I think goss simply passed word and Bush verified at Cheney’s heeding. Cheney pushed known lies to force that meeting, Goss passed word from there and was on Novak’s show just about to the day.

That’s why the prosecutor firing had to be done so prompty. It could uncover the other case.

Actually, Toensing goes beyond the wording of the statute to make the claim that Valerie must be stationed– as opposed to repeatedly traveling– overseas to be covered by it.

This is not supported by the wording of the statute itself, nor has Toensing supplied any support of her claim that this is the intent.

There’s a reason for this: She can’t.

Of note as well in yesterday’s Cavalcade of Lies was a repeat of one of the most tortured logical leaps she’s ever managed to come up with– the contention that it was David Corn who outed Valerie Plame, not Novak.

Yes, you read that correctly. She insists that Novak did not out Valerie because he did not identify her as a covert agant in his July 14 2003 column. Two days later, David Corn wrote an article rhetorically asking whether Novak had just outed a NOC (he pretty much concluded that Novak had).

So there it is: because Corn speculated that she was covert two days after Novak blabbed her name and true employer in his column, it’s Corn who is the jerk, not poor Novak.

See what we’re dealing with here? Scary, isn’t it?

I pulled this off another board and thought you gals & guys might get a laugh out of the last few “requirements”.

“Case officers are expected, first and foremost, to live their cover.”

“Case officers are equally expected to expect to receive no quarter from anyone, anyone with regard to protecting their cover. (and, ironically, they rarely receive it from the State Dept…..)”

“Case Officers are expected to lead what would appear to be to any, any, ANY interested party an exceedingly dull and unremarkable life, and to do to such an exacting level of consistency as to send any conceivable interested party shuffling away in somnolent aversion to any continued attention.”

“Marrying a retired career Ambassador of career liberal Democrat persuasion who in retirement takes on an active, public partisan role in policy matters, and conducts a very high-profile social life inside the DC beltway to further a political agenda including his own, and then actually involving oneself in that public life to the point of attending partisan Democrat strategy meetings (which she admitted today) is simply inconsistent with all that is expected of a C/O with respect to living cover. Many will argue she has a right to live her life and cannot control her husband. To that I say, many C/O careers end because of difficulties some experience in living cover, and in the indiscretions of one’s spouse.”

“The very winsome Mrs. Wilson may cut a very sympathetic figure in the MSM spin on this story but, gentlemen, I can guarantee you this: she will get no sympathy from her peers in the silent service; she does not deserve any professional respect. She allowed her personal life to wind up on the front page of the Washington Post. That is simply, totally, and alterably unforgivable.”
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Basically, in my opinion, that puts Bush right smack dab in the center of this. Bush told all of us in a press conference that he was going to look into it and if anyone did leak that information, they would be fired.

So, that translates into Bush knowingly lied to us when he didn’t intend on investigating the Plame matter anyway – he already knew who had leaked it.

Perhaps Bush’s name should be in that black box, no?

If I were the next president, Larry Johnson and Richard Clarke are the first two guys I’d try to hire. (As long as you could blog live from the position!)