July 17, 2005
You can pretty much assume that journalists handling secret sources
don't talk to each other, and can also assume that the Vice President's
Office and Rove don't talk much, out of motives of possible personal
animosity and to avoid the type of Watergate and Iran-Contra problems
of which they are fully aware through bitter personal experience. What
if Cheney or Libby found out about Plame (possibly from the memo referred to here,
but it could have come from anywhere), and, rather than tell Rove
directly, told Miller? There seems to be a Cheney-Miller connection, as
evidenced by the fact that the Miller aluminum tubes story was
immediately followed by Cheney using it in his build-up to war. Once
Miller has the info, Cheney or Libby could hint to Rove that he might
want to call Miller, and Miller would then pass on the information to
Rove. Rove is then off the hook, as he is just the recipient of the
scuttlebut of journalists, and can safely pass the information to
Pincus, Cooper and Novak. The Rove e-mail message to Stephen Hadley
about his conversation with Cooper, saying he 'didn't take the bait'
when Cooper suggested that Wilson's criticisms had been damaging to the
administration, is just papering the file for Rove's eventual legal
defense. Cheney and Libby have cleverly used Miller to launder the
information which Cheney wants to get to the press without having his
fingerprints on it. Miller uncharacteristically didn't write about the
story, which may be evidence that she was in on the scheme. As long as
she keeps quiet, Cheney and Libby are safe. Once she is out of jail,
they can arrange for her to have a nice book deal, funded by the usual
scam of wholesale buying of books by right-wing operators to make the
book seem more popular than it actually is.
We're now getting very close to a Unified Theory (or here)
of the Corruption of the Bush Administration, tying together Plamegate,
the forged Niger documents, the AIPAC scandal, Miller's 'journalism',
John Bolton's work undermining the State Department (Bolton also ties into the creation of the original yellowcake story, and don't forget Frederick Fleitz, his chief of staff, with an odd double posting between Bolton and WINPAC in the CIA, where he would know about Plame, and a guy who parrots
the Israeli line that UN peacekeepers wouldn't work in the Occupied
Territories), the information in the Downing Street Memos, David
Wurmser and John Hannah and their Israeli connections within the Vice
President's Office, and the machinations of the Office of Special
Plans. All this concerns the lies which led to the attack on Iraq, lies
which were primarily funneled out of the Vice President's Office. This
information included lies from the Iraqi National Conference (through
Miller) and Sharon's office (through Feith, and no doubt the assistance
of AIPAC). The information battle was with the CIA, which was
consistently trying to meddle by attempting to present the truth.
Cheney actually had to go and attend at the CIA offices in order to
shut the CIA up. The Office of Special Plans was created expressly to
route the lies around the truth which the CIA was trying to present.
Plamegate was just another shot across the bow of the CIA, a warning
that the Vice President was fully capable of fighting dirty if the CIA
wasn't ready to play along. It may also reflect, in miniature, the same
conspiracy that led to the disastrous attack on Iraq.
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