"thunder" wrote in message
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On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:59:30 +0000, NOYB wrote:


" It was widely known among those of us who cover the intelligence
community and who were actively engaged in trying to track down who
among the foreign service community was the envoy to Niger. So a number
of us began to pick up on that. But frankly I wasn't aware of her actual
role at the CIA and the fact that she had a covert role involving
weapons of mass destruction, not until Bob Novak wrote it."

Because the last sentence isn't germane to the question of: "did
Mitchell
know Plame's identity and that she was employed by the CIA?" The first
sentence is an admission that "IT" was widely known...and "IT" is the
fact
that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA.

Now, that is spin. Besides the last sentence being very germane with
regards to the IIPA, I would argue that good journalism doesn't decide
what is germane. Good journalism would print the entire quote, and let
the reader decide. Point two, didn't you complain about context because I
didn't print the question Mitchell answered? Well, if not printing the
question, means the quote is out of context, not printing the full quote
damn well is also.

The first sentence of the paragraph makes zero sense without first posting
the question that was asked.

The last sentence has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not Mitchell
knew Plame's identity.