What Stephen Hayes Doesn’t Want You to Know about Cheney’s Involvment in Outing Valerie Wilson
I confess. I peeked ahead.
Today, we’re going to play a little quiz game. If you had to pick the parts of the CIA Leak story that Cheney’s hand-picked propagando-biographer would leave out, thereby leaving a picture that Dick Cheney was not centrally involved in the leak, what would you leave out?
The answers are after the jump.
This is news to me:
Cheney’s knowledge of Armitage’s involvement, from at least September 2003
Where’d you get that?
The meeting with Powell in the Sit room in September 2003. I geuss that’s just evidence of Armitage’s knowledge of the fact (though it may extend further). But Hayes portrays Cheney, finding out upon reading Hubris, that Armitage was Novak’s source. That’s clearly not the case.
But aside from all these minor details, it’s a courageous tale of principled leadership.
Oh, and Jeff–you and Murray merit a citation.
ew, if you have any ideas for how some of us could bring these massive and too frequent errors to the attention of Harper Collins and Hayes’ editor, I am very interested.
EW – After you finish retching over this section of Hayes’ steno-felation, I’ll bet there’s no useful info in there on the Anthrax story, either, huh?
With the ’sources’ about to be revealed, it almost certainly includes Libby (again,) and more than likely Rove (again, too,)
Gee, I wonder, â€Who was the quarterback on that Anthrax play?â€
EW – After you finish retching over this section of Hayes’ steno-felation, I’ll bet there’s no useful info in there on the Anthrax story, either, huh?
With the ’sources’ about to be revealed, it almost certainly includes Libby (again,) and more than likely Rove (again, too,)
Gee, I wonder, â€Who was the quarterback on that Anthrax play?â€
Posted by: radiofreewill | August 21, 2007 at 11:03
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You know, I have to say that I’m really curious how the anthrax story is going to play out. With the Plame leak, I had a pretty good idea of what happened, and all of the â€bombshells†that came out were really just filling in the gaps in the narrative. With the anthrax story, I really don’t have a clear idea of what really happened. Was it a lone nutcase or a group of people? How’d they do it? Where’d they get the anthrax to begin with? Why did they do it? No one was ever caught, so why did the perpetrators STOP attacking? I have a bunch of wild guesses, but almost no evidence to back them up. What the hell really happened here?
Frank, I agree. The anthrax story has bothered and fascinated me since the beginning and I have a suspicion that this is a bombshell that clealy nobody wants to pursue. One of the most telling signs of this event is how soon it was â€forgotten†by the press and the public. I am curious though what your wild guesses might be…
I agree about the Anthrax story, especially since it was originally confirmed as military grade, yet they were never able to track it back to its source?!? I have always found the lack of progress on this investigation despite it being a serious biological weapons attack to be extremely suspicious. Not to mention the way the GOP and Bushco always forget to mention it whenever they say there hasn’t been a terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11/01, what was the Anthrax then chopped liver? This is something I am becoming forced to conclude was an inside job within the GOP/Bushco machine, especially when one considers the targeting of those that were hit with it. Well, either an inside job from the outset or the covering up after the fact because it connected to the GOP/Bushco machine in a manner which if made public would cause serious outcry.
There is a major story indeed here, but I wonder if we will ever know the truth here or whether this will become another one of the great unsolved mysteries/conspiracies theories of our time. I hope not, but given the successful to date avoidance of this issue except to smear a scientist they didn’t like and who has subsequently filed suit for privacy violations by leaking his name this issue has stayed remarkably well hidden I cannot ignore that possibility.
But Hayes portrays Cheney, finding out upon reading Hubris, that Armitage was Novak’s source. That’s clearly not the case.
Completely agree.
This is something I am becoming forced to conclude was an inside job within the GOP/Bushco machine,…
Yes, I agree. The WMD was Anthrax and it was in the States not Iraq.
Someone was able to get Weapons Grade Anthrax (from a government refiner) and yet was ignorant of its properties or careless enough with it to contaminate the Postal Service, the Democratic Senate Offices, an elderly lady in New England, and at least one passerby on a New York street and a tabloid rag sheet.
It all has a sort of Timothy McVeigh quality to it. Is the Anthrax Dispenser still alive?
Re the anthrax story. I remember that the first man to die (a tabloid magazine associate) had supposedly published something nasty about Bush or his family. This was never given much press though.
As I recall the story, someone was identified as the mailer at some point. It seems like he was a college professor or something, but that was the absolute last I ever heard about it all. I had never even thought about that being a Bush job!
Anthrax attacks…of course, they haven’t reoccured – it worked, didn’t have to do it again. Nothing like random death to scare the common sense out of Congress. The vote was made; the administration got what they wanted; the first version of USA Patriotic Act.
I have no doubt it was this administration’s quick, poorly planned effort when they found out the fear-mongering had not sufficiently quelled the desire of some legislators to read and wonder about the Constitution before voting. Simple crime analysis: who benefited? Cheney
Stephan Hadley, a scientist previously working on a military anthrax project, was an FBI â€person of interest†for a long time, was exhaustedly investigated but never charged. He fought back with a lawyer, lost a college job because of the suspicion. They hadn’t erased habeous (sp?) corpus yet, remember. I think he has a lawsuit against the FBI still standing somewhere.