FOX: Hume: Valerie Plame LIED Under Oath

[kpete]

Hume Launches New Smear: Valerie Plame Lied Under Oath

Today on Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume continued his campaign to smear Valerie Plame Wilson. Previously, he had falsely said that it was “unlikely she was” covert.

Instead of apologizing this morning, he launched a new attack against Plame, claiming that she had lied under oath when she testified on Friday about whether she recommended her husband be sent to Niger to investigate Iraq’s supposed nuclear ambitions.
Hume said Plame’s testimony “flies in the face of the evidence” produced by the “bipartisan” Senate Intelligence Committee, which said that “she very much did have something to do with it, that she recommended him and that she put it in a memo.”

Plame testified that she never suggested her husband for the Niger trip. “I did not recommend him, I did not suggest him, there was no nepotism involved — I didn’t have the authority,” she said.

Hume’s false claim originated from a statement attached to the Senate Intelligence Committee report on Iraq that was released in 2004. In an addendum to that report, Sens. Pat Roberts (R-KS), Christopher Bond (R-MO), and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) wrote definitively, “The plan to send the former ambassador to Niger was suggested by the former ambassador’s wife, a CIA employee.” The right-wing, including columnist Bob Novak, have taken the statement written by three Republican senators and falsely attributed it as the “unanimous” conclusion of the Senate report.

VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/18/hume-plame-oath/

[Christian30]

1. Scumbag

nt.

[johnfunk]

57. If I were Brit Hume's son, I'd want to kill myself too.

Oh, wait... his son did kill himself.

Yes, that was a low blow. But not low enough for that CIA-agent-hating amphibian shit Brit Hume.

[LSK]

2. Counting to 10 before I break something..

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[berni_mccoy]

3. Time For Hume TO TESTIFY UNDER OATH that he isn't being paid by the Administration

[bbgrunt]

28. damn right. then he could get the scooter treatment

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

45. Berni! What a fantastic idea! If they could have that vile Toesing testify, why not Hume? eom

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Typical--plant false information somewhere

& then keep citing it as independently sourced.

That puts a lot of perspective on the Puggies' performance at Waxman's hearing. You're now gonna be hearing crap; from Westmoreland, Toensing et al as the "findings" of the Waxman committee.

[blm]

42. Some of us DUers continually posted that those findings were PLANTED to protect Rove

and the WH talking points against Wilson. Every GOPer who has spoken on this case used those planted talking points over the last 3 years.

This is why we wanted Pat Roberts to be called to testify to Fitzgerald on the alleged 'evidence' he used to make his conclusions.

[TahitiNut]

5. DU: TahitiNut: Brit Hume CAN'T HANDLE the Truth!

He wouldn't acknowledge the truth if it gave him a lap dance. :puke:

[Botany]

26. He wouldn't acknowledge the truth if it gave him a lap dance.

:rofl:

[TahitiNut]

31. Oh! My! Gawd! Jessica!!

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

I can't help it ... she just floats my boat!!!

[tridim]

62. Unlike Bo Derek, Jessica Alba is actually a "10".

She's perfection, but almost too perfect.

[TahitiNut]

63. While I'm appreciative of many ...

... I seem to have a particular resonance for Jessica Alba. When I saw "Into The Blue" I was struck almost dumb with how perfect her tush looked. (I'm an "ass man" ... even though I eschew that kind of objectivist term.) When I did a little research and found that she suffered some health problems and rises above them, I gained even more respect. When I consider her background (in both senses of the word), I'm just awestruck. It's strange for a guy in my 60s to feel a teen-aged crush - but she sure rocks my world. She's just lovely - graceful, well-spoken, courageous. (And I love her complexion.)

[understandinglife]

61. ROFLMAO!!!!

:rofl:

Brilliant TN!!! :thumbsup:


Peace.

[Turbineguy]

6. Thanks!

I was wondering who the "three Senators" were who wrote this. Valerie Plame also mentioned the other CIA person who's testimoney was taken out of context by these guys.

