One WP reporter told some people that he loves the NAZI SS uniform and hopes that he could wear that in the open. He was told US is a free country and go ahead. He said until GW Bush assumes all power (kicking out congress and suspending the constitution) he dare not.

Propgagate Dishonesty and Prevarication are the motto of the Washington Post.

GOD is the oNLY hope and prayer for USA. Not the WP nor the NYT. Even Bob Woodward is a GOP is a GOP propagandist.

Yours Truly

Gen Ike. E

Ari Fleischer himself said Plame was covert during his testimony in this trial.
Ironically, The Washington Post itself reported this:

When Fleischer mentioned that Plame was “covert,” Jeffress shouted an objection.
“Whatever her status was, that was totally irrelevant,” the judge told the jury. A minute later, Fleischer repeated the allegation the judge had just disallowed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01788.html

Aren’t you a wee bit tad curious why Ari Fleischer, master of evasion, said that Plame was covert *twice* in fron of the jury during his testimony? Now, why would he do that? It seems to weigh heavily on his mind.
Toensing is floundering.

When Fleischer mentioned that Plame was “covert,” Jeffress shouted an objection.
“Whatever her status was, that was totally irrelevant,” the judge told the jury. A minute later, Fleischer repeated the allegation the judge had just disallowed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01788.html

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Bob Woodward and Gloria Borger on the Chris Mathews Show. You gotta dance with the one that brung ya
Woodward shockingly responded: “They are a party to this war. They voted for it.”

Extraordinary, Bob. Bravo!

There is nothing extraordinary about Bob Woodward’s rhetorical “hocus pocus.”

Woodward is doing what Woodward does best — Protecting George W Bush.

“Why it can’t be my precious Bush’s fault — I know, the big bad DEMOCRATS MADE GEORGE BUSH INVADE IRAQ!!!!!”

This is Bush’s war. He wanted it. He invaded. He mismanaged it. He continues it.

As to the suggestion about Pelosi Reid and Bush gettting together and putting a bipartisan solution together, great!

Except Bush doesn’t want to. He still wants his war.

One gleaming “prize” that the Washington Post (and the Wall Street Journal and their corporate team members) dearly hopes to gain from mischaracterizing the investigation and Libby trial [an investigation and trial which have in fact been honorably and scrupulously conducted by Special Counsel Fitzgerald] is in fact suddenly drawing closer now by leaps and bounds:

Unbelievably, John Conyers, no less, is about to spring into action to push a “federal shield law” for our sterling national press corps through his Judiciary Committee and the House, with the help of some Republican members, according to a recent news account (San Francisco Chronicle, I believe) that discussed the fall-out from the baseball steroids investigation. No doubt this rush job of shield legislation will have no time to take testimony from the two men in America who probably currently have the best perspective and experience to discuss this vital issue in depth with the House, with regard to the impact such legislation would have on the rule of law and the Judicial System and thus on the honest operation of our federal government: Mr. Fitzgerald and Mr. Eckenrode (now retired from the FBI).

As with HAVA, our Members of Congress see a problem, and proceed to devise a “solution” that instead causes far more insidious and destructive harm to our democracy. Stop and think, Congress!!

If John Conyers and his fellow Democrats do not at this stage fully understand and appreciate the overwhelming power and control that they would be willingly ceding to the corporate-subsidiary media of this country by hastily enacting a federal shield law for “reporters,” the Democratic Party is beyond contempt and beyond useless to the people of this country.

It just takes my breath away to hear honorable Members of Congress assert that employees [such as Bob Novak and Brit Hume and Judith Miller and yes, Victoria Toensig] of agenda-driven media subsidiaries of profit-driven corporations should be exempt from judicially-enforced testimony in front of federal grand juries that are conducting good-faith investigations of possible criminal wrong-doing (especially in our federal government). Every other citizen in this country must testify in such investigations under the law, but John Conyers wants to create a special class of “citizen” (anyone who can call themselves a reporter) who could (and would) shield any and all wrong-doing (and leaks of any classified information for any reason) in order to protect anonymous (good-faith or otherwise) government sources in the name of the First Amendment.

In today’s corporate-owned media world, such a solution is the height of folly, as far as I can see. DOJ guidelines are already so stringent about forcing testimony from reporters only as a last resort, that Libby’s defense team mocked and denigrated Tim Russert for being treated with such kid gloves by the prosecution during the arrangements for his testimony in this investigation. The CIA leak case ought to have taught the Members of Congress how vital it is that good faith reporting of whistleblowing leaks is where their attention must lie: with the cause of the whistleblowers, and not with the bad faith political and corporate manipulations of today’s private-market-oriented as opposed to public-interest-serving mass media.

Christy wrote an excellent post about this recently, calling for wide and deep public debate about this reporter shield issue. The House of Representatives seems poised instead to take a leap off the nearest cliff. I’m simply appalled that some of the most-targeted victims of the media manipulation in this country for the last six-plus years have yet to fully realize the ugly and democracy-hostile forces that they, and we, are up against, and must seriously and diligently contend with in order to retain our liberty.

This is what people keep forgetting. It wasn’t just Valerie Plame’s covert identity that was disclosed. All of the CIA operatives who used this CIA front company also had their covert non-official-cover identities compromised. Along with all of their contacts overseas that these CIA operatives had cultivated over the years.

Therefore, a sizable intelligence gathering network was compromised by the nefarious actions of some Republican political hacks and their equally culpable masters in the offices of the president and the vice-president.

And if these Republican political hacks get away with what amounts to murder then they will be viewed as no different than Ames and Hansen. We are talking about comparable national security breaches.

Which is why I’d ask Comstock and Toensing the following: “Based on your blindly loyal defense of the Bush administration after its initiating two major national security breaches in 2003, do you believe that what Ames and Hansen did years ago should also have gone unpunished?”

I believe Patrick Fitzgerald knows that there is no difference between what Ames and Hansen did (and were prosecuted for doing) and what Bush officials did in 2003. And based on my own experience in U.S. military intelligence years ago (especially after attending all those meetings where security classifications were discussed), if these Bush administration traitors skate and go unpunished after compromising our national security in such a nefarious manner in 2003, then they have made a complete mockery of our democracy.

IMPEACH everyone in the Bush administration responsible, starting from the top down, NOW!!!