Open letter to the media and journalism industry:
Remember when the war happened, and looking back we were unable to find anything in print critical of the war, demanding consistent rationale? And when we went to war to find the WMD Rumsfeld sold Saddam we didn't find them? And the journalists were pious and said they should have been more outspoken, actually reporting things they went out to learn?
Well, the whole Federalist Society thing came up today. The lying White House demanded a retraction, but more evidence that Roberts is interested in restoring a monarchy or at least a stratified society on our soil has come up. No outlets appear to be critical of anything new the President is trying to get away with, and the gushing grinning coming from the Pat Robertson crowd of for-profit professional lobbies doesn't appear to distract them.
But the Rove thing is still in play. And it's being ignored. Karl Rove violated American National Security Law, compromised our interest AND worked to further Bush's goal of nuclear proliferation by backwater bad guys like Pakistan.
You're forgetting it: You weren't going to be dumb cheerleaders any more.
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Karl is always up to no good, and no one would like to seem him do the frog-walk more than I (many just as much, but no one more!). That said, I fear it's a foregone conclusion that no matter what Mr. Fitzgerald finds, not much will happen to the re-incarnation of Joseph Goebbels, ex-protege of Lee Atwater, Herr Turd Blossom the Magnificent. Pity.
On the other hand, my own speculation at this point is that Karl was but a bit player in all this, and the REAL asshat was Scooter Libby and his minions in the VEEP's office. AND it's quite possible that one reason the WH is stonewalling all the info requests on Bolton is that he too was involved (NSA Intercepts, anyone?). Bolton's right-hand man at State, Fred Fleitz, was a Company guy, from the proliferation office where Val worked. And Libby's boys included NSC/CIA types and we all know how Sir Biggus Dickus Cheney drooled at the prospect of the war profits...so, you know, silencing the critics was, like, important and stuff.
All the better to smear with. Fuck the lot of them. I hope.
Doesn't matter. Everybody did it means nobody goes to jail. Two people can't be guilty of a single crime unless there's a conspiracy.
Of course there was a conspiracy, and it was a Republican one, and the Republicans are investigating.
Rove has greater symbolic value, and Bush will have greater difficulty functioning without him. Cheney's boys from Brazil are more powerful than Bush, but Cheney's not running in 2008. Some other Republican is. Apparently not Santorum.
Santorum's smart enough to know the Bush administration is going to leave the boat full of holes. No money, no army recruits, Korean Nukes- heck, Koran nukes.
Regardless how many Glassy-eyed armageddonists they can count on to do their bidding, they want the job because it's easy. I wouldn't want to follow Bush, I'm impressed Kerry was going to do it.
Yes, I should have used the C-word for Conspiracy. A better way to phrase my thinking on the Plame thing -- and I read most everything I can get on it, except stuff on GOP.org or Free Republic or Little Green Footballs -- is this;
The VP's office, through Libby and his henchmen, were the drivers of the smear-Wilson-thing and the conspiracy naturally extended to the political strategist (Rove) and included others in the Admin who read the infamous State Dept Memo on Air Force One in July 2003. Names like Ari Fleischer, the mouthpiece, and no doubt anyone else with a dark heart and some vital connections to the war-drummers.
Mr. Bolton, anyone? Why is the White House stonewalling on his NSA requests, why did the summaries they gave to the Senate Intel committee have the names redacted? We know Bolton was very interested in pushing the Niger-Iraq-Yellowcake forgeries, as was Herr Cheney, Bolton's ideological master.
Bolton conveniently "forgot" to mention on his required forms submitted to the Foreign Relations committee that he'd testified before an IG investigation (not the Fitzgerald grand jury, but a State IG investigation into the Niger thing). Hmmmm...overlapping investigations, anyone? Broader conspiracy, anyone?
Mr. Fitzgerald is on to something and I hope he's allowed to find it.
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