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as Sup Ct nominee, and a reported visit of Treasongate prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald with Bush's personal lawyer (not Miers)--or a provocative coincidence in the timing of the two things. Let's see, back in June '06, was it? Rumors flying that Rove was about to be indicted. Rove's lawyer says no, but won't produce letter that Fitz sent him--so spec is that Fitz is holding Rove on a leash, re his testimony at Libby's coming trial. My theory of Treasongate is that Rove--although never innocent--was a bag man in that operation, and may have been set up by Libby to be left holding it--so his non-indictment was never important--except politically--but his testimony was/is important to Fitz in the lying/obstruction case against Libby, and perhaps in going after Cheney, or--my pick for mastermind--Rumsfeld. Anyhoo, in middle of all this, as I recall, a day or two after Fitz visits Bush's other lawyer, suddenly Bush withdraws Miers' name--which, as I recall, was very surprising to everybody.
Now, what could the relationship be? One of my theories is that Miers was used to disinform Rove on the legality of outing Valerie Plame. Rove did some of the dirty work--helped out Plame (--not to mention the entire WMD counter-proliferation network that she headed, putting all of our covert agents/contacts at risk of death)--then found out it was illegal--and (according to a passage in Joe Wilson's book) had a dustup with Libby about it. Libby had set him up. Spec: Libby got Miers to lie to Rove that Rove was okay legally, and had concocted the cover story that the whole thing was Rovian political revenge (so typical of Rove) against Wilson, for his public dissent on the justifications for the war.
It's interesting that, meanwhile, Cheney has marked up some news clippings of Wilson's NYT article (--that the Niger/Iraq nuke connection was bunk), making it look like Cheney was oh-so-worried about this dissenting voice. I think the whole thing is shuckin jive (--that they cared a hoot about public opinion, or a newsstream that they had near complete control of). I don't think they outed Plame to punish Wilson (or primarily to punish Wilson). I think they outed Plame to STOP Plame--who was our chief counter-proliferation expert--from finding out about, or foiling, their plan to plant phony nukes in Iraq, to be "found" by the US troops (accompanied by Iraq War/WMD propagandist, and NYT "journalist," Judith Miller, who was planted there to "get the scoop"; according to her, she had a special embed contract signed by Donald Rumsfeld). I think it's possible that, in July 2003, they still thought they could pull it off. They had tried once or twice in the March-June invasion period, and had gotten foiled or tripped up.* In that case, stopping Plame and her network from detecting them, in their final attempt, would be their motive. (And what does outing that entire counter-proliferation network--and putting its people in grave danger--have to do with political punishment of Wilson? --nothing. So why did they do it--in a second Novak column, a week after the first one outing Plame herself?) Their other motive--if they weren't still trying to plant nukes in Iraq--was to disable this network for future purposes, i.e., planting nuke material in Iran, or WMD war profiteering/illicit arms trading. But I believe that it was the NETWORK they were after--and that the Rove political revenge story is a cover story.
Miers fits comfortably into the creation of that cover story. She is a Bush Cartel toady--and wouldn't hesitate to lie for their ends. I'm neutral on the matter of her competence. I don't know. So it's possible she didn't know what she was doing. The aftermath (and foremath) of the withdrawal of her name was a bit odd--Democrats saying she wasn't qualified, wingers agreeing (and maybe not wanting a woman?)--all very murky. Why would the Bush Junta give a crap what Democrats thought? And what Democrats think of as "unqualified" would be exactly what wingers want (ignorant of the Constitution, dismissive of civil rights, malleable, bought and paid for, oil cartel operative). It didn't add up very well. But a visit from Fitz quietly apprising Bush's PERSONAL lawyer that Miers "has a problem" with the Treasongate/Libby case, and that she had better not be put in the Sup. Ct., could explain their abrupt withdrawal of her name.
A lot of speculation here. Bear that in mind. If the above has any truth to it--or if something similar occurred on some other issue (there are so many possibilities with this crime gang!)--their firing her now could have to do with her complicity in something, or the potential for her to rat on them about something, or her refusal to take the rap for something, as well as with her being a toady, and not smart enough to keep them out of jail.
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*(I think the initial foilings of their probable plot to plant nukes in Iraq may have something to do with the strange death of the Brits chief WMD expert, David Kelly, four days after Plame was outed.)
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