Monday, July 25, 2005
The Heart of the Wilson / RoveBush Scandal
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The Wilsons' lawyer, Christopher Wolf, shows a humanity missing from way too many lawyers in this country. Especially from those in D.C.
He then gets to the core issue in this entire slimy and sordid GOP affair:
Two years following the Wilson op-ed and the [Robert] Novak column, we know that Joe was right—there was no basis for the administration's claims regarding Iraq's nuclear plans. After Joe's op-ed appeared, White House officials admitted they were wrong to include the claim in the president's State of the Union. The White House has never retracted that retraction. We know that but for Joe's whistle-blowing, the administration would not have admitted that it was wrong to use the nuclear scare as a ground for war.
And we also now know that the only reason Valerie Wilson was mentioned was because, as Time magazine put it, the administration had declared "war on Wilson" for his whistle-blowing. The outing of Valerie seemed intended to send a not-so-subtle message to other potential critics, "Mess with us, and we'll mess with your family."
This is not really about who said what to whom, when. That's merely the peg on how all the secrets slowly become public.
This is about how people entrusted with the highest offices of the United States government systematically abused the trust they've been given, using political privilege to further a long-cherished ideological ideal that has nothing whatsoever to do with the best security or economic interests of the United States: the invasion of Iraq, and later the invasion of Iran.
Whatever distortions and flat out lies were necessary to achieve this aim were sanctioned at the highest levels. Everyone within the administration willingly jumped onto the same page. Those who didn't, like former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, were slimed and forced out.
Anyone who dared interfere with the RoveBush administration's plans was to be politically eliminated.
Aside from his receiving a full-frontal Family Values assassination for his Times Op-ed piece, Joe Wilson should have been given the very Medal of Freedom that rightfully will get stripped from George Tenet one day.
posted by Gotham 11:37 AM
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