Monday, October 13, 2003
Help The Administration Find the Traitor In Its Midst
Well, perhaps traitor is too harsh a word.
In dealing with l'affair Plame, I think all of us would do well not to talk about treason.
However, from the Bush administration's point of view, whoever got the bright idea, (even if, as claimed by Novak, it was an unpremeditated inspiration of the moment) to divert attention from the content of Joe Wilson's op ed piece to something unkosher about Amb. Wilson and his CIA employed wife, to make the Wilsons the story, as Novak's original column claimed they were, is certainly a traitor to the high ideals of this administration.
As administration supporters have rightly pointed out, the search for whodunnit is complex and will be as exhausting as it is exhaustive; personally I don't blame any of them for feeling beseiged. It's not as if they don't have a lot on their plate already: dragging this economy out of the Clinton recession; formulating a forward-thinking fossil-fuel based energy policy; shoring up our homeland defense without actually investing huge sums (like 87 billion dollars) in retrofitting nuclear/chemical sites, or ports of entry; creating democratic governments in both Afghanistan and Iraq; assidously ignoring all other troublespots around the world, like, say, N. Korea, or the horror that is happening between the Israelis and the Palestinians; I don't know if you've ever consciously tried to ignore something, but even that takes up a lot of time and energy.
So please stop griping, and take one of the two ways offered below to help out the Bush administration.
The first way you've already probably heard about. MoveOn has had the brilliant idea of limiting the scope of the necessary investigation by providing affadavits to all who are willing take themselves out of the potential leakers pool. If you had nothing to do with leaking information re: either Joe Wilson or his wife, sign the affidavit and make the work of the administration that much easier. If you did have something to do with sliming the Wilsons, please DO NOT sign the affidavit, that would be LYING.
True Majority also has a way to help out; send a free fax to congress urging them to urge the White House to appoint a Special Prosecutor. Initially, the Bush administration may not be as grateful for this intervention, but it is certainly in their own best interest. Does anyone question the President's deeply felt desire to find out who did this? And doesn't the Justice Department have enough on its own plate, not to need this headache? Isn't what's needed here a little tough love?
In dealing with l'affair Plame, I think all of us would do well not to talk about treason.
However, from the Bush administration's point of view, whoever got the bright idea, (even if, as claimed by Novak, it was an unpremeditated inspiration of the moment) to divert attention from the content of Joe Wilson's op ed piece to something unkosher about Amb. Wilson and his CIA employed wife, to make the Wilsons the story, as Novak's original column claimed they were, is certainly a traitor to the high ideals of this administration.
As administration supporters have rightly pointed out, the search for whodunnit is complex and will be as exhausting as it is exhaustive; personally I don't blame any of them for feeling beseiged. It's not as if they don't have a lot on their plate already: dragging this economy out of the Clinton recession; formulating a forward-thinking fossil-fuel based energy policy; shoring up our homeland defense without actually investing huge sums (like 87 billion dollars) in retrofitting nuclear/chemical sites, or ports of entry; creating democratic governments in both Afghanistan and Iraq; assidously ignoring all other troublespots around the world, like, say, N. Korea, or the horror that is happening between the Israelis and the Palestinians; I don't know if you've ever consciously tried to ignore something, but even that takes up a lot of time and energy.
So please stop griping, and take one of the two ways offered below to help out the Bush administration.
The first way you've already probably heard about. MoveOn has had the brilliant idea of limiting the scope of the necessary investigation by providing affadavits to all who are willing take themselves out of the potential leakers pool. If you had nothing to do with leaking information re: either Joe Wilson or his wife, sign the affidavit and make the work of the administration that much easier. If you did have something to do with sliming the Wilsons, please DO NOT sign the affidavit, that would be LYING.
True Majority also has a way to help out; send a free fax to congress urging them to urge the White House to appoint a Special Prosecutor. Initially, the Bush administration may not be as grateful for this intervention, but it is certainly in their own best interest. Does anyone question the President's deeply felt desire to find out who did this? And doesn't the Justice Department have enough on its own plate, not to need this headache? Isn't what's needed here a little tough love?