[rosesaylavee]

7. Well, if Brit says it

I know its true. Now where's my koolaid?

:sarcasm:

[saltpoint]

8. Ms. Plame's attorney might contact Hume and his employer regarding

a slander action.

That might tone things down just a bit.

[LSK]

15. they really need to be suing a lot of people

[saltpoint]

27. Probably so, but it might be clarifying. FOX News could do with LOTS of

clarifying.

Johnny Carson used to sue the hell out of the tabloids for printing untrue gossip about him.

That strategy might work for Joe and Valerie.

[tridim]

17. Absolutely.. Welcome to the civil suit Hume.

You fucktard.

[ixion]

20. yep, that was my reaction, too...

I would think a lawsuit would be in order.



howdy Old Crusoe. Nice to see you again. :hi:

[saltpoint]

25. Ixion, hello & happy Boot Gonzales Week!

I thought Plame's testimony was very convincing. I bet many of Hume's viewers are repressing the fact that she was a very credible witness in that hearing.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

47. ditto...

...eom

[Patsy Stone]

9. Well, now that Brit has said it...

I finally believe it!

What does it take to have one's FCC license revoked these days anyway? Can't we find someone who will stand outside of the morning show and expose a nipple?

[Botany]

30. Did I ever tell you that you are my Fav EDV?

Can't we find someone who will stand outside of the morning show and expose a nipple?

Planes fly from Florida to NYC all the time. Go make a boob of yourself and help keep America
abreast of what scum Fox is, after all they are just right wing titillation.

Snort.

[bluedog]

10. the civil case has not been heard yet.....Hume should STFU

Vals lawyers should tell him to stuff it.......

[johnfunk]

56. Val's lawyers should present Hume with blue-wrapped papers.

Sue the turd.

[gratuitous]

11. I notice Plame was under oath; will Hume repeat his charge under oath?

Go ahead, Brit; contact the committee, and submit your sworn testimony that Valerie Plame perjured herself based on . . . what, your Magic 8 Ball? A minority statement that didn't clear the Senate Intelligence Committee submitted by three notorious liars? Sounds like you're on really solid ground to me, Mr. Hume. Go for it. And when you get to the Gray Bar Hotel, be sure to establish yourself as the biggest loony in the joint that nobody had better mess with, or become that guy's bitch. My guess, based on your career as a "reporter" is that you'll be more comfortable in the second role.

[tridim]

24. It didn't stop Toensing. n/t

[watrwefitinfor]

34. Sure wish someone had asked her under oath who, in the administration, was paying her.

What would it take to get these creepy-crawlers in the media to come clean about why they do what they do? Would they lie under oath about it?

Wat

[Me.]

12. Can She Sue For Defamation?

Make him shut up and pay for the privilege

[depakid]

19. She certainly can

and she should. In fact if more people who've been defamed took action against lying media whores we might actually see a return to the good old days of fact checking.

[Cooley Hurd]

13. They continue to SMEAR a woman who put her LIFE on the line...

...for this country! :grr: Hume, and others of his degenerate ilk, are walking, talking excrement piles.:grr:

[Botany]

14. Pay him no mind. He is selling the lies that "they" want sold.

Just as that awful Victoria Toessing was last friday.

Rep. Cummings' q & a

Cummings: Covert status at time of leak?

Plame: Yes, congressman

Cummings: During past 5 years from today, did you conduct covert missions overseas?

Plame: Yes, sir

Cummings: During past 5 years from today, did you conduct covert missions overseas?

Plame: Yes, sir

Toessing afterwards, "Well legally, she wasn't covert."

"They" can not be truthful on this story or their whole house of cards comes crashing
down around their ears. Hume is a paid propagandist.

[LynnTheDem]

16. Wow! Rightwingnut Hume lying again! And rightwingnuts falling for the lies again!

Gee how amazingly shocking not!

[rodeodance]

54. no surprize--that Brit has the nerve to talk of her credibility!!

