I don't think this particular idea will make it out this weekend, but it's starting to bubble out there.
Bush Neocons: Going After Fifth Columnists (uruknet.info, Italy)
... Nonetheless, paranoids such as David Horowitz have managed to infect influential Congress critters such as Lindsey Graham, Republican from South Carolina, heir apparent of the reactionary reptile Strom Thurmond, and member of the Armed Services and Judiciary committees in the Senate. Earlier this month, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing "on Wartime Executive Power and the National Security Agency’s Surveillance Authority," Graham, in an exchange with AG Alberto Gonzales, declared "the administration has not only the right, but the duty, in my opinion, to pursue fifth column movements" and "I stand by this president’s ability, inherent to being commander in chief, to find out about fifth column movements, and I don’t think you need a warrant to do that." ...
The same theme is covered in Bush's Mysterious 'New Programs'
I bumped into a slew of news and blog posts that are casting Stephen Hadley as a central character in some very bizarre plots. Here are some examples:
Gonzales Withholding Plame Emails (OpEdNews.com) (the site pushes the idea that the WTC collapse was a "controlled explosion")
Sources close to the investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson have revealed this week that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has not turned over emails to the special prosecutor's office that may incriminate Vice President Dick Cheney, his aides, and other White House officials who allegedly played an active role in unmasking Plame Wilson's identity to reporters....
Cheney Spearheaded Effort To Discredit Wilson (CounterCurrents.org, India)
Vice President Dick Cheney and then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley led a campaign beginning in March 2003 to discredit former Ambassador ...
Fitzgerald Probes Niger Forgeries (CounterPunch, CA)
... to federal investigators, perjury, and obstruction of justice related to his role in the Plame leak - National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, and Cheney had ...
Dick Cheney Is Not Above The Law (Yahoo! News)
... Stephen Hadley and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove to determine what information the White House should leak to the press in order to gain support ...
White House e-mails missing in CIA name case (MSNBC)
According to Newsweek, Rove wrote Hadley in the e-mail that Cooper pushed him on whether President Bush was being hurt by the Niger controversy. “I didn't take the bait,” Rove wrote, adding that he told Cooper not to get “far out in front on this.” ... Why didn't the Rove e-mail surface earlier? It’s not clear. But Luskin tells NBC News that “any suggestion that what Fitzgerald is identifying has any relation to the Hadley e-mail is speculation.”
That last is an oldie but a goodie, dating back to the Libby indictment, but it sets the stage for all the rest. That's why I think Hadley will be the subject of some direct, personal, attacks. They'll try to get past any questions about the details of the port deal and launch directly into "when will you stop illegal leaks and illegal wiretapping and endangering our security you reckless evil martinet?"
Thanks for the links. Like minds, and all that. I knew it wasn't just me getting this stuff.
Part of this is our own fault. Nature abhors a vacuum and we've allowed one to creep in as the media is splitting Republicans into neo-cons, paleo-cons, classical conservatives, etc. All this versus a united front from Democrats, which is a lie in itself.
It must be driving the left nuts to have "one" indictment (Scotter Libby), which is of questionable illegality, compared to all the Democrats who were indicted and convicted under Clinton. It kind of turns the "culture of corruption" claim on its head.