Nadagate? L'Affaire Plame?

Don (I-Man) Imus interviewed the Frankster about his Sunday column on Special Prosecutor Lawrence Fitzgerald's foray into the Dickster's office and his #1 stooge, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby. Frank Rich thinks that there's a flame producing the smoke. Rich's neo-con colleague on the NYTimes Op-Ed page, John Tierney, called this mess Nadagate this AM. We will see. In the meantime, Dub's brain (aka Turd Blossom aka Karl Rove) canceled appearances at 3 GOP fundraisers into this weekend. Is Turd Blossom nervous about the grand jury's findings? Heh, heh. If this is (fair & balanced) anticipation, so be it.

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Tuesday October 18, 2005
Imus: "In your column Sunday, you said it's Bush-Cheney not Rove-Libby. What's that mean?"

Frank Rich of the New York Times: "What it means is, to me there are two stories here. One of the stories, the one that now Washington is focused on is the leak investigation, what if anything Rove and Libby did to punish this guy Joseph Wilson and his wife because they were furious that he was telling the press in ultimately his own op-ed page, piece that a lot of what they had said was bogus particularly about Saddam Hussein having uranium that might have been turned into nuclear weapons."

Imus: "You know what I was just thinking here, let me interrupt you. Rove and Libby, Hunt and Liddy."

Frank Rich: "Well, you make a point because to me that's exactly the point. To the bigger scandal in my view this leak investigation is like the Watergate break-in. The Watergate break-in was a really tiny part of what turned out to be a big political plan by the Nixon administration. It was some people who got caught doing something stupid but when we got the full dimensions of the scandal it was almost an unimportant part of it, that unsuccessful break-in and also from the Watergate building had nothing really to do, it was just the tip of the iceberg. The point I was trying to make on Sunday was this essentially is the same thing. This is an interesting case. We don't know what the resolution is going to be but the real conspiracy in my view and I am talking in the general sense not the legal sense at least at this point is the conspiracy to manufacture a war on false pretenses. And the outing of Valerie Plame is a relatively petty and perhaps even trivial thing but in fact it was like hitting a flea with a sledgehammer to out her because it's not like they were outing the biggest spy in the world but it was a mistake and it showed what they really wanted to cover up which was the larger story, the story which involves the President and the Vice President and the selling of this war with a lot of phony mushroom cloud imagery and everything else in the fall of '02 right through that famous State of the Union speech in January '03."

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