The Rope and The Knot
Must Read- The Plame Affair.
Raw Story has the presumed thread, and it goes like this:
then-Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and Int'l Security Affairs John Bolton [current mustacheo'd recess appointed LoudMouth US Ambassador to the UN] has an assistant named David Wurmser, a Middle East Advisor, who he loaned out to VP Dick Cheney's office. Cheney's office, itchin' to push the CIA toward development of intelligence that supports Iraqi WMD development [developing, not "analyzing existant intelligence," btw], taps Wurmser's deep CIA contacts for whatever information he can get- Wurmser is a point of pressure from the VP's office.
After The Prez' State 'o' Union address, where he wrongly affirms that Iraq had saught Nigerian yellowcake for WMD, Ambassador Joe Wilson, who had gone on the trip to determine the validity of this claim, goes public. His statement: that the Prez has used intelligence that is incorrect according to his own reports. meaning that a full third of the WMD justification to invade this country is fraudulent. Fake documents are produced to support the yellowcake claims, but Wilson's testimony exposes them as falsified.
The Truthiness of the situation: Cheney's office, headed by Scooter Libby, is furious. He's on the hunt for professional character assassination. Wurmser, with his CIA contacts, has the goods- the name is slipped to Libby via Wurmser. Libby consults numerous others, including, possibly the entirity of The Iraq Group, but likely Rove and others.
Plame is leaked.
The rest- history. Unfolding before our eyes. We're watching a great, caluclated reactionary fraud, a fascinating attempt at a highly charged political character assassination of the worst kind. And now, Fitz may have significantly expanded to include the false documents. But the clearer picture is that there is true malicious intent on the part of The Administration, and that there seems to be an umbrella of conspiracy surrounding that viciousness. Remember- this is all about the piss-poor justification we were given, as the public, to Invade another country in our name. This is about the falsification of war- this is about the political reaction that comes at the cost of fraudulent invasion.
We shall see what happens...
Raw Story has the presumed thread, and it goes like this:
then-Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and Int'l Security Affairs John Bolton [current mustacheo'd recess appointed LoudMouth US Ambassador to the UN] has an assistant named David Wurmser, a Middle East Advisor, who he loaned out to VP Dick Cheney's office. Cheney's office, itchin' to push the CIA toward development of intelligence that supports Iraqi WMD development [developing, not "analyzing existant intelligence," btw], taps Wurmser's deep CIA contacts for whatever information he can get- Wurmser is a point of pressure from the VP's office.
After The Prez' State 'o' Union address, where he wrongly affirms that Iraq had saught Nigerian yellowcake for WMD, Ambassador Joe Wilson, who had gone on the trip to determine the validity of this claim, goes public. His statement: that the Prez has used intelligence that is incorrect according to his own reports. meaning that a full third of the WMD justification to invade this country is fraudulent. Fake documents are produced to support the yellowcake claims, but Wilson's testimony exposes them as falsified.
The Truthiness of the situation: Cheney's office, headed by Scooter Libby, is furious. He's on the hunt for professional character assassination. Wurmser, with his CIA contacts, has the goods- the name is slipped to Libby via Wurmser. Libby consults numerous others, including, possibly the entirity of The Iraq Group, but likely Rove and others.
Plame is leaked.
The rest- history. Unfolding before our eyes. We're watching a great, caluclated reactionary fraud, a fascinating attempt at a highly charged political character assassination of the worst kind. And now, Fitz may have significantly expanded to include the false documents. But the clearer picture is that there is true malicious intent on the part of The Administration, and that there seems to be an umbrella of conspiracy surrounding that viciousness. Remember- this is all about the piss-poor justification we were given, as the public, to Invade another country in our name. This is about the falsification of war- this is about the political reaction that comes at the cost of fraudulent invasion.
We shall see what happens...
posted by General Stan at 7:29 PM
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