The FedGov has proven its useless anti-democratic nature in the Valerie Plame affair. While claiming to be combating terror and using terror as a pretext for siezing Iraq, it simultaneously "leaks" classified information on the identity of an anti-terror CIA specialist to its media flacks. Then it reluctantly investigates the leaks from within. However, it is common knowledge that the outing of Ms. Plame was in retaliation for her husband going public with the BushCo. lie about uranium from Niger to Saddam. Why doesn't Justice use the USA PATRIOT Act to dragoon testimony from the shills who were so cooperative with BushCo before the savage attack on Iraq? And still the public buys their tissue-thin excuses for blood. Who Profits? Who pays?
When are we, the public, going to recognize that "we" as used by the media means the foreign policy elite who profit from war? Military contractors and the brass are making out well under the current regime, while the rest of us are impoverished by excess taxation and outlandish borrowing leading to inflation and loss of our savings...
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...tml?oref=login
or truthout:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/040705Z.shtml Quote:
-- The federal prosecutor investigating the leak of an undercover CIA officer's name says his work is complete except for one large omission: hearing from two reporters who are fighting a court order to answer questions under oath.
Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said the refusal of Matthew Cooper of Time magazine and Judith Miller of The New York Times to divulge their sources has stalled his probe.
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