NYT Headline on Plame Lawsuit Dismissal Doesn't Mention Her Name

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Earlier today, NewsBuster Noel Sheppard posted an item wondering how the media would cover the dismissal of Valerie Plame's civil lawsuit against V.P. Cheney and Scooter Libby.

We now have the answer from the New York Times: an article that miraculously manages to omit Plame's name from the headline!

That's right. The Times article is cryptically entitled: "Judge Dismisses Suit by Former C.I.A. Operative". For the casual reader, it could have been any old ex-spook. Move along; nuthin to see here.

Nice undercover work there by the Grey Lady. Do you think if Plame had won her case the Times might have touted her name might a bit more prominently?

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It is interesting that they

It is interesting that they actually incuded Armitage's name in the article.  It is not surprising, however, that they did not mention his role as the SOLE LEAKER of the not-so-covert-and-undercover Valerie Plame.

"There is a tendency for the world to say to America, 'the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,' and then to worry when America wants to sort them out." - Prime Minister

Interesting that you

Interesting that you obviously did not listen to the Congressional testimony where the Head of the CIA in sworn testimony stated that Valarie Plame was indeed a Deep Cover Covert Agent at the time she was outed.

It's also interesting that the fact that Armitage would know about Plame being that that information was Top Secret - Need to Know Basis and that this knowledge was handled so cavalier that so many people knew her name and saw nothing wrong with even telling that information to people who stopped them on the street.

I also find it interesting that none of you bushits seen to think there's nothing wrong with blowing an entire under-cover operation that was trying to stop the proliferation of WMD and put untold number of operatives in mortal danger just for the petty reason of political revenge for exposing the out-right lies the bush administration was spewing to lead us into an unnecessary, illegal war that is bankrupting this country, destroying our military, recruiting more terrorists and making us the most hated country on the planet.

I find it no surprise that a bush appointed judge, that was a prosecutor for Whitewater would dismiss a case that would expose the bush administration as traitors to the United States, the Constitution and the American people.

I guess they didn't want to

I guess they didn't want to "out" her as a double-top secret covert op...candidate...once, in a girl scouts make-believe campfire game...about 40 years ago...allegedly...

Gay haters unite!

What?!  So if,

What?! 

So if, say, Karl Rove ever loses a case, can we count on the headline being, "Judge Dismisses Suit by Former Presidential staffer"?

dahlia.. LMAO... Yeah

dahlia..

LMAO...

Yeah right, when pigs fly!

Excellent point.  I would

Excellent point.  I would only add that it seems odd that the NYT would even bother writing the story.  If sensationalism drives newspapers, wouldn't the NYT WANT people to be attracted to news stories?  So they deliberately lowballed the headline of a story that they didn't want anyone to read...that's so twisted.  But this kind of waste of space partly explains why their readership is in the toilet.

Forget 911, I dial 9MM.

Reuters ran a story the

Reuters ran a story the other day about a guy who had been on the Vice Presidential Security detail since 1999 (when Al Gore was Veep). He was caught sending classifed documents to a foreign country (Phillipines, I think).

Anyway, the Rooters "headline" of the story called him a "Cheney Aide".

Talk about a template...

I would still love to see

I would still love to see Patrick Fitzgerald brought on prosecutorial misconduct charges or something. I believe that if it started with him, then wilson and plame could be forced to testify under oath on this sorry situation. Then maybe we could see all three under incictment. As far as I am concerned, they all deserve jail time for the fraud they perpetrated in Soooter Libby's trial. And, it sure would be fun watching the left fo apoplectic over three of their heroes facing a jury as Libby did.

Restless... That would be

Restless...

That would be a dream come true for me!

Ahhhh...to Dream the Impossible Dream....

....I wish it could be so that is for sure.

Pity the NYTimes. Plame's

Pity the NYTimes.

Plame's "covert" status was not outed while the NYTime's "overt" bias has been outed.

 

When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment
vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any
President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).

What is left for coup plotter Plame?

Hubster Joe Wilson has prostituted his wife in this for all she is worth and now without the lawsuit what is left but having her do a September issue of Playboy for Joe to fund his Democratic habit.

Seriously in this I honestly hope George Bush would just take off the gloves, quit worrying about Iraq, quit worrying about a national meltdown and quit worrying about several European nations going through the same upheaval.

The upheaval and Truth which I speak is this hidden story I have been writing on for over a year and trying to get people from Michelle Malkin to others to cover in what Valerie Plame was really all about and what Plamegate was all about.

