It's a compelling, but still largely unexplored, narrative.
It goes something like this: As President Bush's false case for war in Iraq began to unravel, his top aides took extreme measures to discredit critics who accused the administration of intentional deceit. One of their mechanisms involved using compliant reporters to spread sometimes inaccurate information. . . .
As a result, they successfully kept charges of deception from becoming a major issue in the 2004 election, allowing Bush to win a second term. And since then, they have continued to avoid any meaningful congressional oversight, while at the same time keeping most of the press off the trail.
Barring a robust and far-reaching inquiry on Capitol Hill, the trial of Scooter Libby on perjury and obstruction of justice charges, which started this morning in Washington, offers the public its best chance to determine whether that narrative is accurate. [Emphasis added]
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My main question is-- just why should we bar a 'robust and far reaching inquiry on Capitol Hill'?
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Cheney and Rove should have been carted off in cuffs before Libby, but power and wealth will not let that happen.
I just hope power and wealth doesn't get Libby off as well.
welcome holly---
yep -- I fear you're right.
I mean, look at all the Watergate vets who went on to make 6 and7 figure incomes from the books they wrote about the experience.
and, there's already talk of Bush pardoning Libby on the off-chance he's convicted in the first place.
so much for Lady Justice's blindfold.
Hi Holly. I agree. The opening statements are delayed, because they're still trying to impanel a jury that is not prejudiced because of all the lies that have come from BushCo and think that Cheney might testify honestly. like that might ever happen. :-(
and this whole thing got so much publicity last year with Bushco saying it was no big deal, etc.
meanwhile, of course, the same Bushco is classifying documents that have always been public domain and, in fact, were used during the Clinton/Lewinski bruhaha in an effort that they not be used to look at what's really happening in the WH today.
I think I'm gonna be sick.
Cheney invited Scooter on a hunting trip before this started, wonder why???
Cheney will slip away as he won't testify in court it will be by video, and of course most of the questions will not get answered because of "security" measures.
Larry---
did he really???
I saw [and will be posting later this week] an article by Borowitz that Cheney invited Libby on a hunting trip. I had no idea it was true!
[wonder if the invitation came after Borowitz wrote his piece? :)
NOT a great idea to give Cheney ideas, I guess.]
hey, Poli--
sure, republicans are all for throwing all criminals or people they SUSPECT of being criminals in jail -- unless the people in question have an R after their names.
then, all bets are off.
and don't we non-republican types know that a blow- job is WAY more serious than torture, leading the country into a war by making up facts to suit themselves, eavesdropping on citizens and doing several end- runs around the Constitution? well? don't we?
What Clinton did was just to Monica. What Bush is doing is to all of us.
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