Category Five Photo

KATRINA
August 28th
6pm EST

This is Hurricane Katrina at her strongest... In the Gulf, after passing over South Florida, and before making landfall(again). Wind Speed 160+ mph. Give if you can to the RED CROSS... Best, Herb.

Financial Times Of London on Rove-Leak Scandal

Actually, It is regarding Judy(Oh Judy!) Miller's role
in the slow-simmering Karl Rove scandal...
(let's all say that again: "Karl Rove scandal." )
The Financial Times, calling it:
"An intriguing new theory,"
SAYS:

The mainstream media has focused on Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political guru, as the source of the original story identifying Plame. The alleged motive was revenge against former ambassador Joseph Wilson, Plame's husband, an outspoken critic of the Iraq war.
Observer now hears a new angle on the story is circulating inside the Justice Department.
It involves Judith Miller, the veteran New York Times reporter currently languishing in a Virginia jail for refusing to reveal her source(s) in the Plame affair.
Many have assumed that Miller - who never actually wrote a story identifying Plame as an operative - is protecting Rove and/or other administration officials. But the missing link is that Miller is not a political reporter, but rather an investigative journalist who co-wrote a book on America's secret war against biological weapons and later published controversial articles on Iraq's effort to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
Now here's the twist: Plame herself is a CIA operative who also specialised in weapons of mass destruction and bio-terrorism. So did Miller get to know Plame while she was writing her book or even use her as a source for other WMD stories?
... Miller is staying mum...

Noted; filed.
Cheers, Herb.

God believes in GLOBAL*WARMING

See Katrina...

Herb.

Liars

CNN's CNN Presents hour-long "DEAD WRONG" should get a peabody for it's summary of how we got conned into Iraq-WMDs, pins it all (with innuendo) on the WhiteHouse CRAZIES who manipulated the intelligence, and NOT on the Agency or the people who WORK there.
(Replaying often this weekend.)
For purposes of this post, Tenet is one of the "Dead Wrong" CRAZIES, and not a worker at the Agency...
Thanks "Director" ... for NOTHING!
("...Medal o' Freedom sellout whore!")
[did I say that last part out loud? Hmmmph!]
Herb

Psychopathical Tendecies (All I wanted was a Pepsi...)

Buzzflash.com

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/05/08/con05291.html
See the whole piece... but EXCERPTED:

A psychopath is a person who uses his often considerable intelligence in the service of his primitive drives (think sex, aggression, power). Being fairly bright, he learns, imperfectly, to mimic emotional expressions suggestive of some higher emotions (compassion, for example), but his reactions hardly fool anyone because they ring hollow as there is no truth and authenticity in them. He can use lofty words when needed -- an easy thing for a fairly intelligent psychopath -- but there is no emotional content to them.
Just look at Bush's responses whenever he is asked, unscripted, about anything that would require him to express either empathy, or caring and compassion for others, including his own family members. He stammers and stumbles, tries some platitudes or inappropriate jokes, and eventually makes a fool of himself. It is always painful to watch and it clearly demonstrates his emotional retardation.

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A psychopath is a person who uses his often considerable intelligence in the service of his primitive drives (think sex, aggression, power). Being fairly bright, he learns, imperfectly, to mimic emotional expressions suggestive of some higher emotions (compassion, for example), but his reactions hardly fool anyone because they ring hollow as there is no truth and authenticity in them. He can use lofty words when needed -- an easy thing for a fairly intelligent psychopath -- but there is no emotional content to them.
Just look at Bush's responses whenever he is asked, unscripted, about anything that would require him to express either empathy, or caring and compassion for others, including his own family members. He stammers and stumbles, tries some platitudes or inappropriate jokes, and eventually makes a fool of himself. It is always painful to watch and it clearly demonstrates his emotional retardation.


