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The Wilson / Plame Affair
There are many curious features to this affair. Wilson was clearly not an individual that the White House would have picked to send to Niger. He readily admits that his time there was spent drinking tea with a dozen or so officials from the Government of Niger. Hardly “nose to the grindstone” stuff, and unlikely to produce any sort of respectible conclusion. He is an open critic of the current Administration. Why was he chosen? Would “outing” Ms. Plame as a CIA employee endanger her? Only in as much as any employee is endangered. Remember, it was not too long ago that a terrorist walked down a line of stopped cars in Langley and killed two low-level CIA employees waiting to get in to work. The CIA does not normally acknowledge … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Politics, Commentary, Original writing, Politics, Wilson / Plame
Who outed Valerie Plame?
Who outed Valerie Plame? Well, to begin with, her husband. She is named in at least one on-line bio. Jane Galt has an appropriate comment or two: For one thing, it’s not clear that she was an undercover operative. This didn’t happen without the knowlege of the CIA; Novak checked with them first, and they didn’t say “she’s undercover in Islamabad; don’t blow it.” And while my knowlege of the CIA is almost nonexistant, I actually find it pretty hard to believe that the wife of an ambassador was an undercover operative any time in the recent past. Everyone pretty much knows that if you talk to the wife of an ambassador, you’re talking to the American government. So it seems pretty unlikely to me that this put current or future … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Politics, Politics, Wilson / Plame
No Ordinary Day 12
That night, my eyes and lungs still stinging, I walked up the Great White Way. It’s a section of road to which all others like it are measured, one which has made audiences laugh and cry for over a century. Tonight it was dark, but many of us came anyway, unsure what to do or say. We heard stories of the Pentagon, and the Heros who died in a Pennsylvanian field. It all felt far away, surreal, impossible. We heard Air Force jets overhead, and what seemed an endless cry of NYPD and FDNY sirens through the night, while we fought shock and horror. Giuliani said more would be dead than we could bear, and he was right. For months I walked these streets, and I saw photos of tens of … Read entire article »
Filed under: September 11, War on Terror
No Ordinary Day 11
The loony left has concocted a pile of steaming feces that it calls a conspiracy theory about the events of September 11, 2001. They claim that a plane did not hit the Pentagon. Their proof: the hole in the building isn’t “big” enough and the tail would “surely” have been sticking out. This, of course, contradicts the dozens of witnesses that saw the plane, heard the plane or felt the plane. It also contradicts the light posts snapped by the plane as it approched. The plane hit the most heavily reinforced portion of the building, just finished, and burst into flames. The whole plane went into the building, an air speed of 300 plus miles per hours would have seen to that through sheer inertia. They claim that the WTC towers were brought … Read entire article »
Filed under: Commentary, Original writing, September 11, War on Terror
Rick Rescorla
Lt. Rick Rescorla, Platoon Leader, B Co 2/7 Cav A hero for our time, England and Cornwall’s finest! Lt Rescorla survived that engagement and many others. He had grown up in a village on England’s southwest coast and left at age sixteen to join the British military. He’d fought against Communists in Cyprus and Rhodesia. He then came to America, he said, so that he could enlist in the Army and go to Vietnam. He welcomed the opportunity to join the American cause in Southeast Asia. He worked his way up through the ranks to Sergeant before being commissioned… After fighting in Vietnam, he returned to the United States and used his military benefits to study creative writing at the University of Oklahoma. Literary minded, even before college he had read all fifty-one volumes … Read entire article »
Filed under: Heroes, September 11, War on Terror, WOT Heroes
No Ordinary Day 9
September 11 has meaning. No, not what you think. The murderous bastards who attacked America on September 11, 2001 were commemorating another September 11, that of 1683. September 11, 1683 marked the day the Turks turned away from the gates of Vienna in defeat. The last threat to Europe from Islam had failed. That shows the kind of people we’re dealing with. They live in the past, the far past. They recall the glory days of Islam, a thousand years ago. Our enemies hate us, and their perversion of a religion tells them that we must be conquered and enslaved or killed for the glory of a god named Allah. They will give us no other choice. In 1860 America faced another situation that would define who we are as a people and as … Read entire article »
Filed under: Commentary, Original writing, September 11, War on Terror
No Ordinary Day 5
A few days after the eleventh, maybe the thirteenth or the fourteenth, I was driving across town for lunch. It was another beautiful September day. My car windows were open, and I thought to myself, “Someone has used far too much fertilizer on their lawn.” But it wasn’t fertilizer. The wind was coming from the east, and it brought the smell of the remains of the twin towers burning. And though that was the first time, it was far from the last. My birthday is November 15th. On November 15th, 2001, I went to dinner with friends. We had dinner at a favorite place of mine, Charlie Brown’s, in Upper Montclair. As we left the restaurant, Brenda sniffed the air and asked, “What’s that awful smell?” It was the World Trade Center … Read entire article »
Filed under: September 11, War on Terror
No Ordinary Day 4
As the second anniversary of September 11 approaches, my anger and my determination remain. We, America and all Americans, our life style and our way of life, were attacked that day. It was not the opening shot of a war; the war had been going on for more than a decade. It was, however, our wakeup call. Our enemy delights in dying for his cause, because he has a promise of eternal bliss as a reward for committing suicide and murder. Our enemy sees us as all that is evil and wrong in his world. We must die, be killed, or be converted to his peculiar beliefs. There is no coexistence for our enemy, only outright destruction and conquest. We must be destroyed and conquered. We will meet this enemy on our … Read entire article »
Filed under: Commentary, Original writing, September 11, War on Terror
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Novak Speaks
September 29th, 2003 | Comments Off
Drudge is now quoting Bob Novak, without a link at this moment. In July I was interviewing a senior administration official on amb. Wilson’s report when he told the trip was inspired by his wife, a CIA employee working on weapons of mass destruction. Another senior official told me the same thing. As a professional journalist with 46 years experience in Washington I do not reveal confidential sources. When I called the CIA in July to confirm Mrs. Wilson’s involvement in the mission for her husband — he is a former Clinton administration official — they asked me not to use her name, but never indicated it would endanger her or anybody else. According to a confidential source at the CIA, Mrs. Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Politics, Commentary, Original writing, Politics, Wilson / Plame