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The Source Beyond Rove
Condoleezza Rice at the Center of the Plame Scandal
By Roger Morris for GP360 Online
Date: July 27th, 2005
"We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."
It was September 2002, and then-National Security Advisor,
now-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was fastening on CNN perhaps
the most memorable and frightening single link in the Bush regime’s
chain of lies propagandizing the war on Iraq.
Behind her carefully planted one-liner with its grim imagery was the
whole larger hoax about Saddam Hussein possessing or about to acquire
weapons of mass destruction, a deception as blatant and inflammatory
as claims of the Iraqi dictator’s ties to Al Qaeda.
Rice’s demagogic scare tactic was also very much part of the tangled
history of alleged Iraqi purchases of uranium from Niger, the
fabrication leading to ex-Ambassador Joseph Wilson’s now famous exposé
of the fraud, the administration’s immediate retaliatory "outing" of
Wilson’s wife Valerie Plame as a CIA operative, and now the revelation
that the President’s supreme political strategist Karl Rove and Vice
President ***** Cheney’s Chief of Staff Lewis Libby were involved in
that potentially criminal leak--altogether the most serious political
crisis Bush has faced.
In fact, though her pivotal role has been missed entirely--or
deliberately ignored--in both the media feeding frenzy and the rising
political clamor, now-Secretary of State Rice was also deeply
embroiled in the Niger uranium-Plame scandal, arguably as much as or
more so than either Rove or Libby.
For those who know the invariably central role of the NSC Advisor in
sensitive political subjects in foreign policy and in White House
leaks to the media as well as tending of policy, especially in George
W. Bush’s rigidly disciplined, relentlessly political regime, Rice by
both commission and omission was integral in perpetrating the original
fraud of Niger, and then inevitably in the vengeful betrayal of
Plame’s identity.
None of that spilling of secrets for crass political retribution could
have gone on without her knowledge and approval, and thus complicity.
Little of it could have happened without her participation, if not as
a leaker herself, at least with her direction and with her scripting.
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The evidence of Rice’s complicity is increasingly damning as it
gathers over a six-year twisting chronology of the Nigerien
uranium-Wilson-Plame affair, particularly when set beside what we also
know very well about the inside operations of the NSC and Rice’s
unique closeness to Bush, her tight grip on her staff, and the power
and reach that went with it all. What follows isn’t simple.
These machinations in government never are, especially in foreign
policy.
But follow the bouncing ball of Rice’s deceptions, folly, fraud and
culpability.
Slowly, relentlessly, despite the evidence, the hoax of the Iraq-Niger
uranium emerges as a central thread in the fabricated justification
for war, and thus in the President’s, Rice’s, and the regime’s
inseparable credibility.
The discrediting of Wilson, in which the outing his CIA wife is
irresistible, becomes as imperative for Rice as for Rove and Libby,
Bush and Cheney.
And when that moment comes, she has the unique authority, and is in a
position, to do the deed.
Motive, means, opportunity--in the classic terms of prosecution, Rice
had them all.
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Can't believe that KIndasleazy isn't a player.
Harry
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