Gaurdian: White House in panic over spy scandal

[sabra]

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1530200,00.html

White House in panic over spy scandal

Bush is on the rack over a revelation that his close aide Karl Rove exposed a CIA agent

Paul Harris in Washington
Sunday July 17, 2005
The Observer

It was a question the White House press corps once believed unthinkable. Has President George W Bush lost confidence in his political guru, Karl Rove? If simply posing the question was a surprise last week, the answer - or, more accurately, the lack of one - was an even greater shock.

When Bush faced reporters at the White House last Wednesday, he dodged questions on Rove. Seated as ever, just behind his President, Rove himself was tight-lipped and pale. The Rove-Bush partnership has changed the face of American politics, propelling Bush from Texas to the White House. Not for nothing is Rove known as 'boy genius' to Republican friends and 'Bush's brain' to Democrat enemies. Now that is under threat.

The so-called 'Valerie Plame affair' has the Bush administration in a panic. An investigation into whether White House officials deliberately blew the cover of a CIA agent in an attempt to hit out at a critic of the Iraq war has Rove firmly in its sights.

The scandal has all the classic ingredients: an unmasked CIA agent - who just happens to be a glamorous blonde - and a tough-minded independent investigator. There are secret sources, leaked emails and even a reporter thrown in jail. The official White House spokesman, the normally unflappable Scott McClellan, has been caught making a grossly misleading statement. Newspapers are devoting page after page to the twists and turns of the case.

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[kanrok]

1. My favorite line:

"Seated as ever, just behind his President, Rove himself was tight-lipped and pale." It does my heart good to know that that putrid little man is soiling his shorts over this. After all the misery he spread, no one deserves this more.

[tuvor]

2. Except for his puppet-boss. n/t

[Skittles]

3. I keep running out of popcorn, kanrok

I need a popcorn machine badly. :D

[kanrok]

8. I actually am eating popcorn as I post

Me>>>>> :popcorn:

It is getting awfully interesting.

[AmBlue]

20. emphasis on "awfully" n/t

[hvn_nbr_2]

26. I have never before eaten popcorn at 7 a.m.

but I am now. This is getting interesting.

[opihimoimoi]

7. This Iraqi WAR and all its Misery, Deaths, Wounded, lost energy

Is all ROVE'S FAULT...he made Bush President.

This This 8 $TRILLION National Debt.....is ALL ROVES FAULT....

He uses Bush for personal POWER....making him attractive to the POWER GROUPIES.....

This unwanted limelight is bitter. Worse, his backers are now finding ways to eat Crow...... Sauteed Crow, Broiled Crow, Crow Under Glass, Teriyaki Crow............

Poor Rove, coulda, woulda, shoulda, but instead...went for the LOW ROAD.....

[kanrok]

9. I have not one ounce of sympathy for that douchebag

He deserves every bad thing that comes to him. Karma is a bitch.

[Oilwellian]

14. No, no, no

Novak is the Douchebag...Rove is a Turd Blossom. :D

[Octafish]

17. Yours is a good point about cause and effect, O! So Poppy hired Atwater...

... who hired Rove and taught Smirko as best he could. If Poppy hadn't been in a position to hire Atwater, we never would've had more than five decades of both Hot and Cold War misey, Bush-induced pretty much uninterrupted since November 22, 1963.

[opihimoimoi]

18. It takes a TEAM.....of evil greedy vain peeeps to carry out the

diabolical plans / projects they do...

[Octafish]

19. Poppy and Bush Crime Family call on the Secret Team.

Remember how Fletcher Prouty pegged "Them"...?

