With friends like this ..

With friends like this ..

Heh…spent the last 48 hours straight (it seems) at Tom Maguire’s. I even indulged in some conspiracy theorizing. It only lasted about two hours, then I backed off.

Please, people, don’t assume Ms Wilson was not undercover because you think she was already ‘out’.

Charley…there are, really, covert people who physically show up at Langley.

(and ed, don’t make too much of this the other way.)

And, another thing, I think the tendency here is to poo-poo the AP for reporting anonymous sources saying Ms Wilson is really covert. Why? Because you don’t believe it’s true? I believe it’s true.

But you have to try to figure out who the sources are. They also spoke to Reuters which has its own release on it.

People I know on the right assume the three sources are Wilson, Plame, and Larry Johnson. I disagree. I think the three sources are friendly to the administration, though I don’t know who they are.

You see the WINPAC info IS important. The ‘table-talk’ is important. It’s showing us that what Libby told Miller, he got from unofficial sources.

And the reason I think I’m right is that the MSM didn’t pick up and expand on this…it doesn’t help them in their never-ending fight to get the administration. The dems have been silent on it too.

I also think Brewster-Jennings and even, possibly, ‘Valery Plame’, are red herrings. Old ‘outings’ that have no applicability now.

Whether indictments will come down or not, I don’t know. I really don’t. The fact that ms wilson, aka valery plame, works at the agency would not have come out into the public as official information if Harlow had not confirmed the info to Novak (accidentally or on purpose).

We just have to wait and see.

BTW, it occurred to me that Joe Wilson himself is (or was) CIA, working undercover as State Dept. (class2a) Might explain why he didn’t sign an NDA before the trip.

Jerry: I understood that one possibility the SP was looking at was the diclosure thing, perhaps based on old espionage laws–If indictments are bought, would that not be the equivalent of an official secrets act? Most of the DC bureaucrats SES 1, Flag Officer, and FSO 1s would be going to jail, the media sources would dry up, and special prosecutor will become a major career field as most the permanent bureaucrats, and all of the political appointees are brought to trial.

What a maroon!!

It is interesting that Fitzgerald has changed the focus of his investigation from the Intelligence Identities Protection Act to unauthorized disclosure. This is a sign that he is another special prosecutor gone wild.

In addition, all this talk of VP violating some disclosure law is wishful thinking on the part of the press. The VP probably has declassification authority.

An “anonymous source” should never be cited, a honest reporter should check out the information, and simply report what could be verified.