Month: October 2005

WaPo tells us more about how Fitz handled Novak:

“A critical early success for [Special Prosecutor Patrick] Fitzgerald was winning the cooperation of Robert D. Novak, the Chicago Sun-Times columnist who named Plame in a July 2003 story and attributed key information to ‘two senior administration officials.’ Legal sources said Novak avoided a fight and quietly helped the special counsel’s inquiry, although neither the columnist nor his attorney have said so publicly.”

Atrios offers many more insights on this WaPo paragraph and the “Novakula” flipper.

WaPo‘s Walter Pincus — himself a witness before the grand jury, along with Glenn Kessler, another WaPo reporter — writes that “Resignations May Follow Charges,” quoting Sen. George “Anchor Hair” Allen saying presciently that “I think they will step down if they’re indicted” and Sen. Chucky “Say Cheese” Schumer saying that “I am willing to accept to accept [Fitzgerald’s] decision, and I have no idea what it will be.” (What in the hell does that mean, Chuck?)

In the WaPo‘s “Inquiry as Exacting As Special Counsel Is,” we get a whiff of the fear enveloping the White House:

Someone present when Fitzgerald questioned a witness said he was glad not to be a target.

“He’s that really strict judge that everyone fears, not because they think he’s going to do the wrong thing, but because they’re afraid he might do the right thing,” said the source, who has ties to the White House and requested anonymity.

“As White House staffers,” he continued, “you had generals and Cabinet secretaries being deferential to you. He didn’t care what you’d done or how well you knew the president.”

And we learn much more about the scope, and depth, of Fitzgerald’s investigation:

I’ve traveled half way across the country.  I spend two and three nights a week meeting with others of like mind, planning and plotting an end.  I write here.  And letters to my representatives.  I’ve written a novel with an anti-war theme.  I protest with signs, candles, and prayers I don’t believe.  I’m doing what I can to stop this war.  I’m not bragging.  I know many of you have done more.

It was a crock from the beginning.  That is the thing.  I am not a genius.  But anyone reading the fucking newspaper – or with access to the Internet – and possessing just a modicum of common sense, knew it was a crock.

And we all know now.  Everyone in America who is not just willfully ignorant.  There were no WMDs.  There was no connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.  This was a war based on lies.  We have invaded a country based on lies.  We have killed innocent civilians – tens of thousands – based on lies.  We have killed nearly 2,000 of our own based on lies.

Am I self-satisfied that I was right?  A little.  Do I feel good I am trying to stop it?  A little.  But there is nothing like a Democrat on national television to wake me up and make me realize that resistance within the boundaries of the traditional political structure is futile.  Fucking futile.  I should have known that, too.  If I wasn’t so fucking naive.

It is an amazing evolution. First they say that no global warming exists, that the issue must be ignored. Then they ridicule concerns about global warming. Then they fight the science with all political and industrial means. Then they say that global warming exists, but it is not human fault. Then they say our civilization does warm the planet, but now the warming is so strong that we can’t do anything against. Guess what they say now?

You know Mr Patrick Michaels, the Professor Climatologist of the Cato Institute, right? Together with Bjorn Lomborg and MIT’s Richard Lindzen, he is one of the most influential climate change skeptics.

Two months ago, the next day after Katrina hit New Orleans, Patrick Michaels said this:

Imagine a better future – Liberal Street Fighter

… is naught but a failure of imagination.

The Four Horsemen don’t cause the Apocalypse. After all, they’ve been riding for centuries, hanging over our heads. They merely symbolize what life on Earth is already like. […]

There are some people with a vested interest in keeping the world as it is, because that is the world they have power over.” — Promethea – Alan Moore

These people own our entire political system, our economic system and much of our media. BOTH political parties are war parties. Those identified as “leaders” of the party of opposition, Democrats like Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Joe Biden and so many others, enable our aggressive stance toward the world, CELEBRATE our aggressive stance against the world, honestly believing that there is no other way to win elections OTHER than to out-sabre-rattle the Republicans. As Scott Ritter told Raw Story this past spring:

In this issue (Cross posted at UNCONFIRMED SOURCES):

“DeLay’s Attorneys Push for Trial in Court of Public Opinion”

“Spontaneous Iraqi Election Protest Erupts”

(after the fold!)