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LoungeMachine
07-18-2005, 11:37 PM
The Bush-Bin Laden
Cartel & The NWO



The Chronology

Prescott Bush, grandfather of G.W. Bush, graduated from Yale University. In 1913 he was a prestigious member of the Skull and bones society. He led a raid that year too into Indian burial grounds to secure the skull of Geronimo, which was used in skull and bones ceremony.

In 1953 George Bush Sr. sets up Zapata petroleum. Zapata offshore is known for its ties to the CIA.

1961, John F Kennedy drafted and put into law U.S. Department of State PUBLICATION 7277 Disarmament Series 5, Released September 1961 which was titled, "Freedom From War The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World ". This is a 3 part plan to give the UN control of the world, while the US will control the UN.

Quote from 1962,

"...This program is the fixed, determined and approved policy of the government of the United States."

Senator Joseph S. Clark speaking on the floor of the Senate, March 1 1962, about PL-87-297 which calls for the disbanding of all armed forces and the prohibition of their re-establishment in any form whatsoever, and the elimination of all firearms in America.

Prescott Bush becomes Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963.

From 1966 to 1970 George H.W. Bush Sr. was a US congressman from Texas. In 1968 his son G.W. Bush joins the skull and bones society at Yale. G.W. was also a pilot for the Texas Air National Guard from 1968-1973.

1971-1974 Bush Sr. was special envoy to the United Nations.

1974-1975 Bush Sr. was special ambassador to China. It was necessary previously for Nixon to open relations with China, and necessary for them to be allowed into world trade to bring them as well into the NWO.

1975-1976 Bush Sr. was Republican Natl. Chairman, giving him control of republican platform, and allowing him leverage over all top republicans.

Jan 30, 1976-1977, George Herbert Walker Bush is appointed Director of the CIA being the first CIA outsider to ever hold this position.

1977-1979 Bush Sr. was the director of the Council of Foreign relations. He is also a member of the Trilateral Commission. Both groups create and put into action plans for bringing in the New World Order. They also have a high percentage of cross-membership. Every president since the formation of the CFR has been a member and worked toward its' agenda.

1979 Is the year that G.W. Bush formed "Arbusto" (Spanish for shrub or bush) Energy company. James Bath financed it with $50,000 in return for 5% of the company. Bath was the only US business rep for Osama Bin Laden's brother Salim Bin Laden. After 9-11, Bush denied even knowing Bath but later admitted the business arrangement. Bath was also connected to the BCCI, which had defrauded investors of over $10 billion through the 1980's. BCCI funded Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistanâs fight against the Soviet Union, and helped fund operations in the Iran-Contra, guns for drugs affair which also tied in with Central America during the elder Bush's Vice Presidency.

1981-1989 Bush Sr. was US Vice President. In 1986 G.W. Bush, son of then Vice president G.H.W. Bush, merged his Arbusto Energy company with Harken Energy Corp. Saudi Sheik Abdullah Taha Bakhsh then bought into the company, buying 17.6%. The Saudi Sheik was associated with Khalid bin Mahfouz, who inherited Salim Bin Ladin's interest when He died in 1988. From several different angles, the bush family was tied to the Bin Laden family, passing finances back and forth, making G.W. Bush an indirect financier of Osama Bin Ladin. Mahfouz reportedly attempted in 1999 to transfer $3 million to Osama.

Also during this time, Vice President Bush and Oliver North conspired the guns for drugs trades and through the CIA flew shipments of cocaine into Mena Arkansas. These shipments were received and the distribution was overseen by then governor Bill Clinton.

1989-1993 Bush Sr. was US President. In 1990 both operations "Desert Shield, and Desert Storm was waged in Kuwait. Our troops were recipient to the "anthrax vaccine" produced by the George Bush connected "BioPort Corporation". This "vaccine" did not have FDA approval, and yet it was forced upon the ranks with the exclusion of officers. Some 15,000 US troops have died since then with an estimated 85,000 more gravely (some terminally) ill.