[liberalnurse]

18. And folks here

bitch and moan about some of us who support Democratic candidates boycotting Faux. This is exactly why!

I rest my case.

O8)

[smoogatz]

41. Yep.

Fox Noise is the corporate propaganda organ of the Republican Party. Why would any Democrat choose to legitimize it by taking part? Are they that desperate for air-time, any air-time?

[Bjorn Against]

21. Can she sue Brit Hume for slander?

He is accusing her of a crime, and it is illegal to publicly accuse someone of a crime if you do not have evidence to back up your claims. Of course the law is different for public figures, but I don't think Valerie Plame could be considered to be a public figure in any sense of the term, as she never been in the camera's eye until recently and throughout the whole trial she did not say anything publicly until she was called before Congress.

I hope she can sue, and I hope she does.

[glitch]

33. You can't lie about public figures either. Just ask the legal team for the National Inquirer. nt

[Grandrose]

22. No surprise!

:argh:

[zulchzulu]

23. No he didn't...

That's what he'll say next week.

Of course, Hume vomited the usual Repig talking points...he is as predictable as the smell of shit.

[Maraya1969]

29. If you want to tell him how you feel here's his email

[e-mail]

[papau]

48. Thanks - email sent - copy below.

To: '[e-mail]'
Subject: You once had ethics - but now slime'ing Plame with the lie that a "bi-partisan Senate Report" reported she recommended her husband, when you know it wasn't in the bi-partisan section - SAD

You once had ethics - but now slime'ing Plame with the lie that a "bi-partisan Senate Report" reported she recommended her husband, when you know it wasn't in the bi-partisan section – SAD.

Perhaps you will in the future ask permission of your right wing GOP controlled employer to tell the truth?

Perhaps saying the portion of the Senate Report that contradicts Plame’s testimony is not “bi-partisan”, and is a section by 3 right wing GOP Senators that was added as “other information” – such “other information” not being signed off by the others in the group – would take away too much time needed to slime and smear those folks listed in the morning memo - that procedure that Roger Ailes’ installed to control what was said on Fox.

May God have mercy on your soul.

[Maraya1969]

50. Great letter! eom

[Cheap_Trick]

32. hey, Shit Fumes...

get your nose out of *'s ass before it gets broken by the Dem's foot. hack hack

[rodeodance]

35. so, this memo that Brit says exits is really 3 repugs 'opion' or is

there such a memo?

[Laurab]

67. There's supposed to be a memo and Waxman

and the committee asked for it to be provided to them. Valerie Plame testified that whoever was quoted by the repukes came to her almost in tears and said they had twisted his words, and he had written and sent a memo correcting the record. At least two people at the hearing asked for that memo to be provided.

I'm not sure if they requested the memo Hume talked about - that was in the Senate record or something, but the memo correcting it is supposed to be being made available.

[Maestro]

36. When you have no defense for your friends

lie about your enemy. Hume is such a scumbag.

[Bitwit1234]

37. There is an article somewhere

I read an article and now I can't find it. I think someone from the CIA
had interviewed Plame when the investigation first started. She told him at that time she did not send her husband. That she did not have the authority to send her husband. The man wrote a memo to the republican dominated investigation committee. After the wrote their findings in the report, somehow they came out with the statement that Plame sent her husband. Directly opposite of what she said.

She confronted the CIA guy and he told her postively he did not say that he was very upset and said the bastards changed his statement. He said he had a copy of the memo and that when it was located he would give it to her.

I have tried and tried to find the article again and cant'. Something like that I usually print out. But I needed a refill on my cartridge and couldn't.

I usually only go to DU, CrooksandLiars, HuffPost, Raw Story and a few of the others I searched their archives over and over and found nothing. Maybe someone else can locate it...The guy definetly said the bastards changed his memo. I guess Barnes being head of everything thought they would be in charge forever and it wouldn't get out he falisfied a report.

