Lee Emmerich Jamison
In the summer of 1995 I wrote an article for the Huntsville Item about the then-current state of affairs in what was widely referred to as "PLAMEGATE" in the Washington-New York-Boston center of the known universe. The issue at hand was who "outed" CIA agent Valerie Plame. The problem, as I saw it then, was that there so clearly was NO STORY. Virtually all of Plame's aquaintances knew she worked for the CIA. It was common knowledge, too, that she has been "under cover" (Her children even famously spouted off as much in the Boston Airport about the time this article was written.)
This is all current today because the only person indicted in the witchunt for a way to put Karl Rove in jail, Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, Scooter Libby, is now on trial for perjury. Was he the leaker? No. Everybody who does not depend on the network news shows or the front pages of a major liberal newspaper for their news now knows not only that Richard L. Armitage admitted in September that he was the leaker, but we now know that Plamegate special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald KNEW FROM DAY ONE that he was the leaker. Libby's prosecution turns on whether he really remembered who first told him Valerie Plame was a spy and when or if he really forgot and misreported his first knowlege during the unnecessary investigation.
This blog is not just about whatever pops into my head. It is about prejudice, bigotry, and how some people use those foibles to empower themselves. I have stated that bigotry is the bias we can't see in the mirror. That is an innocent form. There is a form that is simply unmitigated evil, though, and this series of events is a clear case of a bigoted media mis-, dis-, and un-informing us for the sake of practicing and keeping power for themselves and their friends.
I re-print the article exactly as I first submitted it below.
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