August 2, 1991-August 31 1991, Randy Weavers home was illegally attacked and put under seige after his 14 year old son was killed with a shot to the back by US marshals. During the siege, even local police were sickened by government tactics. Weavers wife was shot in the head by a sniper as she stood by the door, unarmed, holding their 10 month old baby. The same sniper who killed Mrs. Weaver later drove one of the tanks that destroyed and set afire the Branch Davidian complex at Waco Texas. One other US Marshall taking part in the Randy Weaver incident also took part in the murder of the Davidians.

This was the first incident where the US government so blatantly stepped over the line to simply move according to their own will, disregarding any human right, including constitutional rights. Choosing the unconventional, and painting them as nuts and bigots made these incidents more acceptable to the American people, desensitizing us for things to come.

Quote from 1991

"This is an historic moment. We have in this past year made great progress in ending the long era of conflict and cold war. We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order, a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations."

- George Bush announces the U.S. Attack on Iraq, Jan. 16, 1991


Quote from 1992,

"Out of these troubled times... a New World Order can emerge...."

"My vision for a New World Order is an empowered United Nations..."

President George Bush, speaking before the UN General Assembly, 1992

Quote from May 21, 1992.

"Today Americans would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government."

- Henry Kissinger in an address to the Bilderberger meeting at Evian, France, May 21, 1992.

Feb 26, 1993, The basement of the World Trade Center is bombed, leaving a 200 x 100 ft crater, and 7 stories deep. Causing $300 million in damage, 6 people were killed and 1042 wounded. Osama Bin Laden was accused, Bill Clinton declares he will be brought to justice, but it is apparent that even then there was massive government cover up, and Bin Laden, despite all our resources still remains at large.

It was reported both by CNN and the New York Times that the FBI, to infiltrate a group of Muslims and convince them to bomb the basement of the WTC, used a Mr. Salem. They first led him to believe that fake explosive ordnance would be used and they would be arrested on conspiracy charges, but as time drew close they changed the orders to use real explosives. Salem had secretly though recorded his telephone with FBI agents. Some of these were played in part on CNN, and they were played at preliminary hearings, but were not allowed to be presented in actual trial. The reason given was not to promote truth and justice, but because the FBI was not aware of the recordings and had not given permission to Salem to tape their conspiracy. The tapes still exist and prove the FBI's planning and funding of the blowing up of the WTC's basement. Popular media does not present this info though, and Osama began to be drawn as our enemy, though in reality he has been a CIA operative since at least the early 1980s.

Quote from the Pentagon,

"The desire for Patriotism [the sovereignty of our nation, our flag, our religious and other freedoms and nationalism] is considered an 'enemy doctrine.'"

"The US armed forces must be prepared to fight against all who oppose the New World Order and are holding out for nationalism. [namely, militias]"

"This new 'warrior class' [of American Patriots] is most dangerous because they consist of those who would fight out of strong religious beliefs. You can't compromise or bargain with these 'warriors'. We in the military need to commit more time to counter these 'warrior' threats...COUPLED WITH IRRESISTIBLE VIOLENCE."

-Maj. Ralph Peters, Deputy Chief of Staff, Pentagon Intelligence, Washington DC

Feb 28, 1993, 76 BATF agents raided the Branch Davidian complex In Waco Texas, supposedly to serve an arrest warrant on David Koresh. Many things concerning the raid and the siege, the government and popular media have suppressed. Among these are some very revealing facts concerning the initial raid.

1. Charges that there were illegal weapons stored there have been proven to be false. Not 1 illegal firearm was ever found.

2. Charges of sexual abuse by the leader David Koresh, have been proven been false.

3. Its been proven as well that Janet Reno, the FBI, and ATF, KNEW these charges to be false.

4. Koresh had been previously tipped off that a raid was imminent. He called in a news crew who were very impressed with the complex and their self sufficiency and reported on them very favorable. They too acknowledged that they never saw a hint of illegal weapons.

