There is a nifty tool available for going back in time and looking at what used to exist on a website at various dates over the past several years. Seriously, it is an awesome tool and one which will further help develop our collective memory. It is called the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Here’s the website:

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

And here are the numerous results for the website of the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://crea-online.org/

OT, but I had a thought, Marcy: why doesn’t Congress give Scooter limited immunity and haul him up for testimony? That the commutation or his ongoing appeal keeps him from ever testifying is bogus. He’s gotten away with it so let’s push him and Bush as far as we can.

Put him on the stand and ask him the same questions Fitzgerald asked him. He’ll either lie again (and re-perjure himself) or he’ll tell the truth and prove in public that he perjured himself in front of a grand jury.

And if his testimony incriminates anyone else? They’re not protected by his immunity before Congress. Plus, let’s face it, we now know the entire pack will be getting pardons.

I see no reason why Congress shouldn’t give him immunity. Have I missed something?

Somethingsrotten:
For years the ACLU and other civil liberties advocates opposed the use of a national ID card because it smacked of authoritarian governments like the Nazis and Communists, for whose citizens â€show me your papers†always caused shivers. Also, there was fear the gov’t would maintain large databases on individual citizens. By default, Social Security numbers became the universal identifiers, tying ones personal financial records to those governmental databases.

Now that all the fears about data collection have come true, the fear is really more identity theft. If there is a national ID card that gets people the right to work, and access to the database is open to employers, there is the real possibility of massive identity theft and then financial fraud. And since fraud and get-rich-quick schemes seem so very popular these days, I wouldn’t discount the threat. It is evidently impossible to make a card that can’t be forged or have its data stolen by determined thieves.

EW – For some reason, at the time of Libby’s Trial, I thought Judy’s description of meeting Scooter at the Rodeo in Wyoming was her telling of the first time she had met him – presumably some time before all the leaking occured.

But no. She was talking about August 2003! When Cheney had his month long ’working vacation’ in Jackson Hole. She had come from a meeting at the Aspen Institute and ’happened’ to see Scooter at the Rodeo.

I’m going to go back and re-read the Miller Live-Blog, but that August meeting really begs the question of conspiracy/witness tampering. As we may recall –

– Judy didn’t initially admit to meeting Scooter on July 8th.
– She ’found’ her notebook from that meeting in a bag under her desk in her Sag Harbor home.
– That notebook is the one with the famous ’wife works at WINPAC’ note in it.

IIRC, she testified that she ’may have added’ the WINPAC note after her meeting, but she wasn’t sure.

Let’s assume that Libby did reveal the INR Memo to Judy on the 8th – wife works in CPD. That would be a ’smoking gun’ IIPA violation if it were in her notes.

One thing Cheney KNEW by August – he, Bush and Scooter had ’outed’ Valerie Wilson, a Covert National Security Asset – in the course of a Politically Motivated Imperial Declassification from Bush to Smear the Wilsons as Political Operatives.

I think Judy went to Jackson Hole to coordinate her story with Cheney and Scooter – and that was where the ’can’t recall meeting Scooter on the 8th’ second line of defense was drawn-up – the first being protecting ’confidential sources’ that would push the case past the ’04 election.

So, she fought the subpoena and went to jail for 85 days. Why? Because Scooter had, in fact, outed Valerie to her and she thought she may have participated in Treason – it didn’t have anything to do with journalistic integrity.

Then, Scooter sent her the Aspens letter, letting her know that it was ’safe’ to come out of Jail, and not to roll on anyone because they were all in it together.

My guess is that she added the ’wife works at WINPAC’ note right after being released from Jail – at someone’s instruction – in order to cloud the intent element of the IIPA.

She’s in it up to her neck as a full-blown cover-up conspiracist.

Back after re-reading the live-blog…

*xyz: that has several roots. The major one is on the Right and goes back in substantial part to the aftermath of the Civil War. Many ex-Confederates, especially the remnants of their guerilla cavalry forces in Kansas and Missouri, feared war crimes prosecutions. Ex-Confederates also realized that federal power to suppress them was weak and kept particularly weak west of the Mississippi. During and following Reconstruction rapidly reestablished what they could of the Confederacy there, principally in Texas but throughout the settlement frontier in the West. (Confederate guerillas created the ’Wild West’, generally.) These ex-Confederates maintained a paranoid anti-federal doctrine of governance, and one in which they asserted absolute right to arm themselves (and keep ex-slaves disarmed). Their misreading of the Second Amendment is still right wing dogma, and their emphatic determination to not permit a national gun registry combines multiple dogmas that have been handed down.

