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Valerie Plame and the Incredible Shrinking Cover Story

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1.   Point out that as an experienced CIA operative, Valerie Plame is a skillful liar.  And so, she lied to the Waxman committee, start to finish.  Perjury? Not to worry, we’ll be told.  The committee is controlled by the Democrats.

2.   Shift attention away from the crimes and misdemeanors of the Busheviks and the negligence of the mainstream media, to the personal shortcomings of the Wilsons, real or invented.  Here’s one: Valerie Plame is a narcissistic cry-baby.  That ploy just might be in the works.  At Google News Monday morning (10 AM EDT), I found these, and only these, headlines about Plame’s testimony: “Wilson: Leak cut off path to career.” (New York Times).  “Former CIA spy says betrayed by Bush Administration.  (Xinhua).  “Ex Spy says what leak did to career.” (SF Chronicle).  We’ve already been told by the Washington Post editorialists that Joseph Wilson is a “blowhard.” Expect more of the same.

3.   Finally, take a lesson from the master, Josef Goebbels, and concoct a “big lie,” the more outrageous and fantastic, the better.  Then repeat, and repeat, and repeat.

John Gibson of (what else?) FOX News is leading the way.  On March 7, Gibson served up this astonishing hypothesis: “There was a cabal inside the CIA working against the president's policy and they wanted to hide behind their secret status while they did what was essentially an anti-war political hitjob.” (This is such a perfect example of pure, unadulterated malarkey, that I have subjected Gibson’s three-minute fantasy to a scrupulous analysis and running commentary.  You will find it in my personal blog  I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it).

Face it: the exposure of Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings, was a crime against the state, that has caused enormous, if unknowable, harm to the security of the United States.  Some dare call it “treason.” Quite frankly, I don’t see why not.

The Bush Administration is frantically trying to avoid just retaliation by the law, the Congress, the media, and the public for this crime.

As one defense after another is stripped away with new evidence and plain common sense, and as the public becomes ever more aware of the enormity of this crime, the Busheviks become both more vulnerable and more dangerous.

We must all, therefore, be resolute, wise, and cautious.  But no American worthy of his or her political heritage, has any excuse to sit this one out.

For if this crime goes unpunished, what defenses remain against the oncoming dictatorship?
 

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Dr. Ernest Partridge is a consultant, writer and lecturer in the field of Environmental Ethics and Public Policy. Partridge has taught philosophy at the University of California, and in Utah, Colorado and Wisconsin. He publishes the website, "The (more...)
 

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