Frog Marching Down The Yellowcake Road

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http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2003/9/27/14943/5380

Any story about female spies and uranium for atomic bombs automatically gets my attention. Even more so when it includes quotes from former U.S. ambassadors like, "This is the stuff of Kim Philby and Aldrich Ames" and, "It's of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs. And trust me, when I use that name, I measure my words." Not often do you see those three names all in the same paragraph....

See, back in July columnist Robert Novak wrote an editorial discussing Ambassador Joseph Wilson's fact-finding trip to Niger that concluded Iraq had never sought Nigerian uranium yellowcake to restart its nuclear bomb program. Wilson's findings were ignored in President Bush's State of The Union address which played a pivotal role in generating support for starting the only unprovoked war in U.S. history. In the editorial, Novak noted that he had been told by several anonymous Bush Administration officials that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA WMD specialist. Blowing her cover and thus her career like this was widely seen as retaliation against Wilson's previous criticism of the Bush Administration.

Releasing the names of gadfly CIA agents is not only political retaliation, it is also high treason punishable by hefty prison sentences under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 passed under President Reagan. To quote excerpts from another editorial by Mark Kleiman, "the revelation of her identity poses a substantial, perhaps even mortal, threat to whatever foreign officials or private citizens might have been supplying her with information about their nations' attempts to create WMD capacity. It is quite likely that some of those people are now in dungeons having their fingernails pulled out, or being subjected to whatever alternative form of encouragement the local secret police like to use."

Oops. Let the games begin...

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1. No matter which way you slice it, they're traitors.

Rove and Novak are big boys and knew EXACTLY what they were doing.

Maybe we can get a military tribunal for these two 'enemy combatants'- The Army still does firing squads.

[TacticalPeek]

2. Joseph Wilson to be on c-span tomorrow at 7:45m EST.

Just heard on Washington Journal.