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Subject: "Plame off": How Rove will get away with outing a CIA agent
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:04:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jane stillwater
jpstillwater@yahoo.com
"Plame off": How Rove will get away with outing a CIA agent
By Jane Stillwater
http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com
The Fantastic Four have been at it again. Karl Rove, also known as "The
Human Torch", should have been in big trouble after flaming CIA agent
Valerie Plame. Exposing a CIA agent is a felony and an act of treason -- a
crime worthy of Doctor Doom himself. "Not to worry," said Rove. "Nothing
will come of it. The storm will pass over. I'll get away with this one too."
And Rove is right. All he has to do is play "Invisible Girl" for a week or
two until the press and the bloggers either move on to the next
Rove-generated crisis or are accused of not supporting the troops. "They've
been blogging us about 9/11for four years now," commented The Torch, "and
NOTHING has come of it. We got caught with our pants down totally -- yet we
are still here. Why get our knickers all in a twist over this?"
Why indeed. With Bill "Mr. Fantastic" Frist ruling Congress with an iron
hand and the Supreme Court presided over by Antonin "The Thing" Scalia, just
exactly WHO is going to persecute Mr. Rove? Not you and me.
Face it, America. Rove OWNS the USA. As our Karl so aptly described his
tenure in the White House, "The Fantastic Four will prove to be the
longest-running comic book series in history."
Like "The Thing", the Rove administration has also become "a hideously
misshapen monster with superhuman strength." You can bet on it -- there will
be no resignations, no impeachments and no jail time for this fantastic
foursome. Why? Because Rove has torched all of our executive, legislative
and judicial checks and balances. But setting justice on fire is not Karl
Rove's only super-power. While he is busy being invisible, he can also
render other objects invisible too -- such as our Bill of Rights (not to
mention the economy).
Yes, we can expect the Plame incident to go the way of the 9/11 Commission,
in-your-face election fraud, Gannongate and Downing Street.
"Plame off."
PS: It's still not too late for America. We could still be super-heroes. We
could still show some balls. If those DC comic characters aren't going to
listen to us, then let's let our local city councils and courtrooms and
newspapers know. "We want our country back!" The Fantastic Four's evil
clones only hold power over us if we let them. "Plame on!"
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The movie: Marvel's first family of comic superheroes takes the world by
storm as the longest running comic book series in history comes to the big
screen. Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, who can elongate his body; Susan
Storm/Invisible Woman, who not only can become invisible at will but can
render other objects invisible; Johnny Storm/Human Torch, who can shoot fire
from his finger tips and bend flame; and Ben Grimm/The Thing, a hideously
misshapen monster with superhuman strength, together battle the evil Doctor
Doom.
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1808403968
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From TruthOut: At the White House, a Day of Silence on Rove's Role in CIA
Leak, By Richard W. Stevenson: Nearly two years after stating that any
administration official found to have been involved in leaking the name of
an undercover C.I.A. officer would be fired, and assuring that Karl Rove and
other senior aides to President [sic] Bush had nothing to do with the
disclosure, the White House refused on Monday to answer any questions about
new evidence of Mr. Rove's role in the matter.
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From Michael: Why Plame Matters, By Ray McGovern: The significance of the
Plame affair is not about former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson; or his wife,
Valerie Plame; or Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I.
Lewis "Scooter" Libby; or even President [sic] George W. Bush's alter ego,
Karl Rove. White House v. Wilsons is about Iraq, where our sons and
daughters—and many others—are daily meeting violent death. And it's about
manipulation.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050718/why_plame_matters.php
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From CLG News: Reveal Karl Rove as Source in Plame Case: Now that Time Inc.
has turned over documents to federal court, presumably revealing who its
reporter, Matt Cooper, identified as his source in the Valerie Plame/CIA
case, speculation runs rampant on the name of that source.... Tonight, on
the syndicated McLaughlin Group political talk show, Lawrence O'Donnell,
senior MSNBC political analyst, claimed to know that name--and it is,
according to him, White House advisor Karl Rove.
http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
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From Joe T: Jane, Saddam owned Iraq. [And Hitler owned Germany and Stalin
owned.... ]
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From Karena: Bush's Statement Encourages Administration Crime Spree: "If
anyone in my administration is found to have committed a crime they will be
fired."
Found to have committed a crime does not mean indicted on criminal charges.
Found to have committed a crime does not mean going to trial on said
charges. Found to have committed a crime follows a lengthy trial process
which may or may not end in a guilty verdict. By the time anyone in his
administration may ever be found to have committed a crime, Bush's term will
be ending or over. [We should be so lucky! Bush is going to be FOUND in the
White House forever.]
http://karenas.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/07/holy_shit_bush_.html
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From Chris: How Then Can He Mourn? by E. L. Doctorow: He is the President
[sic] who does not feel. He does not feel for the families of the dead; he
does not feel for the thirty five million of us who live in poverty; he does
not feel for the forty percent who cannot afford health insurance; he does
not feel for the miners whose lungs are turning black or for the working
people he has deprived of the chance to work overtime at time-and-a-half to
pay their bills --- it is amazing for how many people in this country this
President does not feel.
But he will dissemble feeling. He will say in all sincerity he is
relieving the wealthiest one percent of the population of their tax
burden for the sake of the rest of us, and that he is polluting the air we
breathe for the sake of our economy, and that he is decreasing the safety
regulations for coal mines to save the coal miners' jobs, and that he is
depriving workers of their time-and-a- half benefits for overtime because
this is actually a way to honor them by raising them into the professional
class.
And this litany of lies he will versify with reverences for God and the flag
and democracy, when just what he and his party are doing to our democracy is
choking the life out of it.
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2004/09/09_doctorow_how-then-can-mourn.htm
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From "Amy doesn't go to the Amazon": This episode is written but not typed.
Someone needs to find a publisher who will give poor sweet Mary Straitwell
mstraitwell@yahoo.com a big cash advance so she can get this freaking
section TYPED. It involves walking on a rope bridge in the mist high above a
rainforest and finding a huge lizard in one's tent and discussing the pros
and cons of hallucinogenic drugs with the local medicine man.
http://travelswithamy.blogspot.com/2005/05/amy-doesnt-go-to-amazon-written-not.html
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I have become shocked and amazed lately at how bitter and cynical and mean
my e-mails are becoming -- but ever since Bush, Rove, Rumsfeld and Cheney
bombed several defenseless countries into rubble, failed to protect my
country on 9-11, scalped our treasury and blatantly STOLE two national
elections, I've just not been the same. I WANT to be a kind and loving and
caring person but the example being set for me by America's "leaders" has
precluded that from happening. My apologies.
In defense of my country, I must fight fire with fire. Those people in the
White House are NASTY.
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computer!
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