The genesis of this was during the Clinton years in the oil for food fiasco which was cover for mass bribes by Saddam to almost every European nation. The main ones being France and Germany with the UN a close second. A deal was worked out by the globalists where Bill Clinton stopped a CIA coup against Saddam in exchange for oil to be syphoned off from Iraq and sold off book making billions for the narco banking cartels run by the Rockefellers and Rothschilds.

The infamous Marc Rich was the money launderer in this and commodity mover. No proof exists but when you have that kind of cash being moved and Rich gets a pardon that the Clinton's ended up with Swiss accounts as sure as when the dope was running into Arkansas via CIA covert op and Bill had bags of it on his hotel tables snorting it up his nose.

In these bribes were tons of weapons of mass destruction or their fixings for Iraq. A great deal of it came from Germany, Russia and France. France though provided the golden anti semitic goose in taking yellow cake out of Niger and refining it for Saddam Hussein.

We know this, because the Department of Defense announced the discovery of 1.77 tons of WEAPONS GRADE URANIUM when Iraq was liberated. Apparently Hans Blix couldn't find a hot pile like that, but it was shipped out and ended up in White Sands back in America hidden.

The reason none of this came out is President Bush knows America was facing China and Russia in a new anti American pact. Consider Watergate on a worldwide scale with all the French and German leaders in prison along with good olde Bill and Hillary. Add to that the real powers of the world in Rockefeller and Rothschild in prison along with all the UN, well it would be anarchy unleashed and how does one keep the Asian hordes at bay in a real war if all your allies and your own United States is going up in anarchy.

So that explains the Bush silence which I believe should be broken as the Europeans and the UN has turned over new leadership and no one would care if the Clintons along with Sandy Berger, Richard Clark and Al Gore were all in the grey bar hotel.

The problem though in breaking this story is that Russia will be exposed as dumping 2 shiploads of chemical weapons in the Indian Ocean, Syria and Lebanon received at least 2 airplane loads and several convoys of Saddam's biological weapons which are now sitting on new Russian missiles aimed at the Israeli state and Europe and Russia took home Saddam's one big nuclear bomb he had made. That bomb was too large for the Scuds Saddam had and was one reason he never used it, but it is sitting back in Moscow now.

Which brings us to the Plame affair. Plame is a globalist operative serving in the CIA just like Hillary Clinton was. Hillary ran the money laundering operations of the CIA using the PROMIS software with Vince Foster who was later the Clinton bagman flying around the globe when they were in the White House.

Plame's directive was to hide this mountain of bribery, because if it got out that the French had supplied Saddam with weapons grade uranium........well the French CIA knows allot of secrets and so does Marc Rich in knowing where all the bribery accounts laundered. Plame's actions though were not directed to protect the Clintons but the narco banking cartel as one pull on the radioactive string would open all the books of criminality open from Kosovo drug running, DeBeers double dipping diamonds, Columbian coke money etc.... The kinds of things that even the people who control governments go to prison for forever.

So Plame sent hubster Joe Wilson to Niger to "find nothing". Cheney and company immediately knew this was a covert operation as it made no sense for Wilson or his wife to be doing what they were doing basically on their own under the State Department's cover. (Remember the for later as State was run by occupy Iraq Powell and his man Dick Armitage. Both of whom are globalist CFR cronies bent on protecting their bosses in the cartel who rose them through the ranks and keep them from Patrick Fitzgerald.)

A back operation or fire operation was needed by the cartel as they wanted Bush stopped and when they couldn't stop him in liberating Iraq they needed him punished and worn down so that he would start playing by their rules again in diplomatic solutions which allows oil to be syphoned off out of Iraq again which is being done now. Bush perhaps suspects this is going on again and who is behind it, but he has bigger problems now.

The back operation was for Dick Armitage to sing Valerie Plame's name to the man he hated in Bob Novak. Immediately, the cartel press would attack Karl Rove and bring it into a paniced White House. The KEY IN THIS THOUGH which was supposed to turn this into Watergate was when Armitage and Powell had given testimony, Armitage and his lawyer called White House counsel Alberto Gonzales asking him if he wanted to be debriefed on all what had happened.

Gonzales did not take the curiosity bait and declined thereby protecting Bush. If Gonzales had been debriefed this would have brought sworn secret testimony into the White House which Gonzales would have briefed the President on. That would have been Watergate as the press exploded in WHAT DID THE PRESIDENT KNOW and the charge by Patrick Fitzgerald of the President tampering in a criminal investigation.

