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Scooter Libby's Diary: Come And Get Me, Coppers!
By Bernard Weiner (about the author) Page 2 of 2 page(s)
On the other hand, if I weren't pretty clear that a pardon is coming, I might rethink my reluctance. For example, if Bush's numbers continued to tank, he might well be advised by Republican leaders that a pardon for me should not be granted lest the GOP and the entire conservative revolution go down in flames for a decade or more. And Bush, not the sharpest tack in the drawer and not knowing what else to do, would agree, despite whatever pardon-hints his representatives might have dropped to me earlier.
This is so damn complicated! I need some wise counsel here, but all I get from everyone is self-serving advice: Keep your mouth shut and you'll be taken care of. Take the fall and you'll be a hero to good patriotic Americans everywhere. Don't worry, you won't serve much time and you'll be guaranteed a high-paying corporate job when it's all over. Remember your important decades of service to Dick and the conservative cause, don't blow it by weakness now. Hang in there, we'll find one of our made judges on a federal court to throw out your indictment on a technicality.
WHAT STOPPED FITZGERALD?<-b>
I sure hope we can come up with a way out for me. Right now, I've painted myself badly into a corner, with no easy escape route.
That Fitzgerald is a clever one, bastard though he be. He laid out virtually an entire case for charging me and the others for outing a CIA agent whose identity was classified, and then didn't do it; instead, he got me for lying, while dropping in little nuggets implicating Dick and Karl. But just left those clues there, presumably for reporters and Democrats to use in piecing together the puzzle. By doing it that way, Fitzgerald guaranteed that others would take the hit from GOP loyalists rather than himself -- smart thinking by a likely future politico.
Fitzgerald knows what happened and who's involved, so why didn't he just drop the hammer on all of us together? Maybe it's as simple as ambition: He understood that unless he stopped short of Bush and Cheney, and the whole issue of how the Administration led the country to war on sketchy intelligence, he would have no future career.
So why did Fitzgerald zero in on me? Could Dick have abandoned me too, not just Karl? No, it wouldn't happen. Dick and I are joined at the brain and soul -- and legal jeopardy for various projects. Karl I can understand, even if I loathe him for not sticking by me. But no way Dick would abandon me. I won't even think such thoughts. Besides, even if it were true in some small way, I long ago vowed that I would take the bullet for him, in the service of the cause.
TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS<-b>
We true conservatives (of the "neo" variety) -- those willing to use our power openly, ruthlessly and decisively in the service of our country and ideology -- have come so far in such a relatively short period of time, from the far-right fringes of political respectability in America to the locus of power in the world. I would never do anything to endanger our rightful place in history and permit those namby-pamby pinko liberals an opportunity to take over again -- not when we're finally in the position to drown government in a bathtub, to install enough of our judges to make law from the bench for decades, to grant even more tax relief for our wealthy friends and corporate supporters, to remove cumbersome government oversight in so many regulatory areas.
Not only would the liberals expand giveaways to the lazy minorities and poor domestically, but they would bring a swift end to our grand experiment in changing the face of the Mideast by diplomacy and threat if possible, by force if necessary. Without the Soviets, and with the Chinese still not quite ready, we remain the lone Superpower -- and we should act like it, doing what needs to be done while we can get away with it. We of the Project for The New American Century (PNAC), who conceived the philosophy behind establishing our Pax Americana in the world, are now in control of the foreign-policy apparatus and should use that power well and often.
No, I have made my principled stand and, even if I have to go to prison to make sure our agenda is carried out from the White House, I'll stand tall, giving no quarter. If you want me, come and get me, coppers! #
Bernard Weiner, a playwright, has peeked into the fictional diaries ( www.crisispapers.org/weinerpubs.htm#diaries ) of everyone from Bush and Cheney to Patrick Fitzgerald and Osama bin Laden. A Ph.D. in government & international relations, he has taught at various universities, worked as a writer/editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, and currently co-edits The Crisis Papers (www.crisispapers.org). To comment, write: >> crisispapers@comcast.net <<.
Originally published by The Crisis Papers and Democratic Underground 11/1/05.
Copyright 2005 by Bernard Weiner.
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