Body Politics
On the Lehrer Newshour last week there was a discussion of
sentences for so-called white collar crime, I laughed because that
morning I dug through my closet of textbooks-from-a-previous
century Skolnick, Herbert Jacob, Chambliss and Seidman, that sort
of thing. Just to recall to mind terms like "mobilization of bias". To
trace the logic that white collar crime wasn't really crime, not the
proper subject of law and order, or deserving of incarceration. After
all who gets hurt?
Piling on (15 yards and automatic first down). This is
essentially how Salon views today's Washington Post's FP post on the
State Dept. briefing memo covering Joseph and Valarie Wilson
Salon.com Politics.
Considering that the Wall street journal had written a similar
article several days earlier, It seemed like a gratuitous movement of
pg 16 fare to page one. After looking over reports that some reporters,
pundits and even capital hill politicians were faked out of their socks
by the timing and result of the Presidents Supreme court nominee, it
may have been that the Washington Post suspected some wagging of dog
was occuring. When your already engaged in a multi region war
multistate war political misdirection requires a full measure of nuance
and spectacle
washingtonpost.com Spun Silly.
The more I read and learn of this Plame leak the more likely
it seems to me that Rove, Libby inc. thought that the leak was
self-justifying that it would be obviously viewed as such. They seem to
have made only moderate and half hearted attempts to wipe their
fingerprints off this. . Rove I recall is a former Young
Republican (my memory tells me that at U Maryland this group called
themselves Young Americans for Freedom. I met this sort coming to
college out of the Navy at a time when I still thought I might be a
republican. They went a long way towards convincing me I wasn't.
There no such thing as a former young republican its a permentant
adolescence . This group always seems to be at the center of hostility
and extreme divisiness in American Politics and Polity. Rove's excuse
for obesssing on Wilson and ploting revenge acording to the Wapost
acticle on last Sunday "he's a Democrat"
Rove's Most Telling Words By Michael Tomasky, The American Prospect.
There is something about the YAF that just isn't right. Something about
their worldview that doesn't encompass the give and take of a
democracy. That doesn't see the opposition as something to be bargained
with dynamically engaged, but simply to be crushed - eliminated.
Something that doesn't make any distinction between this nations real
enemies and their political opponants. Josh Marshall
Talking Points Memo: July 17, 2005 - July 23, 2005 Archives
arranging the tea leaves of a New York Times article Asks why politics
and national security had gotten so intertwined that operatives
Rove and Libby wrote George Tenets - the director of Central
intelligence - public statement on the "16 words". People are right to
stop and think about this because it is quite frankly a profoundly odd
thing to have occurred. Not less so for what they had him say.
This administration's pushing the YAF turks into the vanguard had
put themselves in a situation where I don't beieve that they can any
longer tell the difference between national security, ideology, and
personel security. Neither do I think they have been capable for some
years now at keeping their struggle within the boundaries of law, and
are now in a state where they must continually and arbitrarly adjust
the law around their behavior. Whether its declaring they didn't do
what what was done, that what was done wasn't against the law, or in
retrospect they've decided it shouldn't have been, or at the least in
this case when the investigation became formal (which is the point in
the proceedings where you have to stop shredding documents, and
deleting emails) gathering in a helpful twelve-hour heads up
What Did the President Know?
This is what they've done. because it is the only way left open to
them. This is not leadership, nor is it an ethical position.
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