Despite Matalin's "loyal soldier" label, some would consider Libby "the most insidious of traitors."

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Defense Trust Hails Libby As ‘Loyal Soldier In The War On Terror’

National Journal’s Hotline reports that a recent fundraising letter issued by Scooter Libby’s Legal Defense Trust includes the following quote from former Cheney aide Mary Matalin:

This loyal soldier in the War on Terror doesn’t have to go at it alone.

Scooter Libby knowingly exposed the cover of a CIA operative. He did it to exact political revenge on Joseph Wilson, who had revealed that intelligence was “twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.” The damage from the leak was serious enough to warrant a CIA investigation. Arthur Brown, a CIA division chief who retired in 1995, described Libby’s action as the “ moral equivalent to exposing forward deployed military units.”

Libby is no “soldier,” let alone a “loyal soldier.” A different label for him was offered by President George H. W. Bush: “I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.”

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Mary Matalin is Dazed and Confused

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1. And who is she married to??? and her husband works for whom??

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3. TPM --Did Carville Tip Bush Off to Kerry Strategy? (Read this if you haven't already)

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2006/oct/07/did_carville_tip_bush_off_to_kerry_strategy_woodward


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By M.J. Rosenberg | bio

I just came across a troubling incident that Bob Woodward reports in his new book. Very troubling.

On page 344, Woodward describes the doings at the White House in the early morning hours of Wednesday, the day after the '04 election.

Apparently, Kerry had decided not to concede. There were 250,000 outstanding ballots in Ohio.

So Kerry decides to fight. In fact, he considers going to Ohio to camp out with his voters until there is a recount. This is the last thing the White House needs, especially after Florida 2000.

So what happened?

James Carville gets on the phone with his wife, Mary Matalin, who is at the White House with Bush.

"Carville told her he had some inside news. The Kerry campaign was going to challenge the provisional ballots in Ohio -- perhaps up to 250,000 of them. 'I don't agree with it, Carville said. I'm just telling you that's what they're talking about.'

"Matalin went to Cheney to report...You better tell the President Cheney told her."

Matalin does, advising Bush that "somebody in authority needed to get in touch with J. Kenneth Blackwell, the Republican Secretary of State in Ohio who would be in charge of any challenge to the provisional votes." An SOS goes out to Blackwell.

The rest is history.

Does something about this story stink to high heaven!

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2. And who is she married to??? and her husband works for whom??

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4. it's amazing that we all just factually say his motive was revenge against joe

normally, when someone blows a cover, destroys a career, puts that person in mortal peril, destroys that persons' entire company and contacts, you would guess that that person was the victim.

but noooo, valerie plame was not the intended victim here.

even the neocon's opponents cannot bring themselves to suggest that the coordinated outing of a cia anti-terror operation -- a HUGELY SIGNIFICANT OPERATION AND VITAL PART OF OUR NATIONAL SECURITY -- was mere collateral damage from an all-important political tweak against some nobody bureaucrat -- not even by attacking that bureaucrat, but by going after his wife!

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5. Kick! n/t