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The title says it all: "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House"

Perhaps the real and symbolic incident that best exemplifies the Bush Administration's self-serving betrayal of America is the Plame Affair.

The Busheviks, with the collaboration of the mainstream media, first slandered Joe Wilson. Then they endangered our national security by outing Valerie Plame, perhaps resulting in the deaths of persons who cooperated with her in her "cover" position.

BuzzFlash was there at the beginning of the effort to make Americans realize that the Plame outing was a treasonous act that endangered our national security. David Corn of the Nation was the first person to realize the importance of the sentence in a Bob Novak column that exposed Plame and her network. Then BuzzFlash followed up with interviews and several commentaries, keying off of Corn's discovery.

It was only later that the CIA filed a formal request to the Department of Justice to begin an inquiry as to whether or not a law had been broken that protected the confidentiality of CIA operatives working under cover, which included Valerie Plame.

Bush promised to get to the bottom of the traitorous act, but that was just another of the many con games in his administration of betrayal. He couldn’t be responsible for an investigation, since he was in on the conspiracy.

It was as ludicrous as Bush declaring that he was responsible for overseeing the investigation as to what wrong with the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina.

Today, the Bush Administration and the leading media outlets have so muddled up the Plame affair with distracting flack that many Americans forget that it was the CIA who admitted in Congressional testimony that Plame worked under cover – and only filed the DOJ request for an investigation because she was outed and neutralized as a CIA operative.

What is more tragically ironic, however (as if the Bushevik betrayal of America could get worse) was that Plame – as we have pointed out ad nauseam – specialized in tracking the illicit transfer of Weapons of Mass Destruction. In short, the Bush Administration did what Osama bin Laden and Iran can only dream about: they neutralized one of the lead CIA specialists on who has possession of and who is purchasing WMDs!

Finally, after struggling with the CIA over vetting, Valerie Plame Wilson writes her side of the story in a book to be released in October.

Scooter Libby has had his sentence "commuted" by Bush. This is just to "park him" and keep him quiet until Bush gives him a promised pardon as George leaves office. The commutation was enough to buy Libby's silence about the leading role of Dick Cheney in orchestrating the Plame Affair -- and the secondary role of Bush in approving it.

Meanwhile, our nation continues to be subject to the dangerous mismanagement of our national security by a band of delusional rogues, ideological pirates and self-deluded egomaniacs.

Valerie Plame Wilson wished nothing more than to serve her nation well by helping to ensure its national security. It is a testament to the treachery and depravity of the Bush Administration that she had to leave the CIA because of the actions of the White House, not America's enemies overseas.

Nothing could be a more mournful symbol of the vulnerability of this nation to traitors in our midst than what the Busheviks did to destroy Valerie Plame's risky work on Weapons of Mass Destruction.

We can’t wait to read her book.


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