5. When Koresh answered the door on the morning of the raid, he was shot, and then ensued the firefight ending in the death of 6 Davidians and 4 agents. 3 of these agents can be seen being shot from behind. The only ones behind them were government personnel. These same 3 agents served Clinton when he was governor and had damaging inside information concerning his acts of drug trading while he was governor.

6. It is proven through the sworn testimony by FBI agents that flash grenades were used in the attack on the compound AFTER they had filled the compound with deadly and flammable gas.

7. During the raid it was testified that the Davidians were firing at the agents, yet film shows the agents WALKING around the complex, not dodging bullets.

8. Many of the Davidians were shot 2 times, which is standard assassination technique used by special forces assassination personnel.

9. There were special forces personnel present the morning of the attack.

10. During the attack, the words "THIS IS NOT AN ATTACK" were continually blared through loudspeakers.

11. As the fire raged, tanks began pushing the burning rubble in on itself, destroying much of the evidence.

Quote from Jan, 1994,

"Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."

Sarah Brady, Chair of Handgun Control Inc., to Senator Howard Metzenbaum; The National Educator, January 1994, Page 3.

Quote from 1994 "We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."

David Rockefeller, speaking at the Business Council for the UN, Sept. 14, 1994
April 19:1995 the Murrah Federal Building was bombed by supposedly a lone man and a single bomb according to what the Govt. tells us, and the building was decimated. Early reports though stated that 4 more bombs were both found and defused inside the building shortly after the initial bombing. At least 1 was strapped to a support column. Overheard over police radio was the following conversation between bomb squad members;

First voice: "Boy your not going to believe this!"

Second voice: "Believe what?"

First voice: "I can't believe it... this is a military bomb!"

Brigadier General Partin also stated that the destruction was not at all consistent with the type of bomb and location of it that the Govt. would have us believe. He stated it would have been necessary for several to have been strapped to columns in the bottom of the building. There is also decisive evidence that the FBI had informed certain important men such as the mayor, that the blast was expected there and BATF employees were warned not to show for work that morning.

One year later, society accepted a blatant stripping away of more rights... CRIED out for it as a new antiterrorist bill was passed granting massive power to our police forces, leading us further toward a police state and "homeland security".

An interesting side-note, Gary Condit was privy to all the sealed files concerning the bombing and Tim McVeigh's trial and imprisonment. Chandra Levy worked with the Bureau of Prisons, which was responsible for making the arrangements for McVeigh's execution. She was reported missing 10 days before his original execution date.

Quoted from Aug. 1998,

"...President Clinton warned that the United States was facing a long, ongoing struggle between freedom and fanaticism, between the rule of law and terrorism... So, is the U.S. prepared for the consequences of what it now insists is a global war on terrorism? Experts on terrorism... say that if the Clinton Administration is true to its words, Washington is embarked on a decades long battle in which Americans may find themselves increasingly targeted on the streets of their own cities."

The New York Times (8/23/98) in an article entitled "America Embarks On A Struggle With Domestic Costs"

1999 Clinton initiates "PROJECT MEGIDDO". This project signaled law enforcement agencies to tap into any group that held to apocalyptic views of the coming new millennium. As part of the project the FBI circulated flyers asking for citizens to contact the FBI with information on groups or individuals who fit into the following categories;

1. Right Wing Extremists

2. Defenders of the Constitution

3. Those who make numerous references to the Constitution

4. Doomsday type Religious groups

5. Lone Individuals

6. Those who attempt to "police the police"

Quote from Sept 6, 2000,

"...National sovereignty and territorial integrity should take a back seat to 'keeping the peace'..."

President Bill Clinton, September 6, 2000, at the United Nations 'Millennium Summit'

2000, George W. Bush elected president of the United States of America.

Sept 11, 2001, the World Trade Center crashes to the ground and again Osama Bin Laden is the officially accused culprit. Bush declares war on terrorism and invades Afghanistan to oust the Taliban leadership. This incident also broadens the door for Homeland Security, as radio and television talk shows across the land debate the giving up of our rights under various scenarios especially involving travel.