The particular issue with national voter ID is that it strongly biases voting rights and participation to people who are sedentary- live in the same place all their adult lives-, are politically determined, and who have the time, money, and patience to go through what amounts to a bureaucratic filter. That filter eliminates people who are marginally literate, who are disorganized, for whom the fees involved are a burden, who don’t have a fixed residence, and who have too many other worries to overly concern themselves with . This assumes that the filtering process is all done with due diligence and due process and equal care to the applicant for the ID, which isn’t in fact the case in much of the country.

Such a process is very much a selective filter in much of the country. In the South it clearly favors older sedentary rural and suburban white voters most and works most against young urban black voters. It’s basically the old poll taxes and literacy tests. In the past those were imposed on the claim that black people couldn’t read the ballot and didn’t know what their government was, and, being poor, didn’t pay for elections. These days the same requirements imposed on the claim that many black (and Latino and American Indian) people vote multiple times or when/where ineligible to do so (’vote fraud’). Of course, the actual crime in all cases is Voting While Non-White.

OT-Libby’s already paid his fine to the court.
The Smoking Gun.

A quarter mil must be like pocket change for a guy with a legal defense fund.

Based on the following info about the website’s registration, an entity could only put in a reservation for the domain name when it expires in January 2008:

Registrant:
Jerod Carpenter
ATTN: CREA-ONLINE.ORG
c/o Network Solutions
P.O. Box 447
Herndon, VA 20172-0447

Domain Name: CREA-ONLINE.ORG

Administrative Contact :
Carpenter, Jared
[email protected]
ATTN: CREA-ONLINE.ORG
c/o Network Solutions
P.O. Box 447
Herndon, VA 20172-0447
Phone: 570-708-8780

Technical Contact :
Network Solutions, LLC.
[email protected]
13861 Sunrise Valley Drive
Herndon, VA 20171
US
Phone: 1-888-642-9675
Fax: 571-434-4620

Record expires on 14-Jan-2008
Record created on 09-Oct-2002
Database last updated on 01-Jun-2007

Bold mine. Note the create date; was there anything significant during the month before and of its creation?

And the database has recently been updated, too…what did this record look like prior to 01-JUN-07?

These front groups need thorough investigation. Who funded them? Who directed their activities?

My suspicion, particularly on the voter ID issues, is that they were disguises for Karl Rove and the Reps, and there could be some direct evidence of that were Congress to look.

The Evanscent Front Organization (EFO) is an interesting paradigm. Taking ew’s annotated EFO as a research thread, perhaps there will be more to add later. Meanwhile, one contributor in the thread is asking about the ID card, or the RFID conundrum. I suggest looking at a report Gerry Hebert wrote at Constitutional Law Center a few days ago regarding an expert on leveraging ID cards to discourage Democratic party registered people from voting, an individual whom President Bush named to the federal electoral commission during congress recess so congress would have no chance to reject the nomination; but the term for the recess appointment is expiring now.

Addendum: Federici first appears in autumn 2005 on the CREA â€Honorary†Board as President, and at last view in Spring 2007 her name remains there. A glance through the historical timeslices shows a span after launch in 2000 when the site was nascent and partially functional, and another few months in early 2003 after it had been running complete but began an upgrade so was fairly unusable and barely readable until June 2003. However, my predilection is for other than opposition research, yet, I hope these fragments from the archive engine help the research project into the vanishing Repulbican advocacy entities. I compiled a roster of the board members, and may do some investigation of that later.

Footnote: Next time I am looking for some erased TNH material, I will try the useful tool AsteriskXYZ has provided. Last time I looked, there was a hack that took out some of ew’s early investigations on the VA freedom of the press case; I even found one view in which the hackers could be seen sending blackberryLike messages between their dorm rooms, or ostensibly so; maybe it was merely a certain senator’s former-employee judiciary committee server hacker trying to look unassuming as he modified TypePad’s copy of the TNH archive.