Generals must step in - Stars and Stripes LTE

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Generals must step in

Grand jury evidence from Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald almost certainly proves that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney exposed undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame by leaking selected portions of a report that seemed to rebut criticism for invading Iraq.

Cheney aide “Scooter” Libby, indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice, testified that he met with reporters to leak this information. The reporters testified that Libby did reveal the agent’s name.

The most recent Gallup poll showed that 63 percent of Americans believe that Bush acted illegally or unethically in the “Plamegate” affair. If not prosecutable, exposing an agent is a national security betrayal. Bush’s subject-changing lie that he declassified information so the “American people could know the truth” is irrelevant. Bush’s “declassified” information was cherry-picked from a report that in subsequent paragraphs discounted that same information. It’s news to the CIA, the Pentagon and Congress that a presidential leak equals declassification.

The special prosecutor states that the “presidential leak” was a vendetta against the CIA agent’s husband, who disputed Bush’s false justifications to invade Iraq.

more at http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=125&article=36519

[Betsy Ross]

1. Two possibilities:

Take back our country through elections (if possible under current voting systems) or a military coup. I pray that the military would refuse to follow orders if * launched an attack on Iran.