Is thew newest "CIA prison leak" a dirty trick to get rid of a Republican?

It doesn't make sense.

Republicans involved in the Plame leak were defended vociferously.

Now, today I hear Rush Limbaugh calling for an investigation into who leaked the prison information to the WaPo. Since when do these people care about leaks?

Rush's show is so transparent and orchestrated. He didn't dare name any names, but several callers did. One man said the leaker was McCain and that he has to go. "Ok folks! We can't just start accusing people!". Yeah sure. He ended up chuckling with the caller and allowing him to trash McCain.

Did the Republicans set up one of their own?

Frist has ticked them off lately. So has McCain.

Rush's phony-baloney concern about this leak was the tip off for me.

Any takers? OR am I smoking my socks?

They'd love to throw McCain out, but any moderate Republican would probably do.

What I wondered is if they know something the rest of us don't and intend to set up a dem, but most of what I read seems to implicate someone in the GOP.

Why concerned about this leak and not the other? It's not just about torture.

Mark my words, this came from McCain's office.

The counter, though, is the CIA asking Justice to investigate. This was not information that should have been discussed in a Republican Party Senate luncheon by the Vice President and the DCI.

Porter Goss and Dick Cheney are the guilty parties here, and they will be going down. McCain did not commit a crime, Cheney and Goss did.

The sooner people come to their senses and realize that the better off we will all be.

Don

McCain is owned by them. He's a wild card, though, and so they are trying to treat him like a rabid dog.

In other words, they want to put him down.

the crime in their minds is that one of the attendees leaked it to the press.

they're not really concerned with the fact that cheney shouldn't have told the senators in the first place.

their only law, their only ethic, is loyalty. and the only infraction is in breaching that loyalty.

that the Republican senators seem to believe that it's GOOD to keep a secret like this inside their little GOP clique, and that it's NOT good to divulge that information to us Amurikans.

could be, maybe to pressure mccain to get in line. However that might also backfire.

Rush still wants to believe that it was a Dem who leaked the info.

What if it was a way to get Cheney out of the picture and take care of the Admininstation's PR problem on the torture issue.

No one is going to prosecute someone for telling the American people what our fascist Executive branch is up to.

and act like they care.

It could serve two purposes, they can slander whoever they choose and blame the Washington Post (another lib rag) when they won't reveal their source. Also, it will make Scooter look like a partisan victim of an overzeaous prosecutor.

I think though this is a whistleblower case, unlike Judy Miller/Scooter Libby. Maybe the leaker did this to get them to stop doing these sort of things. The rest of the world knows what we are doing. If the Washington Post wants to keep the leaker's identity secret, it would be okay with me. The Republicans are out for blood though on this one. Will we see another reporter in jail?


AValdoux

And you know what that leads to...

yet they are going ALL OUT to nail the leaker of their illegal secret prisons? Someone definitely needs to say something about this

You are right about the GOP huffing & puffing about the 'leak' but say nothing about the white house leak again Wilson. The reason they are upset is that this leak was more damaging to the white house. The plame leak was more damaging to the nation. They may have thought it was a Democrat who leaked, but this may backfire on them.
Or they are setting up a GOPer. Either way they are looking like fools. & why was Cheney talking secrets at a lunch. Wouldn't that make him the leaker. The media whores should be asking that.

no matter how you look at it! I didn't see him agreeing to raise the min wage. If they want to go out after one of their own, I say go for it! What goes up, must come down! We are now witnessing the fall of the republican party! Sit back and enjoy!

that this all sounded like a discussion Dick Cheney had with the Republican Senatorial leadership just last week. What was Cheney doing talking about this stuff? You can bet they will try to throw somebody under the bus rather than admit to the crime itself. Who cares who leaked, the important thing is that we torture prisoners in foreign prisons. It's the torture, stupid, not the leak. One way or the other, Trent Lott confirmed the whole thing when he "leaked" the VPs talk with Republican senators.

..splitting conservatives ala 1992.

This was one of those "republicans only" little meetings, with Cheney circling the wagons.

Cheney OUTED another CIA secret, in a room full of REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS (and, evidently, some of their aides)! .... THAT is where the CIA is going to have to look, no matter what they may think their first agenda is in investigating this.

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