(Cont'd) Summer Scandals - Let the fireworks begin!
Mon Jul 4, 2005 11:40
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(Cont'd) Summer Scandals - Let the fireworks begin!
– Justin Raimondo
SOURCE W/LINKS:
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6533
Bollocks. A spy nest of any nationality or ethnicity caught red-handed whispering our secrets in the dark while extending its tentacles into top policymaking bodies of the U.S. government would find itself on the other end of an FBI eavesdropping device: a Japanese or British spy would sit behind his or her Pentagon desk only as long as it took the authorities to compile enough evidence to convince a jury. These weren't just "lobbyists," as Glick avers, who were skulking about exulting that they had a real "Pentagon insider" on the line: Rosen and Weissman were acting in tandem with a top Israeli official at the Israeli embassy, and this treasonous trio mined their mole for all he was worth.
The Niger uranium forgery was yet another attempt to "influence" policy, and I'm waiting – with bated breath – to hear the familiar defense: Oh, dearie me, you're just trying to "criminalize" policy differences. Why, everybody does it!
Yeah, that's right: everybody forges documents, outs CIA agents, and then tries desperately to cover up both crimes, in a ruthless effort to lie us into war and to hell with the consequences. Funny thing is, in the world of the neocons' Washington, this may well be true, or as close to the truth as these people are ever likely to get. And that's what makes this summer of scandals all the more entertaining.
So start poppin' that popcorn, get out the chips and dips, and pull up a chair: it's party time! Scandal Bowl promises to be a blast – one that will blow up the War Party's Washington base of operations and put a lot of these sociopaths where they undoubtedly belong: behind bars.
– Justin Raimondo
SOURCE W/LINKS:
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6533
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Rove accuser stands by his remarks!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/3/223858/9299
Did Bob Novak Tell the Grand Jury or Prosecutors that Rove Told Him About Valerie Plame But Did Not Reveal Her Name? Sounds Like a Rovian "Splitting Hairs" Contrived Alibi to Us. Could be. 7/4
http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/05/07/ana05022.html
Lawrence O'Donnell Live Tonight (Rove/Plame Affair)
by JustWinBaby
Sun Jul 3rd, 2005 at 19:38:57 PDT
For those of you who were not just near an AM radio let me provide a quick report on the Matt Drudge Sunday night radio show that just aired with Lawrence O'Donnell as a guest answering questions about his disclosures in the Rove inquiry.
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O'Donnell stood by his earlier remarks totally. He did not back down one bit. He said that Matt Cooper's notes will show that Rove was his primary source on the Plame matter. O'Donnell further stated that Rove's lawyer only decided to play defense once it was known that O'Donnell's remarks had gone out over the McLaughlin Group air. Rove's lawyer used very technical language in his denials. Further, it would be expected that if Rove is in danger of a perjury rap, the lawyer would be expected to defend the client (read: tell an untruth in a public non-legal statement for the purposes of representing his client to the press). What his lawyer said was not in front of a judge. It was simply a weekend pr effort. Of course he's going to say his client didn't break the law, etc. Duh... In addition to O'Donnell's reiteration of what he posted on the Huffington Post, it was interesting to hear Matt Drudge's reaction to the potential of a Rove indictment--he seemed to take the prospect pretty seriously, and my guess is Drudge will continue to play this story pretty big all summer. This could really heat up, judging by the way everyone was talking.
I think it is clear now that this has moved beyond the question of betraying a US covert agent, and now the prosecutor is going after perjury/obstruction of justice related to the investigation--rather than the original underlying crime. That is pretty standard in these Washington cases.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/3/223858/9299
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This White House Scandal Finally Tips the Scale!
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/leakgate.htm
Leak of Identity of CIA Operative Valerie Plame:
http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/lit/iraq/documents.html
Documents Reveal Karl Rove as Source in Plame Case
http://www.apfn.org/LEAK-GATE/rove.htm
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