Ah, well, the fireworks just erupted at the House Government Oversight Committee.
Henry Waxman could not believe what he was hearing from Victoria Tensing.
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Yes, Henry Waxman could not believe it.
Could not believe it because Victoria Tensing was saying there's no way Valerie Plain could be covert.
How can you say that?
How can you say she wasn't covert?
Well, because she wasn't.
I wrote the statue.
I'm not asking for your credentials.
I want to know how can you, well, my credentials are part of how I know.
I wrote the law.
She was not covered by the law.
The bottom line is if she were covert.
And I don't know if Ms. Tensing will get around to saying this.
She's very cool, calm, and collected.
And Nostrilitis is badgering her.
If there was any question that she was covert, then the independent counsel, Fitzgerald, would have pursued on that basis.
And rather than go after a process crime with somebody who might have lied before the grand jury, as is the case, if there had been anybody who had genuinely, knowingly outed Valerie Plam as a covert agent, then Fitzgerald would have had his case.
Here's the point about this.
On the Covert Agent ID Act, government has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knew that what he said actually ID'd the person as a covert agent, and that Fitzgerald couldn't find anybody who fell under that law.
Furthermore, they would have had to prove that that person knew that the CIA was taking affirmative measures to protect the agent's ID.
There's no evidence, no indication, and there was no testimony that Scooter Libby actually knew any of those things.
And all of this goes to the preliminary issue.
The Justice Department had to have known, even before Fitzgerald was appointed, that the facts gathered by the preliminary investigation could not amount to a violation of either the Espionage Act and the Covert Agent ID Protection Act.
The investigation should have been ended at that preliminary stage for those reasons with no independent counsel appointed.
The Justice Department knew it.
Mr. Comey, the director of Central Intelligence, Mr. Tennett, they all knew it.
Nobody broke that law.
And if somebody did, like Nostrilitis Waxman is attempting to insinuate here, then Fitzgerald would have had a case.
But these were interesting fireworks out there.
How can you say, how can you say she wasn't covert?
Well, General Hayden told me that she was.
And she said, Tensing said, has he testified to that?
Are you saying that General Hayden?
I'm just saying all I know is, Congressman, under the testimony I've heard, nobody said they ever knew and nobody was ever charged with knowing that she was covert.
And therefore, she wasn't covered by the statute.
And so we get to the crux of this.
And the crux of this is that these hearings that Waxman's conducting today are nothing more than a propaganda ordeal in order to try to make sure to cement in the minds of as many people as possible.
And drive-bys are going to help this.
I want to warn you, if you're going to waste your time watching Drive-By Media tonight, it's going to be nothing but she was covert, she was covert, she was covert.
And it's what it is.
But this is nothing more than a propaganda exercise by Waxman and the Democrats on this committee to keep the blame shifted at the White House and the highest levels.
Now, we spent the first hour of the program poking holes through much of the testimony of Valerie Plame, and I don't want to repeat it because it will be reviewed and relayed on our website at rushlimbaugh.com later this afternoon when we get the site updated.
By the way, a number of you people have noted that it's taking a little longer each day to get the site updated, and that's because we're going to be next week unveiling a brand new site.
We've been working on this intensely for the past two to three weeks.
It's just a redesign.
And in order to get ready for it, we're doing both sites, the current site and the new revised site with each day's content and then putting it through rigorous tests so we can get as many of the bugs out of it as possible.
But as you know, with new software, there are always going to be bugs.
There'll probably be some next week when we intend to launch it, hopefully on Monday.
I'll let you know on Monday if we're able to do it.
But the bottom line is you still go to the website.
It may be a little late before it updates.
Usually it's by 6 Eastern.
Sometimes it's taking closer to 6.30, even 7 this week.
But that is the reason why.
So Tensing is still testifying, and the Democrats are just skewering her over her assertion that Valerie Plame could not have been covert.
How do you know?
How do you know?
How can you possibly know this?
Well, I mean, I wrote the law, and it's very easy to understand this.
It's simple to know this.
If she were covert and she were outed, all these people that knew this would have known it, supposedly, then Fitzgerald would have had a field day.
He would have had a field day.
He could have rung up 20 people on charges here.
Interesting.
I don't know if it's happened yet, but as of this morning, when this program started, and I had to host this program and dispense with watching no mention of the name of Richard Armitage as the original leaker.
Before we go to the break here, a little bit about the ongoing scandal involving the firing of the U.S. attorneys.
