Tuesday, October 25, 2005
It's all about France
I haven't been trying to follow this whole Plame / Wilson mess, because I don't give a flying fuck about 56th derivatives of speculative futures contracts in epistemological mysteries that get turned into crimes because of insane prosecutors. And my non-flying-fuckness applies equally to the Republican prosecution of Clinton, and in fact to EVERY SINGLE INSTANCE where a megalomaniacal prosecutor acts WITHOUT A POLICE REPORT of a CONCRETE ACTUAL PHYSICAL CRIME. We have achieved exactly the kind of "justice" system that the colonists fought a revolution to abolish in 1776.
But in spite of all this septic mess, today we're suddenly getting a view of the bedrock basis of the dispute. It looks like the entire boiling shit-stew originated with a French effort to cover up its OWN sales of weapons to Saddam, and to simultaneously discredit Bush.
See this article in the Telegraph. The Italian agent who supplied documents about the Niger connection, which were later "discovered" to be forged, has turned himself in and described how Paris ordered him to distribute the disinformation.
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Later: This bedrock fact illuminates our basic problem with blazing clarity. If the United States had an intelligence agency, that agency would have figured out the French deception quite easily, and we would have gained a PR weapon to use against France. But the CIA acted specifically to serve France and to harm America in the middle of a war for civilization. Therefore, the CIA is not our intelligence agency. It is a mountainous molehill, a nest of traitors. ¶ 8:36 PM
But in spite of all this septic mess, today we're suddenly getting a view of the bedrock basis of the dispute. It looks like the entire boiling shit-stew originated with a French effort to cover up its OWN sales of weapons to Saddam, and to simultaneously discredit Bush.
See this article in the Telegraph. The Italian agent who supplied documents about the Niger connection, which were later "discovered" to be forged, has turned himself in and described how Paris ordered him to distribute the disinformation.
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Later: This bedrock fact illuminates our basic problem with blazing clarity. If the United States had an intelligence agency, that agency would have figured out the French deception quite easily, and we would have gained a PR weapon to use against France. But the CIA acted specifically to serve France and to harm America in the middle of a war for civilization. Therefore, the CIA is not our intelligence agency. It is a mountainous molehill, a nest of traitors. ¶ 8:36 PM
