Bush claims executive privilege in Valerie Plame Wilson case

The question remains, what will the Democrat congress do? They think Clinton got such a bad wrap, yet now they have all the justification in the world to impeach, incarcerate, and perhaps even hold for treason, the President and Vice President,...and they won't do it.

So who do you really think is worse, the criminals in the white house, or the criminals in congress who cover for the criminals in the white house.

enough of this garbage.
don't negotiate with your representative to do what they think is best. Tell them frankly: You are to impeach and convict this president, vice president, secretary of state, attorney general gonzales, and others for wiretapping, torture, outing a CIA operation (not just the agent), provoking a war based on manipulated intelligence, falsifying reports through omission related to our climate and environment, and countless other crimes.

This is not a policy issue folks. These are unconvicted felons.
GWBush ordered wiretapping without warrant 30 times by his own admission. This is a felony, even when the president does it. That is a 30 count charge right there.

Worried about what President you get when Bush is gone? Then start by outing that crook, Dick Cheney. But either way, get on with it.

How was the yellow cake assertion proved wrong when we just found like 500 tons of yellow cake in iraq? this story makes absolutely no sense. Joe wilson's actual report contradicted what he said to the press and joe wilson was certified as a liar by the senate intelligence committe. Nice try lefties.

yep...pretty much sums up this administration. what a pack of criminals.

It is time to file article of impeachment against these two.

Of course the claim of executive privilege is nonsense in this instance. So what is the milquetoast Congress going to do about it? Nothing. Bush knows that they don't have the courage to take the him and the rest of the Executive to task for their blatant violations of law. They will rant and rave and rend their garments in front of the cameras but they won't do a thing, just like they've done for the last 2 years. What a joke.

Ha! I just noticed that the headline of this article is "countdown to Crawford". I wish.... The moron in chief plans to take up residence in Dallas, my town, so he can go look at his book in his new presidential library anytime he wants.

It's quite understandable that the Bush administration will hang tough and claim executive privilege on the Plame affair. After all, leaking the name of a secret agent anytime is treason and a capitol offense during wartime. Bush and Cheney leaked her name to punish her husband for discovering that the Nigerian memo about yellowcake uranium was a forgery. (Wonder who forged it?) Or maybe to punish Vallery for not supporting Bush's claim that Saddam had WMD (she was in charge of two dozen agents who were interviewing Iraqi scientists. So the gang in the White House committed treason and will do anything to keep the evidence from becoming public. However, there are so many other crimes that are alleged against this administration, we all must wonder why Congress has not started impeachment proceedings. Perhaps, Pelosi and Reid are cowards. They certainly are negligent in their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution.

Well at least it is BUSH claiming executive privilege this time instead of Cheney--when no such privilege exists for the VP. As a Christian, I can say that I have nothing but respect for Jimmy Carter, the last boisterous Christian in the office. His presidency wasn't the greatest, but the man's legacy for peace and justice is unquestionable. This Christian president is a disgrace to justice and peace and brings shame to the faith. I believe he is a believer, but I also believe he has become a horrible example of the faith, of what it means to be an American, and what it means to be a man period.

Well, at least President Bush finally admitted he's committed high treason...or at least he's covering up the fact that he committed high treason. At any rate, the American people now know he was involved in unmasking a covert operative for political gains. The truth shall set you free, Mr. President!

Jimmy Carter is the best ex-president we've ever had. :-)

> How was the yellow cake assertion proved wrong when we just found
> like 500 tons of yellow cake in iraq?

Dave, the yellow cake is in your head instead of a functioning neuralogical organ. The assertion was that Nigeria sold Iraq uranium for making "weapons of mass destruction" -- which turned out to be patently false.

Yes, we did just remove a bunch of radioactive materials from Iraq -- materials that WE were storing there, and it's not yellow-cake uranium.

It's obvious that you don't let little things like FACTs get in the way of your point-of-view, nor does it prevent you from stating it. This is the crux of freedom of speech: The idiots get to talk, too.

