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Archives-- Installments for  July 21, 2005, through 31, 2005, starting below in reverse chronological order.

July 28, 2005--

Howard Dean exposes "right wing [Supreme Court Justices]" allowing fat-cats to use "eminent domain" to "take your house if they feel like putting a hotel where your house is" in Deaniac Donkey's Imminent Dumbmain.

            In a tour-de-force application of legal and political scholarship, Howard Dean courageously exposed the plot by George W. Bush "and his right-wing Supreme Court ... to take [ordinary people's houses whenever fat cat developers] feel like putting a hotel here [their] house[s are]."  Dean's comments focused on the recent Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. New London, in which a five-to-four majority ruled that the town of New London's taking of private residences to be replaced with a high-dollar condominium development did not violate the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment prohibitions against the taking of private property other than for "public use."  

            When right-wing fanatics confronted Dean with the fact that Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Stephen Breyer and Anthony Kennedy comprised the five-justice majority in that case over Justice Sandra Day O'Conner's blistering dissent adopted by the "right wing" Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and William Rehnquist, Dean was undaunted.  Exhibiting his legendary quickness on his feet, Dean explained that the dissent by the "right wing" Justices Scalia, Thomas, Rehnquist and O'Conner was merely a ruse to conceal the fact that Scalia had performed a Scalian Mind Meld on Justices Ginsburg, Stephens, Souter, Breyer, and Kennedy to force them against their will to decide the case the way the "right wing" Justices secretly wanted it decided so the right-wing Justices could pose as liberals by dissenting to conceal their clandestine glee in the homes of ordinary people being taken against their will by New London to enable fat-cat developers to build an upscale condominium project.  

            One member of the press apparently remained skeptical enough about Dean's assertion to ask him:  "We know how hard it is for right-wingers to face reality, so I need to ask when you will be prepared to reveal 'smoking gun' proof of Scalia doing that."  Dean replied, "It's one of the theories floating around, and even though I don't yet have 'smoking gun' proof, there are a lot of smart people working on that right now.  Frankly, we're counting on a whistleblower to give us the proof."  When a right-wing agent of Karl Rove, posing as a member of "the press" asked Dean whether the real nature of what he was exposing was "imminent dumbmain," Dean replied, "Don't try to trick me with legalese-- As a Doctor, I learned enough Latin to know a 'scire' from a 'facias.'"

            Watching this press-conference from his retirement home, Dan Rather saw this as an obvious opportunity to restore his tarnished representation, so he contacted Dean immediately to seek leads to the whistleblower.  Stressing confidentiality, Dean told Rather one of the clandestine agents planted by Karl Rove to pose as "clerks" for the "liberal" Supreme Court Justices had decided to "come in from the cold" and become a whistleblower.  Receiving a call from someone identifying himself as a "whistleblower inspired by Howard Dean's courageous exposure of the right-wing's clandestine takeover of the Supreme Court," Rather followed the caller's instructions to meet him at 2:00 a.m. in an underground garage near Watergate.  In the dim light of the garage, an obese, unshaven and shadowy figure handed Rather a video-tape labeled "Scalian Mind Meld," which he described as "smoking-gun" proof of Dean's claim.  Rather asked, "Has this been authenticated?"   The "whistleblower" replied, "Of course!"  Rather asked, "How can I be sure?"  "It's already on the short list to win "Best Political Documentary" at Cannes for 2005," said the whistleblower.

            Through an anonymous source inside the CBS News Retirement Home, PoliSat.Com's Washington Bureau Drawer Chief has clandestinely obtained an unedited copy of a video tape of a soon-to-be-released 60-Minutes report by Dan Rather showing the video tape of Scalia performing the Scalian Mind Meld on Justices Ginsburg, Stephens, Souter, Breyer and Kennedy in the New London case.

--Jim Wrenn, Editor at PoliSat.Com.

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July 26, 2005--

Plame Game Time-Line-- Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson, Robert Novak, Karl Rove, Matt Cooper, Judith Miller, and the Beltway Media Chorus.

            Long before Robert Novak's July 14, 2003, column alleged to have "outed" Valerie Plame's status as a CIA "operative,"  Joe Wilson internationally touted, rather than merely "leaking," her covert name, Valerie Plame, as the maiden name of his wife, as part of his self-promotion as an international-affairs consultant (see the February 8, 2003, version of Wilson's own website "bio" page).  Wilson could have identified his wife as "Mrs. Valerie Wilson," but he deliberately identified her by the name she had used in her status as a CIA "operative."   Why did Wilson internationally tout the identify of his wife as "the former Valerie Plame" rather than as "Mrs. Valerie Wilson"?  Applying common-sense analysis to common-sense assumptions makes the answer reasonably obvious.

