Shit rolls up hill
Meiers is out. Alito is up. Skooter's resigned, and Rove's under fire. Meanwhile, everybody wants to know why exactly Rove (Bush's chief of staff) would have told Libby (Cheney's chief of staff) who was or wasn't in the CIA just before Libby decided to go to the press with that information. What are we supposed to believe, that Rove just wanted to do a Mouskateer roll call?! Ah no, the conversation went a little something like this--
Rove: This guy's against our plan to manufacture a war in Iraq.
Libby: Yup.
Rove: You know his wife's in the CIA.
Libby: Really.
Rove: Somebody should tell the newspapers--that would shut him up.
Libby: Yeah, somebody should, that would be funny.
Rove: Then we're agreed. Cheney wants it done by this afternoon.
And oh by the way, Cheney is the ASSISTANT to the President, so you can bet your ass whatever he does, he did because Dubya told him to do it. These people are not acting on whim. There as orchestrated as an interview with the army about the state of things in Iraq.
So, let's see, Rove, Libby, Cheney, Bush. Hmmm.
Let's turn to another consideration for a moment...
Treason:
Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.
Or if you prefer,
Treason: the crime of betraying one's country, defined in Article III, section 3 of the U.S. Constitution: "Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." Treason requires overt acts and includes the giving of government security secrets to other countries, even if friendly, when the information could harm American security. Treason can include revealing to an antagonistic country secrets such as the design of a bomber being built by a private company for the Defense Department. Treason may include "espionage" (spying for a foreign power or doing damage to the operation of the government and its agencies, particularly those involved in security) but is separate and worse than "sedition," which involves a conspiracy to upset the operation of the government.
So, I ask--is outing an undercover CIA operative treason? What about supporting the enemy's main industry (oil) at the expense of the American people? Is that actively supporting an enemy at a time of war? Will you feel differently when, this Winter, people will freeze to death because they can't afford to heat their houses? What about destroying the nation's infrastructure by making diesel fuel the most expensive fuel at the gas stations? Higher prices to transport goods means higher price goods.
In other words, is President Bush's deliberate plan to destroy America treason? And if so, even if we suspect that it might be, can we afford such suspicions of our leaders? Moreover, should we allow alleged traitors to pick supreme court judges, get in bed with America's enemies, and escalate an unsupportable war based on lies?
Rove: This guy's against our plan to manufacture a war in Iraq.
Libby: Yup.
Rove: You know his wife's in the CIA.
Libby: Really.
Rove: Somebody should tell the newspapers--that would shut him up.
Libby: Yeah, somebody should, that would be funny.
Rove: Then we're agreed. Cheney wants it done by this afternoon.
And oh by the way, Cheney is the ASSISTANT to the President, so you can bet your ass whatever he does, he did because Dubya told him to do it. These people are not acting on whim. There as orchestrated as an interview with the army about the state of things in Iraq.
So, let's see, Rove, Libby, Cheney, Bush. Hmmm.
Let's turn to another consideration for a moment...
Treason:
Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.
Or if you prefer,
Treason: the crime of betraying one's country, defined in Article III, section 3 of the U.S. Constitution: "Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." Treason requires overt acts and includes the giving of government security secrets to other countries, even if friendly, when the information could harm American security. Treason can include revealing to an antagonistic country secrets such as the design of a bomber being built by a private company for the Defense Department. Treason may include "espionage" (spying for a foreign power or doing damage to the operation of the government and its agencies, particularly those involved in security) but is separate and worse than "sedition," which involves a conspiracy to upset the operation of the government.
So, I ask--is outing an undercover CIA operative treason? What about supporting the enemy's main industry (oil) at the expense of the American people? Is that actively supporting an enemy at a time of war? Will you feel differently when, this Winter, people will freeze to death because they can't afford to heat their houses? What about destroying the nation's infrastructure by making diesel fuel the most expensive fuel at the gas stations? Higher prices to transport goods means higher price goods.
In other words, is President Bush's deliberate plan to destroy America treason? And if so, even if we suspect that it might be, can we afford such suspicions of our leaders? Moreover, should we allow alleged traitors to pick supreme court judges, get in bed with America's enemies, and escalate an unsupportable war based on lies?
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10:44 AM
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