"We've let the Earth Movers roll over this one"

[BOSSHOG]

This is what a "Senior White House Official" said in an article of the Financial Times, 5 December 2003 when referring to the investigation of a leak from the white house of the identity of a CIA undercover operative (a federal crime).

Please email your congressional representatives RIGHT NOW insisting that this investigation continue, even if it means an independent investigation to uncover who committed the crime. Write a letter to the editor. Raise hell. Exercise your constitutional rights (just what necons don't want us to do). The rubes and the lemmings need to know what they are supporting. Let us help bush bring honor and integrity back to the white house.

[SEAburb]

1. I don't think DUers understand what this means.

Ashcroft has buried this case deeper than the Ken Lay case. In fact I think the Bushies would throw Lay to the wolves to keep the Plame case under earth.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

3. One DU'er understands...

This was treason. This wasn't perjury (about a blow job). This wasn't a stupid, fact-less book by a peroxide he-woman who things her words are actually intellident. This was an actual crime that is punishable by life in prison, or worse yet, the death penalty.
And the media whores have ignored it almost completely.

[FreakinDJ]

2. It seems to be the Whit House MO

Promise a full investigation then work as hard as you can to supress and squash it.

For the most part it has been working really well too. IE: 911 / Anthrax attacks / Cheeny-Halburton contracts / and CIA leaked information.

The best answer i have seen to all of this is that this is proof the "Dumbing Down" of America is working

[DrBB]

4. Did you pick this up on TPM? B/c I'm really curious...

Marshall was pushing this matter as hard as anybody out there, but there hasn't been anything to report about it for weeks, far as I can tell. So he hasn't had much to say about it either. Then suddenly it comes up again. Cuz of this "earth movers" quote? I guess. But I'm really intrigued at Marshall's line on this, after quoting the two sources:

If you slap the press around enough and keep your people's mouths shut you usually get what you want.

Usually ...

It's that "Usually..." that gets me. Maybe I'm just being over-optimistic, but it sounds a bit like he knows something. He likes to drop hints when he knows some issue or story is coming up, and it almost sounds like that's what this is.

At the very least, I'd like to know whether Wilson is actively pursuing the civil angle, as he seemed to be starting out to do a couple of months ago. John Dean recommended this as being the thing that really cracked Watergate--the civil discovery process and whatnot kept the heat on an administration that was hoping to kick the can down the road, just like these guys. Couple of weeks ago I rooted around the web looking for anything about such a suit being brought and came up empty. But I don't assume nothing's happening on that front--such legal processes never progress as quickly as you want. I'm still expecting the Plame affair to come back to life; I don't think Wilson is of a mind to just let it go.

edit: clarification

[maggrwaggr]

6. you're being typically over-optimistic, a common problem with us

we're always trying to see the good in everything and in everybody, but in this case, our people have rolled over and played dead.

It's disgusting.

This thing is about twenty times bigger than Watergate, and they're letting it die.

How stupid is that?

[maggrwaggr]

5. Our Dumbocratic party has let another one slip by

like I said in a similar thread last night, if our party "leadership" had a winning lottery ticket, they'd use it to wipe their asses.

That's how stupid they are.

They were handed a fucking gold mine on this one, and they let it pass them by.

This is why they all must go. Every single one of them.

They are so massively incompetent it's unbelievable.