Goldwater, go take your meds …

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Ms. [Diane] Plame, Ms. [Valerie Plame] Wilson’s mother, recalled that when her daughter was in her senior year at Pennsylvania State University, she sent her an advertisement for work at the C.I.A. Ms. Wilson became an undercover operative in Europe; officially she was an “energy consultant.” It was perhaps the riskiest type of undercover work, as she could not in a pinch fall back on being an employee of the United States.

Mother and daughter never again talked about work.

“I hear these people saying, ‘Oh, everyone knew she was undercover,’ ” Ms. Plame said. “Well, she did not enlighten her mother or her family. No, she did not.”

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As the news of her blown cover broke, Ms. Wilson was headed to Chicago. Her best friend from childhood was a lawyer there and had never known Ms. Wilson was an agency operative.

“Valerie had lived this lie for so long that it was hard for her friend,” Ms. Plame recalled. “But they’re like sisters, and they came out of this as close as ever.”

I would like the Dems to STOP being such NICE PEOPLE too! Called Sen. Reid’s office today – basically told to “talk to your local state reps”. I told her ‘NO”!

It is CONGRESS who is ALSO THE PROBLEM.
Bought and sold by the highest bidder.

The American People, I hope, are finally waking up to this NIGHTMARE.

WE must (continue)to be the change we seek… beltway folks lose their souls apparently _ ONCE IN OFFICE!

1)Scooter Libby and his crew probably believed they could get away with betraying Ms. Plame because- – -another Neo-con sack of shit- – -Namely- Richard Pearle had done the very same thing and gotten away without being indicted for the crime he certainly committed nor – suffering the proper opprobrium that should have followed such perfidy! Pearle, very publically, not only denounced a very important Case Officer actions, in of all countries- Iraq, he did so by name! This, coupled with the inertia of delusional triumphalism that cocooned the administration in the early days of the war, led this crew to considered themselves untouchable as it related to the crime of outing an Intelligence Officer whose husband had the temerity to challenge one of the central lies propagated during the run-up to Invasion of Iraq. There was no anticipation, whatsoever, that they might find themselves being scrutinized in the hostile political climate they now find themselves in.

2) Patrick Fitzgerald’s strategy and thinking concerning the Plame case was flawed in the extreme. Instead of focusing on the intent of the Law protecting Intelligence operatives, Fitzgerald lowered his gaze and sought to, instead, make the violation of the mechanics of the Grand Jury his primary focus. Certainly Libby and most likely the rest would have perjured themselves and sought to obstruct justice but that should have been a side show. A clear reading of the Intelligence Identities Protection act should have demanded that Fitzgerald seek indictments of the lot of them It would have then been up to the Grand Jury to weigh the evidence presented and decide for themselves who should and should not be indicted. Given the power of a prosecutor, Fitzgerald could have allowed the jury the caveat of reading the law(see paragraph a) Intelligence Addends Protection Act) in question and deciding whether an individual brought before the Grand Jury had 1) Inadvertently 2) Stupidly or 3) with malice aforethought- outed Ms. Plame. In this scenario Armitage and most likely Fleischer would have walked out of the Grand Jury legally unscathed. The rest, however, Libby, Bad-hip Novak, Rove and most importantly Cheney(Does anyone believe Scooter would have betrayed Plame on his own!) would have certainly been indicted. Lawyers for the individuals indicted would have then had the impossible task of separating their clients from the actions, all of which were intentional and with malice aforethought as it related to the betrayal of Ms. Plame. Instead of debating a pardon of Scooter Libby, the chattering classes would be speculating on who George Bush would pick to replace convicted felon- Dick Cheney.

“The day of nice people, I fear, is nearly over; two things are killing it. The first is the belief that there is no harm in being happy, provided no one else is the worse for it; the second is the dislike of humbug, a dislike which is quite as much aesthetic as moral. Both these revolts were encouraged by the War, when the nice people in all countries were securely in control, and in the name of the highest morality induced the young people to slaughter one another. When it was all over the survivors began to wonder whether lies and misery inspired by hatred constituted the highest virtue. I am afraid it may be some time before they can again be induced to accept this fundamental doctrine of every really lofty ethic.

The essence of nice people is that they hate life as manifested in tendencies to co-operation, in the boisterousness of children, and above all in sex, with the thought of which they are obsessed. In a word, nice people are those who have nasty minds. [p. 156]“

This is about the third or fourth time around with this sorry dreck for me.
First Nixon. Then Ollie North. Then Reagan’s Funeral. Now Libby.
Everytime some sorry fubar GOoPer steps on his dick, drops dead or otherwise runs afoul of the US Code or karma, the Mighty Wurlitzer and the Right Wing Noise Machine goes into overdrive to saturate the zeitgeist with Sympathy For The Perpshit. I feel it, but I no longer trust it.

Screw Libby. Turn up the heat, sweat him for a while and see if he wants to make a deal.
Sure it’ll make me sad…soooo sad, but that’s my problem. I’ll just have to suck it up and get over it.

“When Herr Goebbels says, “We own der world und space”
We HEIL! HEIL! Right in Herr Goebbels’ face”

“we’re smarter and bigger than you and theres not a thing you can do about it.”

yet…

How else does she expect him to be?

Doh!!!

Note to Ann Redington:

Nice people, law abiding citizens, do not throw shovels of sand in the eyes of the umpire so that s/he cannot figure out what has happened.

The jurors were seduced by Scooter’s courtroom demeanor — which goes to show that how one behaves, particularly if one doesn’t testify, can have a huge influence. And a false one at that.

AND this jury never saw the VICTIMS of Scooter Libby’s actions. The jurors, shockingly, have not mentioned the serious offense of outing a CIA employee. Nor are they apparently cognizent of the destruction of the elaborate Brewster-Jennings cover that was destroyed by Libby et al.’s actions — along with the “assets” that Valerie had cultivated god knows where. And that those “assets” may have had their own lives ruined, if not terminated.

Again, I’m grateful for their ability to reach the proper verdicts, but I do think they should study up on the rest of the story before they open their mouths about pardoning LIbby.