What don't these sociopaths get away with? Vote 3rd party.

Carter best president? "Secret agent"? A secret agent whose husband is flapping his jowls in national media? You all apparently have no understanding of what it is like to work covertly or with a security clearance. Carter best president? Good god. What is the purpose of engaging this blog anyway. Simpleton ranting? Lovely.

I dont understand why we cant stop this stuff....why isnt anyone doing anything? I am getting really angry...this president is like a terrible King....why cant we stop him?

Neither party is worth anything, and neither presidential candidate is worth anything. Bush runs around doing what ever he wants and claims executive privilege, while congress either supports him or does nothing. The WMD, Plame, attorneys, and Gitmo affairs, individually, would have been enough for an impeachment in years gone by. Yet no person in Congress will do anything. The current system is completely broken, and cannot be fixed in its current incarnation. That is why I voted for Ron Paul in the primary, and why I will vote for Bob Barr in the presidential race. We need a change; not the surface changes that McCain and Obama talk about, but fundamental change that puts the people of this country back in charge, and makes being an American mean something positive again!

Not Dave, you need to read the news more. Maybe even from more than one source? The uranium was Saddams. It was there since the first Gulf War. Who was responsible for it? The International Atomic Energy Agency.

treason.. and the penalty should be death... But Congress doesnt have the balls to do anything.. and even if they did, they would never get enough votes since there is barely a majority.

Hello my children,

This is your lord speaking. You ask why can't we stop this yet the power is in your hands. I created the Ten Commandments thousands of years ago and you failed to listen, I sent Jesus to you and you failed to listen, I created the United States Constitution and you forget all about it. I ask you please to read the original copy of the constitution and not only live by it but act upon it. Ignore all of these extra amendments that you have added.

You the people have the right to bear arms against your treasonous government.

After 9/11 it was said do not let the terrorists win by taking our freedom.
I say to you, you have already let the terrorists win by allowing the Patriot Act and many other laws to be enacted and enforced. Your current president is not the only one who has committed treason but you yourselves have also committed treason.

Is not the man who sits idly by and watches and allows a sin to be committed just as guilty as those who are sinning?

I now give up on mankind for there are more interesting things in the universe to play with.

There was nothing wrong with Carter that Nixon and Ford's misconduct and incompetence didn't set him up for. Same problem with whomever takes over in January- our administration is a complete disaster, our budget is broken, raising taxes & cutting expenditures is the ONLY option for our next president & congress. Yes, Bush/Cheney should be impeached- no, please correct that- they should have been impeached years ago. Pelosi (a poor choice for democrats as a leader) made a stupid promise not to impeach, so the bushies essentially have carte blanche. What a mess. But bush jr. is just the puppet- Cheney, the Carlyle Group & his secret committess ought to be sent to Gitmo & warterboarded.

the problem with dealing with this now is two-fold. First is that we have other, pressing issues and this is just another diversion. Second, this is better dealt with in a new administration. Then Bush can't just pardon everyone on his way out of office. Patience is sometimes a virtue. I am sure we are nowhere near the statute of limitations.

The thing that upsets me so much is that we will be paying retirement salaries and benefits to these two the rest of their deceitful lives. Are we surprised that this happened…not really; let’s put it this way, Enron wasn’t the first to cook their books and milk innocent people for all they had. All you have to do is research Harkin Energy, Bush’s first big scam to see who started taking advantage of the American middle class. Check it out:

www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0203/S00035.htm
http://perdurabo10.tripod.com/warehousea/id82.html
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2005/11/08/more-on-bushs-eminent-domain-14-mil-windfall/
http://www.stewwebb.com/FRAUDS%20ARE%20US%20AT%20MDC.html

Now instead of scamming some of the American public, he is screwing us all.

This Democratic Congress is no better, we elected them to clean up this mess. What's the deal?

As long as a few chickens go to those outside the henhouse, there is no fuss about the fox inside, but when the trough run dry, the Troubles began.

