Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>'Cause two perfectly civil threads about Armitage were dutifully posted, and completely ignored.<< So, um, why not bump THOSE threads up? Seems like you're looking to start an argument, not a discussion.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>So, um, why not bump THOSE threads up? Seems like you're looking to start an argument, not a discussion.<< How eerie! I just finished doing that very thing. You are apparently psychic, 2ny, but only when it comes to my posts. Sorry.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan My psychic powers aren't working well, because I would have predicted you'd just do that to begin with.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Of course, I always thought the phrase was 'tender hooks' too, so what do I know?
Originally Posted By DlandDug Frankly, I'd rather be on tender hooks. But tenterhooks is the classical turn of phrase. >>The compound tenterhook (1480) is "one of the hooks that holds cloth on a tenter." The figurative phrase on tenterhooks "in painful suspense" is from 1748; earlier to be on tenters (1533). << <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=t&p=6" target="_blank">http://www.etymonline.com/inde x.php?l=t&p=6</a>
Originally Posted By ecdc Just when I thought WEs couldn't get any weirder, Dug decides to bring like half a dozen old threads up with the same bizarre phrase. I think yourpaled is rubbing off on some people here.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Looks like the lawsuit will go forward.... <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/30/politics/main1949676.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories /2006/08/30/politics/main1949676.shtml</a> >>Meanwhile, Plame's attorney says that she is considering adding Armitage to the lawsuit in which she accuses members of the Bush administration of conspiring to leak her identity to the media. Plame has sued Vice President Dick Cheney, White House aide Karl Rove and "Scooter" Libby on the allegation that they leaked her name to punish her husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for criticizing the administration's march to war with Iraq. Plame attorney Melanie Sloan said that the Armitage news would not get Libby or others off the hook in the civil case, but it would widen the conspiracy. "The question is just what was Armitage's role?" Sloan said. Plame's attorneys plan to seek depositions from the defendants and others, including Armitage, about the leak.<<
Originally Posted By Darkbeer <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzM3YjhhZGIxZjExNjIxOGU2NTEyZjE0ODFhYmFlNzY=" target="_blank">http://article.nationalreview. com/?q=YzM3YjhhZGIxZjExNjIxOGU2NTEyZjE0ODFhYmFlNzY=</a> >>The new attorney for Joseph and Valerie Wilson says the Wilsons do not plan to add former State Department official Richard Armitage to their lawsuit against top Bush administration officials because Armitage “did not act with the same level of malevolence†as Vice President Dick Cheney, top White House aide Karl Rove, and former Cheney aide Lewis Libby in the CIA-leak affair.<< >>A few weeks ago, the Wilsons made changes in their legal team, joining forces with the liberal advocacy group Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington (CREW). The Wilsons also hired the San Francisco-based firm Cotchett, Pitre, Simon & McCarthy. Constitutional lawyer Erwin Chemerinsky, who helped write the lawsuit, remains with the case. Melanie Sloan, the executive director of CREW, is now the lead attorney for the Wilsons. In an interview with National Review Online, she said that if the account of Armitage’s outing of Plame in Hubris is correct, then “Armitage was just basically gossiping with [columnist Robert] Novak and just mentioned that Valerie worked for the CIA. His mentioning that to Novak is really not the same as the concerted effort that Cheney, Rove, and Libby made to get Valerie’s undercover identity out to the newspaper.†“The underlying heart of the suit is about the conspiracy of these individuals to out Valerie Wilson in order to retaliate against Joseph Wilson,†Sloan continued, “and it doesn’t look at this point that Armitage was party to that plan.†When asked about reports that Armitage told not only Novak about Mrs. Wilson, but also the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward, Sloan answered, “Woodward never printed it.†“I’m not trying to say that what Armitage did was just fine,†Sloan continued. “It is obviously not OK. But it did not have the same level of malevolence as what Rove, Cheney, and Libby were trying to do, which was to out Valerie to punish Joseph.†Sloan said that “there is still a lot that we don’t know†about the CIA leak matter, and that if it were shown that Armitage was part of a White House conspiracy, then he might be added to the lawsuit. But she said it doesn’t look like that is the case. “He didn’t even know that she was covert,†Sloan said of Armitage.<<
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>“I’m not trying to say that what Armitage did was just fine,†Sloan continued. “It is obviously not OK. But it did not have the same level of malevolence as what Rove, Cheney, and Libby were trying to do, which was to out Valerie to punish Joseph.â€<< I would agree that malevolence of the highest order is involved in outing a person who had already been outed, and may have been out all along. It's head spinning by this point...
Originally Posted By Beaumandy The big winners in all of this are Valerie Plame and her lying husband Joe Wilson. I have always said this. She is getting some kind of million dollar book deal and he is now a hero to the left for trying to teach that Bushhitler a lesson. Then these people wonder why America thinks they are mental and refuse to vote for the libs?
