Reply #17: Nixon said: "If the President does it, it's not against the law." [View All]

[Octafish]

So we can see on what the unelected moron and the turds on the Supreme Court base their understanding of the law. Bush will do ANYTHING -- out CIA agents involved in the most important work to stop the spread of WMD or allow bin Laden to hijack airliners and use them as WMD. Bush is a psychotic imbecile who just doesn't care -- a psychopathic personality (if he had one).



It is my belief Corporate McPravda has whored for the traitors for almost 41 years. They're so practiced and the press so supine..

Bush Team Knows How To Play the Media in Spy Crime Cover-Up

By Charles Brady

You've got to hand it to the folks in the Bush administration. For all their habitual furtiveness, they sure know how to play the media when it serves their purpose. And for all of their "liberal bias," the media have certainly illustrated a stalwart allegiance to being played.

The immediate case in point is the Valerie Plame affair. A clandestine CIA operative, Plame had the ill luck to be married to ambassador Joseph Wilson, who incurred the wrath of the Bush administration by exposing some of the phoniness of the WMD "intelligence" used to justify the Iraq invasion. In spiteful reaction, at least two "senior administration officials" provided a half-dozen media outlets with "background" information which "outed" Plame, thereby effectively ruining her career and endangering the safety of her and other CIA operatives with whom she had dealt.

In the year since Chicago Sun Times columnist Robert Novak executed the administration's dirty deed, a federal grand jury has been trying to determine the source of the "leak" because it is a federal crime to reveal the identity of an undercover agent. The absurd irony of this investigation - rarely noted by the media - is that the prosecutors and grand jury have devoted months, and undoubtedly hundreds of thousands of dollars, trying to identify persons who could have been easily ID'd by Novak or any of the other recipients of the leak.

In recent developments, several journalists, subpoenaed and threatened with contempt sanctions, have been interviewed by federal prosecutors regarding their conversations with I. Lewis Libby, chief of staff for Vice President Cheney. Libby, considered a possible leak culprit ever since the scandal surfaced, was said to have waived the responsibility of the reporters to keep their conversations confidential.

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