Ah, look, Condi put Bully Boy in a diaper to try to stop the leaks. "But it ain't no accident when you mean to leak," Bully Boy points out. True that.
And the administration meant to leak. This morning's New York Times quotes an unnamed White House Official who states that the issue is being confused. This wasn't a rebuttal against Joe Wilson, this wasn't a war on him and by proxy his wife Valerie Plame, this was just an intramural game between the White House and the CIA over who was to blame for the faulty information passed on to the press.
We're not sure what division they're used to playing in (though we are aware Bully Boy must have made the most awkward male cheerleader at his all boys school) but let's take a look at the game. The game was who was going to take the fall: White House v. CIA!
On the White House side you had Scoots Libby, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and who knows who else. On the CIA side? George Tenat.
Now which side would you put Wilson and Plame on? Wilson was sent to Niger by the CIA. Valerie Plame was a CIA agent.
So someone called a play (we doubt it was the cheerleader though we're sure he hollered "Give me a D-I-C-K! DICK!") and the play included taking out to Wilson and Plame. The two of them were not caught in the crossfire, they were the targets.
But just as the spazzes at NOFactCheck.org love to twist the night away in attempts to exhonorate the Bully Boy, the paper of misrecord loves their official sources (named and unnamed). Twisting . . . twisting . . . Twisting the night away. We're worried for the spazzes, afraid they might break a hip.
For instance, in The Sunday Times of London, Michael Smith has the latest on the forgeries. But let's keep maintaining that the wrong information got to the Bully Boy, let's act as though the Downing Street Memo didn't note the fixing of intelligence and let's just pretend like there was no newly created intelligence agency running out of the White House. We need to do that and a lot more to, as spazzes did, insist that Bully Boy didn't lie! He was misled!
When some see Bully Boy, possibly his infantile state makes them look upon him as their own child? So they clutch to him and the lies of the administration that led us into war and reject the facts?
NOFactCheck.org isn't overly concerned with the fatalities in Iraq, they just want everyone to join them in cooing for their little Bully Boy.
Back in the real world, the story that never died just keeps heating up. From Democracy Now!:
Bush Accused Of OKing Leak of Classified Info
Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff has testified that President Bush authorized him to leak a highly classified intelligence document on Iraq to the press in an effort to defend the administration's decision to go to war. This marks the first time Bush has been linked to the leaking of classified information and raises new questions if Bush was directly tied to the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's grand jury testimony was cited in court papers filed by prosecutors late Wednesday. Libby was indicted in October on charges that he lied to investigators about his role in the outing of Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson who was a vocal critic of the war. On Sept. 30, 2003, President Bush warned against anyone in his administration leaking classified information. "Let me just say something about leaks in Washington. There are too many leaks of classified information in Washington," Bush said. "There's leaks at the executive branch; there's leaks in the legislative branch. There's just too many leaks. And if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is." On Capitol Hill, Bush was widely criticized by Democrats on Thursday. This is Senator Charles Schumer of New York. "It is increasingly clear that this case goes far beyond Scooter Libby. At the very least, President Bush and Vice President Cheney should fully inform the American people of any role they played in allowing classified information to be leaked," said Schumer. "Did they believe they have the right to do this and if so, in what circumstances? Or is this just something that may have been done to accommodate the president's momentary political needs? According to court documents today, Scooter Libby said that the president authorized the vice president to direct him to disclose classified information to reporters in order to bolster support for the war in Iraq."
But some will continue to look the other way. As Stevie Wonder notes in "Skeletons:"
It's getting ready to dropIts getting ready to shock
Somebody done turned up the heater
An'a it's getting ready to pop
We're sure that some supposedly "objective" persons had to be defending Richard Nixon right to the bitter end. We're sure some will hang with Bully Boy right up to the bitter end. But as more details emerge we wonder how many will jump ship? We're guessing quite a few.
Bully Boy maintained he knew nothing. Nothing! Like Sgt. Schultz in Hogan's Heroes. That doesn't appear true but we're sure some loyalists will offer that "nothing" doesn't really mean that he knew not-a-thing. In fact, in days of yore, nothing often meant . . .
But on planet earth, all signs indicate that things are about to get a little bit hotter (than July?) for the administration. There was always a reason Bully Boy never demanded to know "Who let the leak out! Who! Who! Who! Who let the leak . . ."
Illustration is from Isaiah's latest The World Today Just Nuts.
