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is, then he's told that to Fitzgerald, right? And Fitzgerald can just stop all this investigating and subpoena the president. (Can he? Not sure on that one. Does Fitzgerald have the same powers as Mr. Kenneth ("The Grand Inquisitor") Starr? )
If there is any truth to it--that Novak actually knows what Bush knows, and that what Bush knows or says he knows (told Novak?) is the truth (the true and main leaker who put Valerie Plame's life in danger, and disabled the CIA's entire counter-proliferation project, 20 years in the making, putting all of its covert agents and contacts at risk of getting killed), then all Bush has to do (unless it's himself) is finger the leaker. No more aides getting hauled before grand juries, or into court with perjury and obstruction charges, no more favorite press lapdogs thrown in jail for covering up for your aides, no more troubles from Mr. Fitzgerald's end of the universe. Just finger somebody--your least favorite vice president, or WH or Pentagon or CIA toady.
Could be a fun game? Who will Bush finger? M-m-m-m, let's see...
Possibilities:
They're setting somebody up, to cover for: a) Bush; b) Cheney; c) Rumsfeld; d) all of the WHIG.
1. Possibly Libby, since he's already in trouble--his usefulness on the job, should he return, at least temporarily impaired; and his usefulness even on a covert basis reduced due to his legal troubles. And he was the one talking about "fall" in his famous "aspens" letter. Taking the fall? (--so that all those other aspens, connected by their roots, can continue with the plot to invade Iran and Syria on some pretext).
2. Cheney, covering up for Bush, Rumsfeld and the WHIG. It would certainly be convenient to "the aspens" to get rid of that ugly carcass now, rather than later, and put Condi's bright-stupid face in as V-P, to be Diebolded into office in '08. Cheney would throw himself on the mercy of Bush's "pod people" in Congress; they would "forgive" him; the Democrats would wring their hands but those who like the war would secretly be glad; then, Fitzgerald would agree to some sort of confession but no jail time, if he values his life and the lives of his family; and Cheney would go build his White-Peoples-News Orleans-Disneyland, near some of the last oil reserves in the U.S., or maybe build an artificial island right off shore at our expense, over which he will be the sovereign lawgiver and enforcer.
3. Rove. I doubt he would be fingered by Bush. Didn't Bush just say, "I owe everything to Karl" or some such? Anyway, I think he was low on the chain of command in Traitorgate. He has already evaded one scheme to make him the patsy (Libby's). He is likely guilty and a conspirator, but not the mastermind.
4. Rumsfeld. The Lurker in Traitorgate. He's my candidate for mastermind. But I don't know about Bush fingering him as fall guy, unless Bush/Cheney and "the aspens" have developed some insider hatred of him that is unknown to the rest of us. (I think he got Judith Miller all set up, to be the "finder" of the WMDs that they were trying to plant in Iraq after the invasion. I think that's what Traitorgate is the cover up for--what it's all about. The Cartel was going to plant the weapons; the Brewster-Jennings network (Plame/CIA) found out about it and foiled it. And David Kelly, the Brits chief WMD expert, was the link to that knowledge--to who foiled it. Kelly was found dead, under highly suspicious circumstances, four days after Plame was outed; his computers and office were searched; and, four days after that, Novak additionally outed the entire B/J network.)
There are other potential fall guys that Bush could name. Bolton. Hadley. Tenet. Powell. But writing of Rumsfeld made me think of something else that may be going on--that many of these players have their own secret dossiers on Bush, and are blackmailing him in various ways. (I was pretty convinced that Cheney was blackmailing him about Traitorgate during Katrina, and possibly also Rove, who seemed to be on strike at the time--Bush out there in the media with no support.) That could greatly complicate who he might finger. For instance, it would mean that Cheney would only take the fall by agreement, and with rock solid guarantees in place. And it would exclude Rumsfeld, who for sure has dossiers on everybody (the Office of Special Plans is probably much more diabolical than we know). I think either of them could finger Bush on a number of high crimes and misdemeanors. And if they can't, then they must be a lot stupider than anybody had thought.
So, where does that leave us, as to Novak's recent blather about "ask Bush." It does give the lie to the whole rickety cover story about "everybody knew" Plame's identity. If Novak knows what he's talking about, then there IS a leaker (or leakers). It WAS leaked. It wasn't something that "everybody knew." And SOMEBODY did it. We knew that, of course. But it puts it in a somewhat different light to have one of THEM saying it (for whatever reason).
We have no reason whatever to trust anything Novak says. He's a traitor himself. So I favor this interpretation (as to the "aspen" plan): 1) A fall guy has been chosen; 2) Bush will soon name the fall guy; 3) it will be a pretty good story, with prepped witnesses, exonerating everybody but the fall guy; 4) it will be hard for Fitzgerald to get around it (so they hope)--he may get a few more perjury and obstruction cases (charges that stand independent of what happens with the main crime), but the conspiracy (which it surely was) will evade him; 5) it will probably be Cheney, for all the political reasons above, and because that might satisfy Fitzgerald that justice has been done (removal of the V-P --Mr. Darth Vader himself) in this most difficult of cases.
That leaves "Dr. Strangelove" (Rumsfeld) still in charge of the plot to invade Iran and Syria.
I'm not saying that this is how it will go. I'm just trying to guess what "the aspens" are up to, and what Novak may know about it. I'm still not sure why he would say it in public. Maybe he's signaling that he's still on the team, and won't give their game away. Or he was just tired of being pestered about it. Or he feels used (poor baby) and he's slapping back.
Of one thing I'm sure. Even if Fitzgerald were to charge the whole lot of them with conspiracy and treason--to the limit of his indictment power (prez and v-p as "unindicted co-conspirators," I believe)--and laid out a slam dunk case, our troubles would be far from over. Because of Diebold and ES&S still counting all our votes with "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code, and virtually no audit/recount controls. That is the heart of the problem. It is how "power corrupted, and absolute power corrupted absolutely." It is why Congress will not, even then, impeach these criminals.
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