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Liars and Traitors and Smears, Oh My!

October 25th, 2005 . by Tom

The litany of lies, compliments of Arianna Huffington at Huffpost.

It’s getting hard to keep track of all the lies we’ve been told. Here’s a quick cheat sheet:

We now know that Cheney lied to the American people about his involvement in the effort to smear Joe Wilson.

Three months after reportedly receiving a briefing about Wilson’s trip to Niger from George “Slam Dunk” Tenet, and then telling Scooter Libby that Plame may have helped arrange her husband’s trip, the Vice President went on national TV and told Tim Russert he didn’t have a clue about the situation: “I don’t know Joe Wilson… I don’t know who sent Joe Wilson… I have no idea who hired him and it never came up.”

We now know that Karl Rove lied about his involvement, too.

Back in September 2003, when Rove was asked if he had “any knowledge” about the Plame leak, he answered with an unambiguous “No.”

Since then, we’ve learned that Rove was actually up to his Turd Blossom in Plamegate, discussing Plame and her role at the CIA with Matt Cooper and Bob Novak, and taking part in what a source familiar with his four visits to the grand jury characterized as “an aggressive campaign to discredit Wilson through the leaking and disseminating of derogatory information regarding him and his wife.”

We now know that Scooter Libby also lied about his involvement.

The shit is going to hit the fan with these people, and it is going to hit big. I lived through Watergate and the Nixon administration and I experienced some of the actions of their “friends” in low places, but this crowd is a hydrogen bomb of scandal and treason that makes the Nixon era appear a mere firecracker.

We haven’t even gotten to the good part yet, and I don’t mean Fitzmas. I’m referring to the uncovering of the real source for the forged Niger documents, the real reason they were forged and who wanted them forged. Right now the evidence is leading from the Administration to the Italian spy agency SISMI. Josh Marshall has been following this pretty closely and I have to wonder, given the bushies intense desire and need to justify killing hundreds of thousands of people, destroying our military, bankrupting our country and putting us ever deeper in debt, just how far they’d go to manufacture evidence to justify it all and just how long ago they started planning this little debacle.

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