By SusanUnPC on Jul 14, 2008 in Barack Obama, Iran, Iraq, Joseph Wilson, Larry Johnson, National Security, NoQuarter Radio, Valerie Plame Wilson | 104 Comments
UPDATE: CLICK HERE to listen to this terrific show. From Valerie, we got a fascinating description of the life of a CIA agent, and from Joe we got a great history lesson on the lead-up to the Iraq War. Larry Johnson added important details and perspectives, and we got some great phone calls. [...]
By SusanUnPC on Jul 12, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bush/Cheney, Hillary Clinton, Joseph Wilson, Larry Johnson, NoQuarter Radio, Valerie Plame Wilson | 39 Comments
For Immediate Release
July
12, 2008
Premier Guests: Valerie Plame Wilson and Ambassador Joe Wilson
Washington, DC - NO QUARTER RADIO Live Internet Talk enters new territory with "Security Corner," hosted by Larry Johnson, a discredited CIA officer who is despised by the extremes on both the right and the left. (Must be doing something [...]
By Larry Johnson on Mar 31, 2007 in Current Affairs | 32 Comments
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Brent Budowsky
[NOTE from Larry C Johnson: I have been pressing Brent to write on this issue for several weeks and he has kindly obliged. The actual title of his article is: The CIA Leak Case And The Truth That Keeps Us Free. Much more professional and high-minded, which is typical of Brent. Hopefully this will [...]
By Larry Johnson on Mar 22, 2007 in Current Affairs | 47 Comments
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Boy, is that the best he can do? I refer of course to Bob "the Colostomy Bag" Novak’s column today in which he demonstrates that he still does not understand the basics of CIA cover. I am working out of town this week on a terrorism exercise (I get the night shift) and [...]
By Larry Johnson on Mar 17, 2007 in Current Affairs | 160 Comments
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Larry C Johnson
America got a terrific look at a classy lady yesterday when Valerie Plame testified before Henry Waxman’s Government Reform and Oversight Committee about the events surrounding her betrayal by the Bush Administration. And America got a disturbing look at a Republican party devoid of reason and just plain common sense when Georgia Congressman [...]
By SusanUnPC on Mar 16, 2007 in Current Affairs | 57 Comments
UPDATE: Larry Johnson just told me that he will be a guest on Countdown with Keith Olbermann tonight to discuss the hearing. And, Howie In Seattle sent me a link to the video of the full session, at YouTube.
By SusanUnPC … These are among the key revelations and facts that came out of today’s [...]
By SusanUnPC on Mar 16, 2007 in Current Affairs | 58 Comments
Several people are engaged in live-blogging the hearing — which is on C-Span1 TV right now — over at Daily Kos.
Here is the first diary to which people are adding live comments. 2nd live-blogging diary || 3rd live-blogging diary — it’s ongoing but I won’t list more; just check the Recommended List [...]
By Larry Johnson on Mar 15, 2007 in Current Affairs | 29 Comments
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Larry C Johnson
Those who have read the strident handwringing of rightwingers in a snit over Valerie Plame’s testimony on Friday before Henry Waxman’s Committee on Oversight and Government Reform are probably asking themselves: are these clowns high on drugs or just profoundly stupid? I refer of course to articles in the Investor’s Business Daily and [...]
By SusanUnPC on Mar 15, 2007 in Current Affairs | 15 Comments
Valerie Plame Wilson leads a list of four five witnesses — including Victoria Toensing — who will testify tomorrow, starting at 10 a.m. ET before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The hearing will seek to determine “whether White House officials followed appropriate procedures for safeguarding the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson.” [...]
By SusanUnPC on Mar 12, 2007 in Current Affairs | 11 Comments
Atrios says he’s not:
If you’d gone through Digby’s post last night you would’ve seen it, but in any case you should read Colin McEnroe’s little spanking of Tim Russert.
Tim Russert’s admission that he inverts standard practices and assumes all conversations with the powerful are off the record has been undercovered by the media, as was [...]
By SusanUnPC on Mar 8, 2007 in Current Affairs | 16 Comments
UPDATES: Salon’s War Room reports today that “[a]ttorneys for Plame and her husband, Joseph Wilson, will be back in court in May for a hearing on their civil suit against Libby, Karl Rove, Richard Armitage and Dick Cheney.” And, Waxman has invited Patrick Fitzgerald to testify next Friday.
Valerie Plame to Testify
ABC News’ Tom Shine [...]