JUDY, JUDY, JUDY And Now Maybe Condi Too. The Plame Outing Theory (POT)
Around Here for A Long Time Has Centered Around JUDY MARTYR MILLER,
Lead Actress in this Washington Dope Opera Where No One Has Any
Intelligence and Only Stupidity Is Served. More than any single person, JUDITH MILLER embodies reporters in bed with politicians, but we the public are the ones most screwed. From her championing of the chump CHALABI to her CHEERLEADING for the war, Judith Miller has been more a propaganda agent than a reporter of facts. Anyone who doesn’t THINK MILLER IS TAKING the FIRST AMENDMENT convenience case in jail so she doesn’t have to take the FIFTH AMENDMENT
hard case may want to pick up a case of Miller’s bitch’s brew tonight
and a fifth of wishful whiskey because when America wakes up from this
dark dream, all of us will have a wicked hangover.
As has been
stated here before, the Bush White House is nothing but a team effort
where the quarterback took to many hits of everything long before this
game started. The question now isn’t who is involved in the Plame
outing. The question is, who isn’t? CONDOLEEZZA RICE could get cooked on this too. Don’t forget Rice and mushrooms to go on the way to war. RICE and MUSHROOM CLOUDS. Federal Prosecutor PATRICK FITZGERALD has
until October before his appointment turns into a pumpkin just in time
for Halloween. The Dope Opera of the Plame Outing Theory (POT) will
only get dumb and dumberer over the next few weeks.
You heard
it here first. Or second. Or it doesn’t matter because you are going to
here this more and more. Judy, Judy, Judy did it. Condi did it. They
all did it. We don’t want the next smoking gun to be a nuclear cloud
over Washington on this. We will leave the nukes to the Roberts Supreme
Court battle.
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[FIREDOGLAKE] As we mentioned here before,
Patrick Fitzgerald's term of office as US attorney ends in October, and
the man whose recommendation lead to his appointment in the first place
-- former Illinois Senator Peter Fitzgerald (oft confused but not
related) -- says that pressure is mounting to get him the hell out of office.
[ARIANNA HUFFINGTON]
This is why Miller doesn't want to reveal her "source" at the White
House -- because she was the source. Sure, she first got the info from
someone else, and the odds are she wasn't the only one who clued in
Libby and/or Rove (the State Dept. memo likely played a role too)… but,
in this scenario, Miller certainly wasn't an innocent writer caught up
in the whirl of history. She had a starring role in it. This also
explains why Miller never wrote a story about Plame, because her goal
wasn't to write a story, but to get out the story that cast doubts on
Wilson's motives. Which Novak did. . . . .
Any discussion of
Miller's actions in the Plame-Rove-Libby-Gonzalez-Card scandal must not
leave out the key role she played in cheerleading for the invasion of
Iraq and in hyping the WMD threat. Re-reading some of her pre-war
reporting today, it's hard not to be disgusted by how inaccurate and
pumped up it turned out to be. For chapter and verse, check out Slate's
Jack Shafer. For the money quote on her mindset, look to her April 2003
appearance on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, where, following up on her
blockbuster front page story about an Iraqi scientist and his claims
that Iraq had destroyed all its WMD just before the war started, Miller
said the scientist was more than a "smoking gun," he was the "silver
bullet" in the hunt for WMD. The "silver bullet" later turned out to be
another blank -- and the scientist turned out to be a military
intelligence official
[FROOMKIN/WASHINGTON POST] But now comes today's news from WALTER PINCUS AND JIM VANDERHEI
on the front page of The Washington Post: "The special prosecutor in
the CIA leak probe has interviewed a wider range of administration
officials than was previously known, part of an effort to determine
whether anyone broke laws during a White House effort two years ago to
discredit allegations that President Bush used faulty intelligence to
justify the Iraq war, according to several officials familiar with the
case. . . .
"In doing so, special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald
has asked not only about how CIA operative Valerie Plame's name was
leaked but also how the administration went about shifting
responsibility from the White House to the CIA for having included 16
words in the 2003 State of the Union address about Iraqi efforts to
acquire uranium from Africa, an assertion that was later disputed."
[MORRIS/COUNTERPUNCH] For those who know the invariably central role of the NSC Advisor in
sensitive political subjects in foreign policy and in White House leaks
to the media as well as tending of policy, especially in George W.
Bush's rigidly disciplined, relentlessly political regime, Rice by both
commission and omission was integral in perpetrating the original fraud
of Niger, and then inevitably in the vengeful betrayal of Plame's
identity. None of that spilling of secrets for crass political
retribution could have gone on without her knowledge and approval, and
thus complicity. Little of it could have happened without her
participation, if not as a leaker herself, at least with her direction
and with her scripting.[HAT TIP: AGITPROP ]
[BLUMENTHAL/SALON] Rove is fighting his war as though it will be settled in a court of
Washington pundits. Brandishing his formidable political weapons, he
seeks to demonstrate his prowess once again. His corps of agents raises
a din in which their voices drown out individual dissidents. His
frantic massing of forces dominates the capital by winning the
communications battle. Indeed, Rove may succeed momentarily in quelling
the storm. But the stillness may be illusory. Before the prosecutor,
Rove's arsenal is useless.
MORE TO FOLLOW
Great dig ups on Miller, Joe!
Wonder how much is she getting to sit in jail? A good chunk of the truth is sitting right there. Rove's dodging the double barrel.
Posted by: Chuck, Left Of Left | July 28, 2005 at 08:35 PM