No crime was ever committed

Here’s what Washingtong insiders are saying about the Rove smear: If Joe diGenova is right, and I suspect he is, the federal investigation into the disclosure of the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame should never have happened. “My views are stronger than ever,” the former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia said … Continue reading “No crime was ever committed”

Here’s what Washingtong insiders are saying about the Rove smear:

If Joe diGenova is right, and I suspect he is, the federal investigation into the disclosure of the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame should never have happened.

“My views are stronger than ever,” the former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia said Monday when asked about the white-hot controversy that has sent a New York Times reporter to jail, changed the rules of investigative journalism and now threatens to envelop the White House in a major crisis. “This investigation never should have started because it’s apparent that no crime was ever committed.”

diGenova says the CIA took no steps to protect Plame’s identity because some inside the agency were playing politics. Wilson didn’t even sign a non-disclosure agreement before hiking off to Niger, for example. You can’t even interview for an engineering job without doing that, for godsakes.

Who do these donkeys think they’re fooling?

6 thoughts on “No crime was ever committed”

  1. During a White House Press Briefing on September 30, 2003 President Bush said the following in response to a question regarding the leaking of Valerie Plame’s identity, “… if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.” When asked at a post G-8 Summit News Conference on June 10, 2004 if he stood by his statement that he would fire whoever was responsible for the leak, Bush said, “Yes. And that’s up to the U.S. attorney to find the facts.”

    At the Dedication Ceremony for the George Bush Center for Intelligence on April 26, 1999, former President George Herbert Walker Bush stated, “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.”

    According to Title 50, Ch. 15, Subch. IV, Sec. 421 intentionally revealing the identity of a covert CIA agent is punishable by 3-10 years in prison or $15-50k in fines or both.

  3. Richard, this stuff is all very ridiculous, but have you noticed that it has pulled the mooonbats attention away from Club Gitmo. Of course on the negative side it has also drawn attention away from London.

    All your people OK? I have a niece and her children who were going down to London last Thursday to Euston. Had she been on the next train earlier she would have got off at Euston and onto a #30 bus at about the time of the explosions. What did they ever do to those terrorists?!?

  4. My relatives are all OK, thanks for asking.

    Don’t you know they’re not “terrorists” now, they’re just “bombers?”

  6. We don’t consider David Brock a credible source, Mummie, because he’s been seen with Richard Melon Scaife (“Press sightings of social interactions between Toensing, her husband, Joseph E. diGenova, and Novak abound”).

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