By Poppy Bush's definition, his son, & Cheney, & Rove, & Libby, & Armitage are TRAITORS

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Joe and Valerie Wilson

Treason is Not Old News

Posted November 22, 2007 | 04:37 PM (EST)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-and-valerie-wilson/treason-is-not-old-news_b_73852.html

"I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors." George Herbert Walker Bush, CIA dedication ceremony, April 26, 1999.

When Bush administration officials I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Karl Rove, Richard Armitage and Ari Fleischer betrayed Valerie Plame Wilson's identity as a covert CIA operations officer, they fell into the category of "the most insidious of traitors." Now we learn from the president's former press secretary, Scott McClellan, that the president himself "was involved" in sending him out to lie to the American public about the betrayal. If his direction to McClellan was deliberate and knowing, then the president was party to a conspiracy by senior administration officials to defraud the public. If that isn't a high crime and misdemeanor then we don't know what is. And if the president was merely an unwitting accomplice, then who lied to him? What is he doing to punish the person who misled the president to abuse his office? And why is that person still working in the executive branch? Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald made clear his suspicions about the culprit when he said "a cloud remains over the office of the vice president." But we may never know exactly what happened because President Bush thwarted justice and guaranteed the success of the cover-up when he commuted Scooter Libby's felony sentence on four counts of lying, perjury and obstruction of justice.

With the exception of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and the intrepid David Shuster, the mainstream media would have you believe that McClellan's revelation is old news. "Now back to Aruba and the two-year old disappearance of a blond teenager." But treason is not old news. The Washington press corps, whose pretension is to report and interpret events objectively, has been compromised in this matter as evidence presented in the courtroom demonstrated. Prominent journalists acted as witting agents of Rove, Libby and Armitage and covered up this serious breach of U.S. national security rather than doing their duty as journalists to report it to the public.

So far there is no apparent desire for redemption driving the press to report on the treachery of senior officials. Instead, the mainstream press has compounded its complicity by giving the Bush administration yet another free pass and shifting blame. The New York Times failed to publish an article on McClellan's revelation and The Washington Post buried it at the end of a column deep on page A-15 in the newspaper. Earlier in the week, Newsweek magazine, owned by the Washington Post Company, proudly announced the identity of its new star columnist -- Karl Rove, one of the key actors in this collective treason. Robert Novak, who willfully disclosed Valerie's identity, having been twice warned not to do so by the CIA, and who transmitted his column to Rove before it was published, remains a regularly featured columnist in The Washington Post.

[zabet]

1. You know that

Poppy did not mean that applied
to his elitest brood.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. Yep. "Do as I SAY. not do as I DO."

:patriot:

[zabet]

3. Yes.

For they see themselves as the ruling elite.
We, the people, are beneath them. They cannot
relate to us so they view us as a lesser entity.
All because the average American is not born with
a silver spoon shoved up their ass.

[valerief]

4. Yes. They feel as much a part of our world as we feel a part of

an ant's world. I don't hate ants, but I'll crush one to death if I see it in my house. We get too close to the elites' world, they crush us like ants.

[Vickers]

5. I agree with him!

Er, now can I go fishing on that million-dollar kick-ass boat of his?