I’m just waiting for a movie, putting all this together, from you!!

The are almost the same talking points that Powell used last weekend at an Aspen Institute interview sessions with evilRove… this is from an article in the Aspen Daily News…

http://www.aspendailynews.com/article_20591

Note that Powell helpfully stood up in the audience to explain why no crime was committed when reporters were questioning Rove… if there was any doubt he’s still in Bush’s pocket, this clear that up:

“Former Secretary of State Colin Powell stood up in the audience during the question-and-answer period to say that it was his deputy secretary of state, Richard Armitage, who sparked the CIA leak case. Powell said that Armitage responded to a question by Novak about Wilson, saying “I think she works for the CIA…”

Powell said that Armitage later called him and told him he had been the one who had talked to Novak about Wilson. Powell and Armitage then met with the FBI on the matter.

“The FBI knew on day one of Mr. Armitage’s involvement,” Powell said.

And so did Patrick Fitzgerald, Powell said. Fitzgerald was the special counsel brought in to find out if someone had maliciously exposed Ms. Wilson’s undercover identity with the CIA, where she was known as Valerie Plame.

“If everybody who had any contact with a reporter during that period, had done what Armitage had done, I think this would have ended early on and not dragged out the way it has dragged out,” Powell said, adding that he knew early on that no crime had been committed in the incident. “Mr. Libby got in trouble for an entirely different set of reasons and circumstances.”

Funny that Powell never said that Armitage told Bob Woodward, too…seems that Dickie Bird kept making these mistakes with National Security information.

And did he tell Powell the SOURCE of his information…the docuemnt requested by Lewis Libby that was marked with “Top Secret”?

And that this document was ordered by Dick Cheney…and that the identity of Plame was specifically checked by Cheney…for what reasons? Other than to use it to undermine the character of Ambassador Wilson?

So does Powell think that the Top Secrets of this country, including the identities of covert officers working on Counter-Proliferation, should be widely desseminated to journalists?

That WH officials should be able to lie about their involvement in that dessimination?

Amazing stuff coming from the man that once ran our military!

KestrelBrighteyes @ 7

[snark on]beg to differ .. i think he definitely recognizes the truth by the feeling of terror it gives him whenever he runs into it. gotta know what he’s running from [end snark]

Not to be pedantic, but you misspelled “terra.” As in, “I’m terra-fied of the truth, Laura!”

. . . . okay, we need to understand some things here:

1) there are limited things we can do right now that are useful. They mainly involved keeping up the blogging, telling friends and neighbors, spreading the word at every opportunity that things are not as they seem and danger may be very real and very near. Also we must keep up the pressure on congress, although they finally seem to realize what is happening and are starting a few tentative measures, but it may well be TLTL.

2) We no longer have the luxury of worrying about war with iran. we must concentrate on preserving our republic, our personal freedoms and way of life, and protecting both for our children. Bush still wants to go to war with Iran, but he won’t do it until our forces are safely out of Iraq (he is planning, IMHO, to move about 80,000 troops to kurdistan within six months to 9 months, and pull the remainder back to kuwait. Expect iraq to be on its own by march 1 2008.) Once the troops are laagered in kuwait and kurdistan, at the right moment in political terms and economic terms (oil), he will unleash virtually the entire naval air complement of the us on iran. no nukes, but everything else. no ground invasion, just air power. and he will keep it up until iran is basically reduced to rubble. and there will be little the iranians can do to stop it. oil will spike to 100 a barrel, but be brought down by production increases in other countries to about 75 and that will not wreck our economy. eventually iran will fall apart and the russians and turks will occupy it under UN mandate or something. (Russia would like its oil and gas, turkey wants a buffer from kurds and other hostile neighbors). We can do little or nothing to stop this.

3) If all goes well, bush will leave office in 2009 and we can get to work cleaning up the damage. That is what I now expect to happen. he will pardon himself, cheney, the zodiac killer and ghod knows who else as he goes out the door, just to keep things tidy. but at least he will leave, and his political appointee stooges with him.

4) If all does NOT go well, then it will be time for hard choices. but i will not cross that bridge until i have to. and even then, no violence of any kind. ever. or we are no better than they are.

231 years to the month.

And we now find ourselves and our nation under siege from a revolution within which has left us all as captives.

Alfred, sometimes, blood will spill, with or without our permission.

And I believe, the bad guys who STARTED this revolution upon our Republic intend to spill a LOT of our blood. With our without our permission.

But, perhaps, We Fight On, somehow.

Dawg help us all . . . .

Helen @ 47

Are we expecting any word from Walton? He asked all the parties to respond to the commutation. They all agreed that Bush could leave the supervised release thingee intact, so Walton may just let it be. But he must have asked for a reason other than just wondering what their opinions are.

I am asking because I am hoping against all hope that Walton can define “supervised release” as weekends or nights or both in jail.

Better than nothing.

The minute Walton does anything like that The Appointed President will pardon Libby. Libby has apparently made it clear through Rove that the minute he actually has to go inside a prison other than as a visitor, he’s calling Fitz. I hear he has Fitz’ cell on speed dial, and his cell is always with him. His offer to Fitz is simple: I walk and you get Rove and Cheney. And Fitz will take it.

This is why the Angler editorial showed up in the Wapoo. (Excellent take on it at Truthout.) Bush had decided NOT to pardon Libby, and Cheney gently informed him of what would happen (as noted above.) Cheney apparently THEN told Chimpy what would happen to Chimpy in those circumstances. Cheney is NOT going to jail for his chimpenfuhrer.

After what was probably the worst tantrum ever thrown by an adult in the white house, Chimpy agreed to pardon or commute libby’s sentence if needed. But in retaliation he did two things; he stopped letting Cheney be by his side all the time (remember the “lurking cheney”?) and he commissioned the hit piece, probably through one of his stooges at the WaPoo who farmed it out in some way. Once he knew he had to use the commutation, he dropped the hammer on the Angler piece.

Cheney and Libby are holding Chimpy at gunpoint. And this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no party, this ain’t no foolin’ around. If they spill the torture, renditions, black ops, ghod knows what that they’ve done in Bush’s name (and perhaps some that elder Bush did), the World Court will strip the Bushes of every last dime. Bush will end his days in a prison cell in the hague and be lucky to do it. And ALL Cheney has to do is call up Fitz and drop the hammer. No need for impeachment, poltical theatre, supreme court. Bush might literally have to run for his life. Cheney will be in Dubai with his family, and continue to help run Kuwait (more on that later.) THAT, by the way, is the reason Haliburton is moving to Dubai, so it can be close to Kuwait.

Bush sat down to dinner with the devil. He just forgot to use a long spoon.

Good to see you out and about again, trust all is as well as could be with you and yours.

Thanks for the above insight . . . it spins things differently, but, I’m not sure it offers hope of halting the Iran Do, or this admin, or putting Dem’s feets to fires . . .

Are we just DOOMED to a life at the hands of the billionaires who run the planet (pro war mongering folks they are)?

OT to Dak — The Dan rocks! There’s a cult of us on this site who feel the same.

Add me in . . . Still Reelin To Do It Again Cuz I Can’t Buy A Thrill!!

Agreed. I’m glad you called.