July 28, 2005
TreasonGate, PardonGate and Creating an Appearance of Normalcy When a Democracy is Being Hijacked by Extremists
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
Okay, today is Lewis Black day on BuzzFlash.com -- and here's our crazed
rant.
First, we are reposting this
commentary because it is so important.
TreasonGate is all about the Busheviks once again bullying their way
through the rule of law.
But, expect PardonGate to Replace TreasonGate if there are indictments.
Like
his father pardoning Weinberger BEFORE he testified, "Baby Doc" Bush has the
same thing in mind. Right now, Rove is smearing people about his original treasonous
smears, and Bush isn't putting a leash on the guy, let alone firing him. So,
Bush is proven as a de facto co-conspirator in deed. (And Staff Sergeant Karen
Hughes has the usual Bushevik audacity to not answer any Senate Committee questions
on TreasonGate by claiming Fitzgerald has asked the White House staffers not
to talk about it and she follows "President" Bush's wishes, even though Bush
is letting Rove orchestrate a massive leak and SECOND smear campaign against
the same people -- and even some new ones -- he may be indicted for retaliating
against in the first place.)
Remember, BuzzFlash predicted PardonGate first, and the latest domino to line
up with that theory is the nomination of Bush loyalist, John Roberts, to become
a Supreme Court Judge. Of course, the Busheviks won't release the presidential
papers that show what role John Roberts played in the Iran-Contra pardons, because
that would strike a little too close to
coming events, wouldn't it?
Read the entire following analysis from a BuzzFlash content contributor if you
haven't. This is also why
Pat "Treason is Okay with Me if It's a Good Loyal Republican Doing It" Roberts
wants to muck up Fitzgerald's possible indictments by holding hearings to intimidate
him and get witnesses to possibly raise grounds for getting off convictions via
double jeopardy pleas. (This is the excuse used by Bush's Zelig hack judge, David
Sentelle, to overturn the Iran-Contra convictions of Ollie North and John Poindexter.)
It's all a
Bushevism Omerta cabal: "You take care of us; We take care of you." Even down
to the kinky partisan judges.
Remember, BuzzFlash was there first. So read "THE
question for Congress to ask Judge John G. Roberts' during his confirmation hearings
for Supreme Court Justice: Can
loyalty to the President also
be treason?"
What's important here is that Bush needs to pardon any staff members indicted
before they testify, because, as Poppy Bush showed, you have to save your butt
by keeping anybody out of the prosecutor's office before they might be thinking
of plea bargaining in return for information implicating the President (Bush
I and Bush II in separate criminal acts) in a conspiracy to commit a crime and/or
obstruct justice. Let us point out yet again that Bush retained a private lawyer
to represent him in the case, shortly after the CIA requested the Justice Department
to investigate the outing of a CIA operative specializing in tracking weapons
of mass destruction, and the resultant harm to our national
security.
* * *
But here's our little message points to the Democratic leadership
once again -- and they appear to have heard us a little on the first
one,
which was stick
to the treason issue: attach treason, betrayal, and threatening national security
every time you can to Rove's name. Forget the calls for his resignation; that
just feeds into Rove's trap of making it a partisan affair. And the media covers
what they perceive as partisan battles in a tit-for-tat way, so Rove wins because
he makes his treason appear to
be merely a Democratic effort to oust him.
Listen Democratic leadership on the Hill, the people in Kansas and Nebraska believe
what they hear. Keep saying Rove and treason in the way Bush said Saddam and
9/11. Only you will be telling the truth; and Bush wasn't. (Which is one of the
supreme ironies here. The CIA warned the NSC six months before Bush's State of
the Union Address that the Niger claim was a lie, but the White House forced
Tenet to take the fall for
the NSC's, Bush's and Cheney's intentional use of a lie.)
You see, a second Rove goal is to make treason seem banal. He's already got his
minions, with Bush's blessings, not only attacking the Wilsons all over again,
but doing what he does second best (after slandering people who tell the truth
and carrying out dirty tricks): he changes the
subject in the press.
