"Fair Game": Outrageous Hollywood Propaganda Re: Valerie Plame

The new Hollywood film "Fair Game" is Democrat propaganda on steroids.  It is so maliciously false, that even the liberal Washington Post was appalled.  They wrote an editorial last Friday denouncing the film.

First, some background.

The Valerie Plame affair during the Bush Administration is one of the most mendacious, destructive and bad-faith episodes in the history of the Democratic Party.  Plame, a Democrat who worked a desk job at the CIA, arranged for her husband, former diplomat Joe Wilson, to go to Nigeria to investigate whether Saddam Hussein had sought to purchase "yellow cake" from that country.  Yellow cake is a concentrate of uranium needed for producing atomic weapons.  Wilson at first reported that Saddam Hussein did attempt the purchase.  He later changed his story claiming that his investigation revealed the opposite.  His change was apparently for political reasons only -- to further undermine Bush on the "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq as a reason for going to war.  The Post editorial explains:

The movie portrays Mr. Wilson as a whistle-blower who debunked a Bush administration claim that Iraq had tried to purchase uranium from the African country of Niger. In fact, an investigation by the Senate intelligence committee found that Mr. Wilson's reporting did not affect the intelligence community's view on the matter, and an official British investigation found that President George W. Bush's statement in a State of the Union address that Britain believed that Iraq had sought uranium in Niger was well-founded.

After that, someone in the State Department inadvertantly leaked Valerie Plame's identity to the media, i.e. had identified her as a CIA agent.  Plame claimed her undercover identity had been exposed, on purpose by the Bush Administration, to punish her for Wilson for refuting Bush's claim that Hussein had sought to buy Yellow Cake from Nigeria.  (Actually, Bush only repeated what British intelligence had said about the Yellow Cake.)

A great public clamor was then created:  did Bush "out" Valerie Plame as a secret CIA agent?  Did he do so to punish her for her husband's (politically-motivated) statements about the Yellow Cake?  The answer to these questions is, no, Bush did no such thing.  It was just another false controversy manufactured by the Democratic Party who views all political opponents as mortal enemies to be destroyed, by any means possible.  The Post editorial states:

"Fair Game" also resells the couple's story that Ms. Plame's exposure was the result of a White House conspiracy. A lengthy and wasteful investigation by a special prosecutor found no such conspiracy - but it did confirm that the prime source of a newspaper column identifying Ms. Plame was a State Department official, not a White House political operative.

The Post's editorial confirms what we on the right have known for some time:  that the Wilsons are self-promoting liars with no shred of personal integrity whatsoever.  They are the most extreme form of narcissistic leftists who would sacrifice anyone or anything in furtherance of their political agenda, personal notoriety and self-promotion.  The Post sums it up:

Hollywood has a habit of making movies about historical events without regard for the truth; "Fair Game" is just one more example. But the film's reception illustrates a more troubling trend of political debates in Washington in which established facts are willfully ignored. 

Read it all here.

The Criminalization of Politics: The Scooter Libby Verdict

In the latest disgrace to justice, Scooter Libby was found guilty of obstruction of justice in an investigation that should never have happened. The Machiavellian Democrats are experts at using the legal system to punish political opponents, and this is just another case.

Valerie Plame, a Democrat CIA agent, conspired with her leftist husband Joe Wilson to create a false story to undermine Bush just before the 2004 elections. She sent her unemployed hubby on the Government's dime to Niger to investigate the claim that Saddam sought yellow cake for his planned nuclear program. Joe Wilson went to Niger, confirmed that the story was indeed true, then later lied about it to the press, saying that Saddam had not sought yellow cake in Niger, and lo, the whole story was just a Bush lie to get the nation into an unjustified war.

One has to wonder how the Central Intelligence Agency can act as a hostile force to its own government and become a propaganda arm of the Democrat Party.

When someone leaked the story of the Plame-Wilson bogus Niger investigation, the CIA retaliated by referring the leak to the Justice Department. They claimed that a CIA undercover operative had been outed for partisan political reasons. Actually, the opposite was true: the CIA, and Valerie Plame in particular, had created a bogus investigation and then a bogus charge to Justice for partisan political reasons, showing again how Democrats love their party far more than they love their country.

But Valerie Plame was not an undercover CIA operative: she had been a desk jockey for five years and her privacy in the matter no longer protected by law. Whoever outed her did not commit a crime. Since no crime was committed there should never have been an investigation to begin with. Contrast this travesty with Sandy Berger, the Democrat who stole documents from the National Archives and destroyed them to protect the reputation of his former boss, Bill Clinton. Berger received a fine and temporary suspension of his security clearance, a light punishment for a crime far more serious than the non-crime for which Libby was investigated.

National Review today states flatly that the whole investigation was bogus and that Libby should be pardoned post haste. They said:

There should have been no referral, no special counsel, no indictments, and no trial. The “CIA-leak case” has been a travesty. A good man has paid a very heavy price for the Left's fevers, the media's scandal-mongering, and President Bush's failure to unify his own administration. Justice demands that Bush issue a pardon and lower the curtain on an embarrassing drama that shouldn’t have lasted beyond its opening act.

Read the whole thing here.

The Democrats should think about this. If they are to abuse the judicial system for partisan political reasons, perhaps we Republicans should use it to prosecute real traitors, like the editors of the New York Times, like John Kerry and Hanoi Jane Fonda, for their acts of treason. Let's try them, convict them and retire them to the Gray Bar Hotel. If I remember correctly, there is no statute of limitations on treason. We can always revisit these options when the time is right.

But that wouldn't be partisn politics. That would just be simple justice.