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RUSH: Elaine in Pittsburgh, I\u2019m glad you called and welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, thank you, Rush. I love talking to, I love listening to you. What I wanted to know was, in the Senate, the testimony that Valerie Plame gave where she said someone just walked by and just recommended her husband. But if she was there, is that not nepotism? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, it is, but there\u2019s something more incredulous about this than just that. By the way, members of the Senate intelligence committee who were listening to her testimony said, ‘She never said that. She never told us that when she testified under oath. We never knew there was call from the vice president\u2019s office to one of her underlings near her desk, and we didn\u2019t hear about this mystery guy walking by.\u2019 In order to believe Valerie Plame, you have to believe the scenario. She\u2019s sitting at her desk minding her own business doing her cute little covert duties. Then, out of the blue, the phone rings at one of her assistants\u2019 desks. This person hangs up the phone and storms over to Ms. Plame, breathlessly and angrily and says, ‘I don\u2019t believe this. The office of the vice president just called here wanting to know what the hell\u2019s going on with this uranium business in Niger. What are they doing calling here?\u2019 As though the vice president has no right to call the CIA to seek answers to questions that are showing up in the newspaper. So at about that time, when the underling was expressing outrage and shock that the office of the vice president would call, a mystery man goes traipsing by, overhears the conversation as Ms. Plame is being reported to by the underling, and in the midst of the conversation, ‘Wait a minute &ndash;\u2019 the mystery guy says, ‘Wait a minute, Valerie, your husband, why don\u2019t we send him over to figure this out?\u2019 Do we really believe that\u2019s how this happened?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s what she said under oath.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, you can\u2019t. <\/p>\n

RUSH: You can\u2019t believe this. Now, as to your question, yes, it would be nepotism. She\u2019s trying to hide behind the rock that said she didn\u2019t have authority to send him, but she certainly had the authority to suggest it because mystery man sent her home that night and asked her to mention it to her wonderful husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Just one more quick question, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Her husband outed her himself by him writing the op-ed piece in the New York Times. And where is the CIA saying that you can\u2019t do that kind of stuff? If he went to Niger — actually, they should interview the people who talked to him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, look, this whole thing\u2019s a mess. There should never have been an investigation once it was known who leaked her name, which was Richard Armitage, should never have been an investigation. That\u2019s why this whole thing smacks of a conspiracy to destroy the Iraq war policy of the Bush administration, and maybe more.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right. Well, thank you, Rush. I listen to you every day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, this is a paraphrase of a quote from Joseph Wilson IV, renowned ambassador and all that rotgut. But he actually said, and it\u2019s a paraphrase, ‘that this administration has been taken over by a bunch of neocons and I\u2019ve made it my personal duty to destroy them.\u2019 Now, somebody sent me this the other day, my home e-mail actually, so I don\u2019t know where he said it, but the point is that she\u2019s up there saying, ‘We need to get politics out of the intelligence services.\u2019 There\u2019s her husband who is obviously — he\u2019s a sixties, you know, commie lib, he\u2019s out there doing what he can to advance those values. But, yeah, your questions are all valid. Frankly, I\u2019m surprised, too. Tell you one thing. I expected the end of her testimony there to be gaga, goo-gooing all over the place, but you know what the Drive-By accounts was? The Drive-By accounts were mostly, ah, not much there except a little screen test, not much there, but this blonde looking super spy coming up, we didn\u2019t learn much. There really was not the excitement that I thought there would be over the substance of what she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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