Make sure to watch Valerie Plame Wilson today. This day will go down in history

[zulchzulu]

YouTubed vids:
Part One: Valerie Plame Wilson's opening statements and questions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k3GuVTfWLw

Part Two: More questions/answers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxhBWOYTuNQ

Part Three: Kucinich and Plame
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0K-pSNw_O4

These videos are in the Videos section, but I wanted to make sure as many see this as possible.

[saltpoint]

1. zulchzulu, I think you've got it just exactly right. Valerie Plame today

was a startlingly competent witness. Her eye-contact quotient was as high as it gets in Washington and it seemed to me that she was brighter than most people in Washington, too.

The feeble Republicans could hardly even think of anything to ask her, sensing that she was entirely truthful and much better prepared.

They would have liked to have discredited her, but she ran rings around them.

[CJCRANE]

2. From Part Two...

the questions are in a way absurd...I mean should the CIA really go around telling people not to out specific covert agents? Doesn't that defeat the object of them being covert?

("Psst, hey, don't tell anyone she's a secret agent"
"What?"
"She's a secret agent. Don't tell anyone")

:shrug:

[zulchzulu]

7. That was the most crass comment out of desperation

Saying that the CIA needs to tell civilian politicians who is covert in lieu that they might be exposed in a political antic was preposterous. It was a talking point that already was shot in the head and bleeding on the sidewalk.

[peacetalksforall]

3. There is just one thing I regret. I regret that a Republican had to

ask her if Wilson was a Democrat and if she was. I wish he had never asked and I wish she would not have answered. I don't think people in the government have to answer that question when it's not directly relevant. On the other hand, she one-upped the Rushes and the Hannity's who would have obsessed about it if she had said no - she wasn't answering that question.

[poverlay]

4. Let's not forget that that particular republican can't even name half of the ten commandments... n/t

[niyad]

5. that was in reference to the fact that she donated money to gore in 2000--and listed her employer as

brewster-jennings. don't forget that the repukes are using that document as some of their "proof" that she was NOT covert.

with the existence of that document, it really wouldn't have done her any good to NOT say anything about her party affiliation, the repukes would only have twisted it as they do everything else. she handled it perfectly. the idiot repuke looked bad for asking her.

[POAS]

8. So what do they expect she should

have written when asked for her employment on the disclosure form, "I work undercover for the CIA"?

It was her cover you stupid Republic twit!

[texpatriot2004]

6. Mr. Davis in Part 2 was trying too hard to blame the CIA not the

Administration.

[POAS]

9. Which is why they dragged that

Toensing person onto the witless list. She was supposed to bolster that arguement.