Senator says Libby trial should have never happened

[Robbien]

Senator Kit Bond (R - Missouri) says although Libby needs to pay the consequences for lying, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald should not have brought the case in the first place. The lawmaker from the Show Me State notes that Fitzgerald knew early on that the source of the leak was former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.

"Beyond that, the disclosure was, in my view, not a violation because it does not appear that Mrs. Plame had been an overseas, undercover person within the timeframe submitted," says Bond ; "and she and her husband were very open ... in social circles in Washington ."

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Bond believes Valerie Plame and her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson, are using the Libby case as a means to further "their own desires for fame and wealth."
http://www.spcm.org/Journal/spip.php?article7510

Libby? Libby who? MSM has moved on.

[jaybeat]

1. Bwaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh! (nt)

[tanyev]

2. Since when does being undercover mean you can't leave the house?

Isn't that the whole point of having a "cover"?

[Robbien]

5. The whole idea here is to keep getting you to defend covert

and distract from the fact that Cheney is behind this and that a CIA WMD team was outed.

GOPers just want to keep the "wasn't covert" meme going.

[NightWatcher]

3. the CIA said that she was covert

remember, her statements were ok'd ahead of her testimony. They need to start slapping people who say that she was not covert.

If Clinton can be impeached for a BJ and the independent prosecutor can spend 7 years and 60 million diggin up Bill's real estate, personal life, and such, I think that we can investigate treason by the upper eschalons of the administration.

[Robbien]

6. Yes the GOPers need to be slapped

but would it even be reported if they were? Heck, they could have already been slapped. But MSM only reports articles such as this one.

[blm]

4. Fitzgerald should subpoena Bond and Pat Roberts so he can determine on what evidence

they had based their senate report conclusions that just happened to coincide with Rove's talking points against Wilson at the time.

[Johonny]

7. mind reader?

Fitzgerald hasn't said anything publically about what he does and doesn't "know". He certainly didn't come in front of congress and say he "knows". Why is Kit Bond the only person in the country that "knows" what's in Fitzgerald's head. Perhaps if more republicans had shown up at the hearing or perish the thought, had real hearing when the information was fresher, we might know the source of the leak. Certainly Kit Bond feels no pain for knowing a CIA agent was outted to the press so we could fight a fake war on terror cost billions of dollars and thousands of American and perhaps up to a million Iraqi lives. I suggest if Kit Bond doesn't want to do the job of a US senator perhaps he should resign and let someone in the office that want's more than the name plate on his desk and the free lobbying kick backs.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

8. There wasn't a single leaker - there were multiple leakers

making totally moot this talking point about they knew about Armitage early. So what? Novak's article mentioned "2" yes, count them two, administration sources for the outing.

If someone is the victim of a gangland hit and one person is caught running away from the scene, does that mean the police stop looking for the other perpetrators? I don't think so.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Beofre clicking I said to myself

has to be an R... yup it was.

Surprise, surprise, surprise...