Stories begin to come to light however, implicating US intelligence and President Bush in the planning and setting up of the 9-11 tragedy. Though many of these stories have been established as fact they are killed or ignored by the popular media.

Untangling Currant Events in Light of Events from the Past 4 Decades

Washington D.C. is home to a Merchant Bank called the Carlyle Group. The main thrust of business the Carlyle Group concerns itself with involves buying out defense and aerospace companies involved with high level U.S. defense projects, as well as telecommunications companies. The Carlyle Group is also associated with the Asian Partners Fund. The Bin Laden family are major investors in the Carlyle Group as well as the Texas Teachers Fund, which was appointed under then Governor George W. Bush. The Carlyle group returns an average of 34% annually to its investors, making it one of the most lucrative moneymakers in the market.

James Baker, ex-secretary of state under former president George H.W. Bush, and ex- secretary of defense Frank Carlucci are respectively senior counselor and group chairman to the sister company to Carlyle, Asian Partners Fund. Former president Bush is its senior advisor, and all 3 have been honored visitors to the Bin Laden Family's compound in Saudi Arabia.

Former President Bush also speaks for the Carlyle Group, receiving $80,000 - $100,000 per speech, and then has the option to use any portion of this payment to reinvest into Carlyle investment funds. The ONLY corporate board The former president sits on is that of the Carlyle Group. Then in 1990, a foundering George W. Bush, our currant president, was banded a seat on the board of "Caterair. This is a subsidiary group of the Carlyle group and is an airline catering company. The probable non-ironic picture we receive from this, is that the more we now fight "terror" both here and abroad, the richer the Bin laden family, Baker, Carlucci, and the Bush Family becomes.

These facts tie together the Bin Laden family with the past 4 presidential administrations, including our now president George W. Bush, along with U.S. defense and multiple billions of dollars. This seems to be pointing to a fiasco of a carnival, meant to distract us from the reality that we are being led into the NWO, by using the good guy bad guy showmanship of the World Wrestling Federation. There is no question that these groups are tied together.

Using the good guy bad guy techniques, and planned disasters staged by US military operatives such as the 9-11 murderous tragedy, and the Oklahoma bombings, the American people are now being hoodwinked into restricting themselves into slavery as they scream to have their rights limited and removed in exchange for security. Now we have a new Gestapo group looming from the darkness of these tragedies, whose name is "Homeland Security".

Even before the events of 911, we had the Anthrax scares, supposedly most likely stemming from Osama Bin Laden or Saddam Hussein terrorist cells. We saw a Whitehorse Post Office contaminated, and a handful of people who suddenly were diagnosed by CDC officials with Anthrax. We saw a couple senators receiving a massive amount supposedly by mail though for some reason they never contracted it after opening it, though a letter carrier died from simply delivering one with a far lesser amount. Also established is the fact that the Anthrax was not natural at all but recombinant... as is aids, meaning it was man made, and there are only 2-3 labs in the world, all associated with US intelligence, able to produce this particular anthrax strain. This aspect of the story was killed as soon as the media first released it. It was this incident that brought about President Bush's call for homeland security.

There are several things about this thought that never came out in the media. For instance while Osama Bin Ladin was operating with the CIA in Afghanistan against the Soviet invasion, Now retired Admiral Crow, also a CFR member, and the Joint Chiefs made and sold weapons grade Anthrax spores to Saddam Hussein. Now Admiral Crow is 13% owner of the "BioPort Corporation". Two other investors to note are the Carlyle Group, with the Bush and Bin Laden families. What is so special about the BioPort Corporation? They are the sole company in the United States licensed to manufacture and sell the Anthrax vaccine.

The results again, the more terroristic acts in the USA and the world, and the more we fear anthrax, smallpox and the like, the richer the Bush - Bin Laden cartel becomes... they have invested in terror and its "remedies". Also the more terror, the more we cry out for the shackles of "security" given to us by the NWO and Homeland Security.