As you know now, ABC News in a breathless breaking news update late yesterday afternoon or last night said previously undisclosed emails from Carl Rove indicate that Rove's idea was to fire the 93 attorneys starting the second term.
But it didn't happen.
There's no scandal.
It doesn't matter.
They're manufacturing one.
Have you recalled through any of this that many of the allegations have been that these eight U.S. attorneys were fired because there was interference in the way they were doing their jobs.
The various administration officials or senators or congressmen upset at the way these eight were doing their jobs and got hold of the Justice Department and whatever.
And the Democrats have said, this is hurting law enforcement.
This is polluting the legal system with politics.
I want to read to you a letter, ladies and gentlemen, written by Chuck Schumer, senator from New York on January 22, 2004.
The letter was to the Honorable James Comey, United States Department of Justice.
He was the Deputy Attorney General at the time under Ashcroft.
Dear Deputy Attorney General Comey, I write to request an update on the investigation into allegations that senior administration officials committed a federal felony by leaking the identity of a covert CIA operative.
The investigation has been underway for four months now, and we have received no meaningful reports regarding the progress you're making.
I realize there are limitations on information that can be disclosed regarding an ongoing criminal investigation.
But as we have discussed, our prosecutor has the responsibility to assure public confidence in criminal investigations, especially those of such a serious nature.
In the wake of recent calls by former intelligence operatives for a congressional investigation, I write to ask you, publicly answer several questions regarding the progress you are making.
Has a grand jury been impaneled in this case?
Have members of the White House staff signed waivers permitting journalists to discuss confidential communications?
If so, what percent of the White House staff has signed such waivers?
Has anyone who has been asked to sign such a waiver refused to do so?
Have journalists been interviewed as part of the investigation?
Has any journalist who has been released from confidentiality, assuming any has, refused to answer questions regarding previously confidential communications?
Were White House staffers ordered as a condition of employment to submit to interviews?
Has anyone asked for or been offered immunity?
If so, how many individuals fit in each category?
Do you understand what?
Here is Schumer interfering with Comey, wondering where the hell the investigation is on this plane leak.
And it's Chuck Schumer who's out there making the same charges against existing eight U.S. attorneys that they were interfered with, that there were people making political demands, people making pressure and power demands on them.
And Chuck Schumer conveniently forgets his own harassment of the Justice Department demanding practically every detail of their investigation leading up to the appointment of an independent counsel.
What other information can you provide us regarding the progress you're making with this investigation?
I look forward to hearing from you soon, Comey.
Sincerely, Charles Schumer, United States Senator.
This is worse than hypocrisy.
Schumer's out there criticizing Republicans for making inquiries of U.S. attorneys about ongoing investigations.
And he is saying that it is unconscionable if this would happen.
You can't do that.
That's pressuring law enforcement.
Chuck Schumer pressuring James Comey.
Where's the action I demanded on this plane leak?
Is essentially what his letter says.
Back in just a moment.
Here's the audio sound, but I was referring to Henry Waxman.
Very, very irritated that Victoria Tensing would dare challenge the assertion of the day, the order of the day, that Valerie Playam Wilson was a covert agent.
I am stunned, Ms. Tensing, that you would come here with absolute conclusions that she was not a covert agent.
The White House did not leak it.
No one seemed to know in advance that she was a CIA agent.
Do you know those facts from your own first-hand knowledge?
Well, let's just take those one by one.
As I said, I was there.
I was the chief drafter for Chairman Galton.
Well, I'm not asking for your credentials.
I'm asking how you reached those conclusions.
Do you have any questions?
That's part of my credentials because I know what the intent of the act was.
I'm not asking what the intent of the act was.
You know that she was not a covert agent.
She's not a covert agent under the act.
Okay.
You can call anybody anything you want to in the halls of the CIA, but you can't.
General Hayden, the head of the CIA, told me personally that she was, that if I said that she was a covert agent, it wouldn't be an incorrect statement.
Does he want to swear that she was a covert agent under the act?
Trying to say this as carefully as I can.
He reviewed my statement, and my statement was that she was a covert agent.
Well, he didn't say it was under the act.
Well, okay, so you're trying to define it exactly under the act.
That's how it is.
No, I'm not giving you, I'm not yielding my time to you.
Look it, you may be a witness, but you're not talking.
Gotta love Victoria Tenzing.
All right, now, I want to, I want to, we'll get to your phone calls quickly, I promise, but I've got to say something.
These plaime hearings are a prelude to what will be happening soon.
There's no date set, but the Senate is going to subpoena a bunch of White House people, Justice Department people, come up and talk about these U.S. attorneys, these eight U.S. attorneys being fired.
