Leaker is a Martian with a voice imitator

"Leakergate" and the FBI

Briefly, remember how recently the media went crazy about the Clinton impeachment? Early on I read moderate sources saying that although the GOP House came up with their articles that Republic Senator Leader, at that time Trent Lott, would rapidly throw the foolish escapade to a screeching halt-which he did. Why did the media cover something that they knew was going to be discarded as a farce? It was solely for the political gain of the GOP. See the pattern?

Last night I heard that the CIA asked for the Justice Department to probe the leak as an act of defiance to the Bush team. Supposedly Tenet held a grudge for being blamed by Dubya’s men first for the “16 words”.

Don’t believe it. Rove had to know that soon the Democrats would start getting restless about this act of treachery, so they had Tenet go through the motions of involving Ashcroft’s Justice Department. Not a thug in Dubya’s team, who pledged, “he would return honor and dignity to the White House”, possesses a shred of human dignity.

The first thing that happened is that Tenet’s CIA had to fill in the FBI about this. The CIA's internal investigation concluded that laws were broken or that there was sufficient evidence of wrong-doing for a criminal investigation to be undertaken. The decision on whether to task the FBI with investigating the White House is now in hands of John Ashcroft.

The Dubya cover-up, of which their attempt to coerce us into letting the Justice Department appointees investigate this—code word for do nothing until it is forgotten, is only beginning. The first salvo in this is still in progress. Democrats are attempting to get the Justice Department's inspector general, or anything other than Ashcroft, who has connections to both Rove and Bush 43. Dubya will stonewall and claim executive privilege, as long as it gets current mess past next year’s election.

If the FBI comes up with an answer different than the CIA’s, then who do we believe? Any sentient being wouldn’t believe either, given their recent past histories!

Hasn’t there recently been some flap about the lack of cooperation between these two intelligence agencies?

Remember Tenet gladly offered himself up as the first of three guys to fall on the sword for Dubya’s “16 words”? He is probably getting a little something on the side for Dubya’s Iraq war from Cheney’s Halliburton. These GOP blue-blooded, cold-hearted thugs have long standing relationships with each other, but it takes money for them to stick together in a lie.

He will follow his pattern and you can bet his men in blue told the FBI that the perpetrator of this is someone who can never be tracked down. He has already tarnished his credibility so a report, in typically bureaucratic jargon, with the conclusion, “Maybe the leaker is a Martian with a spacecraft and a voice imitating machine that makes him sound like Rove” would sound perfect to him. In any case, he’ll lead them down so many wrong alleys and give them theories definitely diametrically opposed to the truth, just as a matter of principle, in this long standing duel of unintelligent intelligence agencies.

Remember how well Ashcroft’s FBI boys did in the Anthrax case? The new head of it, Mr. Mason, says it is troubling that Dr. Hatfill was publicly labeled “a person of interest: in it. He also allowed that “The anthrax investigation has been beset by a number of leaks”. Dr. Hatfill has filed a lawsuit against Ashcroft and his FBI. In a few months, some poor Democrat will be named as the leaker, and that person will have a chance to file a lawsuit against Ashcroft and his FBI, if the Democrats don’t succeed in getting Ashcroft to appoint an inspector general, operating independently of Dubya’s regime.

"Bush has no plans to ask his staff members whether they played a role in revealing" her name. Richard A. Gephardt (Mo.) called it "a natural conflict of interest" for Justice Department appointees to investigate their superiors, and said congressional committees should step in to try to determine what happened.

Former Vermont governor Howard Dean said Attorney General John D. Ashcroft should play no role in the investigation and should turn it over to the Justice Department's inspector general, who operates independently of political appointees. "President Bush came into office promising to bring honor and integrity to the White House," Dean said. "It's time for accountability."

There is some history here. In a January 2003 feature for Esquire, Ron Suskind wrote: "Sources close to [George Bush Sr.] say Karl Rove was fired from the 1992 Bush presidential campaign after he planted a negative story with columnist Robert Novak about dissatisfaction with campaign fundraising chief and Bush loyalist Robert Mosbacher Jr. It was smoked out, and he was summarily ousted."

There are rumors swirling that the reporters other than Novak, who received calls are claiming privately that Karl Rove was involved.

Isn’t it encouraging that Dubya told his marching in lock-step operatives to cooperate? Ashcroft’s department notified the counsel's office about 8:30 p.m. Monday that it was launching an investigation but said the White House could wait until the next morning to notify staff and direct them to preserve relevant material.

That means “Kenny boy” gets a part-time job in teaching them to shred evidence quickly. Since when does the Justice Department give people a several-hours head start to destroy evidence before an investigation begins? It would happen in Nazi Germany, but not in the land of the free and home of the brave. Dubya has even taken our national pride away with his constant evil!

The irony of Dubya’s reign of terror is just too stunning. Every blessed soul in the world knows that Rove jump-started this Iraq war as a tool to get Dubya’s men into office in the 2002 mid-term election. Now, the amoral master politician is being accused of leaking the name of the decent man’s wife, because Wilson had the nerve to speak out. Wilson truthfully told the world that he had presented this awful group of crooks with information that would slow down their idiotic Iraq war.

Cheney saw this as a crimp in his plans to rape and pillage a defenseless country, so someone, out of a huge cadre of cold-hearted killers, had to get retribution against Wilson. By doing so they would scare off other people who can see that this is a regime that perform “Shock and Awe” destruction against everyone including us.

In a land in which words match action, then der Fuerher, big brother 43 would say, “I’m a uniter, not a divider, so since someone in the staff that I’m in charge of committed a crime, according to the CIA internal finding, then we all, including myself, resign immediately. My moral clarity sees no other solution”.

b. connors