Treasongate (Part VI): Response to GOP/Neocon talking points

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Treasongate (Part VI): Response to GOP/Neocon talking points on the Valerie Plame expose

http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/004870.php

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INTRODUCTION: The Bush White House, the GOP and their extended arms in the media have issued misleading and false talking points (example) to discredit Joseph Wilson, rather than take responsibility for illegally outing the covert identity of Wilson's CIA wife Valerie Plame Wilson - an act orchestrated and executed by senior Bush administration officials. This page provides a systematic rebuttal to the deceptive or fraudulent talking points on this topic, put out by conservative media, bloggers, GOP partisans and operatives of the Bush administration. I have relied here on my own work as well as on that of various reporters and bloggers. In a nutshell this issue is about one thing and one thing alone. The Bush administration, embarrassed by revelations that they misled and lied to Americans about the reasons to go to war with Iraq (especially on the uranium in Africa issue), exacted revenge on whistleblower Joseph Wilson by needlessly exposing his wife (and setting their dogs loose on her) and jeopardizing America's national security in the process.

Owing to the large amount of disinformation in circulation, I decided to break-down the debunking into the following sections.

I. VALERIE PLAME AND HER IDENTITY

II. JOSEPH WILSON'S TRIP TO NIGER, AND HIS SUBSEQUENT CLAIMS

III. KARL ROVE

IV. LEWIS LIBBY

V. BUSH ADMINISTRATION (outside of Rove and Libby)

VI. THE CRIME AND THE INVESTIGATION

VII. OTHER

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