The intelligence in the service of primitive instincts that Bush's actions and words represent; the raw aggressive power, unmitigated by thought or higher feeling; and the surge of compensatory confidence it engenders, are what appeals to a great segment of this -- or any other -- society, especially to its powerless and emotionally underdeveloped members. They rally around their leader, seeing in him both a reflection of themselves and a promise of a "victory" that would release their fears and frustrations, and avenge their sorry, hopeless fate. Of course what they do not realize is that their leader couldn't care less about their fate. To him, his minions are an echo chamber for his words and cannon fodder for his missions.
Tragically, as a nation, we will remain in the dark ages as long as we keep choosing psychopaths as our leaders and pretend this is a good thing. And no matter how hard we will try to convince ourselves that what we yearn for are freedom and democracy for all (and whatever other ideals we choose to endorse by our words), our actions -- the choices we make, including our choice of the leader -- will keep telling the rest of the world otherwise. As shameful as it is, the psychopathic Bush represents America to the world.

Creepy, I'm not suggesting I agree with that stuff, but she is doctor, damnit!
(Seems kinda bundyish... No?)
Old man Herb.

don & dick and georgie, On Leadership...

To steal a quote from Rummy...

"Unfortunately we were forced to go to war with the civilian-leadership WE HAD, not the leadership we would have wanted."

(Note: It's best if you Rumsfeldian-squint your eyes when you read the above quote)

The Incomparable ROLLING STONES

I've always loved the Stones, since I was a wee lad. Personally, I prefer the older(younger) Rolling Stones, but they've got a new song they've been playing on their current (Senior) American Tour, called "Sweet Neo Con"... it's sweet!
Lyrics reprinted below... (without permission):

SWEET NEO CON
by the Rolling Stones
-- -- --
You ride around your white castle,
On your little white horse
You lie to your people,
and blame it on your war of course
You call yourself a Christian,
I call you a hypocrite
You call yourself a patriot,
well I think you're full of shit
Oh, sweet Neo Con,
What path have you led them on?
Oh, sweet Neo Con,
Is it time for the atom bomb?
You parade around in costume,
Expecting to be believed
But as the body bags stack up,
We believe we've been deceived
The horror you've unleased,
Will backfire with more grief
When will you ever learn,
Sweet Neo Con, as the world burns?
Oh, sweet Neo Con,
What path have you led them on?
Oh, sweet Neo Con,
Is it time for the atom bomb?
Oh, sweet Neo Con,
What path have you led them on?
Oh, sweet Neo Con,
Is it time to drop the bomb?
-- -- --

Probably worth the ticket-price alone...
Later, Herb.

World Crumbles While W Plays Le-Cowboy

Good time for a vacation.
What a military/country F-You!
"What WILL we tell the children?"
Herb.

Novak is a RAT! A dirty stinking RAT!

ROBERT NOVAK IS A DAMN RAT!
To Vermin-Bob, his secret "sources" for his hack opinion-articles, read by a few wackos in Texas, are more important than our Nation's Intel. Sources... even during a time when the country is "at war."
Does Osama like Bob? You bet!
Ratting out our soldiers during the war,
good going Bob! Maybe somebody should retire...?
Disgusted, Herb.

Rove-Leak Scandal... Townhall comments

From www.dailykos.com, again:

From Bill in the GREAT STATE OF MAINE concludes:
The citizenry is not amused, Mr. Rove...

Excerpts of letters in response to Time and Newsweek's simultaneous cover stories on Karl Rove...

"The President's right-hand man is at best a rat and at worst a traitor."
"Rove should be fired immediately, but it will be hard for the President to oust his most trusted adviser."
"It's time for Bush to demonstrate true character and leadership and do as he promised, without parsing the relative legality of Rove's actions, which were at the very least arrogant and unethical. That sort of behavior should not be tolerated by either the President or the American people."
"The media are making the Plame case far too complicated. Bush can no more fire Rove than dummy Charlie McCarthy could fire ventriloquist Edgar Bergen."
"Bush's credibility is on the line. We will see if Bush really meant it when he said he would fire anyone in his Administration who leaked information that exposed the identity of a CIA officer. The media must hold Bush's feet to the fire..."
"When will we stand up and demand that this Administration be held accountable for jeopardizing national security? President Bush's job is to protect us, not his own hide."
"If you or I had outed a CIA operative, you can bet we would be in prison..."
"Your article on Karl Rove was fairly accurate, except for one point: his favorite quarry is not quail, it is truth. He also likes to take aim at fairness, honesty and ethics."
"The fact is that were the situation reversed and it was a Democrat in trouble for revealing a CIA operative's name for political motives, the Republicans would have his hide. And who would be right up front ripping the `traitorous' Democrat to shreds? Karl Rove, of course."
"How many times have we been lied to about critically important matters by this administration? And what happened to President Clinton when he lied about a sexual affair? Whose dishonesty is more consequential?"
"Is he a character assassin? Absolutely. Is he unethical? Without a doubt. Those answers should be enough to ride him out of town on a rail. The Bush Administration, however, will probably give him a raise."

