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   From: Hellmstoffer@nonuyerbuisiness.net   
      
   Leland Milton Goldblatt , PhD. wrote in message   
   <1108924797.529423.106920@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>...   
   >Did a vindictive Karl Rove leak the memo exposing CIA agent Valerie   
   >Plame to fake reporter Jeff Gannon (J.D. Guckert) as retaliation   
   >against Ambassador Joseph Wilson?   
      
   >The White House credentialized fake news reporter Jeff Gannon from fake   
   >news agency Talon News for the White House press pool.   
      
   >The Washington Post reported that Gannon had access to the internal CIA   
   >memo that names Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a covert   
   >agent.   
      
   >So who leaked the memo to Gannon/ Guckert?   
      
   If Gannon/Guckert was the source Bob Novak used, Gannon/Guckert is in   
   serious trouble, regardless of who leaked the memo to him. Serious enough   
   that, in classic chickenhawk fashion, in order to save his own ass he will   
   most likely roll over on whoever gave him the memo, assuming that he doesn't   
   turn up "suicided" in a cheap hotel room somewhere, which is far more likely   
   if he's actually the guy. Come to think of it, even if Gannon wasn't Novaks   
   source he could be in serious trouble just for having that information,   
   unless he had a security clearance. In fact, if there's a dead pool on him,   
   a person might do well to put a few bucks on his untimely, imminent demise.   
   Gannon's a loose cannon right now and the Bush administration hates loose   
   cannons.   
      
      
      
   Currently, the mainstream media, in its neverending crusade to Protect   
   George, is claiming that any attempt to get to the bottom of this story is   
   an assault on their "freedom" because it compromises confidential sources.   
   The fact that the source of this is remaining confidential not because of   
   fear of retaliation because they exposed wrongdoing, but because they are   
   the **source** of the wrongdoing, seems to have escaped almost everybody in   
   the media. That pinhead Lou Dobbs was ranting like an ass about it the other   
   day, defending the commission of serious Federal Crimes because condemning   
   them would have made some anonymous Bush crony look sleazy. As a media   
   pillar of upright, Christian, Republican morality he clearly was not   
   listening very closely to himself and appeared to be reading a prepared   
   statement that had been faxed to him. "Freedom of the press" is a   
   meaningless term when most of the press refuses to use it in any case where   
   it makes George W Bush look bad.   
      
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