Bush, Cheney Indictments in Plame Case Looming

[LibertyorDeath]

by
Michael C. Ruppert

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There are a multitude of signs that the Bush administration is being "swarmed" in what is becoming a feeding frenzy as opposition is There are a multitude of signs that the Bush administration is being "swarmed" in what is becoming a feeding frenzy as opposition is surfacing from many places inside the government, including the military. The signs are not hard to find.

The June 3rd issue of Capitol Hill Blue, the newspaper published for members of Congress, bore the headline "Bush Knew About Leak of CIA Operative's Name". That article virtually guaranteed that the Plame investigation had enough to pursue Bush criminally. The story's lead sentence described a criminal, prosecutable offense: "Witnesses told a federal grand jury President George W. Bush knew about, and took no action to stop, the release of a covert CIA operative's name to a journalist in an attempt to discredit her husband, a critic of administration policy in Iraq."

A day later, on June 4th Capitol Hill Blue took another hard shot at the administration. Titled "Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides", the story's first four paragraphs say everything.

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http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/060804_coup_detat.html

[Old and In the Way]

1. Music to my ears.....

Well, if this doesn't get GW hitting the bottle again, nothing will.

Poppy Bush said that outing a CIA agent is the highest form of treason....apparently Junior wasn't paying attention when his Dad made those remarks.

[Robbien]

8. I believe Poppy Bush was angry because it was this particular agent

who was outed. Plame was the CIA covert link to the Saudi oil men and now that the operation is closed down, Senior Bush and friends are at a disadvantage in their dealings with the House of Saud.

[indepat]

11. Nor Dad's remarks about the insanity of invading a place like Iraq?

[Gloria]

2. The guest on Majority Report (detainee lawyer), when asked by

Garafalo about what would it take to finally get these guy, mentioned
leaks, etc. from the military as one of two things that could do it...

Let's hope the military is revving up........

[struggle4progress]

3. I'll believe indictments are coming when indictments come. eom

[LibertyorDeath]

4. Ruppert is no slouch

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JUNE 8, 2004 1600 PDT (FTW) - Why did DCI George Tenet suddenly resign on June 3rd, only to be followed a day later by James Pavitt, the CIA's Deputy Director of Operations (DDO)?

The real reasons, contrary to the saturation spin being put out by major news outlets, have nothing to do with Tenet's role as taking the fall for alleged 9/11 and Iraqi intelligence "failures" before the upcoming presidential election.

Both resignations, perhaps soon to be followed by resignations from Colin Powell and his deputy Richard Armitage, are about the imminent and extremely messy demise of George W. Bush and his Neocon administration in a coup d'etat being executed by the Central Intelligence Agency. The coup, in the planning for at least two years, has apparently become an urgent priority as a number of deepening crises threaten a global meltdown.

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/060804_coup_detat.html

[starroute]

5. All this was clear when the momentum switched from Dean to Kerry

There's a very simple thread that winds through all the presidential campaigns of the last 30 years or so: The power elite generally prefers Republican presidents to Democrats, but when a Republican goes off the rails like Nixon or Bush II and starts to threaten profits, they will temporarily switch to a Democrat to repair the damage.

Their main mechanism for controlling presidential elections is to control the Democratic primaries. When they want the Democrats to lose, the see to it that a candidate who can be portrayed as a wimpy liberal is nominated. When they want the Democrats to win, the make sure one of their own is chosen.

Last winter, the momentum mysteriously shifted from Dean to Kerry at exactly the moment that it became clear the Bush Administration was going off the rails. At that point, it was obvious that the decision had been made.

(Although this pattern has been particularly clear since Watergate, I'm not sure it doesn't go back to at least 1932. Roosevelt was originally elected with widespread business support, but when the urgency of the Depression caused him to move towards the left, his original backers began to consider him a "traitor to his class." I always took that as a metaphor, but perhaps it was true in a very literal sense.)

[LibertyorDeath]

7. Thanks for the insight starroute

I'm always facinated by Ruppert's take on things.

[emulatorloo]

10. Fascinating, but from the broad brush perspective

Dean is a centrist/conservative and Kerry is a liberal. The last Bush Ad I saw was all about what an "out of touch liberal" Kerry is, why he is WORSE than Ted Kennedy!!!! That is also the rationale behind the Kerry is weak on Defense attacks - wishy washy liberal. . .So did the power elite get their signals crossed?

[myopic4141]

6. And so it begins.

I only hope that if indictments occur, it is close enough to election to have Kerry win rather than any Republican in the current line of succession and too late for a Republican replacement to get on the ticket. Be careful of what we wish for.

[Capt_Nemo]

9. This sounds just like Soviet Union politics in the early 80's

and we all know what happened to them...

[AlabamaYankee]

12. I think you're confusing "Capital Hill Blue" with "The Hill"

The Hill is the semi-official congressional paper. CHB is published by Doug Thompson, a permanently pissed off Libertarian. He started as rabidly anti-Clinton, and fairly quickly became almost equally disenchanted with Bush*. He still writes "The Rant" column.

[charlyvi]

13. I would be very surprised.....

...if * or Cheney were ever indicted for a criminal charge. We all know they should be, but Congress, SCOTUS would never let this happen to a sitting President--the same problem occurred with Nixon. Besides, they would find a cheap ass way of explaining it to The Base and the wingnuts would say it was their moral responsibility to out Plame or some such bs. As we all know, they think * is King. And the media will sit by and spout a lie as well as a truth for the sake of their "he said, she said" school of journalistic ethics. UGH!!