It's amazing how folks will forget about things. Like our current attourney General forgetting that he has an obligation to remind his staff to preserve evidence and giving them an overnight to get ready for an investigation -- after a six months in which no investigation was conducted. Well all the flap about the outing of Ambassador Wilson's wife as an undercover agent by no less a fine figure of punditry than Robert Novak himself is finally beginning to wind on into the prosecution phase. Enough leaks about the leaks have come out to show a pretty sleazy administration (act surprised) seeking to get away with murder (in the case of those she had worked with literally) in order to hide the fact that they had absolutely no evidence to back their claims that Saddam was back in the Nuke business and that the President had said a bald faced lie on TV.
Sure the Iraqi's had yellow cake, under lock and key in the north of the Baghdad doing nobody much good. But Wilson had already showed that the Iraqi's weren't yet buying any new supplies and that put the lie to the President's famous 14 words about Saddam Hussein and his "yellow cake" purchases. And Wilson made the mistake of saying so publicly. Which appears to be why he became "fair game." Or rather his wife did.
Did I mention that all this is becoming "known" as facts? Or that the source of the leaks appears to have been traced to two high level advisors; Rove and Libby? Wanna read about this stuff? Anyone here even care?
Oh I know, yawn, it's sleepytime.
I know, but every time I read of another person loosing his feet, hands, eyes, or life -- or read one of Osama's greatful diatribes -- I think of Karl Rove, his friends, and all their clever strategizing about how to convince American's that war was the only immediate choice in dealing with Iraq.
....And then to make matters more surreal, on 7/27 (after first writing this) I pick up the Washington Times and it includes an op-ed still insisting that Wilson was wrong about his assessment of the "yellow cake" incident, because?... because Rove and a committee he was involved in that was tasked with attacking Wilson's report had said he was wrong two years ago and by golly if Rove and the administration says so it must be true. The Times claims that the report even claims "Mr. Wilson's report, rather than debunking intelligence about purported uranium sales to Iraq, bolstered the case for most intelligence analysts." Despite the fact that his report noted that there had been no corroborating evidence from local officials and that the intercept (which was in fact forged) had anachronistic names on it and didn't match the then current assemblage of officials involved. Sure committees never lie. Well people are entitled to try anything. If it ain't quite true however, what does that make it???? Well if we are lucky the Special Prosecutor will tell us.
And after the Prosecutor is done, maybe Ms Plame would be smart to consider a lawsuit:
Mrs. Plame is the wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, who has accused the White House of lying about Iraq's attempts to acquire weapons-grade nuclear material from Niger. A report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the British intelligence service and other intelligence agencies around the world, however, claim the attempt was made.
The bipartisan intelligence committee report also determined that Mrs. Plame recommended to the CIA that her husband -- a critic of the war in Iraq -- travel to Niger to verify the story of attempted "yellowcake" uranium purchases. Though his own report suggested it had occurred, Mr. Wilson wrote an op-ed in the New York Times on July 6, 2003, saying it was wrong of the White House to suggest it did happen.
Mr. Wilson has never publicly reconciled that conflict.
Democrats, however, made it clear that they believe Mr. Wilson's op-ed, and are convinced that Mr. Rove "outed" Mrs. Plame as a form of political retribution.
Plame's Input Is Cited on Niger Mission
Report Disputes Wilson's Claims on Trip, Wife's Role
By Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 10, 2004; Page A09
Read that
robin
Posted by: robin at July 28, 2005 07:11 PMThis can't possibly be scandalous. there's no blowjob involved. But seriously, Chris, thanks for the blog - I've been on a news fast for the past couple of years - I unplugged my TV when we invaded Iraq. There's hardly anything about this on the web news services - gee, I wonder why? Talk to you later, Byrd in LA
Posted by: Byrd in LA at July 29, 2005 11:14 AMThis isn't all they lie about. Anybody ready to overthrow the government?
Posted by: one great reason at July 29, 2005 12:27 PMNo, I don't want to overthrow the Government.
Yes, Robin is spinning. Read Novak's defense
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak01.html
Yes I do want change -- Vote in the next election if you want to see it happen.
Posted by: chris Holte at August 1, 2005 09:40 AM