I'm probably pretty damn stupid I guess. Because I really thought that if someone leaked classified information even by a mistake their ass was grass. I was pretty sure that if Dick Cheney had smuggled the identity of a veteran CIA operative of over 18 years who had worked undercover for most of that time to the White House dirty tricks spin machine group for making mischief that we would see his ass also behind bars. And I was also hopeful that the youth of our country in High Schools and College would not be witness to legal technicalities when it was known that Karl Rove was telling tells around the playground and out and out lies about two of American's
Good servants and citizens so his asshole buddy Georgie could push his war agenda unimpeded.
The facts as ALL American citizens should see and understand is that Dick Cheney wanted to go to war and was pushing and bullying everyone ,especially the CIA to come up with intelligence even if they had to make it up...(which they did). Cheney heard about a hot smoking tid bit concerning a Yellow Cake Uranium ore deal between Niger and Saddam of Iraq fame. One which had already been found to be absolutely false by CIA and other intel groups. But Cheney asked the CIA to go back and work it to death...in other words make it real. (And there were attempts to make it real by a couple of fellas who are thought to be ex-CIA right wing operatives who couldn't even use a copier to make a good looking Official Seal of Niger on forged documents...the evidence is laughable)....
The CIA big wings decided that Joe Wilson was a perfect candidate themselves without any influence from Valerie. They did ask Valerie if she thought he would be able to do it. She confirmed that he could. That was her role completely. Nothing more....that was it...period. She didn't send him..she didn't offer him up....she didn't request it...all she did was confirm to her bosses that he was capable and available to investigate this concern because he had been Ambassador to Iraq and also to Niger. He had very solid contacts in both places and knew the Yellow Cake industry folks to trace the facts.
The CIA then (because of the special request by Vice President Cheney) asked Joe Wilson to go to Niger and simply dig up anything that might still be lingering. Remember, they had already pretty much put this to bed. But Joe went and investigated the whole deal. And he found that it would be close to impossible to even think a secret deal could be intertained..that the industry is a consortium of many countries and every grain of Yellow Cake powder is accounted for not by Niger but by France and other European countries who together run the operation.
Joe returned to Washington DC and reported to the CIA and to the State Department his findings. Those who would listen...by this time Cheney's push was getting almost unbearable and the departments were simply gearing up for the inevidable...War in Iraq. The Downing Street Memo stated that the facts were being fixed around weapons of mass destruction. And the fix was on. And too late for anything else. If it didn't support Cheney and the Bush administrations desire to make this war happen it was getting shelved and ignored.
The President announced that the Yellow Cake deal was a fact even though the whole bunch already knew that it was ficticious. It had been uncovered as false and there were no facts to support it at all. He did it at the State of the Union speech...where all Americans would get scared to death about Nukes going off any day now. Cheney and Rice were saying the same thing all around the country and Sunday morning TV. The U.S. citizens were now certain that Saddam had the BOMB!!!!!! But he didn't.....
But that didn't matter....Cheney and Haliburton wanted war....Bush wanted war...Rummy wanted war....and all their cronies were hired to support the need to go to war. They had Tom Delay in congress to do their bidding and Bill Frist in the Senate for the same purpose. They held the power...and abused it big time.
We went to war.....blasted our way to Baghdad. Abused prisoners...lied, stole billions of U.S. dollars and allowed Haliburton and other Daddy Warbucks companies to rip us off also.
Then shortly thereafter....the search for WMD's turned up nothing. Hans Blitz said there was none. David Kaye said there was none and that there was no evidence of any. And Joe Wilson had written his Op Ed in the New York Times telling the American people about the mis-leading statements which the White House used to go to war.
Cheney and the cut-throat goons had to make Wilson look bad. So to make a long story short, all they had was the fact that Joe's wife also worked at the CIA and let's make it look like she sent him and basically it was nepotism and nothing more. Farthest thing from the reality...
I could go on about Joe Wilson's heroic stand against Saddam just before the Daddy Bush war on Iraq. And his service to the U.S. in his career. And that his wife Valerie was a top notch true spy that was under not protected cover in really dangerous operations in the worst parts of the world. But I think we all understand these two were good people who served their country in a great and moral way.
So...the White House succeeded in getting one of the dumbest and stupidest reporters to OUT Valerie in his column. The work had been done and the lie seeds were planted. Problem is....Novak made a big mistake...even after being told by the CIA that he should not mention her ..he did. Why his ass isn't setting in Jail right now I don't know. It makes me sick....
The CIA discovered that it wasn't a good thing to have a valuable agent outted...DUH!...they complained and the justice department said they'd look into it. I'm pretty sure that Ashcroft had all intentions of getting to the bottom of it....YEAH RIGHT!....after dragging his feet he got the message that he'd better leave this one to someone who really cares about justice..
So his underling appointed Fitzpatrick. And the wheels were set in motion to undercover the truth.
I think the thruth is now very much known by Fitzpatrick. I think most in government know what has happened. I think the American people are now getting the true story.....however, I don't think the news media is telling the story. They repeat the talking points and ask no questions. Even the good ones are missing key points wwhen doing interviews.
I still am hearing that Valere sent her husband...even today!...And that congress found that he had lied in his report and that the Yellow Cake issue had never been put to bed. But the news media dosen't qwell the lie...they just set there and look like a Deer watching headlights.
The right wing conservatives who took the U.S. to a wrong war will stop at nothing and use every tool they have to convince the American public this is a no issue and that they are right and the war was right and that continuation of the war is appropriate and that the war on Terrorism...or let's change that because now the White House is zeroing in on the new enemy...Extreme Islamic groups are what we are in war with now...another DUH seem's appropriate right there don't ya think?
So....
I must be stupid...dumb...nuts...to believe that true justice could ever be in this new American neo-con Disneyland we used to call the United States of America...
Karl Rove admits he told a reporter about Valerie...he told Chris Matthews that she was fair game....! The President was said to be a little mad at Karl when he was told and took a woodshed walk with Karl. But then told the public that if he found out if anyone was involved they would be gone. Guess he was just kiddin' around on that one.
Call me stupid....
There was an outing of a CIA agent which had to compromise our efforts bigtime somewhere...those ignoring that fact are dumber than me.
But call me dumb....
For believing this would never happen....
What's up with all of this? Why...why?....why aren't we fucking calling for these guys heads right now. Why are we setting still while republicans are saying telling that the telling lies and hiding and conspiring to lie to Fitzpatrick is and should not be a reason to indict.
But yet they spent $60 million to find out that Bill Clinton lied about oral sex with Monica and then impeached him. I actually heard one of them say Bill Clintons crime was so much worst than this deal....I wanted to puke..
These people are leading our government right now. We need to get them all out.....send them all home a be very vigilant not to let this ever happen again. Elect people who will really make us proud to be American again.
How can we be proud when our leaders lie....know it....are caught and then say it's not a big deal and it dosen't matter.
Man...I'm so stupid to believe....