This 4th of July is unique in American history.

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"The Camp X-Ray Tango"




[DICK]

Cock.

[SCOOTER]

Fitz.

[DENNY]

Swish.

[GEORGIE]

Uh uh.

[DONNY]

Gitmo.

[TOMMY]

Dipshits!

[ANCHORMAN]

And now the six merry treasonists of the Guantanamo Bay Facility in their rendition of "The Camp X-Ray Tango"...

I read the news today Oh Boy, and then I noticed that a good cross section of the top tier of American society, the movers, the shakers, the big money makers in government, business, and the religion game, the very pillars of our community, were in prison, under investigation or actually indicted, awaiting trial or out on appeal, on the prison bus or trapped underneath two large convicts named Leroy and Bubba and I sat back for a moment and smiled somewhat wistfully.

A bittersweet moment and a brief smile because I immediately recognized that what I was looking at was a surface tremor, an advance ripple before the onset of the exposure of a tidal wave of corruption, of civic rot, of a great molting of the fraudulent upper crust, of theft and graft and mendacity in public affairs that this country hasn't overturned since Tammany Hall.

AFTER THE FOLD...

Myth: A traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the worldview of a people.

Myths are as old as humanity. Some provide useful insights.  Some provide comforting notions. Some are merely entertaining.  Some are downright dangerous.  Rulers have relied on the power of myths to lead and mislead people since time immemorial.

Misleading myths (aka "Mything the Point"), like all lies, beget more lies. That is why we need to weed them out on a routine basis.  If we let them go unchallenged, they will run riot and eventually choke us in our sleep.  

Which brings me to a myth that needs to be uprooted:

RESTORING HONOR AND DIGNITY TO THE OVAL OFFICE

Via Josh Marshall at TPM:

A former White House aide under indictment for obstructing a leak probe, I. Lewis Libby, testified to a grand jury that he gave information from a closely-guarded "National Intelligence Estimate" on Iraq to a New York Times reporter in 2003 with the specific permission of President Bush, according to a new court filing from the special prosecutor in the case.

The court papers from the prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, do not suggest that Mr. Bush violated any law or rule. However, the new disclosure could be awkward for the president because it places him, for the first time, directly in a chain of events that led to a meeting where prosecutors contend the identity of a CIA employee, Valerie Plame, was provided to a reporter.

Taken From NY Sun

[Update]FIXED LINK FOR THE NY SUN!!! PLUS link to PDF of court documents below!

The NY sun Link is dead ending (error)
BUT
Raw Story has it too!

Anyone care to chat about this?
+++ A bit from Raw story below...

Via Josh Marshall at TPM:

A former White House aide under indictment for obstructing a leak probe, I. Lewis Libby, testified to a grand jury that he gave information from a closely-guarded "National Intelligence Estimate" on Iraq to a New York Times reporter in 2003 with the specific permission of President Bush, according to a new court filing from the special prosecutor in the case.

The court papers from the prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, do not suggest that Mr. Bush violated any law or rule. However, the new disclosure could be awkward for the president because it places him, for the first time, directly in a chain of events that led to a meeting where prosecutors contend the identity of a CIA employee, Valerie Plame, was provided to a reporter.

Taken From NY Sun

FIXED LINK FOR THE NY SUN!!! PLUS link to PDF of court documents below! [Update] The NY sun Link is dead ending (error) BUT Raw Story has it too!

Anyone care to chat about this? +++ A bit from Raw story below...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney, moving swiftly to replace an indicted aide, named attorney David Addington as his chief of staff and John Hannah as his national security adviser.

Both positions had been filled by I. Lewis Libby, who resigned Friday when he was indicted on perjury and other charges in a 22-month investigation of the unmasking of an undercover CIA officer.

Addington has been Cheney's counsel and Hannah has been his deputy national security adviser.

This morning I heard a man call in to my local AM radio station, and he had an interesting but dangerous argument.

What this man said was that he "believed that this whole Wilson story was just a matter of different impressions".

read on..

He explained by saying that Wilson had one impression of the story, and that the Bush Administration had another impression. He also went on to say that it was wrong of Wilson to write his story on the Niger incident because he had "no knowledge" of whether or not the Niger information was true or not, since 'nobody' knew definitively!

Please, this was no misunderstanding, this was not a 'mixed signals' issue. This Administration knew  damn well what they were doing, and it is why they are fighting so hard to keep it covered up. The truth needs to come out at every turn, and obfuscating the main issues with so much smoke up everyone's ass is just not acceptable. This needs a solid refutation.

Don't let this pathetic argument circulate in the mainstream without answer!