SOURCES;

http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/timeline/bush_iraq_s.html

http://www.iconservative.com/NWO1.htm

http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/indexj.html

http://www.hkweaponsystems.com/cgi-bin/quote.pl?_disputed

http://centre.telemanage.ca/quotes.nsf/quotes/5c4f64ccb3a4a8858525687b006e939d

http://centre.telemanage.ca/quotes.nsf/QuotesByCat!ReadForm&Count=1000&RestrictToCategory=UN

http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/guns/dos7277.htm

http://www.vigo-examiner.com/Sep2701c.htm

http://www.silentmajority.co.uk/eurorealist/NWOchronology/part2.html

BigBadBrian
07-19-2005, 06:01 PM
Which one of these crackpot sources in this hodgepodge article didn't know how to spell Admiral Crowe's name correctly? :rolleyes:


That's the first obvious error without even trying to check. I don't know if I can even be bothered to check anymore. ;)

Warham
07-19-2005, 06:11 PM
Lounge is good for that.

LoungeMachine
07-19-2005, 06:20 PM
Originally posted by Warham
Lounge is good for that.

And when asked for links proving your claims you just tell me to go outside and poll 10 people:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

You're no longer even taken seriously here you're so partisan:cool:

Warham
07-19-2005, 06:23 PM
Somebody has to be strong in their beliefs. We know you liberals will change positions as many times as the breeze changes directions outside my house on a fall day.

Nickdfresh
07-19-2005, 06:44 PM
Originally posted by Warham
Somebody has to be strong in their beliefs.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1480000/images/_1480925_sheep300.jpg

LoungeMachine
07-20-2005, 12:26 AM
TRAITORS IN THE WHITE HOUSE?


If Dubya thinks the Dems are hot about outing spies, he should check with his own dad


By William Rivers Pitt


"Even though I'm a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors." -- George Herbert Walker Bush, 1999

Karl Rove, senior political advisor to George W. Bush, is a very powerful man. That is not to say he has never been in trouble. Rove was fired from the 1992 Bush Sr. campaign for trashing Robert Mosbacher Jr., who was the chief fundraiser for the campaign and an avowed Bush loyalist. Rove accomplished this trashing of Mosbacher by planting a negative story with columnist Bob Novak. The campaign figured out that Karl had done the dirty deed, and he was given his walking papers.

Demonstrably, Rove is back in the saddle again. The January 2003 edition of Esquire magazine carried an article by Ron Suskind which quoted comments from John DiIulio, a domestic policy advisor to the White House who had just retired from his post. On October 24, 2002, DiIulio had sent a letter to Suskind describing what he had seen while working for the Bush administration. The meat of the letter described an administration far, far more interested in raw political triangulation and ruthless spin than in actual policy and government functionality. Some excerpts from DiIulio's letter:

"Some are inclined to blame the high political-to-policy ratios of this administration on Karl Rove ... some staff members, senior and junior, are awed and cowed by Karl's real or perceived powers. They self-censor lots for fear of upsetting him, and, in turn, few of the president's top people routinely tell the president what they really think if they think that Karl will be brought up short in the bargain. Karl is enormously powerful, maybe the single most powerful person in the modern, post-Hoover era ever to occupy a political advisor post near the Oval Office."

Even a casual political observer would have trouble missing the fact that this is one of the sharpest political outfits ever to reside in the Oval Office. Bush's team is a unified wall, cemented to their message-of-the-day, and they have done very well for themselves because of this. All of this can be laid at the feet of Karl Rove, the senior political advisor to George W. Bush. According to DiIulio, the preeminence of political considerations within this administration is so complete that any and all policy considerations or contemplation of actual issues are not so much in the back seat as they are in the trunk below the spare tire and the jack. This, again, can be laid at the feet of Mr. Rove.

