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Wednesday, July 27, 2005
The Springsteen defense
Plame and Wilson: Ticket scalpers for Kerry?

When the chips are down (and the prosecution is lurking), how does a pro-Bush tabloid rag fight back? From the NYPost today:

Outed CIA spy Valerie Plame last fall gave a campaign contribution to go toward an anti-Bush fund-raising concert starring Bruce Springsteen, it was revealed last night. It's the first revelation that Plame participated in anti-Bush political activity while working for the CIA.


The $372 donation to the anti-Bush group America Coming Together, first reported by Time magazine's Web site, was made in Plame's married name of Valerie E. Wilson and covered two tickets...

My God... the partisan wench attended a concert??? Well spring Judy Miller and lock up Plame and Wilson, stat! Key shifts in the investigation should now center on: who was that second ticket for? Was it Joe Wilson? Or maybe John Kerry himself ...? Has anyone looked into whether Ms. Plame -- or whatever she's calling herself these days -- could have scalped those two tickets, which at the time were commanding prices in the hundreds of dollars...? What did she do with the money? (Somebody check for previously undisclosed donations to Kerry-Edwards...) And did Valerie Plame Wilson falsely claim during her purhcase of the tickets that she was "retired" -- concealing her undercover status from the phonebankers at ACT? And if she did, could that be considered a violation of the 2003 CIA Employees Loyalty Oath to the President and Concert Non-Attendance Act?

I think there's no doubt that this is BIG -- almost as big as the Post's exclusive discovery of a secret Bin Laden- cocaine cartel plot...

Forget "Karl Rove" and all that leaked classified info, CIA agent outing, misusing secret information for a political hit job, criminal investigation stuff ... it's time to for Pat Fitzgerald to refocus his grand jury probe where it belongs: on those evil, Springsteen-loving Wilsons... Fire up the talking points, Fox -- it's time to open up a can of E-Street Band on those Bush-bashers in the CIA!

posted by JReid @ 1:03 PM  


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