University of Wisconsin
B.A., Pomona College

Articles and Short Publications
Into the Quagmire

Boudin vs. America

The Ayatollahs' Bomb




Books
The War against the Terror Masters

Machiavelli on Modern Leadership

Tocqueville on American Character




Events
Khomeini Comes to America

A Radical Shock for the Twenty-first Century

The Future of Iran




Speaking Engagements
Machiavelli for Moderns

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[Bandit]

10. Is that a Cuban Cigar in his hand in violation of US sanctions?

Republicans see nothing wrong with their blatant violations of their own trumped up sanctions.

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8. Novak is Unpatriotic

Novak just couldn't resist a scoop. He loves himself more than the US of A. He's unpatriotic.

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9. DRUDGE in a Snit Over CLOONEY, and It's "Gov. SCHNITZEL"

Related to TreasonGate, DRUDGE posted MATALIN's pic with ROVE, CHEENEE, & Condi back when, implying she was one possibility as the Leaker.

The part in the column about the nickname for Ahhhnuld is not related, but was right there, plus it is parallel to Tweety's own staff being the originators of the Tweety nickname. Looked up "schnitzel" before anybody took offense. (But now, possibly digging myself into a hole, ) Shrub looked AS TALL AS Ahhhnuld in today's media slop-up. It has appeared that ALL of the newly-installed potentates, such as the "road map" summiteers, have all been Shrub's height, like, it's a requirement not to be taller than Shrub. Also surprisingly, CNN departed its usual whorishness by CUTTING AWAY from Shrub-Ahhhnuld to go back to coverage of the pope, wow.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/127437p-113981c.html

.... "This is not a news program! This is an entertainment program and they can't just use it without my permission," Drudge said.

Clooney said the show's lawyers have advised otherwise. ....

Now it can be revealed: Not even Arnold Schwarzenegger knows his political staff's private nickname for him. The California governor-elect's loyalists apparently don't want to risk his ire by addressing him as "Gov. Schnitzel."

-------from Merriam-Webster:----
"schnitzel"
Etymology: German, literally, shaving, chip, diminutive of Schnitz slice, from Middle High German snitz; akin to Old High German snIdan to cut, Old English snIthan, and perhaps to Czech snet bough
Date: 1854
: a seasoned and garnished veal cutlet

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