Comments on: Cheney’s FBI Report

By: bluebutterfly

bluebutterfly — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:22:05 +0000

Valerie Plame was getting too close to exposing the facts as to what members of the US government are involved in Khan’s nuclear black market. The minute they outed her, they became responsible for outing all of Brewster’s contacts. We will never know how many died because of this.

By: bigtimepatriot

bigtimepatriot — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:26:33 +0000

Hey, speaking of “insta-declassification”, now that Dick Cheney has spoken about his “classified” meetings with congress about warrentless wire tapping, aren’t those meetings now “declassified by Vice-Presidential fiat”? And so the congress members involved have been given the okay to discuss anything about them they choose to?

By: jacqrat

jacqrat — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:18:23 +0000

Margaret, you are slacking in your title dept.

IT’s not “Just” a takin’ dick, it’s THE BIGGEST DICK OF THEM ALL, talkin’.

By: timethief

timethief — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:57:05 +0000

Brewster Jennings was a threat. I think Brewster Jennings was as much of a threat as Joe Wilson. My understanding is that B/J looked for WMD and could find none and their opinion had to have some weight in the CIA so I think Cheney knew Brewster Jennings was going to be a problem and could take both Wilson and B/J out with one leak.
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By: timethief

timethief — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:41:46 +0000

By: wavpeac

wavpeac — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:28:37 +0000

Oh my goodness this was fun reading. Ahh…just like old times. (back when I thought we might actually impeach these guys out of office). How naive was I back then? Wow…thank goodness these e-mails can be studied by historians someday. I hope this stuff is hard copied somewhere…oh yea…I forgot there was a great book…and it’s waiting a part two, is it not?

oh this is so why I come to this wonderful site!

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:44:16 +0000

Another great post EW. Like making an omelet, you have to turn it over to see how it is cooked. How generous of Murray Waas to bring this up during Bush Cheney victory tour.

By: radiofreewill

radiofreewill — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:24:43 +0000

I think it’s fair to say that Cheney wanted to Crush Joe Wilson for the July 6th Op-Ed. Nobody was allowed to call-out Cheney so boldly as Joe did - and Darth was going to Make Joe Pay!

The signifigance of changing the talking points on the 8th to say “We don’t know who sent Joe Wilson to Niger” is that it’s An Obvious Lure that leads directly to Joe Wilson’s wife, then-CIA Officer Valerie Plame Wilson.

Cheney was told by Tenet and MacLaughlin, the month before, that Valerie worked in the Covert CounterProliferation Department, and that she had a perfunctory, minimal role in sending Joe to Africa.

So, what does Cheney do when confronted with Joe Wilson’s Op-Ed?

Cheney invites the Knee-pad Press to ‘hunt’ over bait that he, himself, has layed out for them - July 8th’s talking point number one - which practically guaranteed that the Press would bag the game Cheney wanted them to shoot - Joe Wilson’s Wife, Valerie!

So, this is closer to a ’smoking gun’ than it may look at first glance.

Cheney was told, in no uncertain terms, by Tenet and MacLaughlin, that Valerie was ‘off-limits.’

So, what did Darth do? In order to ‘get’ Joe Wilson, Cheney took a Camoflaged Shot at Valerie - as if it was Fair Game to Hunt Valerie from a Blind - out of sight.

Cheney directed the ‘whisper campaign’ (1×2x6) to slander Joe with a wink-and-nod innuendo of nepotism, sloppy work and boondoggling - all made possible by ‘Wilson’s conniving wife’, Valerie Plame. Information that could be checked out with the CIA by Flat-backing Shills like Novak.

But, Cheney’s original intent of taking down Joe - by smearing him with Joe’s own ‘fallen’ wife - blew-up in his face when the investigation into Valerie’s blown cover revealed both Libby and Rove - cowering like weaklings behind the ‘confidential sources’ protection of the Press, from where they ‘took their shots at Valerie’ like she was Fair Game - all on the Orders of…

…you know who.

So, told in no uncertain terms that Valerie was ‘off-limits’ - Cheney got caught secretly, but hatefully, orchestrating her ’shooting’ anyway - in a cruel, shameful ploy to get Revenge on Joe.

Cheney ‘twisted’ the Intel on Iraq to get Saddam.

And Joe called him on it.

Then Cheney ‘twisted’ the Intel on Valerie to get Joe.

And EW called him on that.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:28:35 +0000

Aloha, CT. Happy holidays to you. I know, TB’s tempting, but he was never a Constitutional officer. Docking Dick would fix the we-never-prosecuted-Nixon thing too, he was part of that.

(There’s an old Japanese house on the market in Hilo right now that I can afford and would move to, if only I could pull off the logistics… which I can’t right now… sigh.)

By: CTuttle

CTuttle — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:18:05 +0000

I disagree, if there’s only one lamb… Please make it Turd Blossom…! Darth is a close second tho…!