Posted on 08/29/2006 5:53:58 PM PDT by Laverne
Plamegate: Patrick Fitzgerald's three-year manhunt to track down who blew Valerie Plame's CIA "cover" has been exposed as a costly sham. He apparently knew all along that his man was not Scooter Libby. ...
But it's hard to see anything but politics as the motivation for Fitzgerald's handling of the Plame affair. The facts indicate that Fitzgerald knew early on that the original leaker was State Department official Richard Armitage. So why did Fitzgerald let a cloud hang over White House adviser Karl Rove's head for so long? And why is Fitzgerald continuing to hound Libby, the former vice presidential chief of staff?
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
Better yet.... Rove-Snow '08
<< ... where does one go to when America is lost?? >>
Go to Australia.
Australia is Mankind's new last hope.
Really....Australia??? Sad to have to go halfway round the globe to find a decent country.
<< Sad to have to go halfway round the globe to find a decent country. >>
Sad, indeed. And especially as I effectively gave up my Aussie Citizenship and emigrated from out there (born in New Zealand) TO the US. But the Aussies and their government (although that, comprised of economics illiterates and a truly awful and all-powerful permanent bureaucracy, is still only a government) are for the most part doing it Right!
And Australia is a beautiful country. Big as the US and only twenty million (majority, gutsy) people.
BUMPping
Meanwhile, Fitzgerald refused to reveal to the public the true source. From top to bottom, this has been one of the most disgraceful abuses of prosecutorial power in this country's history. That it's taking place at a time of war only magnifies its sordidness.
Hard to argue with that.
Thanks.
Bump!
It seems to me that Fitzgerald needs to be investigated, and the Justice Department would be entirely within its jurisdiction to do so. Are their any Republicans in Congress with the spine to take the floor and demand that Fitzgerald be investigated?
You just cannot MAKE this stuff up.....
Kerry Exploring Cabinet Options
An excerpt:
Remember...all of the players involved worked for the Kerry campaign. Could Armitage have sold his soul for a potential Cabinet position? Powell and Armitage were definitely not team players:A dark-horse candidate for defense, some said, is Richard L. Armitage, Bush's second in command at the State Department.
Baring one of Washington's worst-kept secret, Secretary of State Colin Powell's deputy said he and Powell sometimes went public with their dissenting views to try to influence Bush administration policy.
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