WaPo Insulting Intelligent Americans Once Again


This editorial in the Washington Post is an embarrassment and an insult to anyone with half a brain. I don't even know where to begin there are so many lies, obfuscations and so much spin in just five short paragraphs. I didn't know you could pack so much into so little. Kinda like a twinkie that reads like an RNC press release. Fleshy and flaky on the outside and as insignificant as whipcream on the inside. But with all that sugar it gives you just enough of a rush to avoid reality for short periods of time.

I didn't know the WaPo editorial board was accepting those as official editorials now, did you?

Update: Here's a nice little FACTCHECK for the horrible Post editorial.

Update 2: Joe Wilson responds.

Update 3: ERiposte, at the Left Coaster, responds.


Sean Paul Kelley April 8, 2006 - 11:37pm

It's a shame, because the below WaPo article, as opposed to the editorial, is very well written and balanced. It also shows Bush chose to leak only the portions that were 1) untrue and/or 2) harmful to Wilson/Plame:

A 'Concerted Effort' to Discredit Bush Critic

Prosecutor Describes Cheney, Libby as Key Voices Pitching Iraq-Niger Story
By Barton Gellman and Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, April 9, 2006; Page A01

WaPo - ...One striking feature of that decision -- unremarked until now, in part because Fitzgerald did not mention it -- is that the evidence Cheney and Libby selected to share with reporters had been disproved months before.

quiet Bill April 9, 2006 - 1:14am

Aside from the FACT that the Washington Post chose to repeat misinformation about Plamegate, they left out a few glaring details in their ridiculous approval of Valerie Plame's outing for political gain.

Leaking Valerie Plame's name took a valuable resource out of the REAL war on terror. This action approved by the President and Vice President has endangered the lives of every American citizen, both at home and abroad.

Leaking Plame's name also blew her front cover employer, Brewster Jennings & Associates. It was Robert Novak, American traitor, and political commentator hack, who in collusion with Bush and Cheney, first published the highly classified information.

It has been suggested that there were other resources within the CIA who were also working undercover as non-official cover operative" (NOC) as employees of Brewster Jennings. It has also been suggested that once their undercover status was compromised, they were quickly captured and eliminated, thus multiplying the damage done to the CIA's ability to gather valuable information in the Mid East.

The outing of Plame destroyed all trust the CIA had for the Bush/Cheney administration. Why would they now put their lives on the line as NOCs knowing that at any time, their cover could also be blown for political gain, thus ending their careers and possibly ending their lives as well?

But there's more!

Plame... 'was a long-term proprietary and deep-cover NOC - well established and consistently producing "take" from ARAMCO (and who knows what else in Saudi Arabia). It was destroyed with a motive of personal vengeance (there may have been other motives) by someone inside the White House.

From the CIA's point of view, at a time when Saudi Arabia is one of the three or four countries of highest interest to the US, the Plame operation was irreplaceable.

Almost the entire Bush administration has an interest in ARAMCO.
The Boston Globe reported that in 2001 ARAMCO had signed a $140 million multi-year contract with Halliburton, then chaired by Dick Cheney, to develop a new oil field. Halliburton does a lot of business in Saudi Arabia. Current estimates of Halliburton contracts or joint ventures in the country run into the tens of billions of dollars.

So do the fortunes of some shady figures from the Bush family's past.

As recently as 1991 ARAMCO had Khalid bin Mahfouz sitting on its Supreme Council or board of directors. Mahfouz, Saudi Arabia's former treasurer and the nation's largest banker, has been reported in several places to be Osama bin Laden's brother in law.

ARAMCO is the largest oil group in the world, a state-owned Saudi company in partnership with four major US oil companies.

Another one of Aramco’s partners is Chevron-Texaco which gave up one of its board members, Condoleezza Rice, when she became the National Security Advisor to George Bush.

