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Edited on Wed Oct-19-05 05:32 AM by unblock
there would be no scandal.
this is why i find it so completely believable that all this happened. discrediting someone who condradicted shrub by researching his family and destroying his wife's career is just another day at the office for this band of thugs. they think nothing about the petty vindictiveness, the abuse of power, the collateral damage.
this is how they wield power. they intimidate. they let it known that if you don't say "how high" when they say "jump", they can and will destroy your life and/or your family's lives.
i think this sort of thing happens so often that they just don't report about it. but it would explain how they have such "loyalty" and cooperation even in the face of direct, contrary evidence in story after story. people are afraid NOT to cooperate because they know that saying the wrong thing can be a career- or family- ending mistake when dealing with these thugs.
and that is why i think so many people in the white house knew about the plame leak. it was just another day at the office, another work up of an uncooperative outsider. they didn't try to isolate the information because they didn't think it was important to do so. because this kind of work up DEPENDS on people getting the hint they you're behind it. it's not enough to destroy someone's wife's career if they cross you. you have to let everybody know, or at least suspect, that you did it, so as to send a message to anyone else who might think of crossing you.
and if valerie plame didn't have a security clearance, this would have been par for the course.
i think it was just an oversight on their part that no one stopped to think that plame's covert status might change the situation a bit. or maybe some junior person did raise the issue, and they all laughed, "so, you're fine with conspiring to abuse power and commit, at a minimum, a massive tort, but you're not fine with blowing someone's cover?" or "hey, we ARE the government, WE decide who's cover is worth keeping or blowing!"
nah. i honestly don't think it occurred to them that what they were doing in plame's case was any different or worse than any other.
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