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Not yet, of course. These things take time.
Indefinite amounts of time.
Quiet time.
What did happen with the Justice Department's relentless pursuit of the White House source who squealed to the press about Valerie Plame? Remember the president's righteous indignation? And how he swore not to rest until the real killer was found?
Or was that O.J.
I was listing the positive prospects for a second GWB administration, and couldn't come up with anything but impeachment. Not just an impeachment - an impeachment for treason. The symmetry would be breathtaking.
Possible grounds:
Setting sex aside for obvious reasons, could there be a coverup known only to the 9/11 Commission? No luck there, not without transcripts. (You're a sly one, Cheney.) The WMD lies should be worth something, what with all he dead people and the $200 billion...No, the WMD lies just never grabbed the public imagination.
Maybe Chalabi has a semen-stained dress...
Ladies, this impeachment would be a cakewalk if one of you would service the president and join Linda Tripp's scrapbooking club.
The best I can come up with is the crime-rich Valerie Plame cliffhanger and the vicious manhunt we were promised.
When last seen, the Plame affair was hanging over Wile E. Coytoe's head like a cartoon anvil, pushed off the cliff and suspended in freeze-frame during intermission.
It seems like only yesterday...
<<Cue flashback theme. Dissolve thru calendar pages to reveal masthead: The Nation. July 16 2003>>
"Did senior Bush officials blow the cover of a US intelligence officer working covertly in a field of vital importance to national security--and break the law--in order to strike at a Bush administration critic and intimidate others?
"It sure looks that way, if conservative journalist Bob Novak can be trusted.
"On June 12, The Washington Post revealed that an unnamed ambassador had traveled to Niger and had reported back that the Niger caper {Saddam's attempt to buy yellow cake uranium} probably never happened. This article revved up the controversy over Bush's claim in the state of the union speech that Iraq had attempted to buy uranium in Africa for a nuclear weapons program. {SR notes: Bush had been briefed by Wilson. Wilson went to the press after the president Bush used the Niger incident in his speech.}
"Critics were charging that this allegation had been part of a Bush effort to mislead the country to war. <sniip> Soon after Wilson disclosed his trip in the media and made the White House look bad, the payback came. Novak's July 14, 2003, column presented the back-story on Wilson's mission and contained the following sentences: "Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate" the allegation."
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I googled "Plame investigation" and found a "where are they now" type article at Buzzflash from Dec. 2003:,
"The Justice Department launched its allegedly official probe on September 26th, but neglected to direct the White House to preserve critical evidence until the evening of September 29th. Then, when the White House Counsel asked if he could wait until the next day to inform the staff of the need to preserve documents, the Justice Department allowed it. Simply, if the leaker(s) had not been smart enough to get rid of the evidence between July 6th and September 29th, the White House Counsel’s office wanted to be sure that there was at least one last chance to do so before destroying evidence would constitute criminal obstruction of justice.
"Since September 29th? Nothing, not a word. Nothing from the White House and nothing from the Department of Justice. The President never asked his staff to investigate the matter and never called for the leaker to come forward. The White House is, however, 'cooperating.'"
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I want an impeachment. I want somebody to do hard time.
But I'd settle for a moment of accountability. Is it too late? Is there a statute of limitations on treason?
Indefinite amounts of time.
Quiet time.
What did happen with the Justice Department's relentless pursuit of the White House source who squealed to the press about Valerie Plame? Remember the president's righteous indignation? And how he swore not to rest until the real killer was found?
Or was that O.J.
I was listing the positive prospects for a second GWB administration, and couldn't come up with anything but impeachment. Not just an impeachment - an impeachment for treason. The symmetry would be breathtaking.
Possible grounds:
Setting sex aside for obvious reasons, could there be a coverup known only to the 9/11 Commission? No luck there, not without transcripts. (You're a sly one, Cheney.) The WMD lies should be worth something, what with all he dead people and the $200 billion...No, the WMD lies just never grabbed the public imagination.
Maybe Chalabi has a semen-stained dress...
Ladies, this impeachment would be a cakewalk if one of you would service the president and join Linda Tripp's scrapbooking club.
The best I can come up with is the crime-rich Valerie Plame cliffhanger and the vicious manhunt we were promised.
When last seen, the Plame affair was hanging over Wile E. Coytoe's head like a cartoon anvil, pushed off the cliff and suspended in freeze-frame during intermission.
It seems like only yesterday...
<<Cue flashback theme. Dissolve thru calendar pages to reveal masthead: The Nation. July 16 2003>>
"Did senior Bush officials blow the cover of a US intelligence officer working covertly in a field of vital importance to national security--and break the law--in order to strike at a Bush administration critic and intimidate others?
"It sure looks that way, if conservative journalist Bob Novak can be trusted.
"On June 12, The Washington Post revealed that an unnamed ambassador had traveled to Niger and had reported back that the Niger caper {Saddam's attempt to buy yellow cake uranium} probably never happened. This article revved up the controversy over Bush's claim in the state of the union speech that Iraq had attempted to buy uranium in Africa for a nuclear weapons program. {SR notes: Bush had been briefed by Wilson. Wilson went to the press after the president Bush used the Niger incident in his speech.}
"Critics were charging that this allegation had been part of a Bush effort to mislead the country to war. <sniip> Soon after Wilson disclosed his trip in the media and made the White House look bad, the payback came. Novak's July 14, 2003, column presented the back-story on Wilson's mission and contained the following sentences: "Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate" the allegation."
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I googled "Plame investigation" and found a "where are they now" type article at Buzzflash from Dec. 2003:,
"The Justice Department launched its allegedly official probe on September 26th, but neglected to direct the White House to preserve critical evidence until the evening of September 29th. Then, when the White House Counsel asked if he could wait until the next day to inform the staff of the need to preserve documents, the Justice Department allowed it. Simply, if the leaker(s) had not been smart enough to get rid of the evidence between July 6th and September 29th, the White House Counsel’s office wanted to be sure that there was at least one last chance to do so before destroying evidence would constitute criminal obstruction of justice.
"Since September 29th? Nothing, not a word. Nothing from the White House and nothing from the Department of Justice. The President never asked his staff to investigate the matter and never called for the leaker to come forward. The White House is, however, 'cooperating.'"
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I want an impeachment. I want somebody to do hard time.
But I'd settle for a moment of accountability. Is it too late? Is there a statute of limitations on treason?
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