Did anybody catch the house intel investigations today on Cspan? The panel was barely half full. Of course, as the committee chair brazenly pointed out, "After all, it is a FRIDAY." And as all followers of the previous congress already know, being a Senator or Representative is now be officially classified as a part time position. The Republicans seem to be holding on to one main point. If Rove, etal, cannot be proven to have had knowledge that Ms. Plame's CIA position was, in fact, covert and undercover, then they could have dropped the dime on her employer if they liked.
Horseshit. They knew. Let's face it. The last person on earth the administration wants swearing in to a committee investigation is K. Rove, esq. He simply knows way too much. So, Rumsfeld, fired in disgrace. Libby, found guilty. Now, Attorney General Gonzales will take the G. Gordon Liddy fall guy of the year award (take one for the gipper).
Ms. Plame's husband was sent to Niger on an intelligence investigation in regards to the possibility that Iraq was developing a nuclear bomb. This was investigated by a three star general, and various intelligence level operatives previously, and found to be false. Bush knew it, and falsely raised the nuclear specter in his State of the Union speech, knowing full well it was false. But it sure rocked Washington, didn't it. To the tune of billions of dollars and thousands of military lives, fighting a war we need not fight. What do we have to do, ask the President to swear in before addressing congress and the American people?
Mr. Wilson then became extremely vocal in regards to the phony intelligence reports flying around the hill. His penitence was having his wife's occupation outed. Shame.
Please forgive the photo stolen above. It does not nearly do her justice. Ms. Plame could get a confession from a dead man. Simply put, she is intelligent, strong, and one of the most beautiful women to ever grace the house chamber. She could easily change professions to journalism and host her own TV show. She was quite impressive, on many, many levels.
The low point of the hearing was one of the conservatives asking her political affiliation, which she immediately rebuffed as not having any bearing on the hearing, or the issue at hand. I am sick to death of the politicizing of everything, and everybody in the world today. As if your party affiliation is "the true measure of the man", and speaks to their inner character. We do not ask policemen, or firemen, or the armed forces what their political affiliations are, and the same should go to the members of the CIA and FBI, etc.
Speaking of party affiliations, should the fired special prosecutors party affiliations mean anything in terms to their length of employment? They uphold the law, period. Some of the lawyers fired for "performance issues" (later admittedly false and apologized for by the Attorney General as an out and out lie), had exemplary records, and their liberal, or conservative leanings would not affect their performance whatsoever.
Once again, the AG is going to take the fall for the administration. I do not believe the AG wanted to fire any of these top performers. He was acting on orders from the top administration officials. The odd thing is the firings occurred mid-term, and not at the beginning of the administrations term of office as is normally done.
This is one of many missteps by this administration, who is in full punch drunk boxer mode, flailing away at the legitimate criticisms for the lying, calculated way they have gone about affecting the changes they want to carry out. They haven't landed a punch in quite some time now. With the Dem's investigating everything, they will be reduced to a defensive posture from here on in. And you know what? They deserve it. They have plenty to hide. They have earned every low point they get on the favorable / unfavorable polls, as well as deserving the mistrust the American people feel towards them.
3 comments:
Armitage (no friend to Bush) admitted he was the "leaker", (she was not covert, so even Armitage didn't break the law).
The Niger Yellow Cake was investigated by the Brits and found to be true.
Dude, you should really get some better stuff!
Dude, better stuff than this?
An administration who outs a covert CIA operative as a punishment to her husband for telling the truth about the weapons of mass destruction, and then lies about it?
Reports from a three star general, other members of the intelligence community, then Mr. Wilson, who all agree that the yellow cake was more like patty cake, then the President himself addresses congress in a State of the Union speech, and lies about it?
The leader of the committee on missing and abused children in the congress is a known pedofile, and everybody enables it through their silence?
The house and senate were in Jack Abramoff's back pocket, and everybody knows it.
The attorney general fires eight top notch special prosecutors for political reasons, offically claims it was for performance issues, then admits he lied about it.
A Washington madam with 40 pounds of phone records proving who used her companies services currently negotiating their sale?
The presumed front runner for the GOP nomination, John Mc Cain, who uses the phase "tar baby of enoromous proportions", then later states he shouldn't have used that word (it is two words Senator).
"Swift boat" Bob Perry climbing aboard the Romney campaign.
Ann Coulter calling a presidential candidate a "faggot", then Peter Pace, head of the joint chiefs says he doesn't want homosexuals because they are "immoral." When asked to comment, Hillary cannot even take the correct stand and defend the rights of gays, saying "I'll leave that determination to others."
Halliburton moving to Dubai, and taking their $19 billion worth of US contracts with them, including an estimated $2.7 in Iraq overcharges.
The early start to candidates running for president, the weak, the buffoons, the loose comments. Obama family owned by Strom Thurman, Obama not "black enough."
The new post-Clinton presidency biography just out which will (no doubt) cronicle Bill's continuing sexual exploits across the globe.
Where to start and where to begin? Without a doubt, this is prime time for blogging.
And it is only going to get batter.
Armitage was the leaker. Why can't you acknowledge this? Are you that politically driven that when the facts come out you do onot accept them?
Yellow Cake:
A British intelligence review released July 14 calls Bush’s 16 words “well founded.”
A separate report by the US Senate Intelligence Committee said July 7 that the US also had similar information from “a number of intelligence reports,” a fact that was classified at the time Bush spoke.
Ironically, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who later called Bush’s 16 words a “lie”, supplied information that the Central Intelligence Agency took as confirmation that Iraq may indeed have been seeking uranium from Niger .
Both the US and British investigations make clear that some forged Italian documents, exposed as fakes soon after Bush spoke, were not the basis for the British intelligence Bush cited, or the CIA's conclusion that Iraq was trying to get uranium.
This is what I am talking about. You seem to just read the L.A. Times and run with info in it or you hear from MSNBC and choose (because of your hate for Bsh?) to ignore digging deeper.
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