Reply #8: A small, ruthless (but well funded) minority has taken over the country...

[Junkdrawer]

What we saw last week was the beginnings of the counter-coup. And it is more than CIA vs. the White House. Highly placed insiders in all branches of the administration are fighting the Rove/NeoCon takeover.

Rove is starting to fight back hard. He wants to know who told Dana Priest that he called six reporters before he called Novak. So he set up a sting: he asked Ashcroft in Justice to set up a deadline for all possible evidence in the Plame leak matter, THEN he had all the evidence sent to the WH council to be “reviewed”. And he used the media fascination with CA Recall to hide the outrage. Here’s the AP story:

White House to screen leak material
Lawyers may spend 2 weeks examining responses to probe

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 — White House lawyers will spend up to two weeks screening responses turned in by roughly 2,000 staff members asked what they know, if anything, about the unauthorized disclosure of an undercover CIA officer’s identity.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/973047.asp?0cv=CB10

I fully expect that one of the coup members will die in ambiguous circumstances so as to deliver a warning. Many here will say it's Rove, "sensible" posters will call that tinfoil, but the warning will be delivered.

Moral: If you’re going to fight Rove, it HAS to be quick and decisive.