by antiaristo » Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:38 pm
sunny, if you mean this one, it is well worth posting in its entirety.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>THE REAL SMOKING GUN IN THE VALERIE PLAME CASE IS SO BIG IT IS NUCLEAR <br><br>Excellent and let me add a few points. First, I observe that by far the biggest political tsunami ever appears to be on the verge of unfolding before our very eyes. President Bush and many high government officials may be directly implicated in previously unthinkable ways. It only seems to depend on the courage and integrity of Fitzgerald to pull the trigger. For our nation's sake let us pray he has that integrity, as the evidence he has appears to expose just how corrupt our leaders, both conservative impostors working with phony anti-war liberals, really are. <br><br>Summarizing, it appears that evidence exists that many key players in the <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Bush administration took us into this war through what the law defines as fraud</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, by the deliberate use of forgeries (the yellowcake documents) to tip the scales on the side of war, a war that without these documents most probably would not have materialized. <br><br>The American public's historic reluctance for war is understandable, but the yellowcake documents after 911 painted a picture of our national security being under grave foreign threat. But they were forgeries and the government officials who wanted war real bad knew it and are the same ones that hid it from us. <br><br>And months later when the CIA threatened to expose all by an apparent diligent investigation (which is why we assume they exist to begin with. And even if Joseph Wilson had later erred in many respects, at the time the Bush administration didn't know it and was determined to destroy him). Valerie Plame's CIA cover identity was outed to stop that investigation in it's tracks and discredit it. It did that, and the war went on, and on. <br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>This “outing” now fits the legal definition of another charge, obstruction of justice.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> The story that it was just a typical political Washington "payback" for Wilson's previous article, was on the face of it only an attempt to minimize the true crime of a larger prior fraud to get the nation into war. <br><br>That exposing Plame entailed <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>great legal risk but was done anyway</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, and speaks of intent, is supported by the great secrecy surrounding it from the outset. They knew it was illegal all along or it would have been more open. <br><br>But most earth-shattering of all, if that is possible, is that according to the real governing legal authority in this case, which is Title 18 of the United States Code, 18 USC 794 (from the Federal Espionage Act), <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Plame's outing, whether known to be illegal or not by it's direct and indirect doers, constitutes TREASON because it made public and available to our enemies, with full knowledge that action would do that, significant classified U.S. intelligence</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. Not only is that treason, but because it is treason during wartime, the maximum legal penalty for such offenses is <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>death</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. Keep in mind the actors in this were seasoned big-time pro’s, they knew the issues at stake.<br><br>Also according to John W. Dean, the former counsel to President Nixon during Watergate, and one who should know about such things: <br>"Why the Federal Conspiracy and Fraud Statutes May Apply Here...This elegantly simple law has snared countless people working for, or with, the federal government. Suppose a conspiracy is in progress. Even those who come in later, and who share in the purpose of the conspiracy, can become responsible for all that has gone on before they joined. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>They need not realize they are breaking the law; they need only have joined the conspiracy." <br></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br>"Most likely, in this instance <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>the conspiracy would be a conspiracy to defraud</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> - for the broad federal fraud statute, too, may apply here. If two federal government employees agree to undertake actions that are not within the scope of their employment, they can be found guilty of defrauding the U.S. by depriving it of the "faithful and honest services of its employee." It is difficult to imagine that President Bush is going to say he hired anyone to call reporters to wreak more havoc on Valerie Plame. Thus, anyone who did so - or helped another to do so - was acting outside the scope of his or her employment, and may be open to a fraud prosecution." <br><br>"What counts as "fraud" under the statute? Simply put, "any conspiracy for the purpose of impairing, obstructing, or defeating the lawful function of any department of government." (Emphasis added.) <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>If telephoning reporters to further destroy a CIA asset whose identity has been revealed, and whose safety is now in jeopardy, does not fit this description, I would be quite surprised</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->." <br><br>"If Newsweek is correct that Karl Rove declared Valerie Plame Wilson "fair game," then he should make sure he's got a good criminal lawyer, for he made need one. I've only suggested the most obvious criminal statute that might come into play for those who exploit the leak of a CIA asset's identity. There are others." <br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Strangely all previous media reporting and legal experts quoted has totally ignored these laws and focused more on the pretty harmless Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> (PL97-200, 50 U.S. Code Secs. 421–426) a United States law which makes it a federal crime to knowingly reveal the identity of a covert CIA agent, as if collectively taking an active hand in helping the administration politically. <br><br>Victoria Toensing who was involved in writing this law surely has by her vast knowledge and legal scholarship to know it is not the applicable law in the Valerie Plame case, and that the Federal Espionage Act at minimum may be) yet <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>that is all she talks about on TV to criticize Fitzgerald's case</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. She with me at least has lost a ton of credibility. Is she another Armstrong Williams? Whatever, call me a former fan. <br><br>Anyway in a scenario with the above elements, whether or not Bush himself is directly implicated at this point seems irrelevant, the fact that his closest advisors appear on the verge of it, and that he has stood by them for so long either in ignorance or in full knowledge only supports gross negligence or incompetence, and would cripple his credibility and presidency completely. <br>Posted by: tickedneocon on October 20, 2005 at 05:30am<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>If Ashcroft had stayed in the saddle these bastards would get away with it.<br>It's clearly a co-ordinated strategy to sell the IIPA.<br>Which, in and of itself, is part of the conspiracy.<br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=antiaristo>antiaristo</A> at: 10/20/05 6:46 pm<br></i>