RE-FRAME Plamegate!

[Amy6627]

It is not about Rove outing a CIA agent it is about the B*sh Administration LYING about yellow cake! End of story! Don't get me wrong, Rove needs to be in jail, but we should not be discussing with the neocons the details of who sent Joe Wilson to Niger, or that Wilson was a Kerry supporter, or that Valerie was not an operative or not. All we need to talk about is there was no yellow cake! This was supported not only by Wilson, but ALL the weapons inspectors!

[progressoid]

1. Eggggzactly! These are lies built on lies

built on more lies. And all for the sake of deceiving the world about Bush's war.

Even Rove's "alibi" that he was trying to diffuse a false story is a lie. That story about yellow cake was TRUE!

[carnie_sf]

2. It's about treason

[sampsonblk]

6. That's the word we should be using - TREASON

I haven't yet heard that word from one Dem party leader.

[peacetalksforall]

3. I also think we should be talking about what stopping Plame and her

team might have meant to Cheney - nuclear and wmd trafficking and Cheney and friends and their dealings - with a center and spokes coming from Khan and Pakistan.

[tk2kewl]

4. that's why this was my LTTE ...

Rove and the fixing of intelligence

As special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald continues to pursue Karl Rove and others who apparently blew the cover of Valerie Plame, a CIA agent working to prevent the proliferation of WMD, it is important to consider how this action relates to this assertion in the Downing Street Memos regarding Bush's justification for war in Iraq: "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

The outing of Plame was used in an attempt by the Bush administration to discredit her husband Joseph Wilson, who had criticized the administration's assertion that Saddam Hussein had attempted to purchase yellow cake uranium in Niger. In the end even the Bush administration has admitted that the Niger documents turned out to be forgeries.

It seems as though Wilson's criticism of the administration's claims that Saddam Hussein sought uranium in Niger, and the subsequent outing of Plame by the White House, corroborate the Downing Street Memos' characterization that the facts and intelligence were being "fixed" to support a predetermined policy for war. Furthermore, it seems to show that the White House will stop at nothing when it comes to silencing its critics, not even jeopardizing national security by compromising a CIA working to prevent the spread of WMD.

[earthside]

5. Sick of Hearing About "Framing"

Democrats are being infected with 'framing paralysis' ... every issue that comes up has to be discussed in terms of 'framing' ... in the meantime, the radical Republicans have already run two or three laps ahead.

That being said, however, the point of the post is true!

The Plame leak was about discrediting Joseph Wilson who exposed one part of the Bush WMD lie.

The Rove scandal is really all about the Bushites absolute necessity to protect the WMD-Iraq lie.