[Laurab]

68. Something like that was also said in Valerie Plame's testimony

Whoever the guy was is supposed to have sent a corrected memo to the committee, and Waxman is asking for a copy of the corrected memo. (See my post a little ways above).

[opihimoimoi]

38. When ya got nuthin....resort to smearing...typical Pub Bully Tatics

Its always about how and who to smear....never about the issues...

[halobeam]

39. I just emailed him.

Not that it will make a difference, but that doesn't stop me from stating the truth.

He slandered her, and I hope he gets sued.

[ContraBass Black]

40. I'd love to see somebody try to prosecute that.

[young_at_heart]

43. He sure tries to speak with authority...he's the last word on this

He reads these Republican talking points as if they are "The Truth" and how many sheep will lap it up? I pray that Valerie sues him and Faux News!

[Arkansas Granny]

44. Britt Hume and Bill Kristol have been imbibing the kool-aid at

toxic levels. They also claimed that she outed herself by going to breakfast with her husband. Totally delusional!

[Poiuyt]

46. The CIA agent upon who's testimony the Senate report was based wanted to be

re-interviewed because they twisted his words so:

The three conservative senators based their claim on testimony by a CIA employee who appeared before the Senate Intel Committee. Plame revealed on Friday that the CIA employee later apologized to her “with tears in his eyes” because he said “his words had been twisted and distorted” by the senators. And in fact, the unnamed employee drafted a memo, asking that he be re-interviewed by the Senate to correct the record. His attempts to set the record straight were denied. On Friday, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) asked to retrieve a copy of that memo:

REP. VAN HOLLEN: So, just so I understand, Mr. Chairman, if I could — so, there was a memo written by the officer, upon whose alleged testimony the Senate wrote its report that contradicts the conclusions –

MS. PLAME WILSON: Absolutely.

REP. VAN HOLLEN: — contradicts the conclusions from that report.

MS. PLAME WILSON: Yes, sir.

REP. VAN HOLLEN: Mr. Chairman, it seems to me that this committee should ask for that memo. And it bears directly on the credibility of the Senate report on this very, very important issue, which they’ve attempted to us to discredit Ambassador Wilson’s mission.

REP. WAXMAN: I think the gentleman makes an excellent point, and we will insist on getting that memo.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/18/hume-plame-oath/

[walldude]

49. I wonder how it feels..

to be a pathetic pawn. To be a step inside the door, only because you are willing to say or do anything to be able to take yet another step further inside. I'd pity him if he weren't such a lying piece of shit.

[Mister Ed]

51. Then let them bring perjury charges against Plame.

They'll never do it, because they know she told the truth. And her perjury trial would bring out soooo much more that they're desperate to hide.

[ORDagnabbit]

52. I wonder if this is actionable by Valerie? n/t

[rodeodance]

53. Here is another DU thread on this issue:

Forum Name General Discussion: Politics
Topic subject Hume Launches New Smear: Valerie Plame Lied Under Oath

Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3168644#3168644
3168644,

Hume Launches New Smear: Valerie Plame Lied Under Oath

Posted by babylonsister on Sun Mar-18-07 10:46 AM

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/18/hume-plame-oath /

Hume Launches New Smear: Valerie Plame Lied Under Oath

Today on Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume continued his campaign to smear Valerie Plame Wilson. Previously, he had falsely said that it was “unlikely she was” covert.

Instead of apologizing this morning, he launched a new attack against Plame, claiming that she had lied under oath when she testified on Friday about whether she recommended her husband be sent to Niger to investigate Iraq’s supposed nuclear ambitions.

Hume said Plame’s testimony “flies in the face of the evidence” produced by the “bipartisan” Senate Intelligence Committee, which said that “she very much did have something to do with it, that she recommended him and that she put it in a memo.” Watch it at link:

Plame testified that she never suggested her husband for the Niger trip. “I did not recommend him, I did not suggest him, there was no nepotism involved — I didn’t have the authority,” she said.