All of Washington and the country has been buzzing for the last few days over a report that the CIA has asked the Justice Department to investigate the White House regarding a matter of important national security. The wife of a former ambassador named Joseph Wilson, it has been alleged, was "outed" as an active CIA agent to columnist Robert Novak by this White House in an act of political revenge.

Joseph Wilson was the man dispatched to Niger in February of 2002 by the CIA, after Vice President Dick Cheney asked the CIA to figure out whether there was any substance to the charge that Iraq was attempting to procure uranium "yellow cake" from that nation for the purpose of starting a nuclear weapons program. Ambassador Wilson went, investigated and returned eight days later to state flatly that the evidence was garbage. He has claimed since that his analysis was one of three intelligence reports debunking the Niger story. Ambassador Wilson told this to Cheney's office, the CIA, the State Department and the National Security Council. Despite the fact that Wilson made it clear that these allegations were untrue -- it was revealed that the "evidence" to support the Niger uranium charge was a pile of crudely forged documents -- George W. Bush used the Niger uranium evidence dramatically in his 2003 State of the Union address.

In July, Ambassador Wilson went very public, criticizing the White House for using evidence to support war that they knew was patently false. One week later, Robert Novak reported that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative. As it turns out, two senior White House officials cold-called six different journalists and informed them of Valerie Plame's status as a CIA agent, according to an anonymous administration official quoted by the Washington Post. None of the journalists ran the story. That same administration official was quoted about these revelations as saying, "Clearly, it was meant purely and simply for revenge." Joseph Wilson likewise charges that this act was done as an act of revenge for his vocal criticism of George W. Bush and the administration's actions leading up to the Iraq war. Specifically, he views Karl Rove as being possibly involved in, or at least condoning, the cutting down of his wife.

The facts of this story are singularly grotesque. Taken at the top layer, you have a White House that appears perfectly willing to go after the family members of its critics. Valerie Plame's career is destroyed, period. The act itself displays a level of viciousness that is dangerous to the functioning of this, or any, democracy.

Peel the second layer and you discover the rank illegality of it all. Section 421 of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 reads as follows:

"Whoever, having or having had authorized access to classified information that identifies a covert agent, intentionally discloses any information identifying such covert agent to any individual not authorized to receive classified information, knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such covert agent and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent's intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both."

The third layer is where the darkness truly lurks, and where the deadly importance of this situation lies. Valerie Plame was not simply an analyst or a data cruncher. She was an operative running a network dedicated to tracking any person or nation that might try to give weapons of mass destruction to terrorists. That sentence deserves to be written twice. She was an operative running a network dedicated to tracking any person or nation that might try to give weapons of mass destruction to terrorists.

The Bush administration pushed very hard the idea that America is in danger from WMDs being placed into the hands of terrorists. This was one of the central arguments behind the war in Iraq. Yet in order to protect Bush's political standing, a couple of "administration officials" blew Valerie Plame, and by proxy her network, completely out of the water in an attempt to shut her husband up. In short, in order to protect Bush from the ramifications of using fake evidence to support his war, this White House destroyed an intelligence network that was protecting us from the threat posed by chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.

We are less safe now that Valerie Plame is no longer performing this vital task, and the members of her network are in mortal danger of being revealed and destroyed. Beyond that, we are facing a level of hypocrisy that shatters any and all previously known boundaries. This administration ginned up a war in Iraq based upon manufactured evidence and wildly overstated threats, all of which was painted over with rhetoric about defending the country from terrorists and weapons of mass destruction. The fate of Valerie Plame, and her network, shows without doubt that the moral standing of this administration is as empty as Saddam Hussein's WMD cache.

In Ambassador Wilson's words, "Naming her this way would have compromised every operation, every relationship, every network with which she had been associated in her entire career. This is the stuff of Kim Philby and Aldrich Ames."

