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Comment on The AP phone records scandal is seven years old by Inkberrow

Inkberrow — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:32:05 +0000

Well, if the CIA said so, then fine! And Fitzy after the point was moot, and once no documents need be produced to prove it up. But “covert operative” was never litigated. I suppose there could be middle ground on mens rea if Fitzy thought Libby et al mistakenly believed Plame was not covered by the statute.

I like the mineshaft-canary figure, but I was thinking more observationally than diagnotically. It’s not that there wasn’t too much establishment “Good America” jingoism back in the day; it’s that the pendulum has now swung too far to “Bad America”. The heirs of Marcuse did their work well.

Comment on The AP phone records scandal is seven years old by Weldon Berger

Weldon Berger — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:02:34 +0000

“I realize Fitzgerald and others stated Plame met the requirements …”

Others including her employer, whence Fitzgerald got his information and who would presumably know. You’re taking a birther approach to this: there is nothing that would satisfy you. Were the CIA to produce travel records or time-stamped videos, your response would be that they’re in the forgery business so nothing they divulge can be trusted.

Regarding your public-schools-as-mineshaft-canary riff, probably you should find a way to work in the social conditions prevailing during your years of patriotism and optimism and Horatio Alger novels (they were novels, you know).

Comment on The AP phone records scandal is seven years old by MichaelRyerson

MichaelRyerson — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:28:47 +0000

I always kind of liked BA. There was something almost endearing about her lamebrainedness.

Comment on The AP phone records scandal is seven years old by Inkberrow

Inkberrow — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:20:29 +0000

Weldon—

I realize Fitzgerald and others stated Plame met the requiremrnts, but I don’t recall any documents proving she’d been working out of the country within the requisite timeframe. You may believe that Bulldog Fitzgerald really quailed at the prospect of having to prove a “knowing” culpable mental state in Scooter Libby and his colleagues, but I don’t.

Big “S” “Schmutzie”—

Are you really Schmutzie? But not the small “s” one?

I was BA.

Comment on The AP phone records scandal is seven years old by Schmutzie

Schmutzie — Sat, 18 May 2013 01:43:50 +0000

Don’t ask me why, but for years I thought there was some there there vis a vis Ink.

I was wrong.

He’s got the depth of a wading pool.

He’s BA.

Color me embarrassed.