THE SECRET TEAM

The CIA
and Its Allies
in Control of the United
States and the World



L. FLETCHER PROUTY
Col., U.S. Air Force (Ret.)









Copyright © 1973, 1992, 1997 by L. Fletcher Prouty
All Rights Reserved














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June: Chapters 7-10
July: Chapters 11-15
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CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Author's Note
Preface
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface: "THE SECRET TEAM II" 1997

               PART I      THE SECRET TEAM

Chapter   1           The "Secret Team" -- the Real Power Structure
Chapter   2           The Nature of Secret Team Activity: A Cuban Case Study

               PART II      THE CIA: HOW IT RUNS

Chapter   3           An Overview of the CIA



          Section I.  Intelligence versus Secret Operations
          Section II.  Origins of the Agency and
                              the Seeds of Secret Operations
          Section III.  A Simple Coup d'État to a Global Mechanism


Chapter   4           From the Word of the Law to the Interpretation:
                             President Kennedy Attempts to Put the CIA Under Control
Chapter   5           "Defense" as a National Military Philosophy,
                             the Natural Prey of the Intelligence Community
Chapter   6           "It Shall Be the Duty of the Agency: To Advise, to Coordinate,
                             to Correlate and Evaluate and Disseminate
                             and to Perform Services of Common Concern . . ."



          Coordination of Intelligence -- the
          Major Assigned Role of the CIA
          Correlation, Evaluation and Dissemination of
          Intelligence:  Heart of the Profession
          Services of Common Concern:  An Attempt at Efficiency



Chapter   7           From the Pines of Maine to the Birches of Russia:
                             The Nature of Clandestine Operations
Chapter   8           CIA: "The Cover Story" Intelligence Agency
                             and the Real-Life Clandestine Operator
Chapter   9           The Coincidence of Crises
Chapter 10           The Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report in Action

               PART III      THE CIA: HOW IT IS ORGANIZED

Chapter 11           The Dulles Era Begins
Chapter 12           Personnel: The Chameleon Game
Chapter 13           Communications: The Web of the World
Chapter 14           Transportation: Anywhere in the World -- Now
Chapter 15           Logistics by Miracle

               PART IV      THE CIA: SOME EXAMPLES
                                 THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

Chapter 16           Cold War: The Pyrrhic Gambit
Chapter 17           Mission Astray, Soviet Gamesmanship
Chapter 18           Defense, Containment, and Anti-Communism
Chapter 19           The New Doctrine: Special Forces and
                             the Penetration of the Mutual Security Program
Chapter 20           Khrushchev's Challenge: The U-2 Dilemma
Chapter 21           A Time of Covert Action: U-2 to Kennedy Inaugural
Chapter 22           Camelot: From the Bay of Pigs to Dallas, Texas
Chapter 23           Five Presidents: "Nightmares We Inherited"

               APPENDICES:




          I. Definition of Special Operations
          II. Powers and Duties of the CIA
          III. Training Under the Mutual Security Program



               BIBLIOGRAPHY

               INDEX


SOURCE AVAILABLE ONLINE:

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We are the team of good folk who work to bring light. United, we can do anything. Even rid the world of the BFEE.

[opihimoimoi]

21. Its gonna take 90% of us Citizens to turn around this mess.

This 90 factor comes from the French Revolution....

[Octafish]

22. Critical mass.

I'm thinking we're getting there. People are on to these turds. They know what the Bush family is up to. more and more are seeing where the world is heading. They don't want to sacrifice their children's lives and their grandchildren's future.

But 90-percent? If we had an honest media, we'd be at about 99-percent disapproval.

[opihimoimoi]

24. Educating/informing/sharing with...the Public re this Mess is made

easier and easier day by day, week by week, blunder by blunder thanks to BUSH/ROVE/Other influential Parties....in this Administration....,.

[Freedomfried]

4. Reading that gave me a woody

thanks for sharing,

gotta go take a cold shower

[Mandate My Ass]

5. I wish I could read a headline like that in the US press

It does my heart good to think they are in a panic.

However, I have one bone to pick within this article that I thought I'd never encounter in a non-US publication -- the fawning over Bush's strong sense of loyalty to Rove which is portrayed as a virtue. The man got where he was because he hired the dirtiest, most contemptible sneak who wins only because he destroys his opponents in the most underhanded fashion imaginable. Bush took an oath to defend this country (I know, I know) and if his minions operate in a manner which undermines the defense of this country, it's not in any way, shape or form laudable that he holds on to them.