Common-sense assumption No. 1:  The law prohibiting identification of undercover CIA agents is founded upon a presumption that such identification would increase the risks of adversaries attempting to harm such agents and those with whom they may have dealt in their covert capacities.

Common-sense assumption No. 2:  Commencing with Wilson's marriage to Plame in 1998, Wilson's affection for his wife would have motivated him to minimize, rather than increase, such risks of harm to her (and to those with whom she had dealt in a covert capacity).  

Common-sense assumption No. 3:  On April 22, 1999, when Plame publicly identified herself as a $1,000 contributor to Al Gore's campaign for the 2000 election and in so doing identified herself as "Valerie Wilson" and listed "Brewster-Jennings & Assoc." (hereafter, "Brewster-Jennings") as her employer, she would have known that such self-identification would increase, rather than minimize, the risks for adversaries to discern that she was the same person as the "Valerie Plame" employed by Brewster-Jennings, in which name she had thus been employed while serving in a covert capacity for the CIA.

Common-sense assumption No. 4:  During the time period between the Wilson-Plame marriage in 1998 and February 8, 2003, both Wilson and Plame would have known that Wilson's publicly and internationally identifying his wife as "the former Valerie Plame" on his website "bio" touting his international-affairs expertise as a former U.S. Ambassador and former National Security Council consultant would increase, rather than minimize, the risks for adversaries to discern that the "Valerie Plame" previously known to them as an employee of Brewster-Jennings was the wife of one who had previously and overtly served official interests of the United States.

Common-sense assumption No. 5:  During such time period, Wilson and Plame would have known that their making it known within the Georgetown Cocktail Circuitº¹ and among many in the mainstream mediaº² in Washington, D.C., that she "worked at" the CIA would increase, rather than minimize, the risks for adversaries to discern that the "Valerie Plame" previously known to them as an employee of Brewster-Jennings was a CIA employee.

Common-sense assumption No. 6:  When Wilson publicly and internationally identified himself in his July 6, 2003, "What I Didn't Find in Africa" article in the New York Times as a person who traveled to Niger in February, 2002, as an agent for the CIA to investigate intelligence reports that Saddam Hussein had attempted to purchase uranium in Africa, he would have known that publishing his article would virtually guarantee that even any adversary too stupid to have already done so would then discern "Valerie Plame" to be the wife of a recently-active agent for the CIA investigating a matter related to what they would have previously understood to be related to Plame's portfolio as a Brewster-Jennings employee.

Common-sense conclusion A:  Wilson's and Plames' pattern of behavior during the five years from 1998 to his July 6, 2003. article in the New York Times makes it obvious that the reason they were willing to behave in ways that would increase, rather than to minimize, the risks of Plame's true status being exposed is that they both knew that her cover had been exposed to adversaries years earlier and that therefore further "exposure" to the general public would not increase any "risk" to her or to those who had dealt with her before her status became known to adversaries.

            Defenders of Wilson and Plame continue to imply that whoever "leaked" her CIA "operative" status to Novak nevertheless "blew her cover" and thereby created danger to her and those with whom she had previously dealt in a covert capacity.  They're correct that such leak led to her cover being blown but are trying to obscure the true nature of the undercover activities exposed as a result of such leak:    Wilson's and Plame's roles as political moles for Bush's political opponents.    What would all but the most stupid intelligence adversaries have learned from Novak's July 14, 2003, column that they had not already known for years (if not at least as a result of Wilson's July 6, 2003, article in the New York Times)?  They would have learned that a formerly covert CIA agent and her husband had collaborated with each other to serve as political moles for Bush's political opponents.

            Defenders of Wilson and Plame also attempt to make much of the State Department memo received by Colin Powell aboard Air Force One on July 7, 2003.  The contention is that the secrecy classification for the paragraph in that memo about Wilson's trip to Niger and about how a recommendation from his wife as a CIA employee had led to Wilson being selected for the trip made it obvious that Plame was a covert agent.  However, reports about such classification make it reasonably obvious that the classification applied to the content of the paragraph rather than to any "covert" status of Plame, which the paragraph did not describe or mention.  In other words, the content of the paragraph included descriptions of information that Joe Wilson had sua sponte and selectively made public in his article in the New York Times the preceding day (July 6, 2003) but did not identify Plame as a "covert" agent.  Thus, common-sense examination of the paragraph would make it reasonably obvious that Wilson's article had rendered such classification virtually meaningless. 

            What does one do when someone so selectively leaks "classified" information?  Common sense makes it reasonably obvious that whoever "leaked" information about Plame's having recommended her husband for the trip was attