garbo speaks!
can they cast anyone but sharon stone for the movie? somewhere i heard richard gere mentioned for the wilson role.
she was very bright and telegenic. she ought to run for office especially considering the quality of her interlocutors. not a single congressperson did i find half as impressive in bearing or cogency, on either side. its hard to believe waxman is the best we can do.
meanwhile some gruesome looking dickhead in a fuschia jackie kennedy-type dress was in the gallery and would stand on occasion to reveal his "impeach bush now" t-shirt. the guy looked like a creepy child molester. i had to obscure my vision so he was out of frame. really pointless act, in fact it could only diminish her impact.
waxman woke up a bit in later questioning particularly with victoria toensing in the hot seat. too bad someone from the cia wasnt there to rebut her persistent claims that statutorial plame wasnt officially covert when she was outed. of course thats all noise. ultimately, its the smear of wilson that provoked her outing thats whats ultimately at issue.
lj on countdown tonight to discuss the proceedings.
some testimony for Rep Elijah Cummings
id like to amend my previous comment having watch more video. toensing kept claiming that plame was not covert based on the notion that plame had not left the country on covert ops in over five years but plames testimony clearly debunks that. and obviously that the bush appointed cia chief labeled her covert seems hard to contradict. had she been forced to admit this specific error shed have had little else to argue.
Early in November 2005, posting in his own personal blog No Quarter, former CIA officer Larry C. Johnson responds further to the ongoing dispute about Valerie Plame's status as a CIA NOC:
There is the claim that the law to protect intelligence identities could not have been violated because Valerie Wilson had not lived overseas for six years. Too bad this is not what the law stipulates. The law actually requires that a covered person “served” overseas in the last five years. Served does not mean lived. In the case of Valerie Wilson, energy consultant for Brewster-Jennings, she traveled overseas in 2003, 2002, and 2001, as part of her cover job. She met with folks who worked in the nuclear industry, cultivated sources, and managed spies. She was a national security asset until exposed. . . .[17]
i was going to suggest brownstein for wankerdom today.
I caught some YouTube of Waxman and others asking the White House security chief if an investigation ever commenced after the Pres promised to get to the bottom of it and fire the leakers.
The WH guy just sat there smugly and said no, no investigation.
The Congressmen should have been more emphatic that the promise to "get to the bottom of it" was empty and they should have broken that smug composure.
I know it's too much to ask that the guy confess on TV and cry like a little kid.
But a bit more aggressive, angry questioning would have satisfied this American.
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- dave 3-16-2007 2:29 am
can they cast anyone but sharon stone for the movie? somewhere i heard richard gere mentioned for the wilson role.
- dave 3-16-2007 2:31 am
she was very bright and telegenic. she ought to run for office especially considering the quality of her interlocutors. not a single congressperson did i find half as impressive in bearing or cogency, on either side. its hard to believe waxman is the best we can do.
meanwhile some gruesome looking dickhead in a fuschia jackie kennedy-type dress was in the gallery and would stand on occasion to reveal his "impeach bush now" t-shirt. the guy looked like a creepy child molester. i had to obscure my vision so he was out of frame. really pointless act, in fact it could only diminish her impact.
- dave 3-16-2007 8:28 pm
waxman woke up a bit in later questioning particularly with victoria toensing in the hot seat. too bad someone from the cia wasnt there to rebut her persistent claims that statutorial plame wasnt officially covert when she was outed. of course thats all noise. ultimately, its the smear of wilson that provoked her outing thats whats ultimately at issue.
lj on countdown tonight to discuss the proceedings.
- dave 3-17-2007 3:09 am
some testimony for Rep Elijah Cummings
- mark 3-17-2007 6:26 am
id like to amend my previous comment having watch more video. toensing kept claiming that plame was not covert based on the notion that plame had not left the country on covert ops in over five years but plames testimony clearly debunks that. and obviously that the bush appointed cia chief labeled her covert seems hard to contradict. had she been forced to admit this specific error shed have had little else to argue.
- dave 3-17-2007 6:47 am
Early in November 2005, posting in his own personal blog No Quarter, former CIA officer Larry C. Johnson responds further to the ongoing dispute about Valerie Plame's status as a CIA NOC:
There is the claim that the law to protect intelligence identities could not have been violated because Valerie Wilson had not lived overseas for six years. Too bad this is not what the law stipulates. The law actually requires that a covered person “served” overseas in the last five years. Served does not mean lived. In the case of Valerie Wilson, energy consultant for Brewster-Jennings, she traveled overseas in 2003, 2002, and 2001, as part of her cover job. She met with folks who worked in the nuclear industry, cultivated sources, and managed spies. She was a national security asset until exposed. . . .[17]
- dave 3-17-2007 8:56 am
i was going to suggest brownstein for wankerdom today.
- dave 3-17-2007 8:59 am
I caught some YouTube of Waxman and others asking the White House security chief if an investigation ever commenced after the Pres promised to get to the bottom of it and fire the leakers.
The WH guy just sat there smugly and said no, no investigation.
The Congressmen should have been more emphatic that the promise to "get to the bottom of it" was empty and they should have broken that smug composure.
I know it's too much to ask that the guy confess on TV and cry like a little kid.
But a bit more aggressive, angry questioning would have satisfied this American.
- tom moody 3-17-2007 9:12 am