The Scooter Story…

It is interesting that while George Bush is on A Book tour to restore his legacy. In the meantime there is also a movie opening that has a different view of his legacy. Fair Game, is a movie about the Valerie Plame affair, based on the books by both Valerie Plame herself and her husband Joe Wilson.

We all remember the whole story that started out with Joe wilson going to check on WMD’s in Niger, to Scooter Libby outing CIA undercover agent Valerie Plame to Scooter Libby going to prison to Scooter Libby having his sentence reduced to Dick Cheney being pissed at George Bush for not giving Scooter a full pardon.

This movie will add a new twist to the story. As Roger Ebert reviews the film, he reveals some new revelations.

Cheney’s aide, Scooter Libby, was tried and convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury, sentenced to prison, and his sentence quickly commuted by Bush. Cheney was angry he wasn’t pardoned outright. In the film, we see that Plame, under a variety of aliases, ran secret networks of informants in Bagdad and other Middle Eastern cities. When the administration blew her cover, several of her informants were killed; some reports say 70. Then the Bush spin doctors leaked the story that she was only a CIA “secretary.”

I wonder how many questions about this movie that the “liberal media” will ask of the ex president. If this story does disappear, then maybe vicki mckenna is right and it is the lamestream media.

“Even though I’m a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.” — George Herbert Walker Bush, 1999

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7 thoughts on “The Scooter Story…

  1. Scooter Libby went to prison for “obstruction of justice and perjury”…not for outing Plame. It’s been along time since this happened so my memory isn’t so clear…did he actually out Plame? If he did…why wasn’t he charged for it?

  2. Richard Armitage outed Plame to Novak. He admitted it. Novak admitted it. At least get your most basic fact straight.

  3. While doing a little reading on this story I found it interesting that the prosecution knew for two years who outed Plame but still continued the investigation.

  4. Because to say Armitage outted plame is not exactly true, that why. There was a very concerted effort by dick cheney/rove/libby to punish valeria plame for her husband telling the truth.

    then-Time magazine White House correspondent Matthew Cooper, in his first-person account (subscription required) of his testimony before the grand jury in the CIA leak investigation, identified Rove as his original source for Plame’s identity and Libby as his confirming source. Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller identified Libby as her primary source for Plame’s identity. Corn noted in an August 27 entry on his Capital Games weblog for The Nation that Armitage’s role in the Plame leak — whatever it may have been — does not undermine the allegation that there was a “concerted action” by “multiple people in the White House” to “discredit, punish, or seek revenge against” Plame’s husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV. Wilson had accused the Bush administration of manipulating intelligence about Iraq’s purported weapons of mass destruction. Corn wrote:

    The Armitage leak was not directly a part of the White House’s fierce anti-Wilson crusade. But as Hubris notes, it was, in a way, linked to the White House effort, for Amitage [sic] had been sent a key memo about Wilson’s trip that referred to his wife and her CIA connection, and this memo had been written, according to special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald [who was appointed to investigate the Plame leak], at the request of I. Lewis Scooter Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff. Libby had asked for the memo because he was looking to protect his boss from the mounting criticism that Bush and Cheney had misrepresented the WMD intelligence to garner public support for the invasion of Iraq.

    The memo included information on Valerie Wilson’s role in a meeting at the CIA that led to her husband’s trip. This critical memo was — as Hubris discloses — based on notes that were not accurate. (You’re going to have to read the book for more on this.) But because of Libby’s request, a memo did circulate among State Department officials, including Armitage, that briefly mentioned Wilson’s wife.

  5. As Corn wrote in the August 27 entry of his Capital Games weblog:

    Armitage’s role aside, the public record is without question: senior White House aides wanted to use Valerie Wilson’s CIA employment against her husband. Rove leaked the information to Cooper, and Libby confirmed Rove’s leak to Cooper. Libby also disclosed information on Wilson’s wife to New York Times reporter Judith Miller.*

    However you look at it rove/scooter were behind the leak and attempted discreditation of Wilson/Plame. Shame on them

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