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More Cloak and Dagger, Courtesy of Your President President Promoted the Republican Congressman Who Blocked a 2004 Resolution of Inquiry Which Would Have Required That Rove Leak Be Revealed to the Public More Than 18 Months Ago, Prior to the November General Election; The Congressman's New Job: Head of the C.I.A., the Organization Rove Endangered With His Likely Illegal LeakJust another Bush-blessed coincidence, right?
In January of 2004, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence received, from its Democratic members, a Resolution of Inquiry which "request(ed) the President, and direct(ed) the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Attorney General, to transmit to the House of Representatives not later than 14 days after the date of its adoption all documents, including telephone and electronic mail records, logs and calendars, personnel records, and records of internal discussions, in the possession of the President and those cabinet officers relating to the disclosure of the identity and employment of Valerie Plame during the period beginning on May 6, 2003, and ending on July 31, 2003."
Such information, had it been proffered by the White House to the U.S. House of Representatives, would have uncovered the Rove leak more than eighteen (18) months ago--many months prior to the 2004 election.
The Republican majority in the HPSCI reported the Resolution "adversely" to the full House, effectively killing it permanently, after holding no--as in, not a single one--public hearings on the matter.
The Chairman of the Committee at that time was Porter Goss.
It was Goss who took the lead in killing the Resolution.
The Democrats issued a response, in which they noted the following: "The men and women of the Intelligence Community deserve our total support and protection. Nothing can more seriously undermine them, or the effort to understand Iraq pre-war intelligence, than the exposure of the identity of an undercover officer. We condemn it absolutely. On this we, the undersigned, are unanimous."
Within six months of Porter Goss doing Bush the biggest solid of his Presidency, Goss was installed by Bush as the head of, you guessed it, the C.I.A.: that is, the organization whose covert operative Rove had outed, possibly in contravention of federal law.
Now, as word leaks out that Democrats in Washington will file another Resolution of Inquiry again tomorrow, I wonder: will the media ask Bush whether Goss's elevation to head of the C.I.A. was a political favor for helping to keep the lid on Rovegate until after the November 2004 general election?
Will they demand that Goss reveal whether he was in talks with the White House during January and February of 2004, the period during which he almost single-handedly killed a House Resolution of Inquiry on the Rove leak?And is the silence of the C.I.A. now--despite the outing of its covert agent (which, prior to Goss, it was quite palpably angry over)--directly attributable to the fact that Bush picked a very specific man to head up that organization?
That is, one who had already aided Bush
once in covering up the Rove leak?
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