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From the "Paper Of Treason," the New York Times [with interpolations]: New Questions About Inquiry in C.I.A. Leak[In fact, there is nothing new in the information presented. The prosecution and probably our elite one party media, including the New York Times, have known all of this for three years.]By DAVID JOHNSTONSeptember 2, 2006[After three years of sitting on the truth of this story, the NYT publishes it on the day of the week the fewest people read the paper, and on the last holiday weekend of summer.]WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 — An enduring mystery of the C.I.A. leak case has been...

Draw your own conclusions from the fact that Armitage’s best friend Colin Powell called Dick Cheney’s supporters (including Scooter Libby, Doug Feith and Paul Wolfowitz) the “Gestapo Office” (quite insulting considering that there is a history of relatives lost in the Holocaust among them). Factor in that Powell called Doug Feith “a card-carrying member of the Likud Party” and referred to the Likudnicks in the White House controlling policy during his “exit interview with Bush” (see Assassin’s Gate: America in Iraq) – thereby showing his support for anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists.

Has a Washington scandal ever ended with a more anti-climactic splat than the Valerie Plame/Joe Wilson affair? This week it was at last fully and finally confirmed that it was former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage who had leaked the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame. Put like that, the story sounds pretty bare. So let me put it another way. Imagine that Ken Starr's investigation had concluded that Monica Lewinsky had made the whole thing up -- and that it was established beyond all possible doubt that at the very moment Monica claimed she was experiencing ecstasy in...