Where the heck was THIS guy?

[bj229r]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174851,00.html

Loose Lips?
Monday, November 07, 2005
By Brit Hume

   
Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine:

Retired Army General and FOX News contributor Paul Vallely says he knew former ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife Valerie Plame was a CIA agent long before she was outed in a newspaper column in 2003 because Wilson told him so. Vallely says Wilson volunteered the information in at least three separate conversations while both men were waiting to appear on FOX News programs during the fall of 2002.

Wilson's lawyers are demanding a retraction and an apology and in an e-mail received by the World Net Daily, Wilson himself called the claim "slanderous." Vallely, however, is refusing to back off his story.


Tall Tales?

Former Marine Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey has become a hero of the anti-war left, appearing in national news stories and giving speeches on atrocities he says he and other Marines committed in Iraq, including killing peaceful protesters, shooting a 4-year-old Iraqi girl in the head and filling a tractor-trailer with the bodies of civilian women and children killed by American artillery.

But after interviewing more than a dozen Marines and journalists present when these events supposedly took place, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports no one can recall the incidents Massey describes. And Massey himself tells the paper that despite giving first person accounts, he never witnessed the events he describes in person, but was told about them by other marines.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by bj229r


Former Marine Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey has become a hero of the anti-war left, appearing in national news stories and giving speeches on atrocities he says he and other Marines committed in Iraq, including killing peaceful protesters, shooting a 4-year-old Iraqi girl in the head and filling a tractor-trailer with the bodies of civilian women and children killed by American artillery.

But after interviewing more than a dozen Marines and journalists present when these events supposedly took place, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports no one can recall the incidents Massey describes. And Massey himself tells the paper that despite giving first person accounts, he never witnessed the events he describes in person, but was told about them by other marines.

Hmmm this sounds vaughly familar.  Really where have we heard this before?  The word "winter" comes to mind.

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Wilson's lawyers are demanding a retraction and an apology and in an e-mail received by the World Net Daily, Wilson himself called the claim "slanderous." Vallely, however, is refusing to back off his story.

Hmmm.....

Dont suppose we've ever had a former high ranking military officer that provided a smoke screen to cover his superiors' butts?  Nah, that would be impossible in this day and age of information wouldnt it?  That someone could create a ficticious story (unprovable of course) and stick to it through all lines of questioning, just to take the heat off someone else further up the chain?  I cant imagine anyone who  would do such a thing.