we can only hope 
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
"SCOOTER" INDICTMENT MAY BE PART OF WHITE HOUSE STRATEGY
When Patrick Fitzgerald presented the indictment of Lewis "Scooter" Libby last week he expressed the wish that witnesses had testified when subpoenas were issued in August 2004, and "we would have been here in October 2004 instead of October 2005."
Well, October 2004 would have been before the presidential election. As Fitzgerald put it had Libby not "thrown sand in the eyes of the prosecutors" the investigation would not have been dragged out.
So Libby pretty much falls on his sword. He lies, knowing what the consequences might be, but as long as he claims that journalists were spreading Plame's name, he knew that news organizations would resist having reporters testify. So the journalistic shield becomes Bush's shield of the coverup. Strategically genius evil.
So here we are in November 2005 and concern over the cat being out of the bag Bush nominates another controversial candidate to the Supreme Court in Judge Samuel Alito. So now he "unites his base" and distracts attention from the Fitzgerald investigation . . . at least temporarily. But with their playbook of terror alerts, avian flu and anything else they can use to scare and draw attention away from their troubles, they just pull another deceptive play out of that playbook.
This administration needs to come clean on this issue, which I have low-hopes that it will happen. Cheney is in this up to his eyeballs. It is inconceivable that someone as careful and loyal as Libby is just a "loose cannon".
Fitzgerald has made clear that he wants to keep this case going if doing so will bring us closer to the truth. Lawyers not involved in the case suggest that the indictment was written in a way that could encourage Libby, facing up to 30 years in prison, to cooperate in that effort.
Of course there's a hitch. If Libby knows that at the end of Bush's term he will receive an unconditional pardon, he'll have no interest in helping Fitzgerald and every interest in shutting up. Bush needs to be pushed to announce that he will not pardon Libby so Fitzgerald can finish his work unimpeded otherwise we will be a country of duped dopes like we were for the past two elections, the war, tax cuts, etc., etc., etc.
Well, October 2004 would have been before the presidential election. As Fitzgerald put it had Libby not "thrown sand in the eyes of the prosecutors" the investigation would not have been dragged out.
So Libby pretty much falls on his sword. He lies, knowing what the consequences might be, but as long as he claims that journalists were spreading Plame's name, he knew that news organizations would resist having reporters testify. So the journalistic shield becomes Bush's shield of the coverup. Strategically genius evil.
So here we are in November 2005 and concern over the cat being out of the bag Bush nominates another controversial candidate to the Supreme Court in Judge Samuel Alito. So now he "unites his base" and distracts attention from the Fitzgerald investigation . . . at least temporarily. But with their playbook of terror alerts, avian flu and anything else they can use to scare and draw attention away from their troubles, they just pull another deceptive play out of that playbook.
This administration needs to come clean on this issue, which I have low-hopes that it will happen. Cheney is in this up to his eyeballs. It is inconceivable that someone as careful and loyal as Libby is just a "loose cannon".
Fitzgerald has made clear that he wants to keep this case going if doing so will bring us closer to the truth. Lawyers not involved in the case suggest that the indictment was written in a way that could encourage Libby, facing up to 30 years in prison, to cooperate in that effort.
Of course there's a hitch. If Libby knows that at the end of Bush's term he will receive an unconditional pardon, he'll have no interest in helping Fitzgerald and every interest in shutting up. Bush needs to be pushed to announce that he will not pardon Libby so Fitzgerald can finish his work unimpeded otherwise we will be a country of duped dopes like we were for the past two elections, the war, tax cuts, etc., etc., etc.
Monday, October 31, 2005
HOW CAN WE AFFORD THESE TAX CUTS, SUBSIDIES FOR BIG OIL AND THAT DAMN WAR?
The House Agriculture Committee approved budget cuts Friday that would take food stamps away from an estimated 300,000 people and could cut off school lunches and breakfasts for 40,000 children. Hey, it's a start.
