"He sure is the most powerful person in the world..." --BrklynLiberal
There are parts of this story that don't add up for me, and this is one of them. Surely Rove had plenty of other tricks up his sleeve for ruining peoples' lives. Why take this great risk--personally and directly breaking a law, disabling a critically important CIA WMD information-gathering network, and risking charges of treason or worse (what if Plame had been offed as a result? what if some of her contacts already have been?)--putting all these people at risk, not to mention blinding our government's eyes and ears on WMDs around the world? Why do it--unless that is your intention and the intention of those who are using you?
I think political revenge is a cover story--or at best a side goal--and that Cheney arms dealing and other nefarious activities of the Bush Cartel with regard to WMDs is at the heart of it.
I have long wondered why they didn't just PLANT WMDs in Iraq. Could outing Plame and her network have been connected to such a plot (to remove the threat of detection)? It was all happening at the same time, summer '03--the hunt for WMDs in Iraq, the involvement of Judith Miller in that hunt, the extremely suspicious supposed "suicide" of Brit weapons expert David Kelly (7/17/03) who was whistleblowing to the BBC on the Blairites 'sexing up' of Iraq WMD intel docs (but probably knew much, much more), and the outing of Plame and destruction of her network (7/14/03).
A little connective tissue: It was to Judith Miller that David Kelly wrote one of his last emails--the one in which he was concerned about "many dark actors playing games." About 24 hours later, he was found dead, near his home, outdoors under a tree, in the rain, supposedly having slit one wrist, taken painkillers and slowly bled to death all night. (The man was a scientist! A biochemist!). (And where was British security? His own gov't had interrogated him in secret, outed him to the press, without warning him--and let him go home without protection--or surveillance?!)
Miller wrote a news article about his death (NYT, 7/21/03) in which she failed to disclose the "dark actors" email (it was later disclosed by his family), and failed to disclose her close connections to Kelly (he was a major source for her book, "Germs"). Odd.
And the coincidence of all this, just seems too, too...
Two gov't WMD experts disabled, one by outing, one by death--within three days of each other--in the long hot summer of 2003 in which no WMDs were found in Iraq, to the chagrin of both regimes, Bush and Blair (and to the chagrin of Judith Miller, who had promulgated their lies about Iraq WMDs on the front pages of the NYT, to pump us all up for war.)
Rove may be the political player (or the willing or unwilling patsy--who knows at this point?). But the Plame outing and Kelly's death seem all of a piece with the deadly game that Cheney & Co. were playing, of war profiteering and arms dealing, and destroying anyone's ability to monitor their activities, or cry foul on them. And I'm sure wondering about Judith Miller's role in all of this (another patsy, or willingly used launderer of top secret information? or some kind of neocon Mata Hari?).
(Note: Joseph Wilson recently said that his wife and Judith Miller were "collateral damage" in the Bush regime war on dissent.)
See
"Plame...the tip of the iceberg..." (Plame maybe investigating Cheney arms deals when they busted her CIA weapons op)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2178477#2180220"More about Judith Miller" (Miller/Plame/David Kelly)
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/7/3/17138/30618and
"Scientist was bane of proliferators - by Judith Miller 7/21/03 (NYT) (I think she may have invented paragraphs 15 and 16, in which she attributes statements to Kelly without quotes or sources. His criticism of US military not looking hard enough for WMDs is too self-serving (self-serving to Miller), and doesn't fit with the whistleblower who was basically telling the BBC that Bush/Blair lied; or it could possibly have been an earlier Kelly view--he had supported the invasion--before whatever occurred that caused his change of viewpoint and his desire to make the lies public. She gives almost no info on that controversy--it was huge in England--just says there was a "dispute.")
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/scibaneprolif.html---------------
The answer to the stink in Washington DC is restoring our right to vote, by throwing Bushite electronic voting machine companies--Diebold, ES&S and brethren--out of the election business NOW--or, at the least, achieving some measure of election transparency with paper ballot backups, no secret programming code and strict auditing. The only place where we can get that done is in state/local jurisdictions, where the authority over election systems still resides, and where ordinary people still have some say. See the DU Forum "2004 Election Results and Discussion" for information and action ideas:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=203http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=203 
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