Reply #14: Interesting light on Brewster-Jennings. I had assumed that it was just a [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

front as an energy company, and that Plame's identity as an energy consultant was also a front. But I guess they would have had to make the front realistic, and even engage in real business.

I think this article is attributing too much to Cheney's stress, and far to little to the growing evidence of a large scale conspiracy within the Bush regime, involving dozens of top officials, including Libby, Rove, Rice, Hannah, Hadley, Bolton, and others, the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans and even Rumsfeld, as well as characters like Michael Ladeen, Duane Clarridge, Larry Franklin and Harold Rhodes, and their dealings with Ahmad Chalabi and M. Ghorbanifar (the Iranian arms dealer). Apparently, Fitzgerald has requested an unredacted copy of the Italian Parliament's report on the meeting of Ladeen, Clarridge, Ghorbanifar, Franklin and Rhodes in Rome in December 2001, where the Niger forgeries were concocted.

Personally, what I think they were cooking up there was not just forged documents, but also a plot to plant WMDs in Iraq, for Judith Miller to "find". In this theory of Treasongate, the Niger forgeries were created, and the Niger allegation was planted in Bush's SOTU speech, in order to bait the CIA into taking a public position against there being nukes in Iraq, and then to trump the CIA and discredit them forever, when the planted WMDs were "found." This nefarious scheme was discovered and foiled--probably by Brewster-Jennings. And that is why the Bushites took such foolish risks--calling six reporters, for instance--in one week, in a panicky and precipitous effort to get Plame/BJ outed, disabled and silenced immediately. They feared exposure of their plot. (I think this is also why David Kelly, the Brits WMD expert, was killed four days after the Plame outing.)

That's the theory, and it's proving to be a pretty useful one (solves many mysteries in both the Plame and Kelly events). There are other theories about Treasongate, but in none of them does it come down to one person, or one decision. That just does not cover the facts.

Cheney's supposed medical ailments, and now, with this article, his "stress," cannot be trusted at this point, when they may be looking for a way to keep him out of jail (or use HIM as the fall guy, to protect Bush Jr. and limit exposures). I would put this article into a suspect category. Is this disinformation?