CIA Finally Fed Up With George w. Bush and the Amateurs Around Him
CIA finally fed up with George W. Bush and the amateurs around him
VHeadline.com commentarist Arthur Shaw writes: In the shabby, sham, and phony United States "democracy," a controversy over the rule of law rages although the US capitalist press falsely portrays the controversy as a mere case of criminal law that affirms the rule of law in the USA.
Of late, the US capitalist press closely covers developments in Venezuela where the capitalist press portrays every alleged criminal act by a high state officials ... especially alleged unlawful acts by the Venezuelan President ... as something that impugns the rule of law and destroys even the possibility of democracy because the rule of law is a fundamental principle of democracy.
But the malignantly hypocritical and incurably forked-tongue US capitalist media argues, in defense of the GOP dictatorship, that an alleged criminal act by a high US official or officials, like Bush, only invokes criminal law which affirms the rule of law and the legitimacy of US democracy.
Duplicitous standards are, of course, characteristic of the current regime in the USA which is only a so-called "democracy," shabby, sham, and phony.
The law, in what is called the Plame Affair, believed to have been broken by a vicious pack of suspected imperialist authorities, which include George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Karl Rove, and Lewis"Scooter" Libby, all big shots in the imperialist regime, is the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 which, in part, says:
"Whoever, having or having had authorized access to classified information that identifies a covert agent, intentionally discloses any information identifying such covert agent to any individual not authorized to receive classified information, knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such covert agent and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent's intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both."
In other words, whoever blows the cover of an imperialist spy breaks US law and imperialism is gonna get'cha.
The four imperialist authorities -- Bush, Cheney, Rove, Libby (and perhaps others) -- are suspected of breaking this law by leaking the identity of Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA spy to a number of reporters (some of whom may also be spies) of the US capitalist media.
The four imperialist authorities leaked on Mrs. Wilson because her husband Joseph Wilson told the truth about Iraq not buying or trying to buy uranium in Africa for a nuclear program before the March 2003 US aggression against the Iraqi people.
The four imperialist authorities wanted to use this lie -- Iraq bought uranium to make weapons of mass destruction -- as an item in a pack of lies as a pretext for the March 2003 US aggression against Iraq. Finding the lie irresistible, the four authorities used this lie anyway to justify US aggression against Iraq even after Joseph Wilson proved to them it was a flat-out lie.
After the US aggression in March 2003, Joseph Wilson was very upset and told the US capitalist media that imperialist authorities used lies to justify their invasion of Iraq and their killing of the Iraqi people.
Unlike some Americans, especially GOPs like Rush Limbaugh and "reborn" Christians like Pat Robertson, Joseph Wilson believes killing people on the basis of lies is wrong.
Enraged by the truthfulness of Wilson and by decision of the CIA to pick someone who would tell the truth, the four imperialist authorities revealed that Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Palme, was a CIA spy, a revelation that inflicted and excited extreme anguish in her and her employer and that gave joy to the four imperialist authorities who had successfully leaked on or completely soaked her, her husband, and her boss, the CIA.
In September 2003, the CIA demanded a Justice Department investigation to find out who blew Mrs. Wilson's cover. Attorney General John Ashcroft, claiming an undeniable conflict of interest, immediately recused himself from the investigation and delegated the investigative responsibility to Deputy Attorney General James Comey who quickly saw he was being set up to take the fall. From September to December of 2003, Deputy AG Comey searched for a way out of the set up.
Then on December 30, 2003, Deputy AG Comey appointed Patrick Fitzgerald as special counsel to conduct the investigation of the leak.
Special Counsel Fitzgerald is near the end of his investigation and is widely expected to seek indictments against Rove and Libby who are both expendable patsies. The conventional wisdom is Bush and Cheney will walk even though it is highly unlikely that Rove and Libby would have leaked -- that is, launched a deliberate and concerted campaign to discredit her and her husband as lying spies -- on Mrs. Wilson without the knowledge and consent of their immediate supervisors, Bush and Cheney, respectively.
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Bush and Cheney will likely borrow the defense of their mutual friend Ken Lay, former Enron CEO, "Nobody told me anything."
Ideologically, the question is not whether this case, Plame Affair, is either a criminal or a rule of law case, for clearly this case is both a criminal and a rule of law case. The criminal side of the case is obvious and that is unfortunately all that the US capitalist press deals with. And lamentably most of the public discussion mimics the coverage in the capitalist press.
The Plame Affair would be only a criminal case if the US government normally upheld the rule of law when high government officials break it. Under the Bush regime, this is not the case. The Plame affair is a rule of law case because the US government does not normally uphold the law against lawbreakers who are high officials of the state, like Bush and Cheney. Bush and Cheney follow the law only when the law happens to agree with the goals that the high officials are pursuing, otherwise, they disregard law and view themselves as above the law.
Nothing here implies, of course, that the rule of law applies only to the head of state and to other high officials. The rule of law applies to everybody, including the head of state and other high officials. Law is like death, it spares no one.
The rule of law does not imply that the law that rules is just or unjust. The rule of law implies that the state upholds the law whatever it merit or lack thereof with respect to justice. The rule of law is law itself and the state must uphold it, for otherwise it vanishes, and with it, the possibility of democracy, because the notion that state exercises power in accordance with the rule of law is a fundamental principle of democracy.
A fundamental principle, that is, almost everywhere but in the United States under Bush dictatorship
The Bush regime has consistently and flagrantly disregarded the rule of law and this case, involving the spy Valerie Plame Wilson, is just another instance of its contempt for the rule of law. The rule of law vanished from the United States in the beginning years of the Bush regime and so did democracy.
Some of Bush's more flagrant violations include:
(1) George W. Bush and Richard Cheney disregarded the rule of law since the day of the 2000 and 2004 US presidential elections when they broke US and state election laws by rigging the vote. Free and fair elections, like the rule of law, is also a fundamental principle of democracy.
(2) Bush and Cheney disregarded, in 2001, the rule of law by smuggling through the servile US legislature the patently unconstitutional USA Patriot Act which lets the GOP dictator of the United States confine people indefinitely without charge or trial or counsel or notice to family and to the public,
(3) The two imperialist authorities have violated ... horrendously ... the rule of law and basic decency when they authorized the torture of POWs in violation of the Geneva Convention, a US treaty, and in violation of the US Anti-Torture Act as well as the US War Crimes Act, and
(4) The two imperialist bosses violated the rule of law when they lied ... before the legislature and before the American people ... the United States into war against Iraq.
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