The Vanishing PlameGate Story and “Rove’s Role”

[kerrygoddess]

The Vanishing PlameGate Story and “Rove’s Role”
August 27th, 2005

The Robert’s nomination and Bush’s extended Crawford vacation complete with the Cindy Sheehan sideshow, has taken the PlameGate story off the charts for a time.

Not that the Robert’s nomination doesn’t deserve attention. Or for that matter, that Cindy Sheehan’s wonderful hijacking of Bush’s precious vaction isn’t the most glorious thing to happen to the anti-war movement to date, but sometime soon, we should expect to get back to the Plamegate affair… so the Boston Globe tells us in a brilliant editorial in the Sunday Globe: Rove’s Role.

A search in LexisNexis “reveals 1,944 stories mentioning Rove in the week prior to the nomination, dropping to 1,111 during the week after. Now, with Bush in Crawford for a prolonged vacation, the story has nearly disappeared — only 169 references in a late-August week.”

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http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=368

[Peggy Day]

1. I was just thinking about this

And hoping that Patrick Fitzgerald is strong enough and has the integrity that we need, and his new boss isn't a nightmare. We are hanging by a thread. Every where I look, it's something else bad. I sure hope that they get one and all of the crooks that are bringing down our country.

Don't mean to sound so down, maybe tomorrow will look better.
At least I'm not the only one that thinks like this, and that they haven't screwed up the internet yet. Also, there are inklings that people either have started listening to the "conspiracy theorists", or started to pay attention.

[countmyvote4real]

6. Patience. We'll get our Trifecta when the indictments come in

I am also disturbed that the DSM has not received the attention that it deserved in the MSM, but it is there on record. And it’s referenced by Cindy Sheehan every time she is interviewed. Even if some news outlets edit that out, others let it slide.

Picture the * administration as a festering boil. (That’s not hard for me.) It will all be lanced when it comes to a “head.” And I promise that it won’t be pretty. All neo-cons and dinos will be in denial.

In the meantime, Cindy Sheehan and the anit-war movement are a hot compress that is sure bring the * BS to a head and spill it out.

Mercans love that sutf.

[discopants]

2. LA Times 8/25 Front Page

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-na-leak25aug25,1,2643475.story

Front page, continued onto a 2-page spread. I was quite impressed. A detailed timeline, many photos... setting the stage for Fitzgerald's findings


A CIA Cover Blown, a White House Exposed
By Tom Hamburger and Sonni Efron, Times Staff Writers

WASHINGTON — Toward the end of a steamy summer week in 2003, reporters were peppering the White House with phone calls and e-mails, looking for someone to defend the administration's claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

About to emerge as a key critic was Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former diplomat who asserted that the administration had manipulated intelligence to justify the Iraq invasion.

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[kerrygoddess]

4. Awesome coverage...

Great timeline expose of the whole affair.

[discopants]

9. CNN's "Dead Wrong"

Played twice on Saturday... I hope lots of people saw this. It puts Wilson's Niger Yellowcake report in proper context.

[snot]

3. I AGREE. Been wondering if

we're going to have to wait for revelations from Fitzpatrick to hear more about this story generally--I hope not.

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. Won't matter how quiet it is now

if/when the Grand Jury indictments come out.

They will need an armada of giant fly saucers over our cities to distract from that.

[Hidden Stillness]

7. They Can't Be Exposed as Traitors, If No One Ever Criticizes Them...

This is really disgusting and heartbreaking; this is something the Democrats should have jumped on. It was a compelling story, hugely important, an impeachable offense, and was a story easy to tell clearly, if you broke it down. You could read about the more complicated, involved explanation, but there was a simple, unified way to tell it.

(For example) Bush was so eager to get to Iraq and invade it, whether there was proof of any threat or not--(refer to Richard Clarke, Paul O'Neill and others describing meetings)--that the neo-cons of the Administration invented fake "WMD" claims, and threatened anyone who didn't want to go along with it. When Ambassador Joseph Wilson couldn't support the lies anymore and told the truth, Karl Rove and the rest of the bullies of this corporate group, just to intimidate Wilson, committed the treasonous act of exposing an active CIA agent's name and contacts, risking all of their lives! Do you tell the enemy our plans of troop movements? This left all these people suddenly completely threatened wherever they were. What would you think if al-Qaeda published the names and locations of active U.S. undercover agents, to be targeted? This Administration steamrollers anyone who attempts to fight against anything, or even to make a valid complaint, and not since the days of Nixon have the real-world consequences been so dire for anyone too honest to just play along.

Explain it like this, with a thread of a story telling how this led to that, etc., and how the elements tied together. The treasonous public naming of an agent, although bad enough itself, was done for a larger, and even worse, reason, and now that people are starting to become so disgusted with the whole Iraq war and know it was not connected to any "war on terror" bullshit, the extreme measures Bush, Cheney and the rest went to to bring it on, no matter what, are now even more shocking and offensive. Democrats should also stop worrying about having to explain or justify their own (if appropriate) early support of the Iraq war--all they have to do is tell how they were convinced because Bush lied! Even that becomes our valid attack, because it was true. We should have been hammering away at this bastard Rove's criminal bullying all this time rather than running from the "you are all too liberal" sabotaging of the "D"LC--we could have made this bastard seem like Nixon by now.

[NMDemDist2]

8. remember it took over a year for Watergate to get big and take out

Nixon

[wli]

10. even if Plamegate and Iraqgate blow wide open...

The whole Dominionist fiasco, the 9/11 MIHOP, the CIA drug running, COINTELPRO-like affairs, and so on will be thoroughly buried. It's all partial disclosure to stem off investigations into even more damning crimes, and by so doing to advance the Republican fascism even beyond its current scope.

[kerrygoddess]

11. I'm must say

You always add something positve to the conversation. NOT.

[wli]

15. must be my sunny optimism

:D

[Independent_Liberal]

12. I can't wait to get back to Plamegate...

"We the People" have some serious impeaching to do.

:)

[kerrygoddess]

13. LOL! Yes we do! N/T

[alfredo]

14. Patience Grasshopper. Fitzgerald will act when he is ready.

I am sure it will be front page news when the indictments come down.

If you want to watch a Republican meltdown, watch the Kentucky governor hiring scandal. It's a good thing. 22 indictments so far.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

16. Cindy put the war back on the front pages and that is as it should be.

It all ties in together. Good Lord Willing, Fitzgerald will bring up the rear.