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July 14, 2005

Media Too Fixated On Karl Rove's "Treason" To Report On, You Know, Actual Treason

Not much MSM interest in the life sentence for the scholar of terrorism who treasonously incited others to commit terrorism against America.

I'm sure David Gregory is working on a big story about it, though.

I've never been so sure of anything in my life.

Because, you know, I'm an optimist. And also: a diagnosed mental retard.


Lorie Byrd Is Almost On F'n' Fire: She'd take Democrats' and the media's newfound concerns about security leaks had the Democrats themselves not leaked so much confidential information in the past, while the media yawned.

David Frum Weighs In: Howie Kurtz poses a hypoethetical: What would the media reaction be had been had a Democrat leaked confidential information to damage a poltical enemy?

Frum notes we already know the answer, because Linda Tripp's confidential Pentagon files were released to impugn her -- and that was definitely a crime, not maybe-sorta-kinda a crime, as is the case in l'affaire Plame -- and the media and the permanent government of bureaucratic Washington yawned.

I don't remember a special prosecutor being appointed.



posted by Ace at 01:46 PM
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Ace, Lorie Byrd forgot about this particular instance of congressional Democrats not caring about national security even when it's staring them right in the face.

Revealing secrets is bad, unless it's you doing the leaking, then it's patriotism. Just ask Daniel Ellsberg.

Posted by: A Friend on July 14, 2005 02:22 PM

Remember when John Kerry outed a covert cia operative during a SENATE HEARING.

Posted by: Master of None on July 14, 2005 02:42 PM

Thank you David Frum for bringing up an incident that's been sticking in this bitter recluse's craw for several years.

Not only did Bacon admit to a felony when stating that he released information from Tripp's file, he was rewarded for it. He was soon moved from the Defense Dept. to the State Dept. to be their spokesman.

But it was all to protect Our Man Bill, so it was OK with the MSM...

Posted by: on July 14, 2005 04:19 PM

What really kills is that the media is trying to make this Plame chick out to be Jason Bourne, when in fact she was working behind a desk at Langley at the time, and most of the DC insiders knew it. She wasn't herding goats with Khalid Sheik Mohammad with just a pistol and a cyanide pill, she was openly working in the weapons proliferation bureau at CIA, shilling for her gasbag husband to go to Africa on the government dime. Neither she or her husband were very secretive about her employer, and she was not working overseas under any type of official or non-official cover. She was no more in danger than any of the other office workers that commute to Langley every single day. But apparently Rove mentioning a poorly kept secret is high treason, but Philip Agee naming names that actually got CIA officers KILLED is no biggie.

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