What Rove has masterfully done is make a fringe radical administration appear
normal and everyday humdrum. The Bush Administration represents the triumph of
an extremist War Party faction (the Neo-Cons, who believe in the unapologetic
assertion of U.S. military power to protect our interests in natural resources
around the world) and the apocalyptic religious right. For the latter, democracy
(as conceived by our nation's founders and written into our Constitution and
Declaration of Independence) is a Satanic evil. They believe that only Christians
can be in positions of power to prepare for Jesus's Second Coming. As John Ashcroft
so truthfully said, these people believe that God (a Christian God) is King of
America -- and, for the moment, Bush is his Christ-like emissary (we are, sadly,
not making any of this up). In one theocracy scenario, Jesus cannot appear (and
we have talked about the subtleties and variations of the theocracy wing of the
Busheviks before) until government is fully seized from the hands of secularists
(people who believe in democracy) and run by Christians (that's why the issue
of John Roberts'
Scalia-like faith and adherence to "Christian principles" -- above Constitutional
realities -- is central to his acceptance by the religious right as a Supreme
Court nominee.)
So this brings us back to TreasonGate. If Rove can make the news seem routine
everyday, who in the FOX News fed red states is going to believe that anyone
in
the "God-fearing" White House actually did anything to endanger the United States?
It's all just propaganda by the evil liberals, right? Are you catching on to
the brilliant Goebbels-like strategy at play
here?
As far as Patrick Fitzgerald, we
pointed out first,
way before some other columnists who didn't attribute us), Rove and Bush, as
they say, have plans for him. Bush has already, prima facie, given Karl the green
light to save the barbarians in the White House from suffering Nixon's fate --
and Karl isn't one to let the law, the truth, decency, honor, the nation's interests,
or federal prosecutors get in his way. Not only will Rove, in his classic fashion,
have
cut-outs do his work (as he has been using his lawyer and others to "anonymously
leak" to the New York Times sympathetic accounts of Rove's involvement in TreasonGate
-- yes leaking about leaking), he will start slicing and dicing Fitzgerald if
Alberto Gonzales can't "talk sense" into the prosecutor. And remember, Gonzales,
Fitzgerald's ultimate boss, is a potential co-conspirator in the obstruction
of justice. He let the White House have 12-hours and a weekend to shred incriminating
evidence after being told by the Justice Department of the investigation. (This
incident -- the Justice Department not insisting on an immediate turnover of
documents -- was probably why Ashcroft appointed Fitzgerald to oversee the case
after personally "handling" the initial whitewash until Ashcroft abruptly recused
himself for still
officially unexplained "conflict of interest" reasons.)
So,
Bush appears "normal" through the TreasonGate that he condoned and still supports.
He appears too complacent to be guilty of harboring a traitor to the national
security of the United States. Who could believe that such a nice, God-fearing
man would begin a slaughter over non-existent Weapons of Mass Destruction and
then let his staff loose to threaten the lives of Americans by exposing a courageous
woman who risked her life to actually track REAL Weapons of Mass Destruction
that
were ending up in the REAL wrong hands?
Who would believe such a thing, when the daily news is about some Boy Scout looking
judge who is actually a made man in the Bushevik Politburo and can't remember
that he held a leadership position in the Federalist Society just a few years
ago?
Of course, John Roberts' forgetfulness about his membership in the Federalist
Society was just an oversight right? After all, Supreme Court nominees and president's
never lie, do they?
Or is it that they always lie if it means seizing a democracy and converting
it into a theocracy using the tactics of the devil to
achieve "divine" goals.
And, of course, there's the ultimate hallmark of the Rove/Cheney brand of Bushevism, also inherited by George the Junior from Poppy Bush (former head of the CIA): "We're going to do anything we want; after all, who is going to stop us?"
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS