Comments on The Anonymous Liberal: Is Cliff May a Lying Liar?

MoveOn.org has some neat ads out. Funny they came...

2006-02-07T19:01:00.000-05:00

MoveOn.org has some neat ads out. Funny they came out with Plame and have some retired operations officers hired from the beginning. Makes one wonder alot about the CIA union and funding these orgs retired CIA employees create.

Woolsey does alot of work in China, but someone has to clean up Bill and Al's mess over there. CIA wanted to get rid of covert WMD policy and training at CIA for operations officers before the war started. Some one should ask Woolsey who exactly started the WMD war and why.

May is a Republican. Calling him a liar is redund...

2006-02-05T17:30:00.000-05:00

May is a Republican. Calling him a liar is redundant.

Of course May is a liar.More significant in your f...

2006-02-03T14:10:00.000-05:00

Of course May is a liar.

More significant in your fantasy world, TM, is that Andrea Mitchell is not on the list, and she is (reputedly) a reporter.

-creepy dude

Well, don't get me wrong either - I don't think I ...

2006-02-03T08:51:00.000-05:00

Well, don't get me wrong either - I don't think I have exactly been in the front ranks of May apologists.

However, play the old SAT game - in a list of Novak, Pincus, Woodward, Miller, Cooper, and May, who does not belong?

Well, his time is coming (or mine is... hmm, bet on him). FWIW, at his website, he is President of the foundation; Claudia Rosset is "journalist-in-residence".

Tom Maguire

Didn't Judith Miller misrepresent her Libby as a s...

2006-02-02T18:51:00.000-05:00

Didn't Judith Miller misrepresent her Libby as a source who used to work in Congress ... perhaps Libby & May used the same cover.

I don't know. May used to be a reporter for the N...

2006-02-02T18:28:00.000-05:00

I don't know. May used to be a reporter for the New York Times and he regularly pens articles for the National Review. He's certainly more of a reporter than Bob Woodward currently is. So that would seem like an odd distinction for Fitzgerald to make. It's not like May's story isn't a matter of public record. Why would Fitzgerald not acknowledge it if it was true. He's acknowledging all the others, including Woodward, whose story is not particularly helpful to him.

Don't get me wrong, I'm willing to believe there is some innocent explanation here, but until I hear some sort of explanation from May, I'm going to remain skeptical.

Far be it from me to become a Cliff May apologist,...

2006-02-02T18:15:00.000-05:00

Far be it from me to become a Cliff May apologist, but is he a reporter?

Per David Corn:

May works for the neoconnish Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a pro-Iraq war outfit that features as advisors such ex-government officials as R. James Woolsey (former CIA director), Newt Gingirch, Richard Perle and Bill Kristol.

And from May's on-line blurb at NRO:

Clifford D. May, a former New York Times foreign correspondent, is president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focusing on terrorism.

He is an irregular contributer to NRO, and I assume his material pops up elsewhere (isn't that what think tanks do?).

But if he is a reporter, so are you (and so am I!). Put another way, shouldn't a reporter work for a news organization, or be an obvious free-lancer?

Well, I intend to vex May with this, but I can pretty easily see Fitzgerald wanting to keep quiet about other folks who knew about Ms. Plame.

Tom Maguire