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Mar. 6, 2007 I was gratified to see that I. Lewis Libby has been convicted on four out of five charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, without, however, having been indicted or convicted of a violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which was the kernel of the whole Plamegate scandal in the first place. Libby's crimes were only peripheral to the central issue, and that was whether or not a White House conspiracy set out to avenge Joseph Wilson IV's article debunking Bush's claims that there had been an attempt made by Iraq to purchase uranium in Niger. This, it was supposed, they sought to do by revealing the undercover identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, Wilson's wife. Libby has been found to have lied with a view to preventing a thoroughgoing investigation that might have implicated himself and others in the conspiracy. Wilson's article got much attention, but the essence of the article was that Bush's faction were lying about the uranium deal. However, that should have been fairly obvious from the revelation made 4 months earlier by Mohamed elBaradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency that the correspondence purporting to be germane to the uranium deal consisted of forgeries. John Bolton made it one of his objectives to prevent elBaradei from being elected a third time to the directorship of the IAEA, but he failed in this endeavor. A week after the IAEA had denounced the forgeries, the US warned elBaradei to get his agents out of Iraq, as they planned to invade. So Wilson's articles stoked the flames higher, and apparently persons in the White House wanted him shut up or paid back. Wilson himself believed that Karl Rove had been behind the Plame outing, and Rove may have been, but so far, not enough evidence has surfaced to indict him. Hopefully, now that US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has some leverage with his great new Libby conviction, he may be able to get at people like Rove and Cheney after all. Some people reason that Libby has been victimized, being charged with crimes that came about only as a consequence of the investigation, and not with substantive issues. I'm not so sure that that is the case, but I know that Libby was an advocate of invading Iran, and has had close ties with Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and other high-ranking Zionists who are bent on the destruction or subjugation of Islam. He is also a charter member of the Project for a New American Century, a think tank which advocates US domination. Therefore, I don't shed tears for him in his plight, anymore than he shed tears for the hundreds of thousands of innocent victims in Iraq. Anyway, when ever does any high-ranking politician get more than a token sentence in a country club of a penal institution? It took three and a half years to get a conviction in this case, and it's not even the mastermind who's been convicted. It's unfortunate that it took so long, what with appeals and continuances, for if a verdict had been handed down in 2004, it probably would have been much more inflammatory, with the election in the offing. But something may come of this case after all. It would be a shame just to put Libby in jail, as if it has been all about him, and not about the whole Bush cabal. ------------ About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far. I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents. Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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