...excerpt from a 2003 news item which will soon turn to be true
L'AFFAIRE PLAME
It's about more than 'outing' a CIA officer. It's about treason….
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If Libby is implicated as having anything to do with Plame's "outing," then that, in turn, implicates Cheney, who must take responsibility. The Vice President's resignation, under these circumstances, is a distinct possibility. Will we soon hear an announcement that he's retiring "for health reasons"? There could soon be an empty spot on the national Republican ticket.
Many people have compared Spy-gate to the scandal that brought down Richard Nixon, and the parallels are certainly striking. Watergate, too, started in a small way, with a petty, even quite stupid slip-up: a bungled break-in at Democratic party headquarters. In Spy-gate, as in the Watergate scandal, a towering hubris, a vindictive mindset, and the attempted cover-up will be the conspirators' undoing.
As the scandal metastasizes, and threatens to engulf the White House, one might hope this administration would learn the lesson of history. Before the Democrats can take hold of this, and use it, George W. Bush must launch a preemptive strike against the cancer eating away at the vitals of his presidency.
...read the entire item at antiwar.com |