[Carni]

16. bush could never fire rove-he knows where the bodies are buried

loyalty my ass...

[pretzel4gore]

6. those brutish sissies all hyperventilating...

too bad snl doesn't do pertinent comedy anymore! imagine: the entire white house power mad bushcreeps gasping as cnn plays in background, and cnn's blitzer hyperventilating along with rush limbah-humbug, oreally and brite hum etc paralysed with fear! lol
the whole buncha crooks would be easy to cast ...but lorne michaels main concern these last few years is israel's 'friend' geebush and the ratwing, it seems(?)

[jarnocan]

10. I just hope

more and more of the truth coms out. I am thinking her outing was just a means to maybe a bigger end- Like that hey wanted to take down the whole operation- Brewster and Jennings- some others seem to be hinting at that too. Outing her was a bonus for the BUSHInc. but not the real goal. This was likely more than just petty revenge.
Jack Kelly's note to Judith Miller seems like a connection.
So perhaps they have MUCH more to be worried about- like a piece to puzzles we have been discussinf for a long time. Maybe we can get it put together and more folks will see the big picture.

[halobeam]

13. There's so much to uncover, I have a nagging fear

that it all won't be unleashed. This article says "critic of the Iraq war"... no, not really... more like: agent who reported there's no evidence Saddam was buying the big U.

It's not Niger damn it... it's IRAQ. It's IRAQ, it's IRAQ, it's IRAQ.

It's not the Wilson's really, it's BREWSTER AND JENNINGS. It's BREWSTER AND JENNINGS, it's BREWSTER AND JENNINGS.

I want to scream.

[lovuian]

11. rove is going to know how it feels to take the sword for his

master... its like Bush being in a boat and rove swimming and help Bush push Bush's boat and ask to come in the boat and Bush says it will sink ... Good Bye and Thanks

[JohnyCanuck]

23. And then after Shrub rows on for a few strokes leaving Karl in his wake,,

he notices there is a hole in the bottom of the boat, the water is pouring in and it dawns on him the boat is going to sink anyway, even without lard ass Karl aboard. LOL

[cliss]

12. I've got a funny feeling Rove

is being targeted as a sacrificial lamb in this mess. Notice, the architects of this Stupendous Failure called Iraq; namely Bill Kristol, that loser Douglas Feith, all of them are loudly denouncing this administration. I've noticed they've targeted their "Good Buddy" Don RumsFailed. He's been the object of lots of criticism from his 'friends'. (my, how quickly they turn).

So I think something's happened in the background, where the REAL decisions are made. Bush is just "window dressing", nothing more than a hologram of a president.

We know the real powerhouses behind the scenes are people like Kristol and all the other parasites from the PNAC.

In my opinion, the failure in Iraq is driving this sordid mess. I think the real powerbrokers are fed up with Bush & Cheney. They see them as stupid fools, which they obviously are.

They probably want new people in there, to do a better job, so to speak.

[DELUSIONAL]

15. Well that was a good read -- almost as good as . . .

Interesting that the aim was perhaps to shut any CIA person up -- by blowing the cover of "just one spy".

In a way this has the ear marks of very short term planners -- they figured they could get away with anything -- including murder. And so far this bunch of thugs and liars has gotten away with every sort of double dirty dealing treachery -- even the most talented novelist wouldn't even imagine writing about -- because who could believe that a gang of crooks could get away with so much -- and most people in the US don't seem to give a damn.

But then IF IF IF -- the democrats and a few journalists who've found their spines (& balls) can keep this on the front burner.

This is an easy story to understand -- a spy's cover was blown -- and the only people who should have known are those with a "need to know".

[Liberal In Texas]

25. Is it too late to change the spelling of GUARDIAN on the OP?

'Cause I just hate it when we look like the feeps. (Bad grammar or spelling.)