Why do people still think the Scooter Libby case has anything to do with Valerie Plame?

Question

PS I have also asked another question related to this tiday.

or "today."

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Amc4455kSvgFBhKoW_4II_Xsy6IX?qid=20070124085051AAVrMdj

No one answered my other question, so it's gone!

Answer 1

This is simply a way for the liberals to try to get to Bush. They know they have nothing on him, so they are attempting to smear Bush's reputation in every way they can.

Answer 2

Because they are looking for any way to get something on this administration ANYTHING! And in spite of all the investigations of 'scandals', it has not been possible. No laws have been broken.

Toffee...once again, her own idiot husband was the one who outed her by discussing her and her position and job with friends and acquaintances at every bloody cocktail party they went to, or anyone that he could corner into a conversation. Robert Novak heard about it, followed up on it and he is the one who actually published the information. She and her husband both made no attempt to keep her job or position a secret.

Answer 3

Fitzgerald just laid out how he had explicit orders to work with the press to attack the Wilson clan, and to suggest that she was responsible for sending him to Niger (which leaks information about CIA operatives through loose talk), and how he lied about it and covered it up.

Libby's defense isn't that he wasn't involved, it was that everyone coordinated their stories so he got all the blame so Rove would be protected.

Even Libby doesn't claim he wasn't involved.

So why do you seem to think he wasn't?

Answer 4

IT IS ABOUT AN ACT OF TREASON COMMITTED BY REPUBLICANS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/975853.asp?0na=x23352A0-&cp1=1

The leak of a CIA operative’s name has also exposed the identity of a CIA front company, potentially expanding the damage caused by the original disclosure, Bush administration officials said yesterday.
THE COMPANY’S IDENTITY, Brewster-Jennings & Associates, became public because it appeared in Federal Election Commission records on a form filled out in 1999 by Valerie Plame, the case officer at the center of the controversy, when she contributed $1,000 to Al Gore’s presidential primary campaign.
After the name of the company was broadcast yesterday, administration officials confirmed that it was a CIA front. They said the obscure and possibly defunct firm was listed as Plame’s employer on her W-2 tax forms in 1999 when she was working undercover for the CIA. Plame’s name was first published July 14 in a newspaper column by Robert D. Novak that quoted two senior administration officials. They were critical of her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, for his handling of a CIA mission that undercut President Bush’s claim that Iraq had sought uranium from the African nation of Niger for possible use in developing nuclear weapons.

The Justice Department began a formal criminal investigation of the leak Sept. 26.

The inadvertent disclosure of the name of a business affiliated with the CIA underscores the potential damage to the agency and its operatives caused by the leak of Plame’s identity. Intelligence officials have said that once Plame’s job as an undercover operative was revealed, other agency secrets could be unraveled and her sources might be compromised or endangered.

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200507150005

In recent media appearances, Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Ken Mehlman has issued numerous distortions and falsehoods regarding allegations of White House senior adviser Karl Rove's involvement in the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Cable news hosts Wolf Blitzer and Chris Matthews failed to question Mehlman's various falsehoods, allowing him to misinform unchallenged and at length. Media Matters for America offers the following breakdown of Mehlman's lies, and the facts that rebut them.

Lie #1: Wilson falsely claimed Cheney sent him to Niger

Lie #2: Rove did not reveal Plame's name, so he did nothing wrong

Lie #3: Rove didn't even know her name

Lie #4: Wilson claimed his mission to Niger "positively proved" that the country had not sold nuclear materials to Iraq

Answer 5

Say what you want but, if administration staffers had not outed (and endangered) Plame then Liddy would not be in this predicament.

Answer 6

what i want to know is why did everyone get so upset over scooter when that burger guy stole documents out of the national archives and stuffed them down his pants ?! why didn't he get in trouble..

Answer 7

Not since she did a spread in "Vanity Fair"...