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“Plamegate’s Real Liar” retailed more WHOPPERS than Burger King, writes Max Boot in today’s LATimes.com.

Patrick Fitzgerald has found no criminal conspiracy and no violations of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which makes it a crime in some circumstances to disclose the names of undercover CIA operatives. Among other problems, Plame doesn’t seem to fit the act’s definition of a “covert agent” — someone who “has within the last five years served outside the United States.” By 2003, Plame had apparently been working in Langley, Va., for at least six years, which means that, mystery of mysteries, the vice president’s chief of staff was indicted for covering up something that wasn’t a crime.

The problem here is that the one undisputed liar in this whole sordid affair doesn’t work for the administration. In his attempts to turn his wife into an antiwar martyr, Joseph C. Wilson IV has retailed more whoppers than Burger King.

Max Boot continues listing the many lies of Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, the same lies which I had blogged about on July 3, 2005 in “Award Winning Truth Teller“.

How can it be that Joseph C. Wilson stands accused of selling more Whoppers than Burger King? Believe it or not, but the good Ambassador, husband of CIA Operative Valerie Plame, is an Award Winning Truth-Teller. One of the obvious highlights of his career, according to the short biography on the back cover flap of his book “The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife’s CIA Identity: A Diplomat’s Memoir” was the “Ron Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling” that he received in October 2003. Yet by early 2004, when Wilson was everywhere promoting his book about “truth”, almost everything he wrote in the book was proven to be wrong or outright lies by the 9/11 Commission.

“Were they suggesting that my wife had somehow influenced a decision to send me …? Were they implying that this had been nepotism, or some kind of a junket? Apart from being the conduit of a message from a colleague in her office … Valerie had had nothing to do with the matter. She definitely had not proposed that I make the trip.” (page 5 of “The Politics of Truth”)

The award winning “Truth-Teller” writes that his wife did not get him the job, however, an e-mail entered into the 9/11 Report shows otherwise. In fact, the bipartisan 9/11 commission found that Wilson lied at least three times: he lied about his wife’s role in sending him, he lied about his findings which actually strengthened the case that Iraq tried to obtain yellowcake, as did other nations, and he claimed knowledge of forged documents purporting to show an Iraq-Niger uranium deal, yet, those documents never reached U.S. intelligence until eight months after his trip.

When columnist Robert Novak named Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, to be a CIA operative, Joseph Wilson jumped to accusations that it was Karl Rove who unlawfully leaked the information, and Wilson made a famous remark about seeing Rove “frog marched” out of the White House. Wilson later retracted that slur, as he had no evidence.

Ambassador Joseph Wilson, award winning truth-teller, lied to us all. At a time of war, he misrepresented important facts to the American people. Revelations by the British government, The Financial Times, the 9-11 Committee, the 9-11 Senate Report and The Washington POST, have exposed Mr. Wilson’s “facts” into serious question. Iraq was trying to get yellowcake uranium and the Nigerians even told Wilson that when he went there, at government expense, to “investigate.”

WaPo has a detailed list of the “key” Plame Gaters.

Who would have thought that Democrat candidate for Virginia Governor, Tim Kaine, would have become ensnared by a “Little Black Sambo” in the neighboring state of Maryland. But he did! Virginia is a Southern state that has been governed by a black executive not so many years ago. Tim Kaine probably should be forgiven for not understanding the virulent racist strain which runs throughout the Democrat party outside of Virginia, but he won’t be.

The Kaine Campaign’s paid advertisements appeared on the Web log of Steve Gilliard, above an image of Maryland’s Lieutenant Governor, doctored to appear in “black-face” with the photo caption of “I’s simple Sambo and I’s running for the big house”. After the Kaine people demanded that his commericals be removed, the blogger attacked the Virginia Democrat as a coward (Tim Kaine is a Coward) and more. Glen Reynolds at Instapundit wrote; “The blogger in question is the often-excitable Steve Gilliard. He’s calling the Kaine campaign racist …”. Gilliard’s Web site also featured endorsements of Tim Kaine from Governors Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Jennifer Granholm of Michigan.