You have to get this point which you may not have noticed. REMEMBER all these democrats have been chanting "payback impeachment" since day one. The reason is they were promised by the cartel Bush would be impeached, because a covert operation by globalists was being run against President Bush just like Nixon was suckered into Watergate.

That is why democrats are screaming impeachment yet in they can't figure out why it didn't happen. That is why Patrick Fitzgerald sat on this case for 2 years putting Scooter Libby through hell, because he was informed something else was going to happen. Alberto Gonzales though stopped it and it is currently why Alberto Gonzales is being hammered as the cartel is furious he wasn't a nosy idiot like they expected him to be.

That is what this coup was all about and no one including the right wing Conservatives who claim to be in the mode of Truth will not breathe a word of. This coup was written about in my blog and emailed to those in position and no one touched it. You can decide just what these typing heads are about that claim they are the voices of Conservatism and Republicans.

This was a nasty, dirty, murderous carrying on where Iraqi people were suffering for their nation being plundered and still are as it is this cartel with Russia in it's Islamocommunist proxies who are still trying to get their billion dollar oil gem back in Iraq into the fold.

Should Patrick Fitzgerald be Nifonged along with the rest of these coup plotters. Most certainly.

It will not happen though, because it would bring down the entire house of cards. The "best" which could happen is if enough people start looking into this and putting the pieces together on their own too that a conversation starts where the cartel will have to abandon their proxy candidates and reshape their globalist anti American policies to more of a 1950's America where the citizens prospered, goods were cheap, the nation secure and leading the world instead of this inflation money printing system destroying America into a vassal state of the pack.

I doubt Val Plame will end up in Playboy as they already got their payoffs in book deals and such speaking engagements and will keep quiet, but the Truth keeps filtering out and one day in the coming Middle East war which is being set up Saddam's WMD's are going to be used..........

Then it all starts over again in people are going to be faced with the fact Saddam had WMD's and they will start asking as they pull the threads in finding all of the above is true.

Such a shame no Nobel or Pulitzer prizes for such God inspired work, but what would I do with a trophy any way.

 

agtG

 

 

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LC,

LC,

Do you have a link to the article you found this in?

Europe and Russia took home Saddam's one big nuclear bomb he had made.
That bomb was too large for the Scuds Saddam had and was one reason he
never used it, but it is sitting back in Moscow now.

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Fred Thompson and Ann Coulter walk into a bar. The bar is instantly destroyed because that much awesome cannot be contained in one build

Ahhh, What?

Arthur:

This sounds like a plot by Oliver Stone, I am off to dreamland now, thanks for
the nightmare.

Typical.They are so bogus it

Typical.They are so bogus it is pathetic.

Plame Coup

The NYT started this mess.  They were real proud of themselves when they were demanding investigations.  Not so proud now.

Most hypocritical quote of the century!

I almost blew coffee all over my screen when I read what Joe Wilson said in regards to the case that was thrown out... get ready...

 "We brought this suit because we strongly believe that politicizing intelligence ultimately serves only to undermine the security of our nation."

 Bwah hah hah hah.  In a perfect world, the press corps would have collapsed in a fit of uncontrollable laughter.

Sleeping

How does that man sleep at night? How can he look himself in the mirror to shave. He must really be delusional or sociopathic.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. Dwight Eisenhower

Joe's definitely from

Joe's definitely from another planet. As are his defenders, all of whom before this case came along had regularly trashed the CIA for decades.

I can't think of a finer example of BDS.

I'm looking at the headline

I'm looking at the headline right now and it clearly reads:

 

CHENEY WINS DISMISSAL OF SUIT BROUGHT BY VALERIE WILSON

 

How many of you took this at face value brought on by your unquestioning, predudicial attitues towards the NYT without looking for youselves?

 

 

Flying false colors

Valerie Plame does not go by Wilson. Title is misleading at best.

 

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. Dwight Eisenhower

Did Cheney file for

Did Cheney file for dismisal? Nooooo, he dident. It was dismissed by the judge because of jurisdiction. In other words, he dident have the authority to rule on the suit. You still need to visit that library, I see.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

No

You must be looking at a different link because I just clicked the link in the NB article above and the NYT headline reads:

"Judge Dismisses Suit by Former C.I.A. Operative"

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/

http://www.nytimes.c...

 

Seems they revised the article a bit.

You're looking at today's

You're looking at today's article in the NYTimes.  Finkelstein was referring to yesterday's. 

You may find the link below of some use.

http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?country=1&year=2007