I am not American - I am a British national. I don't live in the U.K. - I live in Japan. I echo the sentiments of most of the posters on this board - WHY AREN’T BUSH, CHENEY AND THE REST OF THE WRECKING CREW ON TRIAL?

Do you know how much money the "War against Terror" has cost your country? Even if there is oil in Alaska, it's going to take decades to pay back the huge loans to China and Saudi Arabia. It probably can't be done.

What's more, do you realize how the U.S.A. is hated these days? I don't think it's just Japan.

For God's sake bring these guys to justice!

John Davis

Those who wish to support impeachment can start by going here. http://www.impeachbush.org

Read more about the yellow cake and Mr. Wilson's role. AP

dqueenofeverything - the deal is that democrats and republicans are two sides of the same coin. Their only interest is in attaining and maintaining power for themselves. Ergo, they're not going to do anything to upset the status quo. I mean, if the congress acted against the president, we, as voters, might get the idea that we could act against them and they can't have that. We're just the sheep getting fleeced by the political class that could not care less about you.

I think that I did not have sex with that woman will live for ever as the biggest lie told by a setted president. The only reason that this store is comming up again is that reed and polasa don't want to help american with the oil problem.

Old, stale news. Our country is in a credit crisis and is being hurt by high fuel prices. And our Democratic Congress and Senate are so busy with the election garbage that they don't have time to do the jobs we elected them to do. No wonder they have an approval rating that is not only lower than the President, but the lowest in history.

Valerie and Joe Wilson played partisan politics and got their hands slapped. Even the damage they did to a country during a time of war is nothing compared to the fact that no President will ever again hold over or bring into their administration someone of the opposite political party, no matter the qualifications. Mr. Wilson's orgy of self indulgence will forever cost us the best and brightest. The Wilson's have certainly stretched their meaningless lives from their alloted 15 minutes of fame.

I hope everyone who reads this blog will link this to your congress-people.....
There are some well written arguments here and I believe that your congress people aren't going to do anything at all until the public sentiment gets to a certain level and possibly threatens their personal career's.
I keep telling mine and they don't listen or they use the excuse that impeachment would be counter-productive. Nothing would be accomplished, so why provoke a fight.
Personally, I would like to be able to hold my head up and be proud to be American. Unfortunately, a large percentage of the world's population consider us to be ethical and moral scum and it's all thanks to the Bush administration.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO YOUR CONGRESS-PEOPLE

John Davis - it's at times like this that I have a grudging admiration for the British parliamentary system. If you were to have a prime minister who flaunted the laws of the land, you could force a confidence vote and throw the bums out. Over here we have a federal republic where we empower elected representatives to act on our behalf. Of course, that requires that the the representatives we elect actually have the guts to stand up and do something. The truth is that once they are elected they act for their own good only. They only need us every election cycle at which time they tell us what we want to hear so that they can get elected. What's truly sad is that we fall for it every time. Just be thankful that we've limited the the time a person can serve as president to two successive terms max. I don't know what's coming next but it won't be Bush.

Remember when Mr. Bush said anyone responsible for leaking Plame's ID would be sacked?

And now he's claiming executive privilege to sweep the whole business under the rug.

I am a life-long Republican, and I am outraged. Everyone should be outraged, Republican and Democrat alike.

We were lied to, plain and simple.

I think it's high time to remove the Executive from his Privilege.

We cannot impeach Bush on the assumption that the thing he is protecting with the executive privilege is impeachable. To do that would be acting on a crooked, corrupt president who left office by his own will and died ten years ago. Bush has committed moral wrongdoing, but nonetheless, he is our elected official, and therefore, the American public ruled him capable of his position, and it is for the American public, in the form of the House and Senate, to decide if he is no longer worthy. That is a laborious process, and to assume that it can be done in six months is laughable.

This administration is blinded by something, something large that they and the democrats seem to believe will save this country. It's evident that the, "they'll remember me as a hero" ideology is playing out at this very moment. In the early days of this country, we said flat out what we wanted and what we were going to do, now we hide our motives behind "executive privilege", behind "it's not in our interest" etc. All this in hopes that the US Corp. will succeed over all others.

If they pull it off, it will not be in the fashion in which they hoped because those men in WWI and WWII had a much different set of rules to play by. We're going through globalization and this administration is trying to make sure 'we' (not the US) comes out on top, at no matter what cost.

The Yellow Cake we just got rid of from Iraq was old, and known, from the abandoned weapons programs from the 90's. It is not at all related to any weapons program that was supposedly operational during this Iraqi Freedom mess. Basically the assertions that took us to war were based off of cherry picked aged intellegence, which ignored the fact that current conditions in Iraq had changed.

I prefer to turn over all documentation not a national security issue over to the Hague. Let them deal with these criminals. We'll be far too busy trying to dig out from under this mess.

Using the "we elected him" argument is the equivalent of saying that a car bought on loan must be endured during the entire length of the loan. That's absolute garbage. Only a man in love with loans would do that, just like a man in love with voting to the exclusion of impeachment.

Executive privilege? How can King George get away with this? The last King George (1776) was a paragon of democracy compared to this criminal.

I'm sure that enough evidence exists (without the damning evidence that is hidden or destroyed) that war crimes and treason have been committed. Off with his head.

I do not believe it is sensible to say "This is the crux of freedom of speech: The idiots get to talk, too.That is the method of dictatorships not democracies." While any idiot has a right to speak, they do not have a right to make up something that will impact on you or me in a material negative way without basis.

I believe that freedom of speech is not only a right - it is a responsibility too. One that everyone especially the news networks and broadcasters must take seriously. Please! No one is entitled to lie outright and willfully. That is not free speech - opinion is not a fact. You can explain what you think and believe, but if you do not have the facts in hand or demonstrable, you better say so. You better also make it clear that it is your view and not a fact.

When we speak out, it is our responsibility to think first before we speak and to speak what is true. Freedom of speech is not a license to say whatever we want just because we feel like it and it will help our cause. This is where the Bushwackers have it all wrong and are taking advantage. And, now they are claiming privelege too - they believe they can lie, and they can hide it too. Certainly does not sound democratic on either count.

If there is truth, what ever it is can and indeed must be spoken, and that is true freedom of speech. It is okay to say the emperor has no clothes for example - it is in plain sight for all to see. It is also acceptable to speak the truth even if that will cause you hardship - but it must be true and based on facts of which one is aware and can prove. This is where the courage of Wilson and Plame comes in. They did what they must - likely knowing and despite what the impact would be on them.

And, I think those that complain no one is impeaching the Bushwackers, I agree with the one poster that suggests that the time will come - have patience. The Democrats know what is at stake and the inquisition will come later. They need to focus on the other issues for America. All the evidence that can be deleted is gone already anyway. And, the fight and retribution from the Bushwackers while they are still in power is frightening indeed. Again, look at the Plames - that was mild because they just needed to be "bumped" out of the road. Now, with impeachment, the game is for keeps and the stakes might cost you something much more valuable.

I completely disagree with the comment by Tom Mariner that "Valerie and Joe Wilson played partisan politics and got their hands slapped." What? Hands slapped? Not so - a career ruined, a life in crisis. A treason committed by no less than the emporer with no clothes. Incredible if not insane. So there is not freedom of speech when it is against the party line?

I think the yapping nonsense of those like "dave" on the "yellow cake" and like this comment by Tom Mariner make it an easier task for the liars like Bush et al to get away with what they do. They confuse the issue by saying whatever they want to believe without checking for truth or saying in their presentation that they have no basis for saying what they do except they would like to believe it to be true.

And even if others have said and mistakenly accept and believe a falsehood, we are not absolved from our responsibility to make sure we are not propogating that falsehood. We must first determine if it is true or not. Or, whether it is of mal intent and /or slanderous.

Really, we seem to have gone down a rabbit hole like Alice in Wonderland on free speech - we can say and believe anything we want? It does not matter? No matter what is the truth, the likely truth or an obvious lie? We get a pass regardless? We don't need to worry if it destroys a life or a career, or someone's financial condition. Just say "freedom of speech" and you are absovled.

I don't agree with this thinking - what happens when you and me become the target? The Valerie and Joe? Think hard about that one okay? Real hard. There has to be some sensible line between one person's right to say whatever they want and the rights of those impacted by what you say. And I believe that a politician is not to be held to a different standard than you and me. That is - they are not "fair game". Nor is their family.

Freedom of speech is a right to speak out, based on truth and facts and even your opinion, which, if it is based on wishful thinking, needs to have that caveate attached. It is not a license to create and propagate falsehood. That in fact, is called propaganda - we don't do that here - remember? This is America....

It is nice to know that more and more people are finally realizing that the government and BUSH are nothing but criminals who use other people to cover up their crimes. I have been saying this for years. We need this anger and dedication as US citizens rise up and do it to save ourselves, our kids and grandkids. NOW! what is that! That's what I am looking for. My social security will never be their for me and mine because it will be paying for the worst president in history to be living the laps of luxury. That pisses me off.

The latest right wing meme is that we "found" all this yellowcake in Iraq, and so Wilson was wrong. The fact is that uranium in Iraq had been there since the 80's, we knew about it, everyone else knew about it as did the IAEC who monitored it.

The IAEC actually had tamper proof seals on the barrels...until the Marines arrived and opened up the site, and the barrels, and then left them unguarded.

Bush said the British learned that Hussein had "recently" sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa...a tale that was made up of whole cloth and that Wilson had been sent to investigate. He correctly found it was bogus (and as we later found, based on a obvious crudely forged letter).

Geez, it's like all these wingnuts have given up trying to defend this horrible administration on the facts, and now just make stuff up to protect their precious little fantasy worldview.

Right on Kevin Lyter!

President Bush is an elected official and his term is almost up - let's hope we take the time to make a wise, INFORMED decision when we vote in November on the next President.

Dave wrote:

> > How was the yellow cake assertion proved wrong when we just found
> > like 500 tons of yellow cake in iraq?

Not Dave responded:

> Dave, the yellow cake is in your head instead of a functioning neuralogical
> organ. The assertion was that Nigeria sold Iraq uranium for
> making "weapons of mass destruction" -- which turned out to be patently
> false.

> Yes, we did just remove a bunch of radioactive materials from Iraq --
> materials that WE were storing there, and it's not yellow-cake uranium.

Sorry Not Dave. There was yellow cake uranium in Iraq. Read on...

Sorry, Dave. The yellow cake uranium that Iraq recently sold (openly and publicly, to Canada for its domestic energy production needs) was not "just found." It was first discovered after the 1991 Gulf War, and has been under the supervision of the IAEA ever since, with the exception of the period during which Sadaam had kicked out the U.N. inspectors.

The point is this: Iraq had yellow cake. SO WHAT??? We knew Sadaam had yellow cake 17 years ago. We knew how much. We knew where it was. We could watch the area night and day with satellites during the whole time that no inspectors allowed to inspect the cache in person. Then, in 1992, when Sadaam allowed the inspectors back in, they went where the yellow cake was kept -- where they had been monitoring it before he kicked them out -- and sure enough, there it all was.

As to Bush's "yellow cake from Africa..." gambit: You seem to think that the uranium mines of Niger are set somewhere in the Wild West. Yellow cake is not something that can be smuggled. It takes freight-car loads of it to produce pounds of refined uranium. The idea that 500 TONS of it could suddenly go astray is lucicrous on its face.

It is clear that you never read Joseph Wilson's NY Times response to the Bush 1993 State of the Union speech. Niger's yellow cake mines are run by an international array of closely-monitored contractors. So basically, one of the major reasons that Europe responded so negatively to the Bush State of the Union assertion is that they knew better, and they knew it very publicly. In essence, what he was really saying that “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from European companies in Africa.” This stuff was reported in the U.S. You had to dig to find it. But not that deep.