Sunday, October 30, 2005
"SCOOTER'S" WHEELS COMING OFF . . . COULD "TURD BLOSSOM" BE NEXT?
I must admit that I expected more indictments on Friday, but if justice has to happen in small portions I'll wait.
Libby was indicted by a federal grand jury on five counts -- one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury and two counts of making false statements in special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation of the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name. On "Meet the Press" last Sunday Texas Senator Kay Bailey anticipated what the indictments might be for said, "If there is going to be an indictment, it is an indictment on a crime and not just some perjury technicality where . . . just to show that their two years of investigation was not a waaste of time and taxpayer dollars." Hmmm, what got Clinton impeached?
Yet the right and it's voice "Fox News" looks at this as no-big-deal, they got him on a technicality, and the new mantra "the criminalization of politics". That mantra was played so many times on Fox News, that Bill Maher showed a montage of video on his show that pokes fun at the new mantra. Click here to see video. http://movies.crooksandliars.com/RT-ThinkPrrogress-.mov
Anyway, I can't imagine that "Scooter" is the only one going down. There are too many dots to be connected and too many directions that this investigation should lead to. We can't survive 3 more years of this. I do believe that "turd blossom", Bush's nickname for Rove, will be the next indicted. But only time will tell.
Libby was indicted by a federal grand jury on five counts -- one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury and two counts of making false statements in special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation of the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name. On "Meet the Press" last Sunday Texas Senator Kay Bailey anticipated what the indictments might be for said, "If there is going to be an indictment, it is an indictment on a crime and not just some perjury technicality where . . . just to show that their two years of investigation was not a waaste of time and taxpayer dollars." Hmmm, what got Clinton impeached?
Yet the right and it's voice "Fox News" looks at this as no-big-deal, they got him on a technicality, and the new mantra "the criminalization of politics". That mantra was played so many times on Fox News, that Bill Maher showed a montage of video on his show that pokes fun at the new mantra. Click here to see video. http://movies.crooksandliars.com/RT-ThinkPrrogress-.mov
Anyway, I can't imagine that "Scooter" is the only one going down. There are too many dots to be connected and too many directions that this investigation should lead to. We can't survive 3 more years of this. I do believe that "turd blossom", Bush's nickname for Rove, will be the next indicted. But only time will tell.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
FITZGERALD OPENS A WEB SITE
Patrick Fitzgerald, special counsel, has started a web site a couple of days ago. I think this could be a very interesting site over the next few days. To access it click on link below.
Monday, October 24, 2005
WHAT IS HE BUILDING IN THERE?
Patrick Fitzgerald is about to reveal what he is building in there. Evidence of widespread wrongdoing and conspiracy is available to every American with a cheap laptop and a cable subscription. If we have those building blocks, imagine the evidence that Fitzgerals must have.
What we know -- someone created fake documents related to Niger and Iraq and used them as a false pretense for us to invade Iraq. And when Joe Wilson made an honest effort to find out the facts, a plan was hatched to discredit and punish him by revealing the identity of his undercover CIA agent wife, Valerie Plame.
By comparison, Watergate was a child's game. Patrick Fitzgerald is on the most important criminal case in American history. His prosecutorial authority in this case is not constrained by any regulation. If his connecting the dots leads to something greater, Fitzgerald has the power to follow the dots wherever they may lead. Hopefully he's uncovering evidence that Karl Rove launched a covert operation to create forged documents, then when Wilson started to uncover the operation he was punished by the outing of his wife. Patrick Fitzgerald's legacy may be that he saved the American people from the people they elected.
Fitzgerald has reportedly asked for a copy of the Italian government's investigation into the break-in of the Niger embassy in Rome and the source of the forged documents.
