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More Evidence of Bush Administration Treason: The Valerie Wilson Affair Revisited

August 14, 2006

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

On Sunday, BuzzFlash posted an editorial accusing the Bush Administration of treason.

It is a subject worthy of a book.

Their priority is not to fight terrorism, as we have said many a time. Their priority is the accumulation of dictatorial powers, primarily by using terrorism as a tool for doing away with our civil liberties.

To such a Cheney/Rumsfeld/Bush/Rove mindset, WE are the collateral damage in a campaign to achieve one-party tyrannical rule. They crave power, and they are the ultimate elitists.

Like a Pinochet, they believe that they are restoring some fantasy of "patria" to a nation of sheep, lost in the chaos of liberty and freedom.

To those that question the assertion that the Bush Administration is treasonous, we will return, yet again, to one of the most egregious examples of their betrayal. That is the exposure of a CIA operative specializing in the tracking of the illicit sales of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

The Neo-con "Tokyo Roses," such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, will argue that Libby was just indicted for perjury, and that no one has been legally charged with treason or outing a CIA operative.

This is legally accurate, but does not settle the issue of treason.

The Neo-con "Tokyo Rose" arguments regarding the Wilson affair are, as Stephen Colbert would say, filled with "truthiness," not truth.

This is the reality on the record.

The White House, with the authorization of both Bush and Cheney, approved the declassification of highly secret intelligence information to discredit Joe Wilson and to expose his wife. By exposing Wilson's wife, Valerie Wilson, they rendered her inoperative as a CIA asset who was an expert in following the illicit trafficking of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

It has been speculated -- and not disputed -- that Valerie Wilson was even an expert on the subject of Weapons of Mass Destruction in regards to Iran.

Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed, well more than 2500 American GIs are dead, and thousands of U.S. soldiers are recovering from the most serious of war injuries. Why? Because the Bush Administration led us into a war with Iraq by lying to us.

What did they lie to us about? The chief lie that clinched the casus belli was the endlessly repeated assertion that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction (which they did not actually have). Now, the Bush Administration has been saber rattling for a war with Iran. Why? Because they are attempting to acquire Weapons of Mass Destruction, according to the Neo-cons.

So here we return to the treason.

If you have initiated and conducted a three year ruinous war by telling the American people that a nation had Weapons of Mass Destruction, and if you are trying to pull America into another war because of a claim that a nation -- Iran -- might develop Weapons of Mass Destruction, isn't it treason to intentionally render useless a CIA operative who specializes in tracking the illegal sales and transfer of Weapons of Mass Destruction?

There is no answer to that question but yes.

In the course of the years since 9/11, there has been day after day of stories and findings that prove that the Bush Administration is running only a headline propaganda war on terrorism, while shortchanging us on the details of implementing and funding anti-terror efforts in the United States and abroad. That, one can argue, may be due to either incompetence or intentional criminal malfeasance; i.e., aimed at exacerbating the terrorist threat to use it as an excuse to gain more power by dismantling our freedoms.

But the Valerie Wilson affair goes beyond that. It is not just an issue of legal technicalities. The public evidence is more than sufficient to show that Rove/Libby/Cheney and Bush willfully outed a CIA operative who could aid us in knowing which nations or terrorist groups who wished us harm had Weapons of Mass Destruction.

To do such damage to our efforts to track illegal weapons that the Bush Administration claims are worthy of thousands upon thousands of lives and billions upon billions of dollars is treason.

Let the Neo-con "Tokyo Roses" play with technicalities.

We will repeat the bare truth: The "neutralizing" of a CIA operative specializing in Weapons of Mass Destruction was treason. The motive of the Bush Administration doesn't matter. Because of their actions in the Wilson Affair, America's national security is at greater risk based on their own emphasis on the significance of certain nations and terrorist organizations having Weapons of Mass Destruction.

The President, Vice-President, Rove and Libby have committed treason by the definitions of national security that they themselves have created. By their own standards, they are guilty of betraying America's safety and security.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

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Scoundrels

Adolph Hitler never outed one of his own covert agents. Joseph Stalin never outed one of his own covert agents. Saddam Hussein never outed one of his own covert agents. George W. Bush HAS! If you find this comparison troubling, take a few moments to ponder it. The truth is that our current President has done a deed that that is so vile that even the most villainous scoundrels of modern history would dare not do. Yet the San Joaquin Valley's Republican Congressional delegation unwaveringly supports this execrable man. A point can be made that if you are stupid enough, ignorant enough, or evil enough to vote Republican in this comming election, you deserve what you get!