If you had read the Wilson piece or any informed analysis of it, you would realize that the Bush Administration never once tried to refute it. Instead, they went right after the guy's wife, and ruined her career in retaliation for Ambassador Wilson's public refutation of the claim that was at the very center of the Bush Administration's web of deceit.

Yellow cake acquisition was not a mere peripheral argument in the rationale for war, Paul Wolforwitz's later minimizing of it notwithstanding. It was central, pivotal element of the administration's justification for an invasion. It was flogged publicly in one forum or another by every senior administration official. Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz. All of them hammered away at it for months. Wilson undermined it thoroughly, and they never even bothered to contradict him.

Why bother to make a futile argument against a rock-solid, experienced former State Department professional who knew all the players and who could make an authoritative judgement on the Niger yellow cake matter? Why bother to refute the fact that the British intelligence was an echo of a previously discredited obvious forgery turned up -- or possibly manufactured -- by the Italian secret service? Why try to make futile arguments against Wilson's air-tight intelligence -- especially since it totally undermines your war policy? Why try to do any of it when you can just trash his wife's job by implying his mission was a kind of nepotism instead? Much simpler.

It's all VERY simple. If Bush has NOTHING to hide, then why does he always hide EVERYTHING.

Dave,
If what you write were true

"How was the yellow cake assertion proved wrong when we just found like 500 tons of yellow cake in iraq? this story makes absolutely no sense. Joe wilson's actual report contradicted what he said to the press and joe wilson was certified as a liar by the senate intelligence committe. Nice try lefties. Posted by: dave | July 16, 2008 at 05:34 PM"

then people would believe it and McCain would win in November. You got a spare nickel for a sporting wager on this?

Some individuals are above the law, US as well as international law.

w was elected president of us by more votes then any other president ever im sorry you have to here this (he won)get over it, he would win again.

I hope that Laura is prepared for a decade-long descent into babying a whiskey fueled paranoid alcoholic locked inside a leather-bound personal library of decaying beliefs that what little W decided to do will be vindicated by some glorious future General while cruising through the democratic waters of the Suez Canal. A deservedly pitiful ending to an aggressive yet ill-informed everyday boob.

The problem isn't with the criminals but with those who are responsible for the enforcement of the law and the prosecution of the criminals. There are enough evidences for prosecution. So, the problem really lies with the spineless Democrats in congress. They have proved too incompetent to safeguard the integrity of the government and to uphold justice. It's time to vote out those spineless Democrats who have been giving Bush everything he wishes.

" Bush runs around doing what ever he wants and claims executive privilege, while congress either supports him or does nothing. "

Hopefully the dem congress is starting to take action...hence the Mukasy hearing

@ Not Not Dave

"The yellowcake removed from Iraq - which was not the same yellowcake that President George W. Bush claimed, in a now discredited section of his 2003 State of the Union address, that Saddam was trying to purchase in Africa - could be used in an early stage of the nuclear fuel cycle." (IHT - http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/07/mideast/iraq.php)

Maybe you need some clarity too.

Let's quote ol' Dick himself here:

"So"?

Nice Try "Dave", but we've known about that LOW GRADE yellowcake since before the first gulf war. " Associated press: U.N. inspectors documented and safeguarded the yellowcake, which had been stored in aging drums and containers since before the 1991 Gulf War. There was no evidence of any yellowcake dating from after 1991, the official said. " this is not new info, Bush lied at least twice in his state of the union address saying that Saddam was trying to aquire more yellowcake, knowing full well the nigerian documents were fake. The yellowcake assertion was proved wrong because the memo was FORGED. do a google once in a while.

The "Plame scandal" is a non-issue. She had not been undercover for years. Joe Wilson's lies deserved to be refuted. This is a political circus. The democrats are so single-mindedely focused on gaining political advantage that they don't give a damn about the good of the country. It is no wonder the polls rate the congress much lower even than Bush. What a waste!

It was Richard Armitage who leaked Plame-Wilson's name first.
Look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armitage

NOW they want to keep their mouths shut... they should have done that before they revealed the name/position of CIA personnel. At this time, those who revealed this information should be tried for treason.

