Reply #63: I think the prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, has known about this for [View All]

quite a while. Fitzgerald and Comey are old friends. I don't know what's going on in Republican circles, but it sure feels like a rumble to me, if not an earthquake. The CIA--and also probably elements in the FBI and the US military--are very unhappy campers.

So, let me give you my feel of the rumble. I think far more is at stake than indictments of a Rove or a Libby. I think the issue is WW III--the Bushites' intention to invade or nuke Iran and/or Syria. I think that's what the good CIA (as opposed to the Bushite CIA) has been trying to stop. That's why we have been seeing CIA and US commanders and other deep insiders going off the reservation. Something very serious is going on--far beyond politics.

I think I have a pretty good theory of Treasongate. It is this: The motive for outing Plame and her entire WMD monitoring network was a plot to plant WMDs, probably nukes, in Iraq, back in summer 2003--for Bush/Blair to gain the huge political benefit of a "find" of WMDs in Iraq. No WMDs were ever found--to the great chagrin of Bushites, Blairites and people like NYT "journalist" Judith Miller (who was actively "hunting" for them with US troops that summer). Stopping that plot to plant WMDs in Iraq was what got David Kelly killed on 7/17/03. Kelly was the Brits chief WMD expert who had been whistleblowing to the BBC, after the invasion, about the Blairites' "sexed up" WMD intel. On July 7, after Kelly was interrogated, Blair was told that Kelly "could say some uncomfortable things"--"COULD say," not HAD said. So he knew something more than just "sexed up" intel. I think that "something" was illicit movement of WMDs to Iraq for a false "find." And I think that's also what got Plame outed seven days after the Kelly interrogation, on 7/14/03, and then her whole front company, all projects and agents, outed and put at risk, four days after Kelly was killed, on 7/22/03 (after Kelly's computers were searched).

Let me line these dates up for you:

May 22, 2003: Kelly starts whistleblowing (anonymously) to the BBC.
July 6, 2003: After being baited by Condi Rice (my read on a Wilson interview), Wilson publishes his op-ed in the NYT about Iraq-Niger nukes.
July 7, 2003: Brit intel, having found out who was whistleblowing to the BBC (their chief WMD guy--an insider), interrogates Kelly and tells Blair about the "uncomfortable things" Kelly "could say."
July 14, 2003: Plame outed (by Novak).
July 18, 2003: Kelly found dead, under extremely suspicious circumstances; his office and computers searched.
July 22, 2003: The bigger outing--of the entire CIA front company monitoring WMDs around the world (by Novak).

Note: Thus, the Wilson article may have been a set-up to create the believable cover story of Rovian revenge, with their main goal the disabling any WMD monitoring. Why would they do the second Plame outing (of the company) if the goal was just to "punish" Wilson? They were also in a hurry--a panic?--to get this done. They called at least SIX reporters (adding to their risk of treason charges).

If I'm right, then the freedom with which the Cheney/Rumsfeld crowd are running WMDs about the world is what is at issue. They may have some similar plot in motion with regard to other countries they want to invade or wipe off the face of the earth. Not that they need the "consent of the governed" any more, here at home--but, as a sop to US and world opinion, perhaps the idea is to "find" a nuke on Syria's border, or just over the border...or, whatever. Or, maybe they're still working on a "find" in Iraq that can be "traced" to....

Those are my guesses and surmises--about the Fitzgerald prosecution, and related matters. The "good" CIA is really, really, really mad at the Bush Cartel for SOMETHING--and I don't think it's just the destruction of their entire WMD-tracking ability; I think it's the REASON for that destruction. (WHY would Cheney-Rumsfeld blind the CIA to WMD activity around the world?)

I don't know where given Republicans might end up on this. I think there may be some real unhappy campers in the Republican Party as well.

The headiness of unlimited power--for instance, Bushite companies now controlling the election system (with their secret, proprietary programming code--and with Dem election officials being such pushovers for bribery, future job offers and petty fiefdoms)--has gripped much of the Republican Party, most evident in Bush's "pod people" in Congress. Whatever they think of nuking Iran or Syria (or Mecca, as one recently suggested), they are moving desperately and quickly to consolidate global corporate financial gains that have been made under their rule, and to secure the Supreme Court. This explains their spurning of any compromise. They are panicked. They fear that they won't be guaranteed their seats forever (if citizens get off the dime and ban Diebold, ES&S and brethren, and achieve transparency in elections). They also fear what's coming down with this prosecution--that the Bush Cartel will be exposed--and, since it's a Republican prosecution, occurring at the INSTIGATION of the unhappy CIA, it may not be within Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld's power to stop it.

On the other hand, it could be a whitewash, which won't touch the real perps, but may be aimed just at STOPPING them, at preventing an incineration of the Middle East. Indictments of the lesser figures might do that--might inspire the top of the chain to settle for vast wealth and vast estates somewhere, and give up world domination.

Guesses and surmises, most of this. And pretty much all we can do about it--as the citizens of this once great democracy--is to see to the election system. That's our job--to get transparent, verifiable elections once again, and, maybe, with the power of our vote restored, to learn some lessons from this fascist coup, and try to build a better country.