Elaine Meinel Supkis
Libby deliberately made himself the 'fall guy' to deflect investigators of the Plame Affair. The investigators are Republicans so of course, they were easily misled by both reporters and the warmongers in the government. All online critics of the war in Iraq knew Libby wasn't the real source.
This sort of garbage is what happens when the news media is in cahoots with war criminals.
By Carol D. Leonnig and Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, February 13, 2007; A03Six journalists testified yesterday that Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, never mentioned an undercover CIA officer to them -- and some said they learned about her identity from other administration sources.
As Libby's attorneys opened their defense in his perjury trial, they argued for a second time that Libby need not take the stand for them to present elements of a defense that his misstatements to investigators were the product of a faulty memory. An irritated U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said he felt misled and believed Libby would testify.
Testifying as the first defense witness, Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus revealed that then-White House press secretary Ari Fleischer was the first person to tell him, on July 12, 2003, that war critic Joseph C. Wilson IV was married to undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame. His remarks contradicted Fleischer's testimony as a prosecution witness last month.
They are playing the same stupid games right up until today. The major media are trumpeting false or twisted propaganda in the hopes of egging the easily irritated and easily misled American people into fighting a long, long list of countries Israel wants taken down. Within our government, many operatives working for this foreign country are desperately trying to get us to set the entire Muslim world on fire in the hopes this will get them to ignore the actions of Israel in Palestine.
Right now we see propaganda shouting that Iran is interfering with a neighboring state which we invaded. The insensibility of this sentiment is striking: it is totally insane for the USA, a country that is spreading chaos and death, to accuse a country that is culturally and politically close to many of the people in Iraq, of 'meddling.'
When the Zionist neo-cons in our media and government were both conspiring to drive us to war with Iraq, they worked alongside the oil companies that wanted all that oil and the Europeans who are frightened about the steep decline in North Sea oil, to steal the oil in Iraq and to pave the way for increased power for Zionist plans to destroy the helpless people in Palestine. This cooperative venture to take advantage of 9/11 seemed unstoppable. Despite epic world-wide antiwar demonstrations carried on even here in America, the reporters and the neo-cons kept cooking up new charges and new surprises in the hopes of whipping at least 50% of America into lusting for war.
Watching this large flock of traitors making merry of the Republican prosecutor in Chicago shows clearly how these people operate. Libby didn't openly lie to the prosecutor, he presented himself as a 'target' and left enough doors open for the prosecutor to walk into walled-off rooms containing nothing.
The idea was to entangle the skein being followed by the prosecutor who was a dupe to begin with because he is a Republican and that usually means he is easily misled and incapable of seeing through subterfuges. We all prayed that Fitzgerald would save us from this conspiracy but since he is actually part of the machinery, he failed due to ideological blindness.
As my blog has cried from the beginning: arrest them all! The smirking reporters on the stand, the VP and the President and their staffs: all are criminals. Before the Supreme Court overturned an election, the reporters and the Bush administration were in cahoots. They plotted behind our backs to hide reality and present a series of fake tableaux. Since many Americans get all their news from these conspirators, it was a piece of cake for them to push fake allegations against Saddam just like it was easy for them to lie about events surrounding 9/11 itself.
Antiwar activists as well as online researchers and news services raised many objections to the fake allegations and false charges. Thanks to the big demonstrations around the world beginning in October, 2002, whistle blowers began to challenge the false picture being painted by Bush and Cheney and the many reporters and news owners working for Israel.
Ambassador Wilson, alarmed that his report about the Niger Yellow Cake allegations was being ignored, wrote an editorial which the New York Times published. The NYT often likes to give both sides of a story just so they don't lose all credibility but they lied about many things during this time period (they still lie about many things today, of course). To appear even-handed, they allowed Wilson to voice his objections to the propaganda storm's contentions that Saddam was trying to arm his nation with weapons that might stop hostile invaders.
To discredit Wilson's charges that the administration was lying about these charges, Cheney went to the CIA and demanded information about Wilson. There, he learned that Wilson's wife worked undercover and so Libby advised him as to how to 'out' her as punishment for them meddling with the conspiracy to hatch an illegal war. Libby told him, if everyone suddenly were to babble about Wilson's wife, no one particular person could be 'tagged' as the criminal leaking this information.
In other words, the media and the administration could operate as a cloud, generating so much wind and rain, outsiders would be confused and give up trying to pin charges on any one of them. This is why I wanted all of them arrested, not one.
Indeed, I wanted a full investigation a la Watergate, of the whole lot of them. The point was not to put people in prison but to STOP THEM! They have taken over America and drove us into a disastrous war and are still destroying America!
Stopping this conspiracy and stopping the wars is a top priority. It is literally life and death for all of us. The tangled mess of the Plame trial proves my contention that our media and our leaders are in a conspiracy to mislead and misinform America. The leering reporters sitting on the stand, sowing confusion, infuriates me.
They are all, one by one, revealing that they knew a great deal about this affair from day one, being co-conspirators, and they lied to the American people about this matter, hiding their own involvement. I remember when the case began, these self-serving, self-same reporters all pretended to be surprised and shocked. Shocked, I tell you!
They pretended they were just as in the dark as the deluded American public they were misleading. Since the same news media that deliberately lied to us back then is also reporting and analyzing the news today, we still get lies, evasions and rank confusion.
It is painfully obvious that Bush wanted Wilson punished and Cheney sought every means he could find to dig up some sort of nasty something to fling at Wilson, some mud, a scandal, anything. Wilson, being pure and clean, was unassailable so they lit upon the idea of outing his wife so she would lose her job at the CIA.
