|
It wasn't the elections or the war, I'm pretty sure of that. Re: elections, when does the Bush Junta give a fuck about what the American people think? They don't--ever. Re: the war. Anything changed? Nope.
So what was it?
If you think a bit about the issues BEHIND the Libby trial--the Niger forgeries (Pentagon connections likely behind them), and the Junta effort to circumvent the honest professionals at the CIA, by, among other things, Rumsfeld creating the Office of Special Plans in the Pentagon (for cooking the intel)--you gotta wonder what ELSE these criminals were up to, and who had the most direct operational oversight with regard to intelligence, cooking intelligence, "hunting" for the WMDs, torture, rendition, Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, and....? My guess: attempting to PLANT nukes in Iraq, to be "found" by US troops who were "hunting" for them. And IF that is what Rumsfeld was up to, the main bar to that nefarious scheme would be the CIA's international Brewster-Jennings WMD counter-proliferation network, headed by Valerie Plame. It was their JOB to detect and prevent illicit WMD movement.
I can see that Fitzgerald is building a case against Cheney and a case for conspiracy, but that conspiracy--on the political end of things--may be the last line of defense against exposure of the REAL or PRIMARY reason that Plame and B/J were outed--to cover up not just the cooking of intel, but the manufacture of evidence to support the phony intel. And both of these things (cooking intel/manufacturing evidence) would be Rumsfeld's bailiwick.
There's a memo in which Cheney says they shouldn't blame the outing* on one guy (presumably Libby) because of the "incompetence of others." Who could he mean? Could be the "incompetence" of the other outers of Plame. But it could be something else--the "incompetence" of those who couldn't get the WMDs planted in Iraq. That is, Rumsfeld's incompetence--or the incompetence of all those shady characters that the Pentagon was funding or had contact with (--people like bank felon and known liar Chalabi, notorious Iran/Contra arms dealer and known liar Ghorbanifar, and rabid NeoCons like Michael Ladeen).
----------
*(Many of us make the mistake of thinking in terms of one outing--that of Plame, on 7/14/03. But there were TWO outings--the first of Plame, and then an ADDITIONAL outing, of the entire B/J network, on 7/22/03. So, if foreign bad guys hadn't connected the dots between Plame and covert US counter-proliferation people in their own country, they got extra help by being told, in the newspaper, that Brewster-Jennings was the front company. Thus, all of our deep cover agents/contacts in foreign countries were put in peril of their lives, and all of their efforts to prevent WMD proliferation were disabled. A related theory of Traitorgate has to do with what happened between July 14 and July 22--the highly suspicious death of the Brits WMD expert and whistleblower David Kelly, on July 17. His office and computers were searched. THEN B/J was outed. I suspect that the "dark matter" that Judith Miller didn't want to testify about--re her meeting with Libby--may have had to do with Kelly, an old colleague of Miller's, and the one to whom he wrote his last email, on the day he died, in which he expressed concern about the "many dark actors playing games." (Yup, Kelly wrote this to Judith Miller, on the day he died. He was found the next day, near his home, outdoors under a tree, supposedly having slit one wrist (minor artery) and bled to death all night, in the rain. Note: Kelly was a scientist--and a very good one, from all reports.) My suspicion is that Kelly knew something about a scheme to plant WMDs in Iraq, and was killed because of what he knew. (He had been outed to his bosses, interrogated at a "safe house," and threatened with the "Official Secrets Act," in the week leading up to the Plame outing, July 1-7. He had begun whistleblowing anonymously to the BBC, about the "sexed up" pre-war WMD intel, in late May.) The Miller/Libby meeting content was a big issue between Miller and Fitzgerald, and I believe that he agreed, finally, to let her testify only to the parts of the meeting that pertained to national security leaks and Wilson/Plame. What is she hiding? Does the "dark matter" (my term) that she does not want to be questioned about have anything to do with the "dark actors playing games" that Kelly was worried about, hours before his suspicious death? And if Libby, Miller and the entire top level of the Bush regime was worried about insider WMD whistleblowers in the US--Wilson, Plame--wouldn't they be equally worried about WMD whistleblowers in the UK, which was in cahoots with the Bush Junta on cooking WMD intel? It seems like it would be a logical thing to come up, in the Libby-Miller meeting in mid-June--with all hell breaking loose in England at the same time, over Miller's old friend Kelly and his BBC whistleblowing.)
|
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
