Because I'm too lazy for a real narrative
topicalpoet: So how much are you loving the fact that Bush's number one hatchet-man is a traitor?
chexwall: sadly i havent been paying much attention to politics lately.
topicalpoet: tsk tsk
chexwall: i know.
chexwall: ive just become so. sedated.
chexwall: apathetic
topicalpoet: You do remember about Joseph Wilson, the ex-ambassador whose wife is a CIA agent who was outed?
chexwall: did not
topicalpoet: And how he called Bush's 16 words about Hussein seeking uranium in Africa "a lie"
topicalpoet: No?
chexwall: i do now
topicalpoet: Well...right after he told the truth about the Iraq/Africa thing, his wife was outed. And, of course outing a CIA agent is a big no-no.
chexwall: oh wow
topicalpoet: The plan was to discredit Wilson, as his wife had signed off on his bona fides for the trip to Africa.
chexwall: she could get gatted.
topicalpoet: As could the 90-some odd agents who worked with her in fake business firms. At least one agent was killed as a result, though the CIA hasn't finished its damage report.
chexwall: thats not good then
topicalpoet: And of course all the contacts, all the intel...it's all gone.
topicalpoet: So, Wilson disagrees with Bush. His wife's occupation is revealed to reporters in an effort to smear Wilson.
chexwall: wow
topicalpoet: End result: CIA agents and national security are put at risk for partisan attack politics of the Bush variety
chexwall: wouldnt surprise me
topicalpoet: Now here's where the chain of events gets murky: At some Karl Rove calls a bunch of media folks who he deems friendly to Bush and describes Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as "fair game."
topicalpoet: At some point*
topicalpoet: The President, by way of Scott McCllelan, his spokesman, says that Rove played no role in the leak. He also swears to fire any official related to the leaking.
chexwall: heh, think thats true?
topicalpoet: Now fast forward to the investigation by the DOJ, the special prosecutor is forcing journalists to give up their sources or go to jail.
topicalpoet: Judy Miller, decides not to play ball, and is currently in prison. Thomas Cooper decides not to play at first, then does an about face and talks to the Grand Jury. As does Robert Novak, the man who first wrote about Wilson's wife.
topicalpoet: Cooper and Novak don't give up their sources however, but the DOJ forces Time to release the email correspondence that Cooper had with his editor.
topicalpoet: Text-clip from one of the e-mails:
"it was, KR said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip."
topicalpoet: So, Karl Rove was indeed Cooper's source. He was the leak.
topicalpoet: Rove's lawyer responds with only "Karl Rove never divulged Valerie Plame's name." Well of course not, all he had to say was "Wilson's wife." Which he did. The slippery fuck.
chexwall: haha
topicalpoet: Now Rove isn't the only source, but he confirmed Novak's other source and then leaked about it to all the journalists he considered friendly to Bush.
topicalpoet: The big question is who was Novak's #1? It wasn't Bush, for sure, god damn it. It very likely could have been Cheney or his chief of staff, Scooter Libby.
topicalpoet: This shit is infinitely worse than Watergate.
chexwall: not like anything is going to happen.
topicalpoet: Well, I don't think we'll be able to get the whole gang of crooks, but at least Bush will rightly go down in history as the most hated and least trusted president in history.
topicalpoet: Keep your fingers crossed just in case, Nixon entered his second term with a landslide victory and all he was guilty of was using extra-legal means to settle petty partisan vendettas.
chexwall: sadly i havent been paying much attention to politics lately.
topicalpoet: tsk tsk
chexwall: i know.
chexwall: ive just become so. sedated.
chexwall: apathetic
topicalpoet: You do remember about Joseph Wilson, the ex-ambassador whose wife is a CIA agent who was outed?
chexwall: did not
topicalpoet: And how he called Bush's 16 words about Hussein seeking uranium in Africa "a lie"
topicalpoet: No?
chexwall: i do now
topicalpoet: Well...right after he told the truth about the Iraq/Africa thing, his wife was outed. And, of course outing a CIA agent is a big no-no.
chexwall: oh wow
topicalpoet: The plan was to discredit Wilson, as his wife had signed off on his bona fides for the trip to Africa.
chexwall: she could get gatted.
topicalpoet: As could the 90-some odd agents who worked with her in fake business firms. At least one agent was killed as a result, though the CIA hasn't finished its damage report.
chexwall: thats not good then
topicalpoet: And of course all the contacts, all the intel...it's all gone.
topicalpoet: So, Wilson disagrees with Bush. His wife's occupation is revealed to reporters in an effort to smear Wilson.
chexwall: wow
topicalpoet: End result: CIA agents and national security are put at risk for partisan attack politics of the Bush variety
chexwall: wouldnt surprise me
topicalpoet: Now here's where the chain of events gets murky: At some Karl Rove calls a bunch of media folks who he deems friendly to Bush and describes Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as "fair game."
topicalpoet: At some point*
topicalpoet: The President, by way of Scott McCllelan, his spokesman, says that Rove played no role in the leak. He also swears to fire any official related to the leaking.
chexwall: heh, think thats true?
topicalpoet: Now fast forward to the investigation by the DOJ, the special prosecutor is forcing journalists to give up their sources or go to jail.
topicalpoet: Judy Miller, decides not to play ball, and is currently in prison. Thomas Cooper decides not to play at first, then does an about face and talks to the Grand Jury. As does Robert Novak, the man who first wrote about Wilson's wife.
topicalpoet: Cooper and Novak don't give up their sources however, but the DOJ forces Time to release the email correspondence that Cooper had with his editor.
topicalpoet: Text-clip from one of the e-mails:
"it was, KR said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip."
topicalpoet: So, Karl Rove was indeed Cooper's source. He was the leak.
topicalpoet: Rove's lawyer responds with only "Karl Rove never divulged Valerie Plame's name." Well of course not, all he had to say was "Wilson's wife." Which he did. The slippery fuck.
chexwall: haha
topicalpoet: Now Rove isn't the only source, but he confirmed Novak's other source and then leaked about it to all the journalists he considered friendly to Bush.
topicalpoet: The big question is who was Novak's #1? It wasn't Bush, for sure, god damn it. It very likely could have been Cheney or his chief of staff, Scooter Libby.
topicalpoet: This shit is infinitely worse than Watergate.
chexwall: not like anything is going to happen.
topicalpoet: Well, I don't think we'll be able to get the whole gang of crooks, but at least Bush will rightly go down in history as the most hated and least trusted president in history.
topicalpoet: Keep your fingers crossed just in case, Nixon entered his second term with a landslide victory and all he was guilty of was using extra-legal means to settle petty partisan vendettas.