Executive privileges are to be invoked only to protect a principle or on National Security issues which is not the case. He is protecting Cheney, his accomplice in the "War for Oil" plan.

I miss John F. Kennedy. I'm ashamed of what we have in the White House now. Why impeachment proceedings weren't brought years ago is beyond me. Nixon was almost impeached, Clinton had impeachment proceedings brought against him. What Bush has done and got away with is criminal.

John wrote: "How was the yellow cake assertion proved wrong when we just found like 500 tons of yellow cake in iraq?" -- You STILL think the president was RIGHT in his 2003 state of the union? Wow, dude. I cannot reason with this level of self-deception.

The concepts of rightousness and justice exist to be applied. The American people did not elect office holders to misuse Constitution-granted powers with integrity and truth destroyed in the process. It does not matter if one is Republican or Democrat, the highest principles have no allegiance to party. It is time for all Americans to demand justice to be rendered to the cabal of treasonous criminals that are now in the White House.

If one is honest and forthright in their dealings, then they have no issue with answering questions about their activities because they will be seen as honest and forthright. However, if they have something to hide, then they will expend energy to hide it.

Do the right thing by beginning the process that will cleanse our government of these wrong-doers. Then maybe America can heal itself.

The requirement for the application of rightousness and justice does not recognize either political party. Integrity has no party loyalty. Fellow Republicans need to realize that they can help to heal the schism in their party by insisting that the administration be examined for correct application of principle. The schism exist between the party and integrity. Insist on impeachment to heal that rift. Nobody needs to fulfill the part of being a toady to a criminal or criminal activity.

We have an opportunity to do the right thing. Allow for justice for the healing of America regardless of cost.

Who protects a TRAITOR?

Another traitor. Plame was part of an entire CIA company that Cheney exposed and told others to expose when he acted out of spite. An undercover company (Brewster-Jennings) whose duty it was to follow the trail of loose nukes, nuclear secrets and weapons-grade nuclear material in the Middle East.

I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic....those words actually mean something. The enemies of America are currently soiling the White House.

To the idiots who believe that the existence of yellow cake in Iraq was only discovered AFTER the war, (we've known about it since the early 90's, for God's sake,) and that it's existence justifies both the war and the outing of Valerie Plame:

Grow up. You don't know anything.

Scooter Libby was charged WITH and sentenced, and pardoned for, SOMETHING.

Bush didn't like SOMETHING about Joe Wilson's report on the Niger/Yellow cake thing. It did not fit he plan for excuses to invade, morons.

Please. Grow up.

PS - Saddam purchased more biological weapons (that he used on Kurds) from us that is, the US of A, that is AMERICA, than all the yellowcake in China. Not to mention other weapons, planes, bombers, etc, etc, etc. ........

Again, I plead: grow up.

First of all, Ms. Plame (Mrs. Wilson) was not covert and had not been for five years. She was a desk jockey. I would think with gas prices at all-time high levels that the democrat-controlled congress would have something better to do than to continue to beat a dead horse in the Valerie Plame case. The left cannot except the fact that Clinton told a bare-faced lie to Congress and to the Grand Jury which is known as perjury. It does not matter in the eyes of the law what the lie to the grand jury was about, it was a lie under oath. Get over it and start attacking Wilson, the liar, and his wife, another liar, and move on to something important. George Soros is the speculator every democrate is hunting to punish who is driving up the oil price together with the democrat-controlled do-nothing congress.Another gas tax is not the answer. Drilling is.

Sagebrush stated: "Then, in 1992, when Sadaam allowed the inspectors back in, they went where the yellow cake was kept -- where they had been monitoring it before he kicked them out -- and sure enough, there it all was."

Actually the weapons inspectors were not "kicked out" by Saddam Hussein but pulled out by the (U.N.) Chief Weapons Inspector Richard Butler.

I just wanted to help out and correct this one issue so please don't take it as an attack.

Regardless of where we stand on the issues it's nice to see a dialogue happening because it shows that we care. Thank you.