The Swiftboating of Patrick Fitzgerald

After spending years trying to show that Joseph Wilson is a "Proven Liar" (Newt Gingrich), the Right makes it's next move on Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald with a page right out of the Swiftboating Manual...

MediaMatters.com has been reporting for some time that Fox Contributor Andrew Napolitano has claimed that "at least one" of his Fox colleagues has claimed that they were present at a party where former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV introduced Valerie Plame as "my CIA operative wife." This past Saturday on a WABC radio broadcast and in an "exclusive" report tonight on Hannity & colmes "at least one" of these colleagues has come forward with the specifics of his claim.


His name is Maj Gen Paul Vallely (ret), a Fox Military Analyst, who proclaimed that he had met Wilson in the Fox Green Room in Washington and that during casual conversation Wilson mentioned that his Wife "worked at the CIA". During the segment colmes as for specific dates where the two men might have been in the same Green Room, but he Vallely couldn't provide specifics - although he did mention that this allegedly occured during the "Summer and early Fall of 2002" - over a year before the Novak column which publically announced Valerie's employement to the world.

colmes played a portion of the Fitzgerald Press Conference:



Apparently Gen Vallely has never been called, or voluanteered any information directly to Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald - and while talking with Hannity went on to question the "depth" Fitzgerald's investigation, claiming it was incomplete" and "should be considered null and void".

According to Gen Vallely:

• Fitzgerald and the FBI never talked to anyone at CIA to confirm Valerie's status.
• Valerie Flame (he never called her Plame or Wilson - which really goes to show how on the ball this guy was) "we now know was an analyst, not a covert agent"
• Fitzgerald and the FBi didn't even talk to Joe Wilson under oath.
• It was common knowledge at State and CIA that Valerie Flame was an analyst, but not a covert agent.
• Wilson's didn't sign a confidentiality agreement with the CIA, and wasn't one of their employees.

Hannity went on to proclaim that Wilson's Op-Ed in the New York Times is what outed his wife...<br>
"if keeping her identify secret was so important - why right the article and risk that"? Naturally, Gen. Vallely agreed with this assertion.

Crossposted on Vyanblog.
and at Dailykos.

this should be posted in GD or GDP. This is NOT LBN.

where Newspeak doesn't go over so well.

...all these Republican (same as the Swiftscum) can do, at this point of desperate--is lie, lie, lie. Then lie some more. Then lie again.

They are all fricking liars.

Their lies are becoming so absurd, that I feel sorry for them.

Yeah, Wilson introduced his wife as "my CIA operative wife."

Oh please.

If she was so obviously covert---then why did Rove and Libby spend so much time selling the information that she was a CIA agent? Why was this fodder for the gossip and whispered conversations if it was common knowledge that she worked for the CIA.

These pathetic weasels and their lies don't even make sense any more.

They're in the same stage that the Wicked Witch of the West was in--when she got water poured on her and she melted. They're slowly morphing into a puddle of goo.

What a world...what a world...

and he introduced his wife as "My wife who is a covert CIA agent working undercover for the CIA in a covert role. At the CIA. Did I mention she's covertly undercover?"

any information directly to Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald so shut the fu*k up. It's ok to have an opinion or theory ...like Hannity!

Let's allow the courts to run their course, isn't it time for Oxycottin Limbaugh to hit the courts?

...it's quite another to go after a Special Prosecutor with ALL of the powers of the old Independent Counsel, including unlimited funding.

repeatedly?

All the other stuff is just smoke and mirrors. Libby lied. HE seemed to think he had to for some reason. So why risk 30 years in jail for nothing????

Mz Pip
:dem:

Ever look at his background?
GOOGLE-
From PSYOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory


This is someone you don't want after you.

High ranking military people who will lie with an indignent tone to help conservatives. Buzz Aldrich, O'Neill, Poindexter, North, all people with military background who will lie over and over again for RW political agendas. They never run out of those guys who think they can stand over you and spout fiction that you adult children should believe or otherwise, "YOU have no patriotism or decency". Then we always get to hear what super-patriots they are, as they assist vile politicians that would sell our country for a nickel down the river.

They're tired of the deceptions. They just want it all to be over with. Slap the cuffs on them.

Why bring it in here at all?

And what reason would Libby have to lie? Are they going to rely on this man as a witness for the defense?

against these swine. As for Fitz, he could give a rat's bottom. He has been called many things by the crooks he has prosecuted. Go, Fitz !