Re: Bush failing?

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Has anyone linked the "outing" of the Ambassador's wife as a CIA operative with the "outing" of Dr. Kelly by 10 Downing Street? Similarly disgusting tactics in one campaign?

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine




> -----Original Message-----
> From: k hanly [mailto:khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 8:35 AM
> To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Bush failing?
> 
> 
> Here is the libertarian's Justin Raimondo take on the affair.
> 
> Cheers, Ken Hanly
> http://www.antiwar.com/justin/jspecial100203.html
> 
> 
> Cheney Chief-of-Staff Named as Spy-gate Leaker
> by Justin Raimondo
> October 2, 2003
> 
> 
> 
> 
> MSNBC'S Buchanan & Press scored a major scoop on Wednesday, all but
> unmasking the high government official who "outed" a CIA 
> operative via a
> July 14 column by Robert Novak. Larry Johnson, a former CIA 
> analyst who
> worked with Valerie Plame, the reported agent, all but 
> identified "Scooter"
> Libby as the government official who outed her - and at least 
> one other in
> the Vice President's office.
> 
> Who is "Scooter" Libby?
> 
> He's the nexus of the neocon network in Washington, Vice 
> President Dick
> Cheney's chief of staff, and assistant to the President, 
> whose office is the
> operational nerve center of the War Party. It is Libby and 
> Cheney who made
> repeated trips to the CIA, pressuring them to accept tall 
> tales of Al Qaeda
> connections and assorted "weapons of mass destruction" 
> supposedly lurking in
> Baghdad - including the Niger-uranium yellowcake "evidence" 
> that Iraq had
> acquired fissionable material for a nuclear weapon.
> 
> The documents purportly proving the Niger-Iraq uranium 
> connection turned out
> to be a crude forgery.
> 
> Pressed by Pat Buchanan to name the leaker, Johnson refused 
> to deny it was
> Libby; he furthermore stated that the perpetrator was no stranger to
> "scandal."
> 
> As Marc Rich's longtime lawyer, and a key figure in procuring 
> the fugitive
> billionaire a presidential pardon, Lewis ""Scooter" Libby 
> surely fits the
> bill.
> 
> Johnson also rebutted widespread stories that Plame wasn't an 
> undercover
> intelligence officer. Clifford May, of the Foundation for the 
> Defense of
> Democracies, has said her status was an open secret, and that 
> she was an
> analyst whose life would not be placed in danger if her CIA 
> connection was
> revealed. Asked by Buchanan if Plame's work would have taken 
> her overseas,
> where compromising her CIA affiliation would put her in 
> physical danger,
> Johnson's answer was an emphatic yes. Furthermore, he 
> emphasized, her outing
> would put all her various overseas contacts in jeopardy.
> 
> !]
> 
> Justin Raimondo is Editorial Director of Antiwar.com and the 
> author, most
> recently, of An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard
> (Prometheus Books, 2000).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "andie nachgeborenen" <andie_nachgeborenen@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 12:54 AM
> Subject: Re: Bush failing?
> 
> 
> > Like with McCarthy -- all the awful shit he did, but
> > he went down when he attacked the Army. can't go after
> > the core imperialist institutions! Still, it is lovely
> > to see the bastards squirm. When Rove's head goes up
> > on a Bushie pike -- if the accusations tick, he's
> > gotta go -- I'm gonna cheer.
> >
> > jks
> >
> > --- Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > Does anybody know why, with all the terrible things
> > > the Bushits have done
> > > that the Joseph Wilson affair has gotten so much
> > > traction?
> > >
> > > Also, as I have mentioned before, the economy seems
> > > quite weird, with some
> > > positive signs, and other strong indications of
> > > stagnation.  I thought
> > > that Joanna's article about about the Ponzi economy
> > > seemed right on
> > > target, even though nobody commented on it.
> > >  --
> > > Michael Perelman
> > > Economics Department
> > > California State University
> > > Chico, CA 95929
> > >
> > > Tel. 530-898-5321
> > > E-Mail michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
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