Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Leak Link to Cheney Deepens the Abuse of Power

From Boston Globe: The news that Cheney’s chief of staff (Scooter Libby) was the 2nd possible source in the leaking of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame to Time magazine elevates the scandal to a whole new level. It is bad enough for Karl Rove to be accused of being a leaker, since he is President Bush’s chief political strategist. But if Time’s story holds, Libby’s involvement represents an even more insidious abuse of power. Colin Powell gave a grand presentation 6 wks before the war to the UN where he said, ‘‘every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions.’’ Virtually all of Powell’s solid sources fell apart when the US turned Iraq upside down, killing 1000s of Iraqis in the process. But he could have looked much worse had he listened to everything Libby & Cheney tried to feed him. It was Cheney’s staff who wrote the 1st draft of Powell’s UN speech. Powell, according to both US News & Vanity Fair, was so irritated by Libby’s hodgepodge of unsubstantiated facts that he threw documents into the air and said, ‘‘I’m not reading this. This is bullshit."... Truer words have never been spoken. And all of this info begs this question: Who forged the Italian documents on Niger & yellowcake? Hmm, could a Big Dick be involved in the forgeries? Is there a Cheney/Plame connection? You betcha & yet Powell keeps up w/the ass kissing.
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