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The New Populair: "Intimigate"
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Wed, 1 Oct 2003 16:06:00 GMT
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“Intimigate” Scandal at the White House
http://www.commondreams.org/news2003/0930-12.htm
WASHINGTON - September 30 - The Center for American Progress has released the
attached is a one-page document detailing ?Intimigate?, the White House?s latest
scandal. As the document shows, the White House has developed a pattern of
firing, intimidating and defaming anyone who has had the courage to tell the
truth about Iraq. In fact, the Iraq policymakers whose influence has grown in
the White House are largely those who parsed and distorted intelligence and
misled the American people.
Bush aide accused of CIA leak
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4764710-103681,00.html
President George Bush’s closest political adviser, Karl Rove, was yesterday at
the centre of a criminal investigation into allegations that he leaked the name
of a CIA agent in an attempt to suppress criticism of the administration’s Iraq
policy, in what is fast becoming the administration’s worst scandal since coming
to office.
The White House fended off calls for an independent inquiry but urged its staff
yesterday to cooperate with a jus tice department investigation.
Over the next few days, FBI agents will question Washington journalists and
administration officials about claims that Mr Rove and others in the White House
deliberately blew the cover of Valerie Plame, a CIA expert on weapons of mass
destruction.
Under US law, it is a serious crime to reveal the identity of a covert US
intelligence official, carrying a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and
$50,000 (£31,250) in fines.
If Mr Rove was implicated, it would seriously damage the president’s standing at
the start of his re-election campaign and rob him of an electoral mastermind who
orchestrated his rise to the Texas governorship and then the presidency.
One veteran of the Clinton administration compared it to the Hutton inquiry. “In
the Kelly case there’s a body but no crime. Here there’s no body but there is a
crime,” he said.
Bush welcomes probe of CIA leak
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/30/wilson.cia/index.html
Edit: Okay, but half way down the page there’s a video from probably yesterday
when CNN actually reported on a very different attitude on the part of the White
House. See the part where it says: “The White House sees no need for an
internal review into the leaking of a CIA operative’s name.” So gee, does he
want this investigation or not? If the above face is anything to go by, Shrub
looks like a thermometer ready to pop the ucky red stuff.
-- Hop-Frog
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