Imagine: the Plame Indictments

[H2O Man]

"Never in the history of our democracy has there been established such an influential and pervasive center of power with the ability to circumvent long-standing and accepted reporting structures and to skew decision-making practices. It has been described to me chillingly by a former senior government official as a coup d'etat within the State." Joe Wilson describing "Vice President Cheney's parallel national security office;" page 434 of "The Politics of Truth."

DUers familiar with the GD Plame Threads are interested in the recently reported developments in the "Israeli spy scandal." Before the end of the republican national convention, information that clearly connects this scandal with the White House outting of CIA operative Valerie Plame may shock the nation. But it comes as no surprise to DUers.

Last week's news indicated that a White House official named John Hannah was turning state's evidence in the grand jury investigation of the leaking of Plame's identity. Hannah has reportedly implicated Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the top assistant to VP Dick Cheney.

The Plame investigation appears to be the thread that has unraveled the criminal fabric of the Bush administration. The tattered patch of the newest scandal merely shows the extent of their criminal behaviors. Even some on the "mainstream" news shows, such as right-wing commentator Patrick Buchanan, have expressed shock at the extent that this will damage the administration.

This paper will attempt to identify some of the key players that we should see being arrested, tried, and convicted of the most serious of crimes against our nation, and to clarify the new scandal as more of an American constitutional crisis than an Israeli spy scandal.


"John Hannah and David Wurmser, mid-level political appointees in the vice president's office, have both been suggested as sources of the leaks. I don't know either, though at the time, Wurmser, a prominent neoconservative, was working as a special assistant to John Bolton at the State Departmenty." -- Wilson, page 445.

As the upcoming Plame indictments lead to criminal trials for the likes of Scooter Libby, the American public will become very familiar with John Hannah. Some media reports have noted that Mr. Hannah is "singing like a canary."

And as this "spy scandal" mutates into a neocon espionage crisis, the public will come to know much more about John Bolton, the under secretary that Wilson calls "the neoconservative mole" who slipped the Niger yellow cake lies into the State department's 12-19-02 "fact sheet" on Iraq. (Wilson, page 302)

But who is David Wurmser? He's VP Cheney's ranking Middle East advisor, known for his close ties to the Israeli extreme right, and to pro-Likud "think tanks" and "activist groups." DUers may see Wurmser playing a central role in the latest scandal.

He is married to Megrau Wurmser, the deputy director of the Middle East studies for the right-wing Hudson Institute. She founded the Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri) which tends to put an anti-Arab slant on the news the American public gets.

Together, this couple has been dedicated to discouraging peace initiatives in the Middle East for many years. In 1996, for example, they were among the authors of a report to the Likud party, which urged them to break off peace talks. This report ("A Clean Break: A New Strategy ...") advised then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "to work closely with Turkey and Jordan to contain, destabilize, and roll-back" identified regional threats. Co-authors included Richard Perle and Douglas Feith.

In 2000, David Wurmster co-authored a controversial strategy paper called "Ending Syria's Occupation of Lebannon: The US Role?" This paper was co-signed by Richard Perle, Eliot Abrams, and Douglas Feith, all names familiar to Plame Threads contributors. It called for the US to "force Syria from Lebannon and to disarm it" of WMDs. This made Wurmster a perfect choice for a "senior advisor" to John Bolton in the in-coming administration. Bolton was considered an alarmist by WMD intelligence investigators, though he was one of the leading neoconservative activists in the Bush/Cheney administration.


"The neoconservatives who have taken us down this path are actually very few in number. It is a small pack of zealots whose dedication has spanned decades, and that through years of selective recruitment has become a government cult with cells in most of the national security system. Among these cells are the secretive Office of Special Plans in the Department of Defense (reportedly now disbanded) and a similar operation in the State Department that is now managed in the office of Under Secretary for Disarmament John Bolton." -- Wilson, page 432.

There is no Israeli Spy. There is a small government cult that runs the Bush/Cheney administration, which is closely connected to an Israeli Intel front. This front appears to have been the source of the infamous Niger yellow cake forgeries. These are the "documents" that the Bush administration's British friends have refused to share information about with the rest of the International Atomic Energy Agency as required by international law. Now we know why.

In early 2002, VP Cheney requested the CIA investigate the possible Niger-Iraqi yellow cake deal. The agency sent Joseph Wilson. His investigation confirmed two others: one by American Ambassador Barbro Owens-Kirkpatrick, and one by 4-star General Carleton Fulford. There was no truth to the forged "documents."

The rest is history. I urge DU readers to review two papers that have been re-posted on the Instant Karma: Plame thread on GD. Both the Waterman Paper and the Revolutionary President vs Constitutional Democracy Paper outline many important issues involved in this complex case.

The problems our country faces are not from any "Israeli spy." Our way of life isn't threatened by John Kerry's memory of his Vietnam experiences. And 1000 American soldiers haven't died because of anything John Edwards did as a trial lawyer.

It's time we help this nation understand the truth. Our constitutional democracy is threatened by some thugs in the Bush/Cheney Administration. We need to frog-march them out of Washington.