The Short Memory Of Our MSM

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Our media, always biased…all the time.  These guys just never get anything right.  Take a look at the WaPo and their Sunday version of Plame/Libby reporting: (h/t Just One Minute)

Plame’s employment at the CIA was classified, making it illegal for any official to knowingly and intentionally disclose it. Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald’s 22-month investigation did not produce charges of that offense.

Uh, hello!  The Intelligence Identities Protection Act lays out the rules on whether its a crime or not. Guess what?  It’s not a crime seeing how the agent must have served outside the US within the last five years, the US must have taken action to conceal the identity of the agent, and the person doing the disclosing must have known the agent was undercover.  All of those requirements are needed to make it a crime.  Something ole’ Fitz knows very well since after he spent millions on his witch hunt and all he got was a perjury charge.

Hell, the WaPo, specifically Victoria Toensing and Bruce Sanford, layed it out as such a few years back:

Federal courts have stated that a reporter should not be subpoenaed when the testimony sought is remote from criminal conduct or when there is no compelling "government interest," i.e., no crime. As two people who drafted and negotiated the scope of the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act, we can tell you: The Novak column and the surrounding facts do not support evidence of criminal conduct.

Short memory I suppose huh?

But wait, there is more.  From yesterdays column:

Over the course of that week in July, bracketed by Wilson’s published criticism and Cheney’s flight back from Norfolk, three senior White House officials — Libby, Fleischer and special presidential assistant Karl Rove — inaccurately told or suggested to five reporters that Wilson had been dispatched to Niger by Plame, according to the testimony. Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage separately told columnist Robert D. Novak that Plame worked at the CIA, and Novak made that news public July 14.

Oh really?

From the Senate’s Report on the US Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq:

Some CPD officials could not recall how the office decided to contact the former ambassador, however, interviews and documents provided to the Committee indicate that his wife, a CPD employee, suggested his name for the trip. The CPD reports officer told Committee staff that the former ambassador’s wife "offered up his name" and a memorandum to the Deputy Chief of the CPD on February 12, 2002, from the former ambassador’s wife says, "my husband has good relations with both the PM [prime minister] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity."  This was just one day before CPD sent a cable REDACTED requesting concurrence with CPD’s idea to send the former ambassador to Niger and requesting any additional information from the foreign government service on their uranium reports. The former ambassador’s wife told Committee staff that when CPD decided it would like to send the former ambassador to Niger, she approached her husband on behalf of the CIA and told him "there’s this crazy report" on a purported deal for Niger to sell uranium to Iraq.

But according to the WaPo the claim that she suggested her husband for the job is "inaccurate".

No bias there.

Sigh…..

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Curt – You know darn well this is not an example of the media having a “short memory”, but is an example of blatant lying to fool the ignorant masses. Take a random poll of Americans and I bet they believe there was a crime committed regarding the Valerie Plame incident. Ask the same people about Sandy Berger and I bet they don’t even know who he is.

This is worse than journalistic malpractice. This is flat out lying and spreading agenda-driven propaganda.

Oh I know that Mike. Just being a bit sarcastic =)

The MSM has had it good for far too long. They could espouse anything they want, push any agenda they want, and never get called on it.

Times are a-changin