Poppy wrote Joe Wilson a handwritten letter after Valerie Plame was outed

[Oilwellian]

Shortly after Valerie Plame was outed, her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, received a long handwritten letter from the first President Bush expressing his "outrage at what had happened and his understanding of the seriousness of it," according to Wilson.

How must the father feel now that he knows his son is the leader of a gang of the “most insidious of traitors?”

The American taxpayers who paid for the investigation to determine the identities of the insidious traitors deserve to know what happened to Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald between October 28, 2005, and June 13, 2006. Back when he announced the Scooter Libby indictment, he said Valerie Plame's CIA status was classified and not common knowledge.

At his October press conference, Fitzgerald specifically told reporters, "Valerie Wilson was a CIA officer. In July 2003, the fact that Valerie Wilson was a CIA officer was classified. Not only was it classified, but also it was not widely known outside the intelligence community. Valerie Wilson's friends, neighbors, college classmates had no idea she had another life. The fact that she was a CIA officer was not well known, for her protection or for the benefit of all us. It's important that a CIA officer's identity be protected, that it be protected not just for the officer, but for the nation's security. Valerie Wilson's cover was blown in July 2003. The first sign of that cover being blown was when Mr. Novak published a column on July 14th, 2003."

In an August 27, 2005, affidavit, filed in the Libby case, Fitzgerald described Valerie Plame as “a person whose identity the CIA was making specific efforts to conceal and who had carried out covert work overseas within the last 5 years.”

Fitzgerald has identified Karl Rove as one of Novak's sources. In fact, according to court filings, Rove was the person who told Scooter Libby that Novak was planning to write a story about Wilson before it was published. And as it turns out, Rove was Time Magazine's Matt Cooper's source as well.

So what happened to the special prosecutor since October 28, 2005?

One thing is clear. The "Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement," Forms SF-312, signed by members of the Bush administration are not worth the paper they are written on. Rove signed that form as a condition of employment and it prohibits even confirming or repeating classified information already leaked.

(much more, great article)
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_915.shtml

[merci_me]

1. To answer your question: How does he feel?

Probably not at all surprised. After all, * is his mother's son. Poppy at least does sometimes show genuine empathy. Babs & son, NADA!!

[robbedvoter]

2. Poppy so out of the loop? Wow!

[Oilwellian]

10. It does pose an interesting question

What DOES Poppy think of his thug son being responsible for such a damaging blow to our national security?

[leesa]

20. Why? Were Poppy's profits effected? He doesn't give a shit about our

national security any more than his son does. I suspect Ms Plame has run across the name of Carlisle and/or GH Bush in a few of those WMD deals she has tracked.

[SmokingJacket]

3. Jebbie's the favorite.

George Junior is the embarrassment.

[Nimrod2005]

4. He needs to ground his son....until after 2008

[leveymg]

15. Too bad he was just sent to his room:

Bad Dubya. No TeeVee tonight.

[KittyWampus]

16. don't you just love that Yellow Rug? It displays Jr.'s "Sunny Optimism"

it's Springtime in for Junior in ..........

[CoffeeCat]

18. I thought it displayed his cowardice (nt)

[tavalon]

24. Lol

Good one! Kuddos.

[Fleshdancer]

5. I wonder how many Daddy Son arguments revolve around Rove

Jr seems awfully defiant in his support of turd blossom, doesn't he?

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

6. Very few. I doubt they speak.

I didn't like 41, but he wasn't a completely useless piece of treason turd.

[Fleshdancer]

7. Given his CIA history, the outing must have REALLY pissed him off

I'm sure 41 thinks there's a special place in hell for Scooter and anyone else associated with this mess.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

12. Can you imagine how pissed he is with Cheney?

He was supposed to provide adult supervision, not lead the way into a shit storm.

[MiniMe]

26. Daddy fired Rove from his election staff because of his dirty politics

And then Rove went to work for Jr. What does that tell you?

[Minnesota Libra]

8. Bush Sr and Bush Jr are on the barest of bare speaking terms..............

.....these days. I'd like to hear an argument between Bush Sr and Barbara when they sarcastically get to figuring out which one of them Bush Jr most favors. That is of course assuming Barbara agrees with Bush Sr and sees the outing of Valerie Wilson as the “most insidious of traitors”.

[chaz4jazz]

9. Promised a judgeship?

Maybe he was "talked" to a la Sopranos - "you don't want nothin to happen to your family..."

I wouldn't put it past these guys to buy Fitzgerald or scare the crap out of him.

[Kingshakabobo]

11. My only beef with his article is: Bush is BY NO MEANS the leader...

....of this gang. He's the "Puppet Prince."

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

13. IMO, Republican presidents have been figureheads since Reagen

The last guy to really lead was either Ford or Nixon.

Reagen and Bush (41 & 43) read cue cards and served their corporate masters well.

[Kingshakabobo]

14. Yep. I agree. n/t

[Pacifist Patriot]

19. He couldn't lead an army of ants to a picnic.

:thumbsup:

[Bake]

17. Frankly, I do wonder what happened to Fitz

Those who expected him to be the White Knight, the one to slay the evil Bush Dragon, were setting themselves up for disappointment. I'll admit that I had hopes of seeing Rove do the perp walk too.

Fitz may be a good prosecutor; his record certainly indicates that. But he's not the White Knight we hoped for. I think he wussed out this time. Maybe not; I suppose time will tell.

But I'm not holding my breath.

Bake

[gordianot]

21. Good advice.

These days hero's are suicidal.

[DisgustedTX]

22. Did Poppy get the TRUTHOUT?

:rofl:

[fooj]

23. This REALLY pisses me off.

The damning truth is that the US government exposed the identity of an undercover office and the fact that this unprecedented act will go unpunished will have far reaching consequences on covert operations all over the world.

I hate these treasonous, rat bastards with the intensity of 1000 suns!:grr:

[Hippo_Tron]

25. It's sad when Bush Sr. looks like a classy guy

This is the guy who hired Lee Atwater to win elections by using as many subtle racist themes as possible.