A Blowjob for Liz “BabyDick” Cheney

[kpete]

And then, finally, there’s one of the two genuinely interesting tidbits in the epic article (the other describes BabyDick going AWOL on a conference she set up in Bahrain in November 2005 to go instead to Baghdad, raising questions about what was so important in Baghdad that BabyDick had to babysit Condi–click through to read that one, which appears on page 6).

Though outwardly genial and easygoing, Liz inspired suspicion among her colleagues, who considered her the eyes and ears of the vice-president in the department. Her job gave her a level of clearance for CIA intelligence that allowed her to have conversations with her father about national security, and Liz played information arbiter in internecine government combat. When David Wurmser, a special assistant to John Bolton at the State Department, was asked to fly to Kuwait on the eve of the Iraq War to brief Army general Jay Garner on the search for WMDs, Liz Cheney called Wurmser to warn him that her boss Armitage was going to block his efforts. “She would be very discreet,” says Wurmser. “There was clearly an effort to stop Bolton, and she thought that was necessary to convey.”

What Hagan describes here, of course, is out and out insubordination (or rather, BabyDick’s insubordination layered on top of Bolton’s insubordination). But what he also makes clear is that not only was BabyDick wired into Bolton’s shop (and with it, discussions that would have revealed the genesis of Joe Wilson’s trip), but she also helped Wurmser accomplish his two-fold goal of thwarting State Department efforts to set up a broad-based Iraqi government (where OVP pressed Chalabi instead) and of setting up propaganda efforts–complete with their very own NYT shill, Judy Miller–to support claims they had found WMDs.

more:
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2010/03/08/a-blowjob-for-liz-babydick-cheney/

[gratuitous]

1. Judy Miller in the mix again

Isn't it odd how her name keeps popping up? And apparently her employer didn't have any idea in real time what she was really up to or even what her stories said. Now, of course, the Times is quite indignant at all the Bush administration misleadings (someday perhaps they will have the nerve to call them lies), but during the heady early days of a war, when stuff is still blowin' up real good, the Times had its pleated skirt, rally sweater and pom poms on, cheering with gusto.

[Vinnie From Indy]

3. Yep!

Judy Miller was banking paychecks from all over the place. She obviously was a working asset of the OVP and the NEOcons. The stain on the NYT from the Judy Miller saga will never be wiped away. The executives at the paper literally have the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children on their hands. You can bet that the thought of all those dead people is easily made up for by the weekends in the Hamptons and the NYC elite party circuit for those responsible for Miller's lies getting printed and their full throated support of a war based on obvious lies.

[democracy1st]

2. LOL classic!

[Cirque du So-What]

4. This stuff will only get picked up by the corporate media

when it plays before a war-crimes tribunal in The Hague - and only then as it winds its way through overseas media and becomes impossible to ignore. I want Lizard Cheney sitting in the dock along with all the neocons and all their apologists & enablers.