An excellent NPR report on the White House exposing a CIA agent.

[Ted Striker]

You've been attempting that and pwning yourself considering this is the 5th thread in row you've tried it in.

Did puppy roll around in his own crap? Oopsies!!!

[Imran Siddiqui]

And the 5th thread in a row, I've beaten you down... only you are to thickheaded to realize .

[Ted Striker]

Actually you couldn't even attempt it on your own, you had to "me-too" onto other posters but you still get whooped on anyway.

You know you should really stop banging your head into that wall puppy! It's not going to break no matter how many times you hit it!




"I'll show that Ted Striker one of these days!"

[Imran Siddiqui]

you had to "me-too" onto other posters but you still get whooped on anyway.

You mean when JohnT ripped you a new one and I pointed it out?

[Ted Striker]

See what I mean, following me around in other threads.


Be a man and make your own arguments, puppy.

"Dear Diary, Today I found that big mean Ted in the other thread and I made a mean face at him I think I showed him!!!"

[Odin]

TED'S ON A ROLL.

[Dinner]

So is Drake still stupidly claiming the Bush Administration didn't lie?

[Drake Tungsten]

Show me some proof and I'll gladly change my tune.

[KrazyHorse]

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven

[Drake Tungsten]

Chretien

[Imran Siddiqui]

See what I mean, following me around in other threads.

*Gasp* People, aside from you, go to other threads. I realize it is difficult, given your big head, to understand that, but I assure you of its truth.

Though it sounds you and Sava need to get together. You can not read anything the other has wrote and continue to call each other names and use catchphrases which you think are funny but no one else does .

Hey, if thinking that I follow you around makes you feel like a 'big man', then go ahead. If you feel the need to overcompensate for your real life failings, I won't take that away from you .

[Ted Striker]

You do realize that was the 10th post you've made in this thread about me.

Thanks puppy!

[Ted Striker]

Back to the Topic At Hand

Woodward has more to say today, sticking to the story that the leak was, no big deal. (He still acknowledges he has only "a small piece of the puzzle").


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Woodward: 'I was trying to avoid being subpoenaed'

Famed Washington reporter says leak wasn't malicious

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward said Monday he kept his conversation with a Bush administration official about the identity of a CIA operative secret for two years because "I was trying to avoid being subpoenaed."

Woodward said on CNN's "Larry King Live" he also didn't tell his boss, executive editor Leonard Downie Jr., about the source, a decision he called a mistake.

"And I should have -- as I have many, many times -- taken him into my confidence," he said. "And I did not."

Woodward said he first realized he had to go to his editor after the October indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, on five felony charges. Libby subsequently resigned.

The indictment alleged Libby first leaked Plame's name to New York Times reporter Judith Miller on June 23, 2003. Miller recently resigned as well.

"I went, 'Whoa,' because I knew I'd learned about this in mid-June, a week, 10 days before," Woodward said.

Woodward said he went to his source and said, " 'Do you realize when we talked about this and exactly what was said?' And the source in this case ... said, 'I have to go to the prosecutor. I have to go to the prosecutor. I have to tell the truth.'

"And so I realized I was going to be dragged into this, that I was the catalyst. And then I asked the source, 'If you go to the prosecutor, am I released to testify?' And the source told me, 'Yes.' "

The source, however, did not say Woodward could release his name -- something Woodward said he wishes he could do.

"I would love it, but here is the issue," he said. "To get what's in the bottom of the barrel, you have to establish relationships of confidentiality with people at all levels of government. You have to establish relationships of trust."

At one point, King pressed Woodward to reveal the source. "Good try. Good try," Woodward said.

He added, "I pressed that source as much as you can."

Woodward, who along with Post colleague Carl Bernstein gained acclaim as an investigative reporter during the Watergate scandal in the 1970s, gave a deposition to a special prosecutor investigating the matter on November 14.

Woodward said the source made the 2003 comments in a "casual and offhand" nature, not as part of a conspiracy to smear the agent, Valerie Plame, and her husband, retired career diplomat Joseph Wilson, a Bush administration critic.

Woodward said he did not believe there was an "underlying crime" when his source first mentioned Plame's identity to him.

"When it all comes out -- and hopefully it will come out -- people will see how casual and off-hand this was," he said.

"Remember the investigation and the allegations that people have printed about this story is that there's some vast conspiracy to slime Joe Wilson and his wife, really attack him in an ugly way that is outside of the boundaries of political hardball.

"The evidence I had firsthand, a small piece of the puzzle I acknowledge, is that that was not the case."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/21/cialeak.woodward/index.html

[Dinner]

LA Times: How U.S. Fell Under the Spell of 'Curveball' (3 Full Pages on Bush truth twisting)

THE CURVEBALL SAGA
How U.S. Fell Under the Spell of 'Curveball'
The Iraqi informant's German handlers say they had told U.S. officials that his information was 'not proven,' and were shocked when President Bush and Colin L. Powell used it in key prewar speeches.

By Bob Drogin and John Goetz, Special to The Times

BERLIN -- The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein's suspected weapons of mass destruction say that the Bush administration and the CIA repeatedly exaggerated his claims during the run-up to the war in Iraq.

Five senior officials from Germany's Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, said in interviews with The Times that they warned U.S. intelligence authorities that the source, an Iraqi defector code-named Curveball, never claimed to produce germ weapons and never saw anyone else do so.

More...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-curveball20nov20,0,1753730.story?page=1&coll=la-home-headlines

[Ted Striker]

Does anybody remember the lines leading up to the invasion about how, "We have specific intelligence but can't reveal it because it would endanger operatives' lives."

What a crock of sh1t. It appears more and more that everything is based on "Curveballs."

They didn't want to reveal it because it was full of crap.