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...precedent may be weighing heavily on the "aspens" at the moment. There are certainly a lot of indications that a "fall guy" strategy will be used instead, and that the fall guy will be Cheney, not in the sense that he will do time--I don't think he will--but in a resignation when he is named as an unindicted co-conspirator that will help limit the investigation (by making it seem less urgent), and, above all, limit the political damage, take the heat off Bush Jr., and pave the way for a Republican "comeback" by a combination of naming a new, fresh face as VP, and then Diebolding that prez designee into office in '08. (Note: And if they're smart, they will permit the Dems some limited gains in Congress in '06--nothing even close to a majority--in order to take steam out of the transparent elections/anti-electronic voting movement.)
Libby (the one who will be doing time for Cheney and Rumsfeld) seems to assure us that the deeply rooted plot to create a wider war in the ME--the traitorous scheme of this neocon/Likud cabal--is still in place and even that Miller will still be its propagandist (if one can parse any meaning from his cryptographic paragraph to Miller), and, almost under the radar they have already started the war with Syria, with not even a hint of Congressional approval. (It started during Katrina, with bombings of villages on the border; now Syrian soldiers are getting killed.) Any day now I expect them to "find" the yellowcake (or some such) that the white hat CIA foiled them from planting in Iraq, crossing the Syrian or Iranian border, or some similar kind of cooked up excuse for their having already widened the war and perhaps for justifying the invasion of Iraq in retrospect. (Who's to stop this gang of plotters now? They SUCCEEDED in disabling the honest information gatherers in the CIA, even if some of them are being prosecuted for it, and you can be sure there are other Ledeens and Ghorbanifars out there who will do anything for money and power.)
What I hope will happen is that the American public will wake up to the secret, proprietary programming of our elections, and throw Diebold and ES&S election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' before this cabal and their colluders in the Dem Party blow the ME to smithereens and all of us with it. (Ever read Carl Sagan's "The Cold and the Dark"--a description of what will happen to the planet as the result of even a limited nuclear exchange?)
Monkey wrenches in their plot: Libby's letter was in September. Fitzgerald and McNulty have learned a lot more since then, possibly have Cheney in their sights, and he may not get away with a mere resignation. Will he continue to protect Bush Jr. and the deeper cabal if he gets nailed? CAN he get nailed (is he so powerful that he CANNOT be nailed?) Rumsfeld (the lurker in Treasongate) could also be in their sights (he's the one who placed Miller in Iraq with a special "embed" contract to "find" the WMDs they all knew weren't there).
One big difference between 1973 and now is that there were still honorable Republicans in 1973 who didn't approve of their president committing crimes. Bush's "pod people" in Congress--who just repeat Rove's "talking points" over and over--can't seem to think for themselves, and don't appear to have the spine or patriotism to do the right thing (should Bush try to fire Fitzgerald). (Many of them are Diebold selects.)
Another big difference is our war profiteering corporate news monopolies, who "selected" Bush jr. last Nov. 2 (by DOCTORING their own exit polls to FIT the results of Diebold's and ES&S's secret formulae), and who, in the case of the NYT--our so-called paper of record--were harboring a neocon cabalist, criminal and traitor (Miller) who was helping to destroy the CIA's honest functions, and putting its covert agents/contacts in extreme jeopardy (among other things she's done).
Can we expect the NYT, as presently constituted--or any of the corporate news monopolies--to do their JOB? It doesn't look good on that score. For one thing, they don't seem to know what the job of the Fourth Estate is.
And a third difference is that we now have a dysfunctional Democratic Party, with so many of its leaders guilty of corruption or cowardice on the matter of the $4 billion electronic voting boondoggle, and on the war, that they cannot seem to take advantage of the fact that the great majority of people in this country are against the war (and have been all along) and want good government. Their silence about Diebold's and ES&S's "trade secret," proprietary tabulation of our votes is a good case in point. Far rightwing Bushite corporations are counting our votes IN SECRET! Get it, idiots! (Jeez, these people.)
Differences between 1973 and now in our favor are the internet, where people can get real news and can connect with each other, an awakening of our country's great progressive majority because the Bush cabal is so bad (it is exposing EVERYTHING that is wrong with Corporate Rule and big military budgets), the financial limits of the cabal (they've already bankrupted the country--it will fall heavily on the poor, but it does limit how many Bush-made disasters we can absorb), and the cabal's' very limited cache in the rest of the world (they are universally loathed).
Can Bush be prevented from firing Fitzgerald? I don't know. We had our concerns about Nixon's power back in 1973. It was by no means certain that he wouldn't get away with it. And that was with many things in favor of the good guys (those who believed in the law).
The bad guys now control the Congress, the media and much of the court system; they have their toady (torture memo writer) Gonzales as A.G. (a man completely lacking principle), and they have directive power over a purged military and a purged intelligence community. And they are furthermore installing more Bush Cartel toadies on the Supreme Court.
Some have said that Bush doesn't have the legal authority to fire Fitzgerald. That may be true, but when did that stop him--or rather his puppetmasters--from doing anything, even the worst crime imaginable, the unjust slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent people?
Then there's the skulduggery arm of the Cartel--busy trying to cook up SOMETHING, you can be sure. (Liddy mentions "biological threats"--in the letter to Miller; stories she needs to "come back to work--and life" to cover.) God knows what they are capable of, and that is the problem.
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