No comment, Herb.

Anti-War Quotes via dailykos.com

They did the work at dailykos.com, revealing a bunch of bleeding-heart "conservative" HYPOCRITES! Check out this list of quotes regarding Clinton sending troops to Bosnia(THEY ALL CAME HOME ALIVE), and then imagine these today...
ABOUT BUSH

"You can support the troops but not the president."
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
"Well, I just think it's a bad idea. What's going to happen is they're going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years."
--Joe Scarborough (R-FL)
"Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?"
--Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99
"[The] President . . . is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation's armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy."
--Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)
"American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy."
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
"If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy."
--Karen Hughes, speaking on behalf of George W Bush
"I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning . . I didn't think we had done enough in the diplomatic area."
--Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)
"I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our over-extended military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the President started this thing, and there still is no plan today"
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."
--Governor George W. Bush (R-TX)

(Damn internet...)
Thanks "kos"!
Herb.

Oedipus Wrecks

From GREEK: "Oedipus" was the son of Laius and Jocasta who in fulfillment of an oracle unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother. (Webster's Ninth.)
From Freud: Oedipus Complex, 1910, the son trying to OUT-DO the father to impress Mommy, and now...

From today's Times comes another Bullseye from Maureen Dowd
INCUDING THIS:

The son wanted to go into Iraq to best his daddy in the history books, by finishing what Bush senior started. He swept aside the warnings of Brent Scowcroft and Colin Powell and didn't bother to ask his father's advice. Now he is caught in the very trap his father said he feared: that America would get bogged down as "an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land," facing a possibly "barren" outcome.
It turns out that the people of Iraq have ethnic and religious identities, not a national identity. Shiites and Kurds want to suppress the Sunnis who once repressed them and break off into their own states, smashing the Bush model kitchen of democracy.

WOW! Enough said, for now...
Later, Herb.

The "Vacant Five Weeks" Numbers

Let's see how bad things get while the WHOLE DAMNADMINISTRATION(sic) is on "workin'" vacation---from the messes they made....
We'll revisit these numbers, run 'em thru our super-computers for analysis, etc.

HOW MUCH WORSE will these numbers be at the end of 5 Weeks, compared to at the start of the big vacation(working, whatever.)?

1) Iraq Losses - Up Dramatically!
2) Gas Prices- Daily Increases, ALL-TIME HIGH?
3) Prez-Approval Numbers - ALL-TIME LOW?


Later, Herb.

Waas & Conyers on RoveLeakScandal

Conyers again, and again Murray Waas, who has a blog updating the RoveLeakScandal regularly it appears. He has, of late, been uncovering many of the few bread crumbs available on the RoveLeak scandal... In Village Voice and elsewhere, but now here:

http://www.whateveralready.blogspot.com/

Conyers, who Thank God(!) does his job, and doesn't take any shit, sent a letter to the Justice Dept. today asking for an investigation into:

...Ashcroft's role in overseeing the Plame probe, before it was taken over by special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald...


Can you say, "Flagrant Conflict Of Interest!"? From the Conyers letter:

no employee shall participate in a criminal investigation or prosecution if he has a personal or political relationship with: (1) any person . . . substantially involved in the conduct that is the subject of the investigation or prosecution; or (2) any person . . . which he knows or has a specific and substantial interest that would be affected by the outcome of the investigation or prosecution.

("""Well, Gol' Darnit! Ya mean if I'm AG, I can't help me friends out?""")
Feel safer now? Me neither, Herb.

"Tort Reform" is a FRAUD!

More on this in future posts... But "Tort Reform" is a fraud, pushed usually with a bunch of crazy-lawsuit-stories that are supposed to make Juries look stupid, victims look greedy, and attorneys... maybe evil vampires?

