Scooter Libby Reloaded
Given the history of such things (ie: G Gordon Liddy and Oliver North), I expect Scooter Libby will be given his own radio talk show after everything sorts out. Actually, I suspect that’s the whole reason to be involved in these things — it’s a jumping off point for a different job within the “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy”.
ENTITY ONE: Conclusion; if it goes to Trial, and if no adjustment in the Times of Events happens, he will probably be convicted on all counts but like in the Old Mafia Days, if he keeps his mouth shut he will come out of it a rich man. He could get Two to Five years on all counts but would never go into the third year of serving his sentence, or so I think. What is not so clear is what this whole thing is leading up to. Even I can see several directions Mr Fitzgerald could go, but whether he will take it any further or not is open to his own personal integrity, how he views the Investigative Task assigned him, and to the Politics as Usual procedural method of doing things in Washington.
ENTITY TWO: `…if he keeps his mouth shut…’, `…old mafia days…’ I think you are assuming a degree of integrity that is not to be found in the current adminstration or republican leadership. Inconvenient people disapearing and their bodies getting buried in secret locations (aka Hoffa) is also an old mafia tradition. And a big part of the reason he is in this jam is because he could not keep his mouth shut in the first place.
So…say he gets convicted and tossed in the lockup about this time next year. Six months after that, he starts work on his tell-all book, which hits the presses in, say two years time (fall 2007). Once word gets to the wrong (?) ears he is working on such a project, just what do you think his life expectency will be?
ENTITY ONE: However, all that talking does not necessarily carry over into his writing some kind of expose. To people like him who have lived all their lives in the shadow of some elected official, it naturally follows in his trade that he has written very little over the years, actually, it would have been very stupid of him to have often put his name to the printed page. Once on paper, words will take on a completely different power than they will when only spoken; they become EVIDENCE [see Indictment for examples].
Spoken, his words may only have had an insinuating connotation, but once the Grand Jury and the Prosecutor got down to laying them out in linear form, they took on a more sinister format; evidence of Obstruction, of Perjury, of Criminal Conduct in laying bare to the world a Matter Of Secrecy. It goes back to something you called attention to before, everything he did worked well over the years, worked well right up to the time he got caught. The first rule of the game is still, Don’t Get Caught. Now the Conspiracy Buffs can begin Blogging on WHO IT WAS WHO DECIDED TO start up and to push all the talk that led up to his fall from grace, if that is the proper term to use.
However, all that talking does not necessarily carry over into his writing some kind of expose. To people like him who have lived all their lives in the shadow of some elected official, it naturally follows in his trade that he has written very little over the years, actually, it would have been very stupid of him to have often put his name to the printed page. Once on paper, words will take on a completely different power than they will when only spoken; they become EVIDENCE [see Indictment for examples].
Spoken, his words may only have had an insinuating connotation, but once the Grand Jury and the Prosecutor got down to laying them out in linear form, they took on a more sinister format; evidence of Obstruction, of Perjury, of Criminal Conduct in laying bare to the world a Matter Of Secrecy. It goes back to something you called attention to before, everything he did worked well over the years, worked well right up to the time he got caught. The first rule of the game is still, Don’t Get Caught. Now the Conspiracy Buffs can begin Blogging on WHO IT WAS WHO DECIDED TO start up and to push all the talk that led up to his fall from grace, if that is the proper term to use.
The “Fall from Grace” equation. Who the hell is operating this government? Consider that all the information and all that is being spurred out by the media right now was known by the media this entire time (How many media figures were rounded in for testimony?) (Think about it for a moment… Bush Administration was propped up for whatever use, and is disgarded when it’s time to move in a slightly different direction. (Or this may be the case where “You don’t mess with the CIA” — the CIA strikes back when a presidential administration strikes at it, occasionally assassinating presidents… Plamegate being, at the heart of the matter, the attempt to discredit the CIA’s paltry assessment of Saddam Hussein’s weapons ability, and replace it with a loaded assessment.)
Actually I ponder the meaning of the end of Ronald Reagan’s term, and how this spells the difference between Reagan and Bush. I hear that he “cleared house” after the Iran – Contra Scandal blew up. Now who did he “clear house” of? That curious foreign policy species roughly identified as the “Neo-Con”… (though it overlaps with other foreign policy species.) So when Reagan realized that Gorbachev was a man who could be worked with, and thus we could wind down the Cold War, he did so against the advice of the most hawkish (and thrown down a few pegs) part of his foreign policy group. Bush’s administration is pretty much entirely made up of neo-cons and fellow travellers, so nothing doing there.