"In the world which is upside down, the true is a moment of the false."
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Friday, July 18, 2003 an observation and an epiphany or two. (or most vicious slander) we report, you decide... first, the administration is getting more and more isolated. the perfect shitstorm that is swirling around these clowns is just amazing. it's all coming together. the war is blowing up in their face, the whole freakin' rationale for the war is publicly crumbling, the fiscal cows from these massive tax cuts are beginning to come home, all of it. they've thrown so many stories against the wall in the past week or so that it's approaching farce. the laser-tag fingerpointing is becoming almost too sad to watch further. now, they're lashing out. in doing so are painting themselves in to an increasingly small corner. i think it's safe to say that there is pretty much open warfare now between the pros, the careerists in the intelligence community and the ideologues and appointees both within the agencies and with the white house. the WH has outed a CIA career professional working in arms control, specifically WMD, an act that apparently is not only a major felony but, would almost certainly have to be judged, by any objective standard as treasonous effectively ending the career of one of their own, woman who worked in an arena that we supposedly care a great deal about, all in a rather blatant act of intimidation to would be talkers, is a rather odd way to inspire much esprit de corps amongst those who hold a great many cards in this game. one fucks over the agency one too many times at great fucking peril. then comes this gem these boys are callin'the whole operation out and specifically tricky dick. "We recommend that you call an abrupt halt to attempts to prove Vice President Cheney "not guilty." His role has been so transparent that such attempts will only erode further your own credibility. Equally pernicious, from our perspective, is the likelihood that intelligence analysts will conclude that the way to success is to acquiesce in the cooking of their judgments, since those above them will not be held accountable. We strongly recommend that you ask for Cheney's immediate resignation." ballsy. then tenet names freakin' names oddly, the spooks have also done the WH a huge favor in my opinion by smacking down an appearance by john bolton before congress where he was supposed to make the case for yet another war i think these guys are sick of the PNAC/AEI types and are no longer much enthused by the prospect of taking any heat for them. the knives are out on both sides. delicous. add to this state of affairs something they may even be more significant. now they are swinging at the press. some sleazemongers in the WH, in response to a story illustrating the less than flattering opinions of the civilian leadership in the DoD and in the WH held by the unfortunate guys and gals on the ground in iraq outs the reporter as both gay and flamingly canadian "Yesterday Drudge told us he was unaware of the ABC story until "someone from the White House communications shop tipped me to it" along with a profile of Kofman in the gay-oriented magazine the Advocate." nice. while condi and rummy serve at the pleasure of the p(R)es, the whole adminstration, the whole enterprise, serve at the pleasure of the press. none of this, the war, the tax cuts, the massive dihonesty about just about freaking everything, simply would have never been possible without a complacent, uninspired or just plain spineless (all of the above, perhaps?) press. the press starts to turn on the WH and the WH turns on them. they didn't take a swing at some blogger, at the some lefty broadsheet, they went after a guy at ABC news, for cryin' out loud. alienating the press with such foolishness could be fatal. take a look at the public flogging that ari's replacement has taken in the past few days as the facade starts to crumble, the press find themselves in a "target rich environment", so to speak. there is so much "low hanging fruit" for the press to pick at that i have the feeling that karl ain't sleepin' real well as of late. who wants a pulitzer, kids? who wants to claim the woodward/bernstein moment they've been dreaming of since J-school? there's blood in the water and the gloves are beginning to come off. which leads me to the epiphany/slander screed i promised above. when i was in about 8th grade or so, i spent a semester baffled by algebra. i just didn't get it. then one day, out of the blue, something that i have long since forgotten was explained to me and it all made sense. it was a rosetts stone-like moment and i never had a problem with algebra again. i've had a similiar experience lately. what we've seen in the past decade or so has been an absolutely stunning grab for power and cash, for all the marbles. think about it. alterman has they impeached a sitting president. the won an election by losing/stealing an election. they've shoveled literally trillions of dollars on their plates. they've attempted to hijack the house of representatives, the judiciary and the governor's office in california. they have perverted the balance of power in the federal government beyond recognition. they've gutted the bill of rights. they've started a freaking war while simultaneously relieving themselves of the burden of such tragedy in both treasure and blood. the breadth and audacity of the operation is just fucking jaw dropping when looked at as a whole. and who appears to be grinning in to the rearview, hands on the wheel? dick fucking cheney. now we know why the WH has fought tooth and nail to keep the lid on who attended and what was discussed in the march 2001 meetings of his energy task force were they discussing the california "energy crisis", a "crisis" largely constructed by the enron types present? perhaps. what we now know is that they were also carving iraq's carcass 6 months before 9/11. here it is in black and white demonstrably criminal enterprises such as enron game the system in california, sucking tens of billions of dollars from the state, blame it on the state itself, create a a state of affairs that allows them to come back later and unseat the duly elected governor of the largest state in the union, use the blackouts as leverage to attempt to open ANWAR and the florida coast to exploration and divide the spoils of a war two years before it comes to pass. does it make sense now that wesley clark would get a call from "from the white house" on 9/11? Clark:"Well, it came from the White House, it came from people around the White House. It came from all over. I got a call on 9/11. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, 'You got to say this is connected. This is state-sponsored terrorism. This has to be connected to Saddam Hussein.' I said, 'But--I'm willing to say it, but what's your evidence?' And I never got any evidence." who initiated the joseph wilson mission? (and, it would seem, has the least plausible denial of knowledge about ambassodor wilson's findings) does it make sense that someone in the white house was hell bent on including the phooey from africa in the SOTU? does it make sense that halliburton, et al would be able to win "cost plus" contracts for the reconstruction of iraq before the war? where do all these trails lead? who is sitting like a radioactive duck at the center of all this shit? dick fucking cheney. karl may be bush's brain, but it appears to me that they both take their marching orders from dick. i don't wish to let georgie off the hook, but any scenario which would involve booting bush to install cheney is far more dangerous than i think most people currently appreciate. i've got shivers... UPDATE: apparently, the folks at tom paine agree "Vice presidents traditionally hide themselves behind the coattails of the man elected for the top job, and Dick Cheney is no exception. It's easier to spot the Abominable Snowman in a whiteout than it is to discover what the vice president's been up to. (...) Both the White House press corps and the Democratic candidates for president need to start paying more attention to Cheney. (...) Three years into the Bush presidency, another explanation suggests itself: Dick Cheney avoids the spotlight because he likes to wield power without being held accountable for his actions. Thus Cheney leads a secret energy commission; pushes the president towards war against Iraq; and appears to have been deeply involved in funneling dubious intelligence to the president. And that's just the stuff we know about -- (...) It's time for the Democrats to start asking tough questions, and the hidden power of a conspiratorial vice president is a fine place to start. " pay no attention to the man behind the curtain..... posted by downtown | 5:46 PM |
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