'Plamegate' Can Bring Cheney Down

[Independent_Liberal]

This article turned up in the July 29 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. I wanted to know if anybody has read it.

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`Plamegate' Can Bring Down Cheney
by Michele and Jeffrey Steinberg

On July 22, in a special hearing called by a joint panel of Senate and House Democrats, on the criminal investigation of the White House role in the Valerie Plame case, a packed hearing room of press, Congressional staffers, and other government officials, heard testimony from leading retired intelligence professionals. The hearing, titled, "National Security Consequences of Disclosing the Identity of a Covert Intelligence Agent," was chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.).

And while the hearing was taking place, another bombshell was dropped on the White House: Bloomberg news service and the New York Times reported that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who has been investigating the White House leaking of Plame's identity as a covert CIA agent since December 2003, is looking into "perjury" and "obstruction of justice" charges, because of statements coming from the principal figures identified as the leakers: Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, which have been contradicted by other witnesses in the investigation.

In 2004, the former counsel to President Richard Nixon, John W. Dean, wrote a book called Worse Than Watergate, about the lies and the liars involved in the faked intelligence used to start the Iraq War. Events in Washington over the last week, confirm that Dean is right.

More at http://larouchepub.com/other/2005/3230plamegate_cheney.html

[wli]

1. LaRouche... any independent verification of those claims?

[Jackpine Radical]

3. I understand & share your reluctance to buy into anything the LaRouchies

put out, but I didn't see anything in this piece that seemed really outre or beyond what we already know or surmise. Pretty straightforward & factually conservative for a LaRouche broadside.

[evil eggplant]

2. not if fitz is sacked or compromised

Fitz has been given free reign to conduct the investigation as he sees fit. The workings of the investigation have (seemingly) remained confidential.

Those days will be gone if chimpys pal becomes Fitz' new boss.

ChimpCo will know everything that is going to happen before it happens.

Let us hope that Fitz has enough at this time, before the chimp has a man on the inside.

[MissMarple]

4. John Dean is all over the Bush adminstration. He worked with them.

Go John Dean!
He has stuff at www.findlaw.com

I did a search:
http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/scripts/lc.pl?entry=John+Dean+Bush+administration&sites=findlaw.com

[peacetalksforall]

5. Now we'll find out how far S&B'ers will go to save each other in times

of dire trouble. We'll find out if helping out means leaking secret testimony to the White House. We'll find out if grand jury decisions will be known before the grand jury makes them.

In case any one needs to know -

S & B'ers - Skull and Bones secret society out of Yale where members commit to each other? You can't agree with me or disagree with me because it is all a secret.