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late 2003, when Tenet departed and left this independent investigation in his wake, and they would have made some political and legal contingency plans. One of those may be for Rove to play Fitzgerald along, and then give up Libby on the main crime, and then maybe Cheney on conspiracy, if necessary, to keep himself (Rove) out of prison and protect Jr. On the known evidence, Fitzgerald has Rove by the short hairs on perjury. Now would be the time for this "aspen" scenario to start playing out. Libby may or may not have agreed to be designated fall guy. I would say, agreed--and that both he and Cheney already have pardons, sealed by blackmail material they have on Jr. The "aspens" I'm sure would love to get Cheney out (he of the 18% approval rating), and get a fresh face in as v-p, for '08. This could be the upshot of a Libby trial, or of pre-trial developments. Cheney resigns; a "house-cleaning"--"all" those bad guys who were doing such foolish things without Jr.'s knowledge (he-he) are gone now; Jr. still ensconced; tax cuts protected, Mideast war looting still in progress; Rumsfeld still spying on everybody and his brother, and chafing at the bit to nuke Iran.
And this could explain what Leopold was told by his sources; that they were sure Rove was going to be indicated. They heard (or heard of) the Fitzgerald threat --that Rove was waiting for, to trigger the ratting scenario (if that's what we're looking at), based on pending or sealed indictment, and Rove has, or is going to, rat out Libby on the main crime. He hates Libby anyway (Libby tried to pin the main crime on him--Rove is guilty, I think, but not the mastermind this time). This whole case (the visible part) has so far been a scuffle between these seconds-in-command, Libby (Cheney chief aide) and Rove (Bush chief aide). (Personally, I suspect that the chief mastermind of outing Plame and the Brewster-Jennings counter-proliferation network was Rumsfeld, but that's another story. It was convenient to Cheney and his illicit arms dealings around the world, but it was essential to Rumsfeld, to be able to manufacture war on Iran.) Rove ratting on Libby may be what's causing the delay (of news on Rove's status). I tend to doubt that Fitzgerald would settle for anything less than Cheney and some of the other conspirators, to let Rove entirely off the hook. That may delay news on Rove even further. I DON'T think Fitzgerald wants another perjury trial. He's out to crack the case.
Speculation, yeah. Admitted. But you gotta figure SOMETHING has been going on behind the scenes, all this time--and plans laid out--to deal with this independent prosecutor, possible charges and political fall-out. Whether things will work out as the "aspens" (Bushite powers behind the scenes) expect them to remains to be seen.
I don't know about you-all, but that episode in Congress the other day--FBI raiding a Congressional office--set off my "Constitutional crisis" alarm bells. THAT is a no-no! (--specifically forbidden by the Constitution, in very explicit language; note: I now think they were testing the waters with McKinney).
So now, the Bushites can spy on anybody they want to, at any time, with no cause and nobody's okay; they can in particular spy on reporters and grab them and all their notes, at any time, for "national security" reasons; they can stop members of Congress from entering Congress for "security reasons" and they can raid Congressional offices on suspicion of a crime--though both of these things are expressly forbidden by the Constitution; they can decide which bills that Congress passes apply to Bush and the Bush junta, and which do not; they can invent laws (torture, indefinite detention, rendition); and they can commandeer the state's national guards, and send them to Iraq, to the Mexican border or anywhere they wish. They have marched over one precedent after another, toward tyrannical power.
Will they accommodate civil society, by giving up Libby or Cheney, to temporary inconvenience? Or will they dig their heels in and use all these illegitimate powers in a "Saturday Night Massacre" that will outdo Watergate by orders of magnitude?
One wonders WHY they are doing things like raiding Congressional offices--inspiring Republican as well as Democratic fury--if they AREN'T under serious threat from Fitzgerald. Possibly he has seen through their Rovian/"aspen" narratives and contingency plans, and--faced with a wall of obstruction--is calling them out, on conspiracy, or at the least is posing a real threat of indictment against Rove on perjury.
The above unprecedented, un-constitutional powers that they've grabbed--especially the recent ones--could be one of the contingency plans for pressuring Fitzgerald into a deal that limits the political damage and keeps them in power, at least for purposes of pardons and shredding another mountain of paper. (I'm not sure who I mean by "them" in this sentence--perhaps just someone who will keep the larder open, and the door shut.)
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(Them = Bush junta front men and war profiteers; Rumsfeld, though, has ambitions far beyond looting; and I noticed that Christopher Dodd has now floated a balloon about himself running for president--I would watch out for that; Dodd is the mastermind of the Bushite electronic voting coup; he could be the Bilderberg group's candidate to replace Cheney or even Bush.)
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