Basically what "Tort Reform" would accomplish would be to LIMIT OR REVOKE VICTIMS' RIGHTS... Namely the ability to hold corporations responsible(for defective, dangerous products, etc.) by capping damages, limiting lawsuits, and otherwise SHIELDING CORPORATIONS from liability for their HARMFUL or ILLEGAL CONDUCT. It's a big dream for companies that injure, kill, and otherwise screw-over the people that buy their products/services...

"Tort Reform" almost always preserves corporations' rights while destroying individuals' rights... (FOR EXAMPLE: You wouldn't be able to sue Ford for knowingly selling you an exploding car, but Ford could still seize your house to build a new dealership on your street.)

Well, as it turns out, ALL those crazy lawsuit stories are completely fictitious,
Legal Urban Legends as this Los Angeles Times article reveals... Complete BS, even the McDonald's Hot-Coffee lawsuit!
Developing... Later, Herb.

RoveLeakScandal update from Murray Waas in VILLAGE VOICE

"...Karl & Johnny,
sittin' in a tree,
L-E-A-K--I-N-G..."

GREAT VILLAGE VOICE ARTICLE...MURRAY WAAS article at
http://villagevoice.com

And here's a few clips:

...John Ashcroft was personally briefed regarding the details of at least one FBI interview with Rove, despite Ashcroft's own longstanding personal and political ties to Rove, the Voice has also learned. The same sources said Ashcroft was also told that investigators firmly believed that Rove had withheld important information from them during that FBI interview.
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In response to these new allegations, Representative John Conyers of Michigan, the current ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, and former chairman of the committee as well, said in a statement: "There has long been the appearance of impropriety in Ashcroft's handling of this investigation. The former attorney general had well documented conflicts of interest in this matter, particularly with regard to his personal relationship with Karl Rove. Among other things, Rove was employed by Ashcroft throughout his political career, and Rove reportedly had fiercely advocated for Ashcroft's appointment as attorney general. Pursuant to standard rules of legal ethics, and explicit rules on conflict of interest, those facts alone should have dictated his immediate recusal. "The new information, that Ashcroft had not only refused to recuse himself over a period of months, but also was insisting on being personally briefed about a matter implicating his friend, Karl Rove, represents a stunning ethical breach that cries out for an immediate investigation by the Department's Office of Professional Responsibility and Inspector General."
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And on July 17, Time magazine posted its own story online, which said: "[S]ome government officials have noted to Time in interviews . . . that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, is a CIA official who monitors the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. These officials have suggested that she was involved in her husband's being dispatched to Niger." Facing jail time for not disclosing his source, Cooper recently relented, and disclosed that Rove was one of his sources for that information. But it was Rove's omission during an initial interview, back in October 2003, with the FBI—that he had ever spoken with Cooper at all—coupled with the fact that Ashcroft was briefed about the interview, that largely precipitated the appointment of Fitzgerald as special prosecutor, according to senior law enforcement officials familiar with the matter.

Good stuff again, Murray!
See the whole thing:
villagevoice.com
Later, Herb.

VICTORY!

Ah, the Good-Old-Days! When a "war" was a War... and we won.
Hmphh! Herb.

"Beltway Boys" on Fox, aka "DUMB & DUMBER"?

Beltway Boys on Fox "News" Channel, possibly the shallowest poli-hack show ever... Ever! Dumb and Dumber try to talk about things from the newspapers, I guess(?). WARNING: Watching(or listening to) this show kills more brain cells per minute than sniffing paint OR gasoline. Gee'z Us! HW.

Using Roberts Nomination To Showcase The Shameful Delay & Co.

If, as seems the prevailing view, the dems are gonna roll-over-and-play-dead and allow Roberts to sail through, they should at least find out: 1) Does he think TomDelay should be in charge of EVERYBODY's wife & family, like they wanted to with the Schiavos? 2) How does this nominee feel about congressmen threatening Judges they don't like from the Capitol? 3) Senators publicly condemning judges who make ONE ruling they disagree with? Etc, etc.
You get the idea... trot out all the legal over-reachings and MANY recent embarassments of the current "leadership" in Wasington, see what Johnny thinks. Remind us of the last few years--just in time for the midterm!
Herb.

DISGRACEFUL - Bubble Boy (wartime) Vacation

Question: How many soldiers will die during this disgraceful five-week vacation? Pretty bad month, August '05: Averaging four brave souls per day so far. For what??? It's so sad it makes you angry as hell! Returning caskets, funerals, death, suffering families, and... Cutting brush in a cowboy costume! God help us. Please!
And shame on them!
(Thanks Cindy!)
Herb.