Hume’s false claim originated from a statement attached to the Senate Intelligence Committee report on Iraq that was released in 2004. In an addendum to that report, Sens. Pat Roberts (R-KS), Christopher Bond (R-MO), and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) wrote definitively, “The plan to send the former ambassador to Niger was suggested by the former ambassador’s wife, a CIA employee.” The right-wing, including columnist Bob Novak, have taken the statement written by three Republican senators and falsely attributed it as the “unanimous” conclusion of the Senate report.

The three conservative senators based their claim on testimony by a CIA employee who appeared before the Senate Intel Committee. Plame revealed on Friday that the CIA employee later apologized to her “with tears in his eyes” because he said “his words had been twisted and distorted” by the senators. And in fact, the unnamed employee drafted a memo, asking that he be re-interviewed by the Senate to correct the record. His attempts to set the record straight were denied. On Friday, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) asked to retrieve a copy of that memo:

REP. VAN HOLLEN: So, just so I understand, Mr. Chairman, if I could — so, there was a memo written by the officer, upon whose alleged testimony the Senate wrote its report that contradicts the conclusions –

MS. PLAME WILSON: Absolutely.

REP. VAN HOLLEN: — contradicts the conclusions from that report.

MS. PLAME WILSON: Yes, sir.

REP. VAN HOLLEN: Mr. Chairman, it seems to me that this committee should ask for that memo. And it bears directly on the credibility of the Senate report on this very, very important issue, which they’ve attempted to us to discredit Ambassador Wilson’s mission.

REP. WAXMAN: I think the gentleman makes an excellent point, and we will insist on getting that memo.

Transcript:

HUME: And the other thing that needs to be noted here is when she says that she had nothing to do with getting her husband the trip, that flies in the face of the evidence adduced by the Senate Intelligence Committee whose findings were released not on a partisan basis — the bipartisan findings of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which was that she very much did have something to do with it, that she recommended him and that she put it in a memo.

WALLACE: So she was lying under oath?

HUME: I think that there is reason to question her credibility on that point.

[rodeodance]

55. says WAXman wants that MEMO also.

[tanyev]

58. “If Fox was embarrassingly right wing or something like that, it would be plain for all to see.”

--Mort Kondrake


This quote cannot be repeated too many times.

[BlooInBloo]

59. They have no choice but to say that...

... Else admit they were wrong - yah, *that'll* happen.

EDIT: The National Review recognized this problem, and valiantly tried for a "third alternative", viz "Depends on what "covert" means". It just doesn't pass the hypocrisy-laugh test.

[Catherine Vincent]

60. Hume is earning his pay at Fox Noise.

He's lucky today is the sabbath or else I'd say what I really feel.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

64. Irrelevant, Mr. Hume

What does it matter who sent Joseph Wilson to Niger? Valerie Plame is not on trial. But the Bush Administration IS, at least in the minds of the American public. What matters is what Joseph Wilson found there. What matters are the forged Niger documents and the fraudulent statements of the administration. Those are the crimes. What does it matter how those crimes were uncovered? If Bush's lies were brought to light because Cheney sent Wilson to Niger, or Valerie Plame sent Joe Wilson to Niger, does it matter in the least?

And I notice Hume is no longer questioning whether Plame was covert anymore.

[Patsy Stone]

65. It matters

because she said she was a Democrat, and now it's suddenly verrrry important to make her into a liar. After all, we know how seriously they take perjury -- when a Democrat's accused.

It's the same reason he didn't seem to take issue with Victoria lying under oath. Some perjury is more equal than others.

[WinkyDink]

66. Slander---it's what's for breakfast! Ole Brit had better get a lawyer.

[TankLV]

69. That statement was attached WITHOUT APROVAL and AFTER THE REPORT WAS PREPARED by the Repukes...

ATTENTION DEMOCRATS:

NOW would be a good time to REMOVE THAT UNAPPROVED statement and print up as many NEW copies of the OFFICIAL APPROVED report so the repuke LIES can be replased by the TRUTH...