The current spin from administration defenders within and without the mainstream media is that Valerie Plame was only an analyst, and not an operative. This, somehow, is supposed to lessen the blow of an administration willing to attack the families of its critics. Yet the characterization of Plame as an analyst is factually incorrect. For one, Robert Novak himself indicated that she was an operative in the original report that birthed this scandal. "Wilson never worked for the CIA," wrote Novak, "but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction."

Ray McGovern, who was for 27 years a senior analyst for the CIA, further confirms the status of Plame within the CIA. "I know Joseph Wilson well enough to know," said McGovern in a telephone conversation we had today, "that his wife was in fact a deep cover operative running a network of informants on what is supposedly this administration's first-priority issue: Weapons of mass destruction."

McGovern further elaborated on the damage done when such an agent has their cover blown. "This causes a great deal of damage," said McGovern. "These kinds of networks take ten years to develop. The reason why they operate under deep cover is that the only people who have access to the kind of data we need cannot be associated in any way with the American intelligence community. Our operatives live a lie to maintain these networks, and do so out of patriotism. When they get blown, the operatives themselves are in physical danger. The people they recruit are also in physical danger, because foreign intelligence services can make the connections and find them. Operatives like Valerie Plame are real patriots."

Mr. Rove has done this kind of thing before, specifically using Robert Novak in that one notable attempt to cut down Mosbacher. Rove is a disciple of the undisputed heavyweight champion of political assassins, Lee Atwater, and has often reached into a deep bag of dirty tricks to accomplish his political ends. He knows no ideology beyond power, and has no bones about using it to wreak havoc on anyone who gets in his crosshairs. The Esquire article about DiIulio finds him recounting a singular Rove moment, as he overheard a conversation happening in another room: "Inside, Rove was talking to an aide about some political stratagem in some state that had gone awry and a political operative who had displeased him. I paid it no mind and reviewed a jotted list of questions I hoped to ask. But after a moment, it was like ignoring a tornado flinging parked cars. 'We will f**k him. Do you hear me? We will f**k him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever f**ked him!'"

Guess who was doing the cursing and threatening.

One last bit of inside baseball. When the Niger scandal erupted, the Bush administration went out of its way to blame the CIA for the mess, despite the fact that the CIA, along with the entire intelligence community, had been cut out of the loop by Don Rumsfeld's Office of Special Plans. The OSP, and its pet Iraqi Ahmad Chalabi, became the source for all of the information regarding Iraq's weapons capabilities, and a number of intelligence insiders have publicly blamed that group for the preponderance of highly erroneous data about Iraq. For the Bush administration to completely usurp the CIA by depending solely on data manufactured by the Office of Special Plans, and then to turn around and blame CIA when the OSP's data did not turn out to be true, is as insane as it is laughable. Yet this is what they have done. The CIA's calling for this investigation is nothing more or less than the Agency defending itself, proving out the oft-repeated warning that one scapegoats the CIA at their mortal peril.

Also, the fact that this data came to the Washington Post from a White House official means that another Deep Throat may have just been born.

The White House has denied the allegation, and promises a full investigation. A great many people find it laughable to believe this White House is capable of investigating itself, and are demanding an independent investigation. A quick look at the White House telephone logs will reveal who called whom, and when. It may well be the case that Rove was not involved; there are several administration officials -- Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Rice, Card -- along with a constellation of administration associates and media mouthpieces, who had a vested interest in shutting Ambassador Wilson's mouth. The White House phone logs will be revelatory. If this administration fails to hand those logs over, they will stand in taint of high treason.

J'accuse.

William Rivers Pitt is managing editor of truthout.org, where this originally appeared. He is author of three books: War On Iraq, Context Books; The Greatest Sedition is Silence, Pluto Press; and Our Flag, Too: The Paradox of Patriotism, available in August from Context Books.

LoungeMachine
07-20-2005, 12:29 AM
Originally posted by Warham
Somebody has to be strong in their beliefs. We know you liberals will change positions as many times as the breeze changes directions outside my house on a fall day.

Go ahead and quote where I've waivered in one single belief:rolleyes:

..."you liberals....":rolleyes:

:cool: