NPR this morning-Cheney had direct access to "Office of Special Planning"-

[jmoss]

--via his staff memeber, "Scooter -something-". What does anyone know about this. (and by the way, this means that there was another outfit supplying info to Dick and the boys, BESIDES Mr. Tennet , "the gray".

:-( :think:

[leftchick]

1. That would be Scooter Libby. Here is a diagram to connect the dots....

From MotherJones.com and the Fine Article!


http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_405.html

[G_j]

2. yes, yes! read THIS article! n/t

[underpants]

4. Libby was also the head counsel for.................Marc Rich

He was the last person to talk to Clinton before the pardon was issued.

[chelaque liberal]

7. And member of PNAC

[chelaque liberal]

10. Libby's name came up in the Plame investigation

but that was last week's news.....

[underpants]

11. That's just national security just like the new pro-Rummy book

Whoever wrote it was on Hannity yeaterday afternoon (don't ask why I listen 'cause I don't know) and within 5 minutes he (name?) mentioned THREE top secret documents he "had obtained" concerning just how fantastic Rummy is. .......uh who is releasing top secret documents to you?

[Corgigal]

6. I like the no arrows

to the Presidents office. Just a front man, I guess.

[leftchick]

8. or a....

brainless, drunken idiot.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Shouldn't there be an arrow from Libby

to a square marked "Go To Jail. Do Not Pass Go. Do Not Collect $200"?

[chelaque liberal]

3. Check this out

Do a google search, there is a lot out there, but this is and excellent source of info.
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/13/news-cooper.php

[mhr]

5. Also See This Article By An Insider - Retired Military Office

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/13/news-cooper.php

Soldier for the Truth
Exposing Bush’s talking-points war
by Marc Cooper

FEBRUARY 20 - 26, 2004

After two decades in the U.S. Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, now 43, knew her career as a regional analyst was coming to an end when — in the months leading up to the war in Iraq — she felt she was being “propagandized” by her own bosses.

With master’s degrees from Harvard in government and zoology and two books on Saharan Africa to her credit, she found herself transferred in the spring of 2002 to a post as a political/military desk officer at the Defense Department’s office for Near East South Asia (NESA), a policy arm of the Pentagon.

Kwiatkowski got there just as war fever was spreading, or being spread as she would later argue, through the halls of Washington. Indeed, shortly after her arrival, a piece of NESA was broken off, expanded and re-dubbed with the Orwellian name of the Office of Special Plans. The OSP’s task was, ostensibly, to help the Pentagon develop policy around the Iraq crisis.

She would soon conclude that the OSP — a pet project of Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld — was more akin to a nerve center for what she now calls a “neoconservative coup, a hijacking of the Pentagon.”

Snip ......