Last night, PMSNBC, irresponsibly acting like a former U.S. attorney, this Cummins in Little Rock, had been wronged and shafted.
PMSNBC completely ignored the article about his saying himself he was planning on leaving.
They all completely ignored the qualifications of his replacement.
They're not talking about that.
In fact, they're trying to herald the qualifications of the people that have been fired.
So what's going to happen next week, or whenever this happens, whenever the Senate hearings on the firing of these eight attorneys begins, for what it's worth, I'm going to pass along my advice to any of the administration people or Justice Department people who get subpoenaed or who appear for testimony.
The witnesses at a show trial, and that's what this is, this will be just like this plane thing today, is a show trial.
The witnesses at any show trial must be prepared to fight back.
They must bring documents of efforts of senatorial influence on investigations, the selection of U.S. attorneys.
They have to take a stand.
They cannot be polite and civil.
They cannot sit up there and be doormats.
They cannot let the Democrats run roughshod over them on this.
This Schumer letter is a great example.
And I'm sure that members of the Justice Department and others can produce letters from all kinds of senators over the years demanding to know what's going on with Investigation X.
And is this being done properly?
And you keep me posted on this.
The very thing that they're accusing this administration of doing happens all the time.
It's executive power, separation of powers, the doctrine here.
Be prepared to bring these exhibits, like Ollie North did.
Ollie North is the sitting example of how to do this.
During the Iran-Contra hearings, these witnesses have to go over the heads of the senators and the media and talk straight to the people.
You have to, if you are going to show up at a show trial, you make your case to the camera.
And the people who are behind the camera, the people who are watching it, do not, do not assume you have done anything wrong and don't act like it.
The people being brought up to testify in a show trial are actually the political victims here.
And if they act out of fear, it's not going to be pretty.
The Democrats have the same arrogance and assumptions of guilt that the Senate committee did with Oliver North, and that's why he was able to run rings around them.
They thought that North, they gave North immunity without knowing what he was going to say.
Biggest no-no in the legal profession that you can imagine.
Fitzgerald did the same thing with what's his name, Erry Fleischer.
The biggest mistake a lawyer can make is grant immunity to somebody without first learning what they're going to say.
They thought North was going to give him Reagan.
And North ran rings around.
These guys are up there shuffling their papers.
Well, where's his testimony?
We didn't get his testimony.
Oh, we granted him immunity.
We didn't know what he was going to say.
And Ollie's up there talking about all the shredding of documents he did.
And they said, well, you missed one.
And he acted offended.
I missed one.
Damn it.
You got to come loaded up with past examples of Democrat administration, senators trying to decide who should and should not be U.S. attorneys, letters from senators trying to influence investigations.
They exist.
We've got one.
We just shared one with you from Chuck Schumer.
Read that letter.
Hold that letter up.
If you are one of these witnesses going to this show trial over these fired eight U.S. attorneys, expose these people for the hypocrites they are.
They got nothing to lose.
They're already trying to destroy any and all witnesses are going to be called up there.
In fact, if I'm one of these people, I would call the Senate and I would demand to appear.
I would demand to appear because my reputation has been sullied by Senator Schumer and others.
And I insist on an opportunity to confront him and the others.
Go on offense.
Don't sit here and act docile.
Don't sit there because you haven't done anything wrong.
And there is no criminal offense here.
This is a pure show trial.
And it's not hard to stand.
And you will have the people of this country applauding for you.
You know, show up.
You don't need a subpoena.
Show up without the subpoena.
You got nothing to excuse.
You have nothing to apologize for.
This is normal behavior in the Justice Department, normal behavior in the White House.
There's nothing to apologize for.
If these witnesses go up there and act any other way and take it lying down, then it's going to be bloody.
It's going to be bad.
I don't know when this is going to start.
They're still working out witness issues right now, but I'm going to just tell you the Democrats are on weak ground here.
I would take that letter that Schumer wrote to James Comey demanding information about an ongoing investigation.
I would read from that letter and I would say this was wholly inappropriate.
So why are you dragging me up here?
Senator Schumer, how about you take a seat at the witness table and explain your own actions?
And that letter, by the way, was not just a letter.
That letter I just read to you from Schumer.
That letter was not a letter seeking information about the investigation.
That was a letter purposely attempting to influence the investigation into the plane leak with wholly inappropriate questions.
An assistant or associate attorney general doesn't have to answer those questions from a senator, but it was Schumer who set this up.