JUDY, Judy, judy... "Breakin' Rocks in the Hot Sun"

Check out this from the Judge, a few weeks back, in the RoveLeak
Scandal case, regarding Ms.
Miller... (via Mark
Kleiman){www.markarkleiman.com/archives/valerie_plame_/}:

[Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas F.] Hogan said Miller was mistaken in her belief that she was defending a free press. He stressed that the government source she "alleges she is protecting" had already waived her promise of confidentiality. He said her source may have been providing information not to shed light on government secrets but to try to discredit an administration critic. "This is not a case of a whistle-blower" revealing secret information to Miller about "dangers at a nuclear power plant," Hogan said. "It's a case in which the information she was given and her potential use of it was a crime. . . . This is very different than a whistle-blower outing government misconduct." "The information she was given ... was a crime."

Ponder that Judy! (Floor cold?)
Herb.

"Terr'ists," "Killers," What's next? "Mean people?"

Saw Bush from the ranch, swattin' at the 'squitos yesterday, Yee Haw! He was trying to say something Presidential (and tough) about the threats from the Number-2 kaeda-guy...
He got all flustered like usual when he attempts to pull a "nonscript*" . And, paraphrasing, he said,
"... these tay'rists, these killers... they wanna shake our will. Our freedom...!" Okay, PAUSE;

Anytime Junior generalizes/simplifies our enemy to the word "killers," I wonder what's gonna be next? Our Pres. at his podium(highchair) banging his plastic gun saying that: "I'm prezident, I want everyone to know that these "MEAN PEOPLE" will not be allowed to stay alive anymore..."??? (WOMP/WAMP?)

*Sources say "A nonscript" is what the staff refers to as unscripted news conferences(or any press-interaction), with Junior winging it. They run around, our sources told us, whispering "get Karl, he's gonna do a nonscript unless he has a statement..." I can see them all panicking. Hilarious and developing...
Herb.

Stumbling, Bumbling Know-it-Alls

Check it out...
http://www.democracynow.org/print.pl?sid=05/08/04/1357248
EXCERPT:
JUAN GONZALEZ: And Murray Waas, the role of the press in this whole issue, because clearly, because of the attempts of the White House to leak the information on Valerie Plame to a whole number of folks in the press, this is a story that many reporters in Washington know more about than they're actually reporting.
MURRAY WAAS: That's correct. Our hands are tied. I just wanted to backtrack for a moment and say your competitor, National Public Radio, reported this morning that on his second day at the U.N., and this is an exact quote, John Bolton has been a “model of decorum.” That's their exact words. So it should be interesting if NPR reports on the third, fourth and tenth and twelfth day and how long into his tenure as U.N. ambassador that he has been a model of decorum. It's kind of extraordinary that they said without any kind of irony whatsoever, I think, reported that as news. I mean, one can imagine perhaps we'll have reports on the news about Condoleezza Rice today was a model of decorum, or the Vice President was a model of decorum or members of Congress were models of decorum, but back to the role of the press in this story.
It’s kind of -- what we have seen is a tremendous press failure, but what's extraordinarily interesting, and perhaps Joe, Ambassador Wilson, can address this, as well, or more articulately than I can, is that the defense is that nothing was wrong -- done wrong here, but sloppy journalism. In other words, when Bob Novak used Valerie Plame's name -- when he mentioned that Wilson's wife worked at the C.I.A. as, quote, “an operative,” Novak's story is that that was -- he used the word operative, none of his sources, Karl Rove nor anybody else, did. So, that was his own sloppy use of a phrase, his own -- Novak's own indiscretion, his own sloppy reporting, in effect. He kind of, by using that phrase, he brought this on.
Secondly, he's acknowledged that he didn't kind of vet it or do the fact checking or do more reporting as he should and thirdly, he has now come out and through his emissaries and said that -- trying to get Rove off the hook, saying that he first mentioned this to Rove, and he had heard it elsewhere. And supposedly, Rove said to Bob Novak, ‘I have heard that, too.’ Well, when somebody says something to the effect of "I heard that, too," that means that they have heard similar information, similar gossip. So, in -- that's the person who Bob Novak is using as a second source. Any first-year journalism student at NYU or Columbia knows that you don't use somebody as a source who’s just heard a similar rumor to the one that you have heard.
So if we believe Bob Novak's account, he engaged in substandard news reporting on not one aspect of this column, but several aspects of this column. And it's led to the jailing of a New York Times reporter, it's harmed the national security of the United States because it led to the outing of a C.I.A. operative. It's hurt the morale of the C.I.A. It's damaged the Bush administration endlessly, and it's hurt the credibility of the press, partly because reporters were engaged in this scheme or took the bad information, and also because they're now revealing their confidential sources in cooperating with the prosecutors.
So, all of this occurred because reporters were sloppy, because they didn't do their work. I mean, that, in effect is the cover story, or that's what Robert Novak is insisting. And I have interviewed Geneva Overholser, for example, the former editor at The Des Moines Register, and she said some strong words about Novak, but what's interesting is because he's really at the core of a elite group, a cocktail party crowd or kind of celebrity journalism at CNN, nobody will come out and -- the Washington press corps is pretty much silent. The big wheels and big guns are not saying anything. They're not policing themselves. And this could have really deleterious and damaging long-term effects on journalism.
And one other interesting aspect is The Washington Post in this. And maybe Ambassador Wilson can talk about that, but a reporter, Susan Schmidt, has done a lot of erroneous reporting, kind of taking information from the administration to further attack him and Valerie, but also Bob Woodward has been on all -- a bunch of TV shows saying that there's no story here, that this is a lot of hype, and we're seeing an iceberg with a tip of -- some reporter is just seeing an iceberg because they see a tip of an iceberg, but there might not be anything beyond that. And so, the Post has been extraordinarily quiet over the last several months or the year and has only began to recently re-report the story because the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, even the American Prospect, have begun to aggressively report the story.

