On Jul 21, 1:57 am, Perseid <eidp...@anti-spam.comcast.net> wrote:

Read Professor Cole's commentary on Dirty ***** CheNey's latest
shenannigan -- the pet Judiciary which views treason as normal politics.

http://www.juancole.com/2007/07/plame-case-thrown-out-national-
security.html

Friday, July 20, 2007

Plame Case Thrown Out;
National Security Imperilled

A federal judge has thrown out the lawsuit of Valerie Plame

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against Bush administration figures Irv Lewis Libby, Karl Rove, Richard
Bruce Cheney, and Richard Armitage. She sued them for conducting a
campaign to out her in the press as an undercover

and so ruining her career.

The judge interpreted Cheney Inc.'s outing of Plame as just politics and
something to be expected of political office-holders. That is, he
believed their story that they were just defending themselves
politically from what they saw as a Central Intelligence Agency attempt
to smear them and their Iraq War. He admitted that their methods were
"unsavory."

It is a ruling about the jurisdiction of the court and so something
technical in the law about which I don't feel qualified to comment. Just
as a citizen, I cannot understand how committing what was essentially an
act of treason (or trying very hard to) can be seen as part of the
ordinary political duties of incumbents.

The judgment will be appealed to the Supreme Court, but given the
coloration of that court, one hardly expects the justices to rule
against Bush-Cheney.

But the world has a kind of karma, and the United States will be
punished for what Cheney Inc. did to Plame Wilson.

Think about it. She worked against nuclear proliferation, including with
regard to Iran,with a "non-official cover" (NOC)

undercover operative with extremely sensitive duties.

So what are the big security challenges facing the United States in the
next decade? They include the regrouping of al-Qaeda and the threat of
nuclear proliferation.

What the United States therefore needs most to secure our country is
smart, knowledgeable, skilled and dedicated counter-terrorism and
counter- proliferation professionals. Without such persons, we are in
danger of being hit hard by smart, knowledgeable, skilled terrorists.

But here is the problem. If you are a NOC, you are living a lie. Your
very identity as CIA would potentially put everyone around you in
danger, especially your friends, contacts and the agents you are running
in foreign countries. You yourself could easily be assassinated on a
trip abroad if your identity became known.

So you would depend for your survival and for the survival of your
friends and contacts on the US government's willingness and ability to
keep your identity secret. If you thought that the vice president might
casually betray your identity if he thought it politically convenient to
do so, you'd be crazy to put yourself in that position.

So, we've had the Plame Wilson affair, the profound hostility of Cheney
Inc. to the reality-based CIA (for not going along with its fantasy
machine), the Cheney project of blaming CIA director George Tenet for
his own mistakes with regard to Iraq, and the changes and rotations in
top personnel. Competent Middle East analysts like former Deputy
Director of Intelligence Jami

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have been forced out.

So ask yourself, how many really smart competent people are going to
volunteer to follow in Valerie Plame Wilson's footsteps and take all
those risks for a job that does not pay all that well, knowing that the
Cheney sorts might at any moment ruin their lives for petty political
reasons?

So Bush and Cheney have deeply damaged recruitment, morale and efforts
among our counter-terrorism agencies at the same time that their greedy
and duplicitous occupation of a major Arab Muslim country, Iraq, is
generating a new terrorist threat against the American homeland. They
are creating the perfect storm.

So the judge threw out the lawsuit. But we will all be paying the

Bush-Cheney have disarmed us and galvanized the enemy. They are
traitors, and if something happens to America, it will be in some
important part their fault.

http://www.juancole.com/labels/Iraq.html

Lincoln killed 700,000 in order to maintain the South's
tax base. Now thats's treachery aka treason.

We are lucky there was no Al Quaida then; we'd all be named
Moe-Ham-mud Al Shtink-ee.

Some of us folqs now refer to him as Abe Langston 'cause we
don't appreciate what he done.