Zell Miller likens * to "King" -- "Rule can head off dirty tricks at CIA"

[bunkerbuster1]

I've known Zell to bow, scrape, and completely humiliate himself on several notorious occasions in the past. But this may be the first time that he actually revealed his innermost feelings of love and devotion to this Administration; see bolded text below.

Otherwise, it's the usual "Wilson is a meanie-head" crap we expect from the RW noise machine.

Instead of you violating secrecy laws, it is your victim who is guilty because he tried to set the record straight. Heads, you win; tails, he loses.

It sounds unbelievable, a fiction, perhaps to be called "To Sting a King." But it is no fiction. This is the story behind Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson and the Bush administration. And it appears that Plame and Wilson will get away with the biggest sting operation ever.

No one seems to care that our intelligence agency has crippled our president. Certainly not the media. They are determined to make Wilson a hero. Recall the dozens of times the Washington Post and The New York Times carried his lies on the front page, above the fold. The conclusive story discrediting Wilson was buried 6 feet deep, back by the obituaries.

More of this whining, if you can stand it, can be found at
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/1105/02edmiller.html

[acmejack]

1. Way too early for any of ZigZag's idiocy.

I try to avoid becoming nauseated until after 9 AM, thank you.

[bunkerbuster1]

5. You're not missing much

The ajc op ed, in print, does feature the now-famous shot of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson in their convertable, Valerie looking very Mrs. Peel-ish in her shades and scarf.

I think the RWers are frightened by this picture, because it reminds them that there are still rich, smart, confident, powerful people out there who can take them down.

[ixion]

2. duly noted, Zell. You may join your 'King' in a cell in the Hague

when the tribunals are underway.

[Inland]

3. Stop "crippling" the president! Another cry for fascism

After all, we know all the problems in this country come from the fact that Bush doesn't have enough power, that congress isn't deferential enough, and that there isn't enough press of the slime discrediting every person who has the effrontery to stand up against him..

If he just had enough power, and enough Americans helped him, to silence the last dissenting voices, then we would truly reach the nirvana made possible by everyone lining up behind the great leader.

If only the Wilsons and the Kerrys and the Deans and the Reids were gone, there would be no war, no recession, no 9/11, no premarital sex, no divorce, no gays, no abortions....

[CottonBear]

4. He's unhinged. I actually voted for him when he ran for Gov. of GA.

I thought that he had finally gone away. He is a traitor to the Democratic party.

[bunkerbuster1]

7. Eh. He's a racist, fascist Dixiecrat. I'm sure a lot of decent folks

held their nose and voted for him as Gov. back in the day, but when you look at his crowning acheivement, the HOPE scholarship, you realize that it's basically an income redistribution scheme, to enrich Joe and Jane Bubbuh so they don't have to skimp on the bass boat in order to send Joe Jr. to UGA or GT or thereabouts. All funded by (disproportionately) poor, uneducated people buying lottery tickets! woo hoo!

I know I shouldn't hate people, but in Zell's case, I'm often willing to make an exception.

[CottonBear]

9. He is a true blue Dixiecrat. That's how we should refer to him.

Zell is no Democrat, that's for sure.

You are correct in your HOPE scholarship analysis. I live in Athens and graduated from UGA. I know how the university system has changed since HOPE. It has had many intended and unintended consequences. There is so little economic, ethnic, racial and geographic diversity in the student body these days. Susie and Biff are all from the Atlanta suburbs and drive an SUV. :(

One good part of HOPE is the funding for the community/technical college system. I have a friend who is a librarian at a technical college here in GA. Many poor students and minorites are able to attend school.

[bunkerbuster1]

10. Oh, I'll grant that the stated purpose of HOPE is a good one

I just disagree with the funding method. Strongly disagree.

But the pre-K and community / tech college instruction has been a very good thing for the state. Of course it's got so very far to go, yet.

And we are well past due for means-testing this stuff. Of course that'll never happen with the current gang of fascist pigs in charge, men so petty, so evil, they'll impose a poll tax just to gain a couple of percentage points in an election.

[ignatzmouse]

6. Zealotry by a fool

Just like his speech at the convention, you can bet Zealot Miller was fed the points and content of his propaganda-torial by the White House. If Bush is his King, Zell's his fool.

[leveymg]

8. No sting - but, it's true the career Agency, DIA and FBI people have

been looking for a way to shut down BushCo after the neocons tried to purge the US intelligence community of all but the most zealous Right-wingers.

If one wants to believe Zel's theory, then we have to accept that several key White House and OSP figures -- Hadley, Feith, and Wurmser -- were actually double-agents. There is simply no evidence at this point for that. What is obvious, however, is the FBI has been watching the funneling of classified U.S. documents through AIPAC to Israeli intelligence for a long time, likely for decades. It seems that Larry Franklin, late of the OSP, is the link between the OSP-AIPAC spy case and the plot to cook up the forged Niger yellowcake documents.

Franklin was, indeed, "turned" by the FBI into a cooperating witness who wore a wire. The question now is when did he turn? Was it just before the FBI investigation of AIPAC came to light in August 2004, or was he already cooperating with the investigation on June 26, 2003, when the FBI had Rosen and Weissman under surveillance having lunch in an Alexandria, Virginia restaurant and Franklin unexpectedly joined them? Indeed, it is possible that Franklin may have turned much earlier, going back to December 2001 when he met with Manoucher Ghorbanifar in Paris with fellow OSP staffer in a meeting arranged by Michael Ledeen? A few weeks afterwards the Niger Embassy was burglarized, and the yellowcake forgeries appeared.

Now, that would be an FBI or CIA coup! Too bad they can't talk about their successes.