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I've been patiently waiting for this story to break as it seems like the best (only?) hope of disrupting our beltway overlords. Next week Josh Marshall is going to post an interview with Joseph Wilson. If you don't know who he is you hopefully will soon. Here's the starter piece, but it gets way more interesting from there. After the Niger debacle described in the first piece, Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was identified as an undercover CIA agent by "senior administration officials" to Robert Novak as reported in this article. Yes, she was outed by her own team! My understanding is that whether or not this was done to take some revenge on Wilson, the act of revealing a CIA agents identity is, shall we say, highly illegal. Like go to jail style illegal. And now Wilson himself is suggesting that the "senior official" in question is Karl Rove.
I am very much looking forward to this interview. I believe the press is dodging this story because it is just too incredibly hot. The pressure to keep the lid on this must be intense, as we are talking about the puppet master himself. But they won't be able to keep it quiet if people like Josh Marshall keep digging. This could be a very important story.
On Tuesday, two days before the Sept. 11 anniversary, Attorney General John Ashcroft will be speaking in New York City in support of the controversial Patriot Act. This is yet another exploitation of Americans' fear and mourning to promote the Bush administration's political agenda.
The New York ACLU and the New York Bill of Rights Defense Campaign have organized a demonstration to show the broad public sentiment against this threat to our freedoms. They are asking all supportive people to attend with signs.
Please consider joining this important action during your lunch hour on Tuesday.
WHAT: Demonstration to demand the protection of our basic civil liberties, and counter Attorney General John Ashcroft, speaking in the latest installment of his stealth Patriot Act road show.
WHEN: Tuesday, September 9 at 12 noon
WHERE: Federal Hall, 26 Wall Street at Broad Street (next to NYSE) 2/3 or 4/5 to Wall Street or J/Z to Broad Street
Map: http://www.moveon.org/r?469
WHO: New York ACLU (www.nyclu.org), New York City Bill of Rights Defense Campaign (www.nycbordc.org), United for Peace and Justice (www.unitedforpeace.org), and 60 other civil liberties organizations. Contact Udi Ofer at (212) 344-3005 x242.
Please let us know you can attend
The situation is so completely FUBAR I don't know what good it does commenting, but here's a quote anyway:
"We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon," Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told Congress a week after the war began. Oil revenue, he predicted, "could bring between $50 billion and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years."Phew, at least we won't need another or anything.
How many times does Wolfowitz get to be wrong before he becomes a serial miscalculator? (And where is Ken Pollack these days? Strangely quite it seems to me...)