Reply #4: We've Been Skunked & Dunked

[Me.]

but not sunk. Maybe the beautiful Valerie will be Fitz's Trojan Horse, or at least ***H's Achilles heel. There have been a spate of articles lately relating, one way or the other, to Plame. Here's One

Bush’s Cabinet moves are about loyalty and control

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“But a more discerning look at the flurry of firings and appointments over the past two weeks paints a different picture. The president isn’t moving to the right or the center and certainly not to the left. That’s the wrong metric: each new appointment is designed to assert more control and quiet dissident voices in the executive branch. Cont.


“But in truth Gonzales is no favorite of the right wing. If anything, conservatives find his appointment to Justice a source of relief because it seems to put him out of the running for a soon-to-open seat on the Supreme Court. Rather, what Gonzales brings to the job at Justice is reliability, absolute loyalty to Bush.

That quality will be particularly valued with the string of investigations under the new AG’s purview. Though none of them popped before the November election, there are still a slew of ongoing criminal investigations that could prove embarrassing to the administration.

First is the Plame investigation. But the list goes on from there. It includes the inquiry into Larry Franklin and possibly others at the Pentagon for providing classified intelligence to employees of American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and the investigation of Ahmed Chalabi and who provided him with highly classified U.S. intelligence he apparently passed on to the Iranians. And lest we forget, there is even the long-moribund investigation into who whipped up those forged Iraq-Niger uranium documents that played a role in driving the country to war.” Cont.


http://www.thehill.com/marshall/111804.aspx