Why Aren’t We Looking Beyond PlameGate?
One of the things I find fascinating as I watch the whole PlameGate story unfold is the focus of Main Stream Media and most blogs on the lies told to cover up that the CIA leak actually came from the White House, from near the top. No one in MSM and very few bloggers are publically questioning why Valerie Plame’s identity was leaked.
Oh, yes, I know they’re reporting that her identity was leaked in retaliation for her husband’s, Joe Wilson’s, public statements refuting their so-called evidence that Iraq had bought uranium from Nigeria.
The question people should be asking is why did they feel the need to retailiate? Wasn’t their evidence strong enough to withstand the criticism of one retired diplomat?
It just seems to me that they went to a lot of trouble just to discredit someone politically just because he said their information was wrong. Wouldn’t it have made more sense to prove their evidence was correct?
Unless that wasn’t possible; in which case, why not admit they were misled then?
The sad part is that if they had stepped up then and admitted that the information was questionable, they could have avoided a lot of things, not just the whole PlameGate thing but all the speculation that there was a conspiracy by the White House to take us to War in Iraq for their own nefarious reasons.
Unless, it was a conspiracy all along.
tags: politics, PlameGate, CIA, Joe Wilson, Iraq
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on December 19, 2005 at 5:11 pm
Big Dog said:
I have never been convinced her identity was leaked since she was not in a covert status and had been in the US for many. many years. The fact that Wilson introduced her as his wife who works in the CIA and had photos taken with her in Vanity Fair? magazine (not familiar with magazine) tends to diminish credibility.
What we need to be asking is who leaked the information about intercepting communications from suspected terrorists. People can debate whether it was legal or not but the fact is it was a secret program that was leaked. Why are we not all over this like we were when a pseudo-secret agent was involved. Oh, I mean an analyst (which is not a secret agent).
on December 20, 2005 at 9:55 am
n. mallory said:
Well, I think the public, Congress, and the Media are a bit distracted by the fact that the President is doing something illegal. There are checks and balances for a reason.