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July 22, 2005
Are the Wheels Coming Off?
Kos has this summary posting on the latest in the Valerie Plame/Karl Rove drama.
It seems White House strategist Karl Rove and the Vice President's Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby have given grand jury testimony that directly conflicts with what their sources told the grand jury. Someone's lying folks.
Add to it that President Bush's stalled U.N. Ambassador nominee, John Bolton (he of the bullying temper and aging porn star moustache) may have been jailed NY Times reporter Judith Miller's primary source on WMD issues (again, think Ahmed Chalabi.) Mr. Bolton has visited the grand jury as well. We'll go out on a limb and say getting tangled up in this rapidly unfolding story may not have exactly served to bolster his nomination's chances.
It also now appears former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer may be involved too. Much interest now centers around a State Department memo on Plame, which was marked classified. Fleischer denies ever seeing the memo, despite others' testimony that they saw it in his possession just two days before Ms. Plame's identity was "outed" by columnist Robert Novak.
Suffice to say, President Bush's rushed nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court (which seems destined for a smooth confirmation), did not have the desired effect of deflecting attention from this growing scandal surrounding top operatives and staff.
Any schadenfreude felt here over the political misfortunes befalling the Bush 43 White House, is quickly replaced by utter disgust for such craven and possibly criminal behavior by those in the highest positions of trust within the administration -- shame.
Posted by houtopia at July 22, 2005 05:11 PM