Friday, October 03, 2003

Call a plumber, the White House is flooding!

It's times like this that make me wonder if Stephen Hawking has finally perfected his device that turns human minds into sub-processors for his AIBO. I am speaking of the accusations of improprieties at the White House. Which ones, you ask? Let me bring you up to speed.
"Asshat" Novak and others receive information regarding one of Bush's political enemies. The articles that are printed refer to the enemies' wife, Ms. Plame, as a CIA operative, which would be priviledged information protected by federal law. The journalists later insist that they believed she held a role as an analyst and did not mean to say that she was a secret agent. Of course, everyone wants to know who leaked the information.
Meanwhile, back at the Bush Cave, the administration refuses calls for an independent investigation, directing their critics to the Justice Department. They of course insist that an investigation has been opened regarding the leak, since it is a federal offense. It is a federal offense to out a secret CIA operative. It is not an offense to talk about a CIA analyst or to have your words poorly phrased by a journalist. For just a second, you can almost see the fake expressions of the Washintonians falter.
Let me recap. First we had a bunch of journalists receive anonymous information about a woman's job at the CIA, which they claim to have misprinted, implying that she was a covert operative. The subsequent media storm forces the small time journalists to make this admission fairly quickly. No evidence whatsoever if she's a spy or not. Nevertheless, people are pressing the White House because they have the motive for outing her and you can smell a cabinet aide's ass being marinated for the grill. Finally, the left nut of the administration confirms that an investigation is needed because Ms. Plame is in fact a CIA operative. The Justice Dept. has given the first evidence that Madame Plame=US Spy, and it has been the first voice that has not immediately retracted its claim of that. The current administration has publicly broken one of our nations greatest laws of loyalty national security. Here's a word that should poke a hole in the administration's patchy PR, traitors.

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