The blogger, Steve Gilliard, said the Kaine campaign had paid for a month of ads. He defended his attack on Steele and, after the Kaine campaign’s action, changed the Web site again to feature an attack on Kaine as a “coward” for pulling the ads.

“I guess they have a problem with black people expressing themselves in print,” Gilliard said. “At no point did they bother to ask me what I thought or why I did it.”

The Daily Blitz has “Update on a Progressive Racist” along with the outrageous image that appeared alongside the “Tim Kaine for Virginia Governor” ad, in case you were wondering why the Kaine people are upset. Linked at Sister Toldjah.

What a great place is America. We can choose to pray in the church of our choice, or not pray at all. We can vote in secret for whomever we choose. We can even hold office or run as a candidate in the political party of our choosing — except if we happened to be born the “wrong” race. All races and national origins are permitted in all political parties, with one exception. Blacks are not permitted to be Conservatives or Republicans.

It is not the Republicans who are excluding them. It is Liberals and Democrats who will not allow a black person to freely associate as a Conservative or Republican. How do they accomplish this? By old time “Jim Crow” style terror! We all know the names and published images that have been applied to Colin Powell and Condi Rice who have had the audacity to serve as high cabinet officials in the Republican Bush administration.

How many people could endure the demeaning assaults that are being perpetuated upon Maryland’s highest black office holder, Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele. He has been pelted with Oreo cookies while speaking in public and called “Sambo” by Democrats. A Democrat web log has doctored a newspaper image (see this one at this WaPo article), turning him into a black-faced minstrel character. It was posted by Steve Gilliard on his Blogspot web log “The News Blog”. Apparently, WaPo found the racist depiction of Michael Steel and required that Gilliard remove it. Telling it is that not one Democrat, neither white nor black, had found the image to be offensive or had complained. No one objected either to Steve Gilliard’s description of the highly educated Mr. Steele as “Simple Sambo”.

“I’s Simple Sambo and I’s running for the Big House” from Steve Gilliard of “The News Blog”

How Racist Can Democrats Be? (includes original black-face image). Michelle Malkin writes that it is “THE VILE BILE WE HAVE TO PUT UP WITH” and “exactly the kind of unhinged liberal hatred and bigotry against minority Republicans I talk about in my book” and she quotes The Washington Times of today:

Black Democratic leaders in Maryland say that racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele in his bid for the U.S. Senate are fair because he is a conservative Republican.

Such attacks against the first black man to win a statewide election in Maryland include pelting him with Oreo cookies during a campaign appearance, calling him an “Uncle Tom” and depicting him as a black-faced minstrel on a liberal Web log.

Operatives for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) also obtained a copy of his credit report — the only Republican candidate so targeted.

But black Democrats say there is nothing wrong with “pointing out the obvious.”

The headline of today’s Washington Post screams: CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons

Question. How can the terrorist prisons be secret if the WaPo, and now the rest of the world, know about them? How can anything the Clinton CIA does be secret with the entire agency “run amok“, à la Lady Spy Plame and her globe-trotting spouse and, as sourced by WaPo, “current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents”?

Debate Is Growing Within Agency About Legality and Morality of Overseas System Set Up After 9/11

The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement.

The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four years ago that at various times has included sites in eight countries, including Thailand, Afghanistan and several democracies in Eastern Europe, as well as a small center at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, according to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents.

Perhaps the Clinton CIA has been listening to Judge J. Michael Luttig.

The Congress of the United States, in the Authorization for Use of Military Force Joint Resolution, provided the President all powers necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist acts by those who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001. As would be expected, and as the Supreme Court has held, those powers include the power to detain identified and committed enemies such as Padilla, who associated with al Qaeda and the Taliban regime, who took up arms against this Nation in its war against these enemies, and who entered the United States for the avowed purpose of further prosecuting that war by attacking American citizens and targets on our own soil -– a power without which, Congress understood, the President could well be unable to protect American citizens from the very kind of savage attack that occurred four years ago almost to the day.

Linked at basil’s blog, Picnic Lunch.