Neocons consider themselves "Beyond Good and Evil", "whirlwinds of energy" and "creative destroyers" and thus "beyond democracy and the constitution."
...and I suspect the Plame exposure and political retribution against Joe Wilson was not the WH's primary intent, but rather a necessary, strategic preliminary distraction for the media event that followed days later: the deliberate exposure of -- for purposes of neutralizing -- the entire Brewster-Jennings WMD monitoring network, and whatever (and whomever) that network may have been "onto".
Bolton, as UnderSecretary of Strategic Arms Control, may have had access to information that network was processing.
And Condi Rice baited Joe Wilson to go public with his investigation into the Niger-uranium story, weeks before the July story.
Ethics? This affair appears more like a deliberated scheme, rather than some "reckless oversight" calling for a "refresher lectures on general ethics rules, including the rules of governing the protection of classified information." That Cheney and Libby, with years of experience and familiarity in this area, felt it necessary to take the risks they did only speaks to the gravity of the matter they were seeking to protect. Of course, they did this in knowledge they work for President "Get Out of Jail Free."
Do they care about how posterity will remember them?
Nope.
They are "Beyond Good and Evil"...and therefore "Creators of Values"...in power because of a stolen election...and happy to rip off whatever they can (Cheney's "It's our due.")...and be on their merry way.
Democracy? The Constitution?
See:
HIJACKED REPUBLICANSHere are current administration players in their own words...
"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it to the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
Grover Norquist, on NPR 2001
Grover Norquist is the mastermind of the radical fiscal policies, behind which there is definitely a hidden agenda. He is a Washington power broker who oversees coordination of administration players through a weekly breakfast, attended by all branches of government.
“Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our society and abroad. We tear down the old order every day, from business to science, literature, art, architecture, and cinema, to politics and the law. Our enemies have always hated this whirlwind of energy and creativity which menaces their traditions (whatever they may be) and shames them for their inability to keep pace. … <W>e must destroy them to advance our historic mission.”
Michael LedeenMichael Ledeen is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a major think tank, and influential with Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz.
“We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.”
Paul WeyrichPaul Weyrich is founder of the Heritage Foundation, which has itself been at times called a shadow government, due to its influence with leaders.
This might not sound so alarming, unless you realize that they carry no great allegiance to the structures of democracy, nor to the Constitution. Or unless you realize that they carry great influence and can see the traces of that influence in the actual deeds of the administration.
“Third, our current system institutionalizes amateurism. Unlike European parliamentary democracies, we have no 'shadow cabinet', no group of experts who are groomed by their party for decades before they take high office. ...If we are going to be a serious nation, we need a serious system for selecting our leaders and advisors. We need some type of shadow government, in which leaders and top advisors can be identified and developed.”
Paul Weyrich, The Heritage Foundation
...
“One of the steps for getting there is a
permanent Republican government, in the sense of
fifty-five Republican senators and a
thirty-vote margin in the House and a
Republican President for twenty years in a row. That’s when you can do to the left what the left did to us in the thirties and the forties.”
Grover Norquist, on how to accomplish the one-party rule
ergo: built-in
Election System Fraud ...in place, still, for 2006 and 2008...background links below.
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