[extropy-chat] survey on fringe ideas: politics

[spike]

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> OK now.  Do you think that
> 
> 1.  Rove leaked the CIA agent's identity to get revenge
> 2.  Libby leaked the CIA agent's identity to get revenge
> 3.  Cheney leaked the CIA agent's identity to get revenge
> 4.  Rove didn't leak the CIA agent's identity
> 5.  Libby didn't leak the CIA agent's identity
> 6.  Cheney didn't leak the CIA agent's identity
> 7.  Rove leaked the CIA agent's identity legally (she wasn't covert)
> 8.  Libby leaked the CIA agent's identity legally (she wasn't covert)
> 9.  Cheney leaked the CIA agent's identity legally (she wasn't covert)
> 10.  There was funny business but it is not provable,
> so no indictments will result
> 11.  There was no funny business, it was all pretty much
> a misunderstanding, no indictments
> 12.  Wilson did it
> 13.  There were no crimes committed by anyone, but unethical behavior
> 14.  It was a wicked setup by democrats
> 15.  It was a wicked setup by republicans
> 
> More than one of the 11 choices above are expected.
> 
> How well did you score on part 1?  Which numbers did you
> pick in part 2?
> 
> spike

For the record, my predictions for tomorrow:

8, 10 and possibly 12 and 2.  Here's my reasoning: the
mainstream news media kept pounding on the question
"who leaked Mrs. Wilson's name?"  But this might not
be the right question.  I looked up the original
column by Novak on 14 July 2003.  His comment, which
started it all is:

"Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency
operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration
officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to
investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation
officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him. "I will not
answer any question about my wife," Wilson told me."

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/robertnovak/2003/07/14/160881.html

What occurred to me is that nowhere in this article does it
say Plame was an undercover operative.  The next day Joe
Wilson, Plame's husband, went wild claiming his wife had
been outed.  But she hadn't.  Until he started talking.  So
in that sense Wilson outed his wife.  

My prediction then is that the grand jury will find that
Novak didn't receive illegal leaks, but that Rove's testimony
was inconsistent, so he may have lied about a non-crime.  But
Fitzgerald will choose to not attempt to prosecute a lie
about a non-crime, even tho that in itself is a crime.

Prediction then: no indictments tomorrow.

spike