No comment, just link to the piece, Herb.

"Shomer Shabbas!" (sp?)

Bowling with The Dude: The Big Lebowski...
Buy it or rent it but see it!
www.reel.com

Intelligent Design

My understanding of "Intelligent Design" is basically: Evolution is way too complicated for it all to be just random, so it has been managed all along by God.
So, let's just agree that God invented the complicated process of Evolution. And then Chuck Darwin discovered the complicated process of Evolution (that God invented) when he studied those Galapagos Island turtles, or was it lizards?
Rodney King said it best: "Can't we all just get along?"
(They ought to teach Math[and Geology] in Sunday School... That would be cool.)
One man's opinion in a world of many. Later, Herb.

Rookie disclaimer

Editor's Note: I will link to stories as I learn the fine art of Bloggin'... Later, Herb(Herb is not my real name{:-o}.).

TAKING BETS: RoveLeakScandal, The Sequence Of Leakage...

All the usual suspects, but re the RoveLeakScandal(tm), http://davidcorn.com has great stuff w/ excellent analysis. Okay, time to speculate: Rove did it, obvously... But what is the "sequence of leakage" so to speak? Feel free to make your own educated-guesses (elsewhere)...

LET'S PLAY... FOLLOW-THE-LEAKERS:
[Le-Douchebag-Novak was #5 in a series of FIVE LEAKS, without Karl, whose classified-leak is well-documented already...]

Novak#5 heard it from Ari#2 (AND Judy#4);
Ari#2 heard (read) it on the plane when Colin#1 let him (oops!) see "the memo"; Note: Ari#2 is a blatherskite idiot; he just couldn't shut up about it once he learned the classified info...
(Judy#4 gave Novak#5 the maiden name, which she got from Dipshit Bolton#3, who denies everything, damnitt. Judy... John... Thanks!);
THE END.
That's it on Leakage-proper... Taking bets on perjury/obstructing/etc...
PLEASE NOTE: Ari and Colin ALREADY don't "work for the administration any more"... (GOTCHA!)
And of course it was unitentional anyways, they will ALL say.
Various perps are being scapegoated to save Condi any embarrassment for overseeing the entire leak-smear-coverup. Novak can not tell a truth.
No leak-prosecutions per se (hard-to-prove), but plenty of conspiracy and obstructin' and lyin' under oath to go around...
One man's opinion in a world of many.
Later, Herb.