It was Schumer who got the whole independent counsel and Justice Department investigation of the plane leak going.
And it wasn't happening fast enough.
And he's Chuck Schumer.
He's commissioner of the world.
And so he was going to find out what the hell was going on.
But his purpose was not simply information gathering.
There was an attempt to influence that investigation.
I would hold that letter up.
If I'm one of the witnesses of that show trial on these fired eight U.S. attorneys, I would hold that letter up.
I would read from that letter until the gavel silenced me.
Which it will, by the way.
Back after this, my friends.
Don't go anyway.
Your phone calls right after this next item on Open Line Friday.
As you know, yesterday, we learned that the Reverend Al Sharpton was camped outside the campaign headquarters of Barack Obama.
The Reverend Sharpton upset that Obama, now down for the struggle, doesn't have any pedigree in the civil rights struggle in this country, and yet is far more popular as a black presidential candidate than the Reverend Sharpton was.
And the reports from WCBS TV in New York last week were, or the New York Post, rather, that Reverend Sharpton is a little jealous.
We happened upon the audio.
We put together a little thing, and he went back, but he never left.
We have both of them.
Here's yesterday first.
Today, I challenge Barack Obama to come out here and explain yourself to the community.
Where were you, Obama, when we marched for justice in summer?
Where were you when Tawana Brown was abused for telling her story?
Where were you when Freddy's fashion mark burnt to the ground?
Oh, I was at home.
Come out here now and explain those white interlopers running your campaign, or I'm going to talk about your mama, and I won't stop till there is justice.
Okay, Obama, your mama's so fat, if you poke her in the leg, she leaks gravy.
Your mama's so fat, on a scale of one to ten, she's a 747.
Your mama is so fat, she has to have Euros in one pocket and pesos in the other.
Reverend Sharpton, clearly in distress here, and either he left and came back or he didn't leave, and he's got the bullhorn with him still.
All right, Obama!
Your mama is so fat when she puts on her little black dress, she looks like outer space.
When she was diagnosed with a flesh-eating disease, the doctor gave her 87 years to live.
She puts mayonnaise on aspirin.
When she goes to a restaurant, she looks at the menu and says, okay.
Okay, now back to the phones on Open Line Friday.
We'll go to Auburn, Maine, and Frank.
Frank, I'm glad you held on.
Glad you waited.
Thanks for that, and welcome to the show.
Megadoodos, Ross.
I'm going to go right ahead and assume that Richard Armitage must be a covert agent because it seems the media is doing everything they can to protect his identity.
It is amazing.
We're talking about the leak of a covert agent, a Democrat's trying to make that case, and his name never comes up.
If it wasn't for yours, I think you made him up personally because I haven't heard of him anywhere.
Well, I think, you know, I haven't made him up.
He exists.
He's a big guy.
He's an ex-Marine, Vietnam Marine.
But he's, I think he apologized.
And, of course, you express remorse.
Washington will forgive you and continue to blame it on the White House.
But it is fascinating that his name doesn't come up.
It was on the chart that they showed at the hearing, but damned everybody.
Look, I didn't hear the name mentioned in the morning sessions.
This is Dale in Cleveland.
Dale, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi.
Cold, snowy, 28-degree dittos from Capely.
You know something I got to say.
That's normal for you this time.
You're 28 and snow in Cleveland, but we've got Cold Front coming here.
I just saw the weather forecast this morning for the program.
We got 80% chance of boomers this afternoon and tonight.
It's 84 right here now.
It's going to be 70 tomorrow.
No, well, that's cold here.
You've got to understand with a north wind and no humidity, we have to break out the polar bear coats.
I know, but I'm sure you feel some guilt for basking in palatial luxury in sunny South Florida.
None at all.
Good.
None whatsoever.
I'm very smug about it, in fact.
I'm in the audiology field.
I'll get to the horse meat in just a second, but you said something a couple of months ago about new hope for your hearing, possibly.
Is the House Institute doing something new?
Well, no, there isn't new hope.
But what you heard me saying was that I changed my mind on embryonic stem cells.
To hell with the aborted babies, to hell with the children.
Because the libs are out there saying people need hope.
Michael J. Fox needs hope, and the people with spinal injuries need hope.
I do too.
I'm deaf.
And if killing babies could restore my hearing, I'm changing my mind.
I'm doing it.
I was doing it to illustrate a point.
The fox people, you're in audiology, so you'll understand.
The house people told me when I had my cochlear implant put in that they were working on a cure.
My inner ear hair sales have just lied down.
