Newsman Robert Novak must hang. It was he who made public the knowledge of Valerie Plame's role as an undercover CIA agent. All the fire and smoke at the White House is mistaken entirely. Bush is being more responsible than he should have to be.
Robert Novak
All sort of agents know who each other are. That's "inside" info. So, someone did "leak" it to the press. True, that person is criminal. And so is the newsman who published it. The leaker didn't publish it. For that matter, the paper (Chicago Sun) should be criminalized as well.
This has nothing to do with the 1st Amendment and freedom of speech. This has to do with breaking the law. It is plain and simple. All the rhetoric and legal jaron to justify what happened is a disgrace to the news profession, the legal system, and above all, the falsely accused White House.
The Chairman of the Republican Party, Ed Gillespie, thinks this is all a political manoeuver on the part of Democrats to discredit the Republican White House. This may be an element, but it is nearly irrelevent to the matter of criminality.
When we start politicizing crime itself, we're lost beyond recovery.
Of course, Novak is already trying to minimize everything. This is ignoble, and his ratings as a newsman and as an Amercan should quickly plummet.
The talk of Novak not revealing his sources, as if that's some principle of noble character in a news man, is nigh treasonous, considering this incident. Let Novak suffer the same fate as the leaker, when the leaker is revealed.
Complicated talk, academic, theoretical concepts don't count here. Something dirty was done. Now the guilty are just trying to say it wasn't so dirty. "No great crime here," Novak says. That's their tack.
May mud forever rest on their faces, every one.
Hang Novak, and get it over with. People will be more respectful and careful in the future. The whole system will feel a cleansing effect.
The quickest way to find out who did it is to hang Novak and the Chicago Sun. Then we'll see how "noble" Novak really is, or isn't.
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Posted by: Marylin Manson lyrics on April 27, 2006 06:47 PMSome days after I posted this, everyone was down on Novak. Geraldo had three heavy-weights on, and they all very powerfull condemned what happened. Geraldo said, meekly, "I don't understand why he [Novak] did that. I mean, what was to be gained by that?"
Simple. A news story. A bit if high-geared gossip. What I'm diappointed in is the way the administration is handling. It. All they have to do is put Novak on the stand. He'll talk. Put up consequences, like resignation, suit, jail time, etc. He'll sing like a canary.
But know, it apparently suits politicians, both Republican and Democrats, to make a political case out of it, when it's only a simple legal matter.
Republicans fail in this.
Posted by: David Yeagley on October 6, 2003 02:31 PMi'm in total agreement. Novak is a traitor.
Posted by: annika on October 6, 2003 01:38 PMSo I'm not the only one who using the word "treason" in this case:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031002/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_leak_spann_2
Johnny Spann, father of the CIA agent killed in a prison uprising in Afghanistan, is also throwing the word out there.
If the Democrats want to get mileage out of the case, they should be careful. The leaker may very well be a Democrat.
But it really doesn't matter. Democrats are always desperate for political gains these days. The point here is that a very serious law has been broken. The consequences should be very serious.
But they won't be. It will all blow over. Nothing will happen. It will all be buried under political manoeuvering. Politics trumps patriotism.
Novak's lame excuse is mechanical. 'I'm a newsman. I do what newsmen do. And I don't reveal my sources. I have integrity. I'm a noble newsman.' Hang him. I can't say it loudly enough.
Posted by: David Yeagley on October 2, 2003 06:06 PMThe investigation will go beyond the White House?
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAH87L2BLD.html
This is true waste of time, money, and effort. The investigation should be of Robert Novak alone.
Bush may want more control over the administration and all its divisions. Fine. But, to let Novak off the hook is criminal in itself.
Posted by: David Yeagley on October 2, 2003 02:00 PMHere is more of Novak's self-justification via minimalization:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20031001.shtml
He says,
1) it wasn't a planned leak--as if that makes it less sinister
2) CIA never told him it would endanger anyone, so he didn't think or know it would--as if that makes it less a crime
3) others knew besides him--as if that makes him less guilty
These are three of the most typcial explanation/excuses that exist. But see if any one of them would work for the average citizen in small claims court over popping a squirrel in the back yard with a BB gun. "It wasn't a plot," "I didn't know it upset anyone," "Other people do it."
Give me a break.
Posted by: David Yeagley on October 2, 2003 12:02 PM