Wayne Besen - Author, Activist, Columnist, Public Speaker

Thursday, May 25, 2006

So, the truth is finally coming out. Dick Cheney is responsible for the outing of Valerie Plame, the CIA spy. Any thinking person, however, already knew that Scooter Libby was not some Lone Ranger acting on his own accord. His powerful boss, Dick Cheney, gave the marching orders to commit arguably treasonous acts.

According to The Washington Post, Cheney was personally angered by a former U.S. ambassador's newspaper column attacking a key rationale for the war in Iraq and repeatedly directed I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, then his chief of staff, to "get all the facts out" related to the critique, according to excerpts from Libby's 2004 grand jury testimony released late yesterday by Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald.

Libby also told the grand jury that Cheney raised as an issue that the former ambassador's wife worked at the CIA and that she allegedly played a role in sending him to investigate the Iraqi government's interest in acquiring nuclear weapons materials. That issue formed the basis of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV's published critique.

Dick Cheney has consistently wrapped himself in the flag and used patriotism for partisan advantage, while commiting unpatriotic acts when it suited his agenda. Upset that his propaganda for war was unravelling, he knee-capped a U.S. spy. For such a despicable act he should step down before the prosecutor's noose forces him to do so.

2 Comments:

The Intelligence Identities Protection Act that Dick the Dick has fallen foul of was signed into law by that way-out left-winger, President Ronald Reagan in 1982.

It's almost enough to make me believe in the power of prayer, viz: "Oh God, please make my enemies ridiculous!"

Kudos to U.S. Prosecutor Fitzgerald, a Republican, but (wonder of wonders!) an honest man who takes his oath of office seriously, unlike our feather-brained President and his troll of a Vice-President.
posted by Anonymous, at 5/26/2006 2:41 PM