After the shit hit the media fan, they then pretended outrage and the reporters pretended to be puzzled. My, how many jolly laughs these gangsters had on Air Force One! In the back rooms of the White House! Just like all of them knew that Gannon was really a male prostitute, they all laughed as Ari Fleischer would call on him as if he were a reporter!
In that case, online publications 'outed' Gannon and the entire media blackballed the story or attacked the investigators and then openly sympathized with Gannon until the dirty pictures were disseminated by online investigators. Then the media conspirators and the WH simply pretended Gannon never existed and to this day, one never hears his name in those places even as he has become a stock figure online, everyone knows who he is online.
We are already going into another election cycle. The pre-election positioning of all parties running America is underway. The reporters are the hunting dogs of the conspiracy to run America into the ground which is why one never, ever, ever sees a single front page headline, 'USA Debts Breaking $9 Trillion Barrier!' or the sub-headlines: 'China Holding $1 Trillion USA Debts!' Nor do we see anyone doing an investigative report on the considerable number of Jewish owners, reporters and pundits that have a neck lock on America's media.
There are several interlocking conspiracies going on here: one is the obvious pro-Israeli faction. This is most of our media as well as considerable parts of our government, both the Republican and Democratic parties have been taken over by Zionists of various types. Then there is the oil tycoons: as the Hubbert Oil Peak approaches, they want to have that tiger by the tail and this means breaking up the power of OPEC and destroying any country that dares to nationalize their oil wells. Then there is the military/industrial complex: they hate peace. They need wars. The more wars, the happier they are.
These people were alarmed when Russia fell quietly. They hated the idea of not using military force to rule the world. During the Clinton years, the military was used to 'save people' and 'bring peace.' I noted back then, the Republicans were totally against using force even at home with the Waco mess. They wanted the government to not be involved.
This stance was totally fake just like nearly everything the Republicans do. The minute they gained power via conspiring with the Supreme Court and the media owners, they launched one war after another, none of which made America safer or were of any benefit for Americans.
The collapse of trust is accelerating as more and more Americans slowly wake up to the fact that we have allowed our nation to fall into the hands of gangsters who don't care if this country is totally destroyed. This cannot be allowed. Our fates rest on being able to avoid nuclear war yet we see our media and these other gangsters running the Pentagon and our government, pushing us into nuclear war!
The entire CIA is part of this, too. Plame herself, is part of this system that has been set up to cause wars and to mislead America. Since day one, the CIA has spent most of its considerable energies and 'black' budget (we don't know how much they spend or where it goes!) to mislead Americans and dominate the world so oil barons and weapons sellers can make a killing.
This latest infighting happened because Ambassador Wilson was alarmed at the course of events and wanted to know the truth. When he found the truth, he had to disclose it himself because the reporters conspiring with the warmongers in DC all mangled his simple findings: no nuclear bomb material went to Saddam. The reporters thought, if they mummed up the evidence and surrounded his message with all sorts of crafty words, he would go away and they could merrily beat the war drums again.
But we online writers disseminated Wilson's editorial. We talked about it frantically. We asked questions the reporters should have asked. I remember how the reporters retaliated by mangling everything we said, everything Wilson said, they had to raise a storm of wild words, all pressed into service to mislead and misinform.
This is a crime. The NTY and WP and these exact same conspirators are at work again trying to make it look like we must attack Iran. Then all would be well. Part of this conspiracy is to not show the American dead in Iraq. When Bush ordered no pictures of returning coffins, the media agreed and didn't sue the government nor did they raise any fuss. I remember writing to them about this. They didn't publish our letters nor respond to our demands to show the dead, to report on page one, EVERY DAY, the faces of the dead and the casualty count which is not just the dead but the wounded.
After all, during the hostage crisis, the media yelled about it every day. They had a running banner counting the days that passed. Carter lost his Presidency due to this. The curious refusal to run such information daily is part of this conspiracy to drive us into wars.
There ought to be a 'Debt Clock' on the front page of every newspaper, too. Hell, there should be a huge on in Congress and the front gates of the White House! Our elected officials should see this clock ticking away, I would hope it would be bright red numbers, make them about 4' tall. This would stretch across the entire chambers of both Houses. As they yap, the numbers will be rolling, fast and faster.
Meanwhile, this stupid trial will limp along. As we knew from day one, Libby will walk because he is 'innocent' or rather, everyone is guilty. And that Republican tool, Fitzgerald, won't stand on the front steps and say, 'The media and the Republicans running our government conspired to start an illegal war. They should all be arrested.'
Nope. That's my speech and I am officially a nobody.
Click here for the definitive cartoon about the Plame Affair. The only flaw in this wonderful cartoon is when Cheney talks about stealing '$87 billion'. As we approach a trillion dollars wasted in this stupid war, it pays to remember that a mere four years ago, critics of Cheney thought that much smaller number was shocking. Thanks to a totally out of control Congress and Presidency, we are now numb to the numbers.
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Wow. You do a couple thousand words on Plame-gate, and none of those words is "Armitage" (specifically, Richard Armitage)?
He seems to have been the first who spake the name of Plame - and you give him a pass?
Tut-tut, Elaine. You're supposed to have the inside story, right?
Posted by: JSmith | February 13, 2007 at 09:50 AM
I thought you had a spam filter on this thing?
Posted by: JSmith | February 13, 2007 at 11:54 AM
She does. This creep obviously got through somehow and punished her (and us) for trying to stop him by delivering enough spam to put Monty Python to shame.
Posted by: DeVaul | February 13, 2007 at 11:14 PM
Yoiks. I will take care of that.
Posted by: Elaine Meinel Supkis | February 14, 2007 at 02:02 AM