Bernie's gonna read EJ Dionne's column -- fasten your seatbelts

[Bozita]

http://www.kgoam810.com/listenlive/listenlive.ram

It worked. Scooter lied bigtime. The investigation lasted almost a year after the '04 election.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. this is good

[Bozita]

2. Here's EJ's column .... "No shit, ... It really DID work"

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID...
By E. J. DIONNE
Syndicated Columnist
November 01. 2005 8:00AM

Has anyone noticed that the cover-up worked? In his impressive presentation of the indictment of Lewis "Scooter"Libby last week, Patrick Fitzgerald expressed the wish that witnesses had testified when subpoenas were issued in August 2004, and "we would have been here in October 2004 instead of October 2005."

Note the significance of the two dates: October 2004, before President Bush was re-elected, and October 2005, after. Those dates make clear why Libby threw sand in the eyes of prosecutors, in the special counsel's apt metaphor, and helped drag this investigation on.

As long as Bush still faced the voters, the White House wanted Americans to think that officials such as Libby, Karl Rove and Vice President Cheney had nothing to do with the leak campaign to discredit its arch-critic on Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson.

And Libby, the good soldier, pursued a brilliant strategy to slow the inquiry down. As long as he was claiming that journalists were responsible for spreading around the name and past CIA employment of Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, Libby knew that at least some news organizations would resist having reporters testify. The journalistic "shield" was converted into a shield for the Bush administration's cover-up.

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