Plamegate & the Times-CFR Cabal.(investigation of Saddam Hussain attempt to buy yellowcake uranium )

After more than two years of dilly-dallying, lying, and obfuscating, we're coming into the home stretch of the official "investigation" into who in the Bush administration "outed" covert CIA agent Valerie Plame, a felony offense. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is wrapping up his federal grand jury inquiry, and speculation is rampant about who may be indicted--or whether anyone will be indicted--for the main crime. White House senior adviser Karl Rove? Vice President Dick Cheney? Cheney's Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby? New York Times reporter/propagandist Judith Miller?

More likely, any indictment(s) handed down will deal only with lesser crimes like obstructing an investigation, lying to investigators, or perjury. The chief culprits will be shielded from justice.

For those who may not have been following the Plame affair, I will try to summarize the case: immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, top Bush administration officials (Cheney, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and then-Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz) began pushing for an invasion of Iraq, even though they lacked evidence of Saddam Hussein's involvement in the 9/11 attacks. Wolfowitz confirmed in interviews in 2003 that two days after the attacks, at a Camp David meeting with Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, himself, and others, the debate about attacking Iraq was "about not whether but when." The consensus on "when" was that the war on Iraq would have to wait until after Afghanistan.

The administration knew that a retaliatory invasion of Afghanistan would fly with the American public because Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorists were holed up there. But Iraq was more touch-and-go. The CIA and other intelligence sources were saying there was no evidence of a 9/11 or al-Qaeda connection to Saddam.

To justify attacking Iraq, the administration renewed charges that Saddam had a massive program underway to create weapons of mass destruction and, what's more, that we were in imminent danger from a potential transfer of these WMDs by Saddam to Osama. The CIA's analysts disagreed, so the Cheney-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz (C-R-W) cabal set up its own secret operation at the Defense Department known as the Office of Special Plans, headed by Wolfowitz, to cook up "intelligence" that would contradict the CIA and condemn Saddam. Key to pulling off this strategic ruse was close collaboration by the nation's "newspaper of record," the New York Times, especially in the person of reporter Judith Miller. who had proven herself as a reliable shill through her propagandizing for the first Gulf War of George Bush, Sr. Miller became the Times' chief fabricator of stories about Saddam's WMD programs, which ...