They're dead.
I know.
And they're working on a cure for that.
They thought it might happen 10 years, but they haven't made much progress.
That's tough.
That's the cure for baldness, essentially, and there's no progress on that.
Yeah.
Well, anyway, you understand how lucky you are that you've got the great results you did with your cochlear implant.
Yes, I know that a lot of people have these.
They're not even able to engage in speech communication for three months.
Some people, it just connects to their environment.
Some people never able to use the phone.
And they don't know why some people do better than others.
That's one of the mysteries.
I know.
Kills you.
But anyway, have you read about this proposed ban on slaughtering horses to send the meat overseas to Asia and to Europe where it is legal to eat horse meat?
Yeah, I know it's legal to eat horse meat in Europe, but I did not know there was a proposed ban on slaughtering horses to send the meat overseas.
Oh, yeah, there's some bill being proposed.
Is that because we need them for the glue?
What do you want to do with dead horses?
You want to build mausoleums for them?
I mean, what's so much different from slaughtering a steer or slaughtering a horse?
Well, you know, it's a horse is a horse, of course, of course.
And a steer is a steer.
I mean, you know, we don't ride steers.
You know, we get in bullfights.
Those are things that are predators.
And the girls love horses.
I mean, look at the girls love horses.
In addition to the men, the girls love horses.
They're cute.
They don't eat you.
Any of that sort of stuff.
I've got a companion story here.
And it's from Staffordsville, Kentucky, since you brought up horses.
The bidding for the black pony started at $500, then took a nosedive.
There were no takers for $300, $200, even $100.
With a high bid of just $75, the auctioneer gave the seller the choice of taking the animal off the auction block.
But the seller said, no, I can't feed a horse.
I can't even feed myself.
Now, Kentucky is the horse capital of the world.
Obviously, it's being overrun with thousands of horses nobody wants.
Some of them perfectly healthy, but many of them starving, broken down nags.
Other parts of the country are overwhelmed too.
And that's because of what you say, growing opposition in America to the slaughter of horses for human consumption overseas.
So rather than at the end of their productive lives slaughtering them to feed the hungry people of Europe and wherever else, we're letting them starve to death and become nags and get all haggard and look ugly and stuff out there in the pasture.
And of course, if you wanted to equate the value of slaughtering one animal over another, the horses are the dumbest of animals.
Pigs are smart.
So we slaughter them right and left.
Oh, no.
I was afraid this was going to happen.
This debate's been going.
I first saw this debate take place on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
Pigs are smarter than horses.
And it was an ongoing joke.
And it's the intelligence of an animal, according to a compassionate society, shouldn't have anything to do with what we do to it.
It's it's, you know, it'd be the same reaction if we were going to we got an excess cat population, excess dog population.
We euthanize them, and people are okay with that.
What if we slaughtered them and sent them, say, to North Korea for food?
You mean there wouldn't be an outcry over this?
As to this intelligence business, I remember one of my first ever talk shows.
I was a guest host for an FM music station in Kansas City.
And I'd never done a talk, she'd always wanted to, but it was head of producer, had to do guests, and he got me some author who claimed that pigs are smarter than human beings.
And I don't remember the details of the conversation.
I just remember that these debates have gone on.
And I've heard people say, you know, horses have to be stupid for this reason alone.
Look at how big they are, and yet look at what they allow us to do to them.
Rope them, chain them, ride them around, make them beasts of burden.
If a horse wanted to do it, it could wipe out every human being and try to capture it.
Simply knee up, fall down, that's it.
Horse doesn't even have to eat you.
But horses, I don't know, wild horses act this way, but others don't.
And somebody said to me that horses don't realize how much bigger they are than human beings because their eyes make everything look bigger than it is.
I don't have the slightest clue if that's accurate.
I just, these stories have been bandied about.
But when you start debating the relative intelligence of an animal, I mean, most people think dogs are smarter than cats.
And the reason for that is that cats don't respond when you call them.
Now, I know you cat owners, my cat does, my cat.
Look, I have a cat, and when the cat's hungry and I say her name, or she'll say to her, she'll look at me.
And sometimes she's an Abyssinian, and they're a little friendlier than other breeds.
Come here, Punky, come here.
She'll make a move, but not all the time.
It's very rare.
She'll just look at me like I'm an idiot.
Don't you know I'm a cat and can't understand what you are saying?
You call a dog, it slobbers and licks you all over the place.
It has what people consider unconditional love, and people, that's brilliant.
Yeah, dog can learn the language.