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You don’t know anyone who has read the report or checked the facts. The two co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission Report, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, have just released a new book, “Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission.” Kean and Hamilton reveal that the commission suppressed the fact that Muslim ire toward the US is due to US support for Israel’s persecution and dispossession of the Palestinians, not to our “freedom and democracy” as Bush propagandistically claims. Kean and Hamilton also reveal that the US military committed perjury and lied about its failure to intercept the hijacked airliners. The commission even debated referring the military’s lies to the Justice Department for criminal investigation. Why should we assume that these admissions are the only coverups and lies in the 9/11 Commission Report? How do you know that 9/11 was a Muslim terrorist plot? How do you know that three World Trade Center buildings collapsed because two were hit by airliners? 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Plame was the target, Wilson was cake.

I know that the story goes: Plame was outed to discredit her Husband when he called bullsh!+ on Bush's lies. I may just be cynical but I don't buy it. Cheney and Rumsfeld, along with Poppy Bush, are arms dealers. They play both the "legitimate" market, selling F16s to Israel and South Africa, etc. and the black market, like surface to air missiles to the Mujahadeen(now al Qaeda) and Iran. When not squatting on Government property, they work for major armaments manufacturers. For all their rhetoric about WMDs, they have looked the other way as "friends of ours", Israel, India, Pakistan... go nuclear. One of the most prolific Black Market proliferators, Pakistan's A Q Kahn, sold nuclear technologies to North Korea, Iran, Libya and who knows who else. He's served his four years of House Arrest and is free again. These things don't happen in a vacuum. Stuff has to physically move around the globe (through the Port of Dubai, for instance) and money changes hands, all this leaves a trail. And we have agencies like NSA and CIA that track this stuff. If you were Dick Cheney (and you should thank God you are not) and you were trying to "counter-proliferate" that is spread the nuclear genie out to "Friendlies" clandestinely, you would want to find out which agency and what team you were up against, right? So you float a bogus bill of sale for Yellowcake from Niger to Saddam over Langley and see who rises to the bait. CIA put their best team on it, this was a request from the Vice, after all. They got lucky when Plame's hubby, a retired Diplomat with extensive contacts in Africa took the assignment, gratis, as a duty to his nation. Joe Wilson was one of a dozen people that looked into the matter and declared it bogus. When he heard Bush still on the meme, months later, he did what most people wouldn't ever dare do, he stood up. He wrote an Op-Ed, What I did NOT find in Africa, published in the NYT. That gave Cheney a plausible political excuse to expose Plame. Yes, its a dirty deal, but that's politics, y'know. And that keeps us discussing the "revenge against Wilson" meme, not looking at the criminal undercurrent. Plame's exposure was not just the end of her effective career. Her network of operatives, cultured over fifteen or twenty years, Her cover company, including her peer-level operatives, and everyone that they had done business with around the globe, were all compromised. There's no way to know how many were liquidated, but her large, expensive and very valuable organization blinked out of existence. And now, Cheney's free to play. That's only one of the crimes of this misAdministration.

Why not start now?

Thank you Buzzflash for shattering the Matrix every day with your great headlines, resources, and editorials!

I say let's quit beating around the bush (so to speak!) and get right to it. Aren't you tired of talking about a second American revolution in such veiled and hypothetical terms? Let's start planning and executing it. God knows it's long overdue. It is said that less than 25% of the US population were actively involved in fomenting and carrying out the first revolution. What could tens or hundreds of thousands of informed activists/true patriots accomplish if carrying out a coordinated campaign with the aid of the internet and the benefit of 225 years of political understanding?

In my opinion the first thing is to understand the Matrix we are in, crystal clear. Buzzflash is a godsend in that respect. However two other critical resources just out must be included: Korten's "The Great Turning" and Moore's "Escaping the Matrix." Understand these two books and you have filled in the gaps that can lead to a successful societal transformation.

These two books make clear that:

- "The Great Turning" must be preceded by an awakening/transformation/maturation in consciousness,

- left and right "divisions" must be transcended (not to mention left/left and right/right strife) by use of new collaboration technologies as we are all in this together. (Moore calls this the harmonization imperative)

- fundamentally, rule by elites is what must be overthrown by an active population committed to the work of building local economies and cultures and taking responsibility for making their own decisions

- whatever our opinion, the collapse of power centralizing elites due to a convergence of megatrends is exactly what is in store; so we either need to seize the moment and move forward together or face collapse unprepared and disorganized.

I have had a real awakening this year about where to put my energies - how about you?

Guilty of Treason AND Domestic Terrorism

Under the USA PATRIOT ACT, Section 802 of HR 3162 defines domestic terrorism as "activities that - involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States:... and "appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;" or "to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion;".

Clearly, it is illegal for anyone, including individuals working in the White House or with the media, to publicly reveal a person is operating undercover for the CIA.

Next, the White House and Robert Novak conspired to have an important undercover asset Valerie Plame taken out of the REAL war on terrorism.

Any resource contacts Plame might have had in hostile countries were immediately put at risk. A guest on the Randi Rhodes show last year suggested resources connected through Brewster Jennings, Valerie Plame's cover employer, were in fact apprehended and disappeared. Also put at risk is the safety and well being of every American at home or abroad.

