Put the blame on Plame – her husband, that is
Yes, the post title is a bad play off the song “Put the Blame on Mame” from the Rita Hayworth movie Gilda, I know. Anyway …
Joe Wilson: Liar liar, pants on fire – VIDEO
How does it feel now, Joe, to know that you’ve clearly and irrefutably been proven to be a grandstanding, cocktail party circuit liar on the issue of the alleged ‘deliberate’ outing of your wife? Money quote from Wilson is a minute 45 secs into the clip (the interview, btw, was taped long before the Isikoff’s and Corn’s revealing Armitage as the ‘leaker’):
Speculation: Armitage was the Plame ‘leaker’ and it was done so without malicious intent
Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff and The Nation’s David Corn have a new book coming out titled Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War which asserts that the State Department has known ‘for years’ that former Dep. Sec. of State Richard Armitage was the ‘leaker’ in the overdramatized, over-hyped by the far left l’affaire de Plame. Via Isikoff’s write up about it in Newsweek:
Yesterday’s ruling on the NSA’s warrantless wiretaps
By now you’ve all already heard the story about United States District Court (Detroit) Judge Anna Diggs Taylor’s ruling on the NSA’s warrantless wiretaps program, where suspicious calls originating in the US but going out overseas are sometimes monitored without a warrant.
A victory in the war on terror
Let’s hear it for U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly! Via AP: