It’s treason
Scott McClellan, former mouthpiece for the Bush administration:
“The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.
“There was one problem. It was not true.
“I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration “were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President’s chief of staff, and the president himself.”</em>
At the time the Bush administration outed CIA agent Valerie Plame for political ends in order to intimidate her husband and others who would challenge the governments lies on Iraq and its WMD, she was working as a covert agent tracking weapons of mass destruction, particularly in Iran. These are facts, sworn to be true in a court of law, and not challenged by anyone other than talk radio fear pimps and the jackals of Faux News.
According to this same media, Iran is our largest enemy, and we are seemingly poised on the brink of waging yet another optional, illegal war, this time against an foe who might actually be able to fight back. By blowing Plame’s cover, King George has decreased our nations ability to monitor the proliferation of dangerous weapons by our enemies, and has made it easier for them to operate in secret.
He has given our enemies, one could say, aid and comfort.
Our president has committed treason. His Vice President, and other high administration officials have committed treason.
One can debate McClellan’s timing, and to be sure, his statement would have had greater effect if he had refused to go along with the lies (because his use of the phrase “I had unknowingly passed along false information” is laughable, and designed purely to cover his own ass if this ever ends up in court) and talked when it was occurring, but whatever the timing, the crux of the matter remains the same:
Our president burned a covert agent of the CIA for political purposes, lied about it repeatedly, and commuted the sentence of the only person charged in relation to this case.
The democratic party will ignore this, as they have ignored all the other abuses of power by this administration, because they know they can. The White House is virtually assured to them in ‘08, so tired is this nation of the reign of tyrants we’ve endured that they will vote in most anyone the dems foist upon us.
But unless this nation faces the reality of what has been done in its name the last seven-plus years, and holds the people who betrayed our trust, stripped us of our liberties and abandoned our democracy in their mad quest for ultimate power accountable, this nation deserves nothing better than the shame of the world. Until Bush and crew are universally accepted as the antithesis of America, instead of its embodiment, we must hang our heads. Until the day when the warmongering, racist puritans of our media are laughed at openly in public, when their lies and machinations are exposed in all their ignorant brutality, we are not free.
Either George Bush and his ilk are held to the rule of law, or it- and our entire notion of ourselves as a nation- are lost.
