Largest of all is that this alive, although page 5, in WaPo.
I think that a part of low replies on something like this (and I know there's many similar stories--I post some of 'em) is that we here, DU, are way ahead in dissecting and projecting who's involved in scandal-X.
But there's quite a bit of news here, at least to me, amazingly enough published in the the WaPo and not on DU, other relatively obscure media, or some fine blog.
Allow me to walk through the article for a sampling:
1. Cheney in Headline #1 (although not in the click through head).
2. Investigators interview Defense Policy Board.
3. David Wurmser's name is highlighted.
4. The question asked: "The initial interest was: Do you believe certain people would spy for Israel and pass secret information?"
5. That Franklin passed a "draft presidential directive."
(6A&B) ("A federal grand jury in Alexandria may take up the Franklin case as early as next week" and "One aspect of the probe concerns AIPAC and another looks at whether intelligence on Iran ended up in the hands of Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi" -- I've seen, but good info for WaPo readers).
6. Great quote: "Iran has been a particularly controversial issue within the Bush administration, which still does not have a formal policy more than 3 1/2 years after taking office." Why? Neocon's didn't want one except overthrow.
7. The root of all evil: "Wurmser, Feith and Perle were co-authors of a 1996 policy paper for then-Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu titled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm." It called for removing Hussein from power in Iraq as part of a broad strategy to transform the region and remove radical regimes."
8. Even greater quote: "...officials also concede that Israel is one of the three countries most active in spying on the United States."
9. Conyers: "yesterday, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee demanded that a new prosecutor be assigned." Who said "the role of U.S. Attorney Paul J. McNulty in the case has "obvious political implications." He calls for Special Counsel or Fitzgerald, the guy leading the Plame investigation, to take over.
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So, some of it is a recap--but, if you read carefully, there is some subtle but new info--subtle but ever more bunker-buster explosive--and also a 'keep alive' in one very significant daily.
These crimes from this admin. are indeed worse than Watergate, but it is the Watergate of our times.
Allow me to toss in my own sorta ignored LBN:
White House Learned of Spy Probe in 2001(That's Condi and Hadley) Here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x800454Bushco. knew a foreign power was running ME policy. Condi dragged it right into the Whitehouse, like a cat proudly bearing its master a trophy of a well poisoned mouse. Lacking clue, they abdicated nearly all policy because Whistleass' Whitehouse is a politics only machine, thanks to Rove and whatever deal Cheney and Poppy worked out. Nat'l Sec. Adviser Condi, with full awareness, essentially signed off on Israel, through the Neocons at DoD, running ME policy. This despite it being obvious that it breaks half a gazillion laws and they were being actively though embryonically investigated for the possibility of just that. They could have shut it down (Feith's back channels) in 2001, instead they ordained it. They could have built a firewall as soon as they knew FBI/and whomever was on this. Instead they failed in wishing it away, and this
is going to explode big time.
The only question is now or in the history books?
Can we make it now?
(edit: trying to perfect the Condi poisoned mouse phrase--need to do more creative writing, clearly.)
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