All of ARAMCO’s key decisions are made by the Saudi royal family while US oil expertise, personnel and technology keeps the cash coming in and the oil going out. ARAMCO operates, manages, and maintains virtually all Saudi oil fields – 25% of all the oil on the planet.'

http://www.oilempire.us/plame.html

Also, let's not forget the long term friendship and business partnerships between the Bush family and the bin Laden family.

Knowing all of this, how can anyone in their right mind approve of Bush and Cheney's treasonous behavior of outing Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings for political gain?

KevinSchmidtSte... April 9, 2006 - 10:37am

Thanks Sean-Paul.

This morning it seems like I've tasked myself with reciting the Illiad and the Oddysee in 20 minutes. I saw Sean-Paul's Technorati ping for this outrageous WaPo advocacy journalism, and I wanted to come here and ask for help from anyone who has been working this part of the hive.

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I've been blogging the clues around the Office of Special Plans for a long time and then I deleted my entire blog. I can remember a lot of it, but most if it's in the purple haze by now.

Stupid me - I got pissed that some pro-Israel Cabal might have been the ones who got me delisted from blogger by flagging http://ressentiment.blogspot.com as objectionable. Or it could have been Pat Robertson's fans. I hammered him pretty hard after he took out a contract on Chavez.

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Anyway - I'm in the process of reconstructing as many the quality sources as I can that fill in the LeakerGate time line back to Cheney et al escapades at the Pentagons Office of Plans East and the Department of State's Office of Special Plans West (a.k.a John Bolton).

Please come double check my memory. Chuck in some comments or trackbacks if anything jogs your memory. I'm not link whoring here. My motivation is to save some kids who up to their necks in Bush's lies.

servantsavant April 9, 2006 - 10:40am

did you check to see if anything was cached?

Tina April 9, 2006 - 10:50am

yes. most of the previous posts are cached. there is an advantage in doing the research again though because much good journalism (people with integrity) has come in since I blogged the topic oh so long ago.

they just THINK they know how to operate a memory hole.

Ignorance is indeed strength.

servantsavant April 9, 2006 - 11:04am

You could contact blogger.com and see if they can restore it for you?

Help Forum:
http://help.blogger.com/?page=help

This came up from the Help Forum:
How to recover from an unintended delete

There is also, Talk to us

Depending on how badly you want to recover your data, there are professionals that specialize in data recovery.

canuck April 9, 2006 - 11:32am

'Chicago Tribune' Demands Cheney Answer Questions on CIA Leak

By E&P Staff

Published: April 11, 2006 10:35 AM ET

NEW YORK The conservative Chicago Tribune editorial board apparently is fed up with Bush administration's explanations of its involvement in the ever-expanding CIA leak case. In an editorial on Tuesday it declared that Vice President Dick Cheney had "been in his bunker long enough. It's time for him to answer some questions--and not in the friendly venue of Fox News."

Instead, he should appear at "an unscripted news conference" where he would take all questions from reporters.

After detailing the latest revelations about "Scooter" Libby claiming that he had authority from Cheney and President Bush to leak a highly misleading portion of an intelligent documents to reporters in 2003, and denials from the White House, the Tribune observed, "So someone is lying. It could be that Libby acted on his own in leaking the information. It could be that Cheney told him to do so without the president's approval. Or it could be that Bush was behind the leak. Those are questions that the Cheney ought to step forward and answer, along with questions about the unmasking of Plame....

"Bush was well within his authority to declassify the report. But for anyone in the administration to misrepresent its conclusions, particularly if the motive was to punish a critic, is an abuse of the public trust on a subject of the gravest urgency--the decision to go to war.

"Who was responsible for that apparent misconduct? We don't know. But the American people deserve an answer. And a no-holds-barred news conference with the vice president would go a long way toward providing one."

The Washington Post, on the other hand, in a much-discussed editorial on Sunday, called the Libby 2003 action "The Good Leak."

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Tina April 11, 2006 - 11:31am

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