Thursday, December 14, 2006

US - CBS still distorting the news

This CBS report is a prime example of how the left wing media distort the news for their own ends.

Listen to this:

(AP) Outed CIA operative Valerie Plame, who is at the center of a criminal case involving the former chief of staff for Vice President Cheney, is moving to Santa Fe, N.M., with her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson. [...]

Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby faces charges of perjury and obstruction in connection with Plame's name being leaked to reporters. Libby, whose trial is to begin next month, is accused of lying to investigators about his conversations with reporters regarding Plame.

Plame believes the administration leaked her name to reporters as retribution for her husband's criticism of intelligence before the Iraqi war.

Wilson in 2002 discounted reports that then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein tried to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger to make a nuclear weapon. The claim wound up in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union address.


Notice how CBS reports the Plame "believes" the administration leaker her name. Plame may well believe it but she, and CBS, knows that Richard Armitage of the State Department, an opponent of the war in Iraq, has admitted he leaked her name and not the Administration.

And Wilson may have discounted reports on Iraq's attempts to buy Uranium from Niger, but Wilson and CBS again, both know that all subsequent independent investigations show that Wilson's report actually bolster the case, not weaken it.

Also left out of the report is the fact that no one, including Armitage who admits he's the guilty party, has been indicted for leaking Plame's name. Further, Fitzpatrick has stated publicly that he will not be seeking any indictments for the leaking of Plame's name.

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