BUSH is GOING DOWN! ROVE SMEAR OPERATION EXPOSED
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SENATOR DURBIN BLOWS LID OFF PLOT
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BUSH'S CHARACTER ASSASSIN SQUAD
SENATOR: CAMPAIGN OF INTIMIDATION - "AS SERIOUS AS IT GETS"
WILL MEDIA WHORES FOLLOW TRAIL OF SLIME TO ROVE?
In the bowels of the West Wing, the Bush team has assembled a hit-and-run smear operation to fend off growing public outrage and congressional questions about how it abused intelligence reports in the run-up to the Iraq war.
The operation surfaced when the White House leaked to right-wing mouthpiece Bob "No Facts" Novak that the wife of U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson is a CIA agent. Wilson had gone public with his report establishing that claims about Iraq gaining uranium from Niger were bogus. In revenge for Wilson's professional and patriotic service, the White House used Novak to blow the cover of Wilson's wife.
Not only did this smear compromise U.S. intelligence, not only is it an axe-cleaver threat to Ambassador Wilson and all other truth-tellers – it is a felony.
Next, the White House leaked to cyber-smear meister Matt Drudge that the ABC News correspondent Jeffrey Kofman, who had reported on dismal morale among U.S. troops stationed in Iraq, was gay and, even worse, Canadian.
Drudge admitted to the Washington Post that "someone in the White House communications shop tipped me." Matt blew the source – the Bush White House!
Now, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) is the Bush assassin squad’s latest drive-by target.
Last week, Senator Durbin, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and a critic of White House policy, revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency has confirmed that Bush officials worked hard to insure that the false uranium claim, based on forged documents, made it into Bush’s State of the Union.
The White House responded with an orchestrated campaign of leaks to the media, claming falsely that Durbin had compromised national security and that other senators had demanded his removal from the Intelligence Committee.
Durbin exposed the operation in a 45-minute speech on the Senate floor.
"If any member of this Senate . . . questions this White House policy, raises any questions about the gathering of intelligence information or the use of it, be prepared for the worst," Durbin said. "The White House is going to turn to you and attack you. They are going to question your patriotism."
There is an irrefutable pattern here. Drudge has already fingered the White House. Every White House reporter knows that at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue no sparrow falls from any tree without the permission of Commissar Karl Rove, working alongside his henchmen Dan Bartlett and Scott McClelland.
When will the Media Whores begin investigating and exposing this campaign of vilification and intimidation - a campaign to which many of their own fellow journalists have fallen victim since this corrupt regime installed itself into power?
So far, there has been virtually nothing in the news pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, or on CBS, NBC, ABC, or CNN. It took Woodward and Bernstein months to track down the sources of the Nixon smear machine. But now, the evidence is out there for everyone to see, almost in real time. Not much shoe-leather is required. Only a basic sense of responsibility and professionalism.
Or is the entire Washington press corps so intimidated and in the tank that it can’t even begin to defend its own integrity?
Durbin Exposes White House Intimidation Campaign
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