Buchanan: Somebody has blown the Israeli spy story to abort investigation

[grasswire]

Hot damn. Holy holy holy.

Buchanan: this is at the highest level of national security strategy.

[grasswire]

1. Buchanan says he's astounded.

"Explosive"

"The president is going to want to put it past November. But someone is trying to abort the investigation."

[aquart]

3. Will someone PLEASE connect those sentences for me?

[annxburns]

2. Jaysus Christ

Can't MSNBC get a real reporter. Watergate just happened and she want to talk about the convention

[Democat]

5. Real reporter in 2004?

Even Bob Woodward has become a Bush ass kisser. If you are waiting for real reporting in 2004, give up now! :)

[faithnotgreed]

4. can you clarify that for us who cant watch? buchanan is saying

someone in the bush admin is trying to abort the investigation?

[fearnobush]

6. He said it sounds like someone very high level in the Pentagon

must be aborting it basically to kill it - the investigation that is.

[incapsulated]

7. Well...

This is an interesting twist. If this is in fact the case, this story coming out now isn't really the good news we think it is?

[Deb]

8. Thanks, thought that was what I heard

Do you think he could be correct or was that comment just a reflection of his biases?

[joanne]

9. And as usual any news bad for * comes out on Friday

:crazy:

[Junkdrawer]

10. So Pat's saying this was going too far, so someone blew the whistle...

so as to stop the investigation before EVEN higher ups were implicated???

Is that the story??

[alcuno]

11. Larry Johnson said he had been hearing about this for months.

Sometimes Buchanan does not know what he is talking about. Okay, a lot of the time.

[silverweb]

12. Time for Congress to act.

We're seeing evidence of treason at very high levels.

Congress MUST step in immediately and decisively to see this thoroughly investigated and dealt with.

[wurzel]

13. You mean like they outed that "terrorist" spy, and the CIA operative?

I mean the one that was outed to explain the last "terroist" alert, and screwed up the British?

[grasswire]

14. Buchanan is one of the savviest Washington insiders

He was born in D.C. and is part of the Olde Washingtonne establishment. He's smart, and has a nose for news. He may have some ideological quirks, but if he's astonished by this then, By Gum, we'd better pay attention.

[Cocoa]

16. jeez

come on, it's Pat Buchanan. Trust me, there's NO need to listen to Pat Buchanan, especially on matters of Israel.

[wndycty]

19. I agree with grasswire. . .

. . .put me in the category of those who hate him for his bigotry based conservatism, however I have the utmost respect for him. Strange, wierd, I know. . .I think my respect comes from both his consistency and his wisdom. He is still a bigot, but I respect him. . .oy I need an aspirin.

[Cocoa]

20. did you know he joined the Kerry smear?

he's pushing yet another lie, taken out of O'Neill's book.

How does that fit into your generous portrait of Pat? Is it conservative, or wise, to smear a war hero, or anyone, with stories one knows are lies?

Forgive me, but one of the most infuriating things about DU is people defending Pat Buchanan. :mad:

[grasswire]

22. Look.

To say that Pat may have more insight into this new scandal that WE do is not to say that everything that Pat says is gospel.

Gee.

Try not to be so rigid in judging a person. That's what the freepers did to the Clintons. "He's bad, so he's stupid, too."

Buchanan is smart and savvy and no one's fool.

[wndycty]

23. I think you need to reread my post. . .

. . .Pat Buchanan is conservative bigot, but I have grown to respect him because his is consistent (unlike Bush) and he does have a certain wisdom. I am not praising him, I am just giving my objective impressions. He is an evil, evil man, but that does not mean he does not have a deep knowledge of the way Washington works.

[LTR]

21. He was also Deep Throat

If you believe the theories.

[quaoar]

15. Feith is a neocon

Stands to reason his aides are, too.
Buchanan hates neocons and they hate him.

This was leaked to more than one media outlet. It was practically a blast leak. Could be an attempt to get it out on Friday, could be an attempt to compromise the investigation (although it sounds like they have most of it wrapped up). Most likely this is someone settling a score with Rumsfeld in a big way.

[PA Democrat]

17. Feith and Richard Perle, advisers to Likud

In 1996, Perle and Feith co-authored an advisory paper for the newly elected Likud Prime Minister Netanyahu, which called for ‘a clean break from the peace process’, by Israel. They advised Netanyahu to reassert Israel’s claim to its land by rejecting ‘land for peace’ as the basis of peace, strengthen Israel’s defenses to better confront Syria and Iraq, and forge a new and stronger relationship with the United States.

http://www.currentconcerns.ch/archive/20011106.php

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. What's the big deal?

If Prince Bandar can have classified documents, why can't the Israelis?

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