Dogs can even bark the language if they're good enough and smart enough.
See, I think the cat has to be smarter than the dog.
There's no other possible conclusion.
Cats have staff.
Dogs have masters.
We always refer to the dog's human as its master and calls it around, orders it around.
A dog's ordered into the water to go get the duck that you've just shot into the muck.
Try getting a cat to do it.
Cat's not going to get itself dirty for you.
Cat's not going to do anything.
Cat's not going to catch any food for you.
Cat's not going to do diddly squat.
Cat's going to make you do all that for it.
And they succeed.
And there's no such thing as a seeing eye cat.
You know, they don't care.
You get run over a cart, your problem.
They're just, they sit around.
They are superb royalty.
They just, they've got it set up.
Everybody waits on them and dotes on them.
They don't have to do diddly squat.
If you don't, they'll come headbutt you and all this to let you know.
But, you know, it's all this debate about animal intelligence is relative anyway, because when you get right down to it in terms of human IQ, all animals are idiots.
Hey, a couple quick news items here, ladies and gentlemen, from the Stack of Stuff, a USA Today story.
Headline says it all, Americans not eating enough fruits and vegetables.
Only about 27% of adults in America ate vegetables three or more times a day.
33% ate fruit.
That's not nearly enough.
I wish all you people stopped nagging me.
All of you health Nazis, all of you stop, the world is constantly trying to tell us what we're not doing right, doing all these things wrong.
Stop the nagging.
Not good news for the Democrats.
U.S. military and its Iraq partners in a month-old Baghdad security crackdown have been turning marketplaces into pedestrian-only zones, and commerce is reviving dramatically in Baghdad, the U.S. military said yesterday.
These marketplaces have been a favorite target of al-Qaeda and Sunni insurgent suicide car bombers.
Major General Joseph Fiddle Jr. said to reporters there's a sense of suspense in the air, a sense of anticipation and expectation of decreased violence with the Iraqi people.
Bad news of the Democrats.
They'll say the military is lying.
It's as much propaganda.
Bank of America continues to come under fire following its implementation last month of a pilot program critics say allows illegal aliens to get credit cards, a policy that's led at least one local bidnes to sever its ties with the financial institution.
Kenneth W. Davis, owner of Great Western Drilling Company, told a newspaper in a phone conversation from his Fort Worth office, his company, which maintains offices in Midland and several other cities, no longer will do business with Bank of America.
Indicates that Bank of America processed millions of dollars each month in payables and receivables, businesses he now plans to take to one of the company's largest competitors.
This is not sitting well.
And a cat story from North Platte, Nebraska.
Two stray cats got into a house and attacked three people inside, then were euthanized and checked for rabies.
The cats entered Melissa Breva's house through an open front door Monday and attacked two women visitors and a boy.
The chief of police out there says, I thought I'd seen it all, but I have never seen anything like this.
Animal control officer John Pettit responded to a call for help.
One woman was scratched and bitten on her legs.
The other woman was bitten on her right calf.
After talking to them, Pettit went to his truck for snares, then heard screaming inside the house.
When he ran back in, he saw a young boy with blood all over his face.
A cat had attacked him.
He was bitten on the forehead, nose, left ear, and the right cheek.
After some first aid from Pettit, they were taken to hospital.
They got darts.
They shot the cats, euthanized them dead on the scene, and took them to examine for rabies.
That is odd.
I mean, outsider cats go attacking people they don't know.
Bill in Newbury, Ohio.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
We have about a minute here, but I wanted to get to you, sir.
Well, thank you very much.
It's an honor, Rush, from beautiful Geauga County in Ohio.
My two cents in this whole debate about the coverts and intelligence agents and so forth.
I spent a few years in Army intelligence myself, and it just seems so ridiculous to me and so easy to see through.
I wish more people did, that the difference between a covert agent and one who is simply going down to the headquarters and working as Valerie was so distinct.
And there's a reason for not, of course, exposing the activities of a covert agent who's undercover and working with agents and so forth.
But somebody like her is clearly, she was, the local grocery clerk probably knew where she worked.
This was a show trial today.
And of course, one of the biggest unanswered questions throughout Washington during this whole episode was, was she covert?
Nobody's ever said the judge wouldn't allow the status to be announced.
Fitzgerald never said so.
Everybody assumes she couldn't have been covert, or he would have had reason to prosecute people who'd leaked her name.
Look, that's the best evidence that she was not covert.
Don't care what anybody else is saying.
So, driving around into the CIA building every day, can be followed, can be seen going in without being followed.