Let's not forget the reason (we were told at the time) that we went to war in Iraq (a war which, as of today, has taken the lives of 1,936 US troopers, plus other allied troopers, plus thousands of Iraqis) was precisely to find and limit the spread of weapons of mass destruction.

Oh -- and Osama "Wanted Dead or Alive" bin Laden is still free, still doing what he can to harm us, and probably getting a good chuckle out of "Mission Accomplished."

But a new theory about Fitzgerald's aim has emerged in recent weeks from two lawyers who have had extensive conversations with the prosecutor while representing witnesses in the case. They surmise that Fitzgerald is considering whether he can bring charges of a criminal conspiracy perpetrated by a group of senior Bush administration officials. Under this legal tactic, Fitzgerald would attempt to establish that at least two or more officials agreed to take affirmative steps to discredit and retaliate against Wilson and leak sensitive government information about his wife. To prove a criminal conspiracy, the actions need not have been criminal, but conspirators must have had a criminal purpose.

"Source to Stephanopoulos: President Bush Directly Involved In Leak Scandal"

Can you say "impeachment" boys and girls?

I -knew- you could.

IIRC, and if this is true, Bush and Cheney are traitors and have committed treason.

It's going to take awhile to get my mind around this one.

Oh, and Nixon served in WWII... he didn't get his ass protected in a plush prestigious air defense fighter Guard Wing full of politician's pampered brats with the only "threat" near them being some strayed private pilot gone off course from flight plan (that was long before suicide bomber hijackings in the USA).

I feel that the difference between this regine and Nixon's is that Nixon knew he was doing wrong and tried to cover it up (image of cat trying to bury a no-no on a bare wood floor). The current crowd sees nothing wrong with anything they're doing, and therefore are doing all their helping-out-their-good-buddyism right out in the light of day. They are the Chosen, and by definition the Chosen can do no wrong.

Nehemiah Scudder lives.

A driver is stuck in a traffic jam on the highway. Nothing is moving. Suddenly a man knocks on the window.

The driver rolls down her window. "What's going on?"

"Terrorists have kidnapped President Bush. They want a ten million dollar ransom, otherwise they're going to drench him in gasoline and set him on fire. We're going car-to-car to take up a collection."

"How much are people giving?" the woman asks.

"About a gallon each."

Oh, really?
(very small sound of cheers)

Reporter turns over notes in CIA leak case
Fri Oct 7, 2005 7:31 PM ET

By Adam Entous

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A New York Times reporter has given investigators notes from a conversation she had with a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney weeks earlier than was previously known, suggesting White House involvement started well before the outing of a CIA operative, legal sources said...

One of the measures of people is the people they choose to have around them. Rove and Libby in what the indications have the stronger and stronger stink of conspiracy to violate federal law and implementing violation outing Valerie Plame, are examples of people apparently chosen and kept as the closest of advisors, whose level of corruption and disdain for the law, make a mockery of open and honest and law-abiding governance. Rove is Bush's close advisor, Libby is Cheney's. Both could have been jettisoned months ago, instead of the Whitehouse mouthpieces proclaiming their value and in-essence integrity etc. etc. etc.

The appearance of gross impropriety and gross misjudgment and obstruction of justice and failing to put persons under clouds of suspicion aside from day to day government operations is there:

That is, if the CEO and VP of a company have staff members suspected of breaking the law and being named in investigations for federal law breaking, how long does the Board of Directors leave the CEo and VP in place, when they keep the strongly-suspected-of-breaking-the-law executives in place and proclaim them wonderful important key personnel and assistants?

Libby and Rove, in my view based on what I am aware of, have less virtue than the sons of Haman (Jewish religious traditions have some rather, uh, spiteful, ways of indicating disapproval, the most blatant are in regard to Haman and his sons--with the former, little kids get to take "noisemakers" -- metal toys with metal gerating that when swung make loud nasty metal grinding noises--when arriving for the Passover service in synagogues/temples, to set swinging every time the name "Haman" gets said/chanted by the rabbi or cantor, to drown out Haman's name. Regarding the ten sons, the rabbi or cantor takes a deep breath before voicing their names, "because among them they're not worth even a full breath."

Anyway, Rove and Libby as Rove and Libby are not worthy of respect as -people-. They're two-footed overgrown over-privileged protected diseased-meme-spreading vermin. But the are principles involved in the concept of free presses (...) and the untrammeled flow of information in a free (...) society, along with concepts of however despicable someone might be, the presumption is innocent until proven guilty, the arrest demands a warrant first, search and seizure requires a warrant or justifiable grounds such as breaking traffic laws egregiously or suspicious of being drunk or drugged and driving to endanger posing the immediate threat of harming others if left to continue driving on the roads, etc.

In those respects, reporters maintaining confidentiality for their sources (that is, not telling the feddies who their sources are), are in a microcosm the reflection of rights embedded in the Bill of Rights, for freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and the right to remain silent in the face of a government that may be/may have turned tyrannical.

So the principle is that no matter how saintly or vile a source may be, revealing that source without permisson of the source to Authorities, is a breach of honor and a violation of the spirit of the Declaratation of Independence, the US Constitution, and the US Bill of Right.

I have my doubts, however, about the honor of the reporter, given her position as a willing mouthpiece for the Misadministration. That is, I have major doubts about her being a reporter of a "free press," as opposed to a willing, paid, eager, and partisan-not-anything-approaching-impartial-or-unbiased-or-interested-in-honest-reporting propaganda disseminator and shill.