Word: discrediting
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...election is long over, but the campaign-style spinning persists. Last week, after Rove's name was divulged, the Republican National Committee engaged in a freestyle vitriol spew, attempting once again to discredit Wilson and suggest that Rove was merely trying to "knock down" a bum story. This was so much smoke and baloney--and all too typical of the persistent fecklessness on the part of the Administration and its allies when it comes to Iraq. Cheney continues to spin dross from the hard currency of military intelligence: he recently said that the insurgency was in its "last throes...
...long and lively mythology of Karl Rove, whom Republicans see as a fearless gladiator and Democrats view as the kind of operative who would put a tarantula under an opponent's pillow, it is entirely plausible that he would try to discredit an adversary by any means necessary. But outing a spy? Compromising national security in wartime? It was the first President Bush who once described anyone who exposed intelligence assets as "the most insidious of traitors." Rove had long insisted that he didn't know Valerie Plame's name or leak it and was cooperating fully with the probe...
...Robert Novak in a July 2003 column that outed CIA officer Valerie Plame. Cooper subsequently wrote a piece for TIME's website saying that "some government officials" had provided him with information similar to what Novak had reported. Cooper suggested in his article that the sources were seeking to discredit Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who found evidence contradicting the Administration's prewar claim that Iraq had sought uranium in Africa for nuclear weapons. Judith Miller of the New York Times may have spoken to the same sources, though she didn't publish anything. (Nonetheless, she, like Cooper...
After Novak's revelation, TIME's Cooper co-authored an article on the magazine's website, saying "some government officials" had told him basically the same thing, and the piece went on to suggest potential misconduct by those officials, who were perhaps seeking to discredit Wilson...
...Power demonstration in 2001 gave Arroyo the presidency), leftist organizations rallying the aggrieved poor in regular protests that denounce the government as pro-rich. But street demos are just one tactic to topple Arroyo. The strategy?according to foes of Arroyo as well as palace insiders?is to first discredit the 58-year-old former economics professor in order to turn popular opinion against her. The Senate is investigating allegations that Arroyo's husband, son and brother-in-law were involved in an illegal gambling racket?allegations that they have denied. And the House of Representatives has started hearings about...