Finally, Joseph Wilson, Plame’s husband said, "but what it really is, is an attempt to keep anybody else from coming forward" to reveal similar intelligence lapses.

So there you have it, violation of criminal law, acts dangerous to human life, and intimidation of our civilian population. This is, in my opinion, a clear case of Domestic Terrorism, as defined by the Patriot Act, committed by the White House, and by Robert Novak who outed both Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings in his columns.

Bush/Cheney may control the White House, but they cannot unilaterally destroy the effectiveness of a legal CIA covert operation and betray and endanger the lives of undercover agents as well as all Americans.

I say, let the courts decide the fate of these traitors. The White House officials and Robert Novak must be arrested and charged with Domestic Terrorism.

Solely for political gain, they knowingly took valuable resources away from the real battle against terrorism and destroyed the career of Valerie Plame and possibly the lives of other undercover agents in hostile countries.

Through the intimidation of outing Valerie Plame, the White House influenced government employees, members of the media, the policies of the U.S. government, and they endangered the lives of every single U.S. citizen at home and abroad.

The China model.

The Republican party wants to follow the China model of government and capitalism.

The Republican party wants to use our citizens to give it dictatorial power so it will function as a one party state with capitalism.

Do you want a second American revolution? Boycott, go on a purchasing strike against the major donors to the Republican party and make legislative demands of the donors.

What CEO wants thousands of people calling him, telling him they will boycott his company until people get a set of demanded progressive legislation?

What CEO of a company wants half of his customer base to disapppear?

Boycott

An effort along these lines has been underway for about a year now, called Buy Blue.

Buyblue does not encourage people to make legislative demands

that's why I tell people to call these companies that donate to the GOP and make demands of them. People ask the wrong people for legislation. You need to ask people that give money to the GOP and who depend on you to buy their products. You have power over them if you join together with thousands of people.

The problem is.....

There is no doubt in my mind that the outing of Valerie Plame-Wilson in an act of vengeance against her husband for publishing the truth about the falsified documents Bush used as part of his casus belli qualifies as a 'high crime', and as such, is one of many Bush crimes for which he deserves to be impeached. However, as long as his cronies control the House, they will take no action against him. Winning the House in November is the ONLY chance we have to hold him legally accountable. tseving -Surviving Bush one day at a time http://tomcatsbox.spaces.live.com

Nail da mofos

Short of a second american revolution, we're all pretty much fucked... so move on it, will ya ! Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. -Frank Zappa TFYQA www.broadjam.com/TFYQA

Agreed

The Constitution is pretty much inoperative and many of the Democrats are saying they won't impeach the bastards anyway. Does anyone believe in accountability anymore? I believe it will take a new American revolution to regain our country and our Democracy, but it will have to be a guerrilla revolution, using strikes, both worker and consumer. It will also take going after the NeoCons, who seem to rule the entire damn world from behind the scenes and the Corporate whores of Babylon, who support it all. We are dealing with authoritarians who would not think twice about putting people in concentration camps or klling us, so unless people are prepared to fight, in every sense of that word, I would suggest getting a pssport ASAP and looking for another home country, beause this one has already gone to hell. I am as serious as a heart attack! (When Fascism comes to America, it will come draped in the flag and carrying a cross)

What's worth dying for?

For inner city blacks and hispanics for whom usurpation of liberties and biased and flexible interpretation of rights is commonplace, there's nothing novel or ground shaking about the notion of having to take actions that might put one at risk of bloodshed or death just to function as a human being in America. It's interesting to see how the bullying by the current administration has begun to cause others to come to share this perspective. I certainly believe that the powers that be will never "get it" as long as they continute to be in a position to obtain their objectives simply by putting pen to paper or transferring funds between accounts. However, I'm extremely skeptical about the prospect that a majority of Americans will recognize that the things taking place in this country are worth risking ones blood or life for prior to such a sacrafice becoming futile. Just paint "reality" in such a way that immoral and unjust policies seem to be detrimental to one or two "fringe" elements. Americans aren't moved. If the right media outlet or spin doctor tells them they're fine, many believe it even when it clearly would contradict their own assessment of their situation. I believe that complacency, gullibility, and lack of concern for the downtrodden will prevent Americans from opening their eyes until after the strength of the facist monster has reached levels that guarantee its ability to quickly snuff out any hodgepodge, after thought resistance. Basically, there are still too many Americans for whom an offense has to at least be on their street if not in their own home before they can become outraged enough to act.

Nail?

Who are you telling to "move on it?" I presume it must be BuzzFlash, referring to the article? BuzzFlash is an influencer! Why don't you command the "doers" in Congress? While you're at it, get them away from industry and give your comments some weight. I often wonder and hypothesize about a 2nd American Revolution. Yes, what will it take?