--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > She posed after she was outed. Forget about her; > what about the person who outed her. Isn't that a > crime? Isn'/t the right very big on crimes? Perjury > in a private law suit is grounds for removal from > office but commiting the crime of compromising > national security is ok because the person > subsquently poses for Vanity Fair? Stay on topic. > What she does now is not the issue. That is not the > crime.
Yes, but I _don't know_ who leaked it. There actually is no evidence that it was a crime at the moment. It's a crime if she had served overseas within the past 5 years (I think that's the time span) which she has not. The _CIA itself_ made no effort to cover her identity. That's all that we know. Everything else is the fevered wishes of the left. You will forgive me, by the way, if I laugh at the fact that people who during the Vietnam War and after happily cheered on lots of people who leaked American secrets of real importance care in the least about Valerie Plame. When I know who leaked it - in other words, when the investigation that is on going reveals the identity of the person - and if that person committed a crime, then I will happily call for the head of the person involved. But all of the evidence I have suggests that the major issue is that Joe Wilson is a gasbag who capitalized on this issue to build his own public profile, and that's about all that happened. > > As to Halliburton. Are you really claiming that they > will lose money on this deal? And once again even if > true so what? Your arguement comes down to forgiving > a thief because he had no money. If Halliburton made > a bad deal that is their problem. We live in a free > market economy. They took the risk. If they really > lose money then that is their problem because if > they make money they get to keep it. We call that > capitalism. Their actions were on their face > criminal and criminal of the worst type. War > profiteering. I would say, from what I know about the deal, that they are not profiteering. I don't know much about the deal - I automatically tune out any argument involving Halliburton, it's the black helicopters of the paranoid left. But as far as we know, they don't seem to have done anything wrong. I don't know much more than that - I just think that the people making accusations have no credibility. They are so clearly motivated by hatred for the Bush Administration that I _just don't care_ what they think. When I see people who look at Osama Bin Laden and George Bush and think that George Bush is their enemy, frankly I don't listen when they talk about Haliburton. If the Washington Post wants to say that something wrong happened here, I'll get upset. Since so far they're said that there is no story here, that's what I believe. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
