The High Crime of Outing Plame: Simplified (+ cartoons)

[kpete]

The High Crime of Outing Plame: Simplified. Framed.
by BenGoshi

I believe simpliest is best. This will be simple:

1. In the summer of 2003 one-or-more higher-ups in the Bush Admin leaked the name of outed Valerie Plame (a CIA Operative tracking nuclear materials) as revenge for her husband, Joe Wilson, embarassing Bush on his (Bush's) erroneous claims lies about Iraq's attempts to obtain fissionable material from Niger.

2. Bush, over and over again, claimed that this was a reprehensible leak, that he'd ordered his staff to cooperate with the Justice Department in investigating it, and that he'd fire anyone involved. See great Deleware Dem resource Diary here.

3. We now find out, and the White House has not denied, that Bush himself was behind this crime.

4. This has nothing to do with "declassifying previously classified information", as Baghdad Scott or other Bushbots who are trying to muddy the waters would have us think.

5. All Democrats who go on radio and television should "get" and repeat these basic facts.

BenGoshi
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/9/113521/9014

[MadMaddie]

1. The cartoons are great...

Point 4 should be hammered home again and again....

It is never, ever in the interest of the countries need to know....to release the name of a CIA agent...Poppy * said this would be considered treason.....and he is right......

Impeach the bastards!!

[Trevelyan]

2. Excellent cartoons. The black and white drawing of the upsidedown * is a

powerful work of political art. Thank you.