Tuesday, September 30, 2003
The White House Hits An Iceberg...
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Back up the recycling trucks, because there's been a ton of emergency shredding going on in buildings around D.C. this weekend and yesterday, as the S.S. Neo-Con hit something big and nasty over the weekend and started taking on serious water.
This e-mail from White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales to all WH personnel about the Justice Department's investigation which attempts to turn the machines off (or at least slow them down) is most likely a bit late--
PLEASE READ: Important Message From Counsel's Office
We were informed last evening by the Department of Justice that it has opened an investigation into possible unauthorized disclosures concerning the identity of an undercover CIA employee. The department advised us that it will be sending a letter today instructing us to preserve all materials that might be relevant to its investigation. Its letter will provide more specific instructions on the materials in which it is interested, and we will communicate those instructions directly to you. In the meantime, you must preserve all materials that might in any way be related to the department's investigation. Any questions concerning this request should be directed to Associate Counsels Ted Ullyot or Raul Yanes in the counsel to the president's office. The president has directed full cooperation with this investigation.
Yeah, we think the cows are kinda outta the barn on this one.
This isn't just about shredding documents in a case like WorldCom's, where a few hundred thousand whiney employees and stockholders were bilked out of a few measely billions of dollars. No, nothing so mundane.
By courting "at least six" reporters in early July to aid the administration in getting the word out that public dissent within official Washington would not be tolerated (only Robert Novak was stupid or hungry enough to go along with it), someone(s) with direct access to the Oval Office named an undercover CIA operative in the arena of WMD to get back at her husband, and to strike fear into those who considered going public with their information as he did.
By this action, they have compromised CIA operatives who have been risking their lives, and those of foreign nationals who have been helping them, and any and all companies and other fronts painstakingly created over years to help track down the very WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION that the White House has been crowing about protecting us from.
Understand this: these are senior White House leaders—men, and a woman perhaps, of immense wealth and public world power—who are now implicated in the single most horrible breach of their sworn oaths in the history of the United States government—strictly for political advantage.
Clearly understand the phrase. In the history of the United States.
These are powerful people who are now looking at heavy jail time and at bringing down a presidency.
I had been following this story since it broke, and never thought it'd get much past sidebar status. But, by following nothing more than the New York Jets debacle over the weekend, I missed the core meltdown on this issue until last night.
I steer you to The Washington Post and to Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo, both of whom have been all over this story over the weekend and up to now.
My Lord, these people are stupid.
posted by Gotham 12:47 PM
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