According to James Moore, who has been covering Karl Rove for the past 25 years said:
"I have seen the spawn of Rove's tortured mind and watched a hundred of his political scams unfold and I am confident I know how this one played out. Rove might have brought it up with his fellow big brains in the White House Iraq Group, a propaganda organization set up to disseminate information supporting the war. There was likely a consensus to move the plan to smack down Wilson out of the White House. Rove always keeps a layer of operatives between himself and the person he gets to pull the trigger. Libby was probably told to manage it out of the VP's office to protect the president because Karl always takes care of his most prized assets. Libby then likely ordered John Hannah and possibly David Wurmser to call the ever-friendly Judy Miller at The New York Times and columnist Robert Novak to give them Valerie Plame's identity.Rove knew that Miller would call Libby of Aspen for confirmation and his old friend Novak was certain to call Rove who, as an unidentified senior White House official, would confirm the identity on background only. Because Novak is a partisan gunslinger, he wrote more quickly than Miller and when she saww the firestorm his story created, she backed of and has since been trying to cover for herself and Libby. Miller's later claim that she cannot remember who gave her the "Valerie Flame" name is as much dissembling as Rove's unconvincing argument that he "forgot" he met with Time reporter Matt Cooper. Karl Rove can remember precinct results from 19th-century presidential elections. He neither fogets nor forgives."
I don't think the administration saw this coming and I think they made many mistakes. Fitzgerald, who took over after John Ashcroft recused himself from the case, is a much sharper and competent special counsel than this administration was ready for. Fitzgerald's greatest weapon is the law. And he seems to know how to use it. If anyone can get our country back he's "THE MAN".
What we know -- someone created fake documents related to Niger and Iraq and used them as a false pretense for us to invade Iraq. And when Joe Wilson made an honest effort to find out the facts, a plan was hatched to discredit and punish him by revealing the identity of his undercover CIA agent wife, Valerie Plame.
By comparison, Watergate was a child's game. Patrick Fitzgerald is on the most important criminal case in American history. His prosecutorial authority in this case is not constrained by any regulation. If his connecting the dots leads to something greater, Fitzgerald has the power to follow the dots wherever they may lead. Hopefully he's uncovering evidence that Karl Rove launched a covert operation to create forged documents, then when Wilson started to uncover the operation he was punished by the outing of his wife. Patrick Fitzgerald's legacy may be that he saved the American people from the people they elected.
Fitzgerald has reportedly asked for a copy of the Italian government's investigation into the break-in of the Niger embassy in Rome and the source of the forged documents.
According to James Moore, who has been covering Karl Rove for the past 25 years said:
"I have seen the spawn of Rove's tortured mind and watched a hundred of his political scams unfold and I am confident I know how this one played out. Rove might have brought it up with his fellow big brains in the White House Iraq Group, a propaganda organization set up to disseminate information supporting the war. There was likely a consensus to move the plan to smack down Wilson out of the White House. Rove always keeps a layer of operatives between himself and the person he gets to pull the trigger. Libby was probably told to manage it out of the VP's office to protect the president because Karl always takes care of his most prized assets. Libby then likely ordered John Hannah and possibly David Wurmser to call the ever-friendly Judy Miller at The New York Times and columnist Robert Novak to give them Valerie Plame's identity.Rove knew that Miller would call Libby of Aspen for confirmation and his old friend Novak was certain to call Rove who, as an unidentified senior White House official, would confirm the identity on background only. Because Novak is a partisan gunslinger, he wrote more quickly than Miller and when she saww the firestorm his story created, she backed of and has since been trying to cover for herself and Libby. Miller's later claim that she cannot remember who gave her the "Valerie Flame" name is as much dissembling as Rove's unconvincing argument that he "forgot" he met with Time reporter Matt Cooper. Karl Rove can remember precinct results from 19th-century presidential elections. He neither fogets nor forgives."
I don't think the administration saw this coming and I think they made many mistakes. Fitzgerald, who took over after John Ashcroft recused himself from the case, is a much sharper and competent special counsel than this administration was ready for. Fitzgerald's greatest weapon is the law. And he seems to know how to use it. If anyone can get our country back he's "THE MAN".
Sunday, October 23, 2005
GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK
I saw a film today that parallels to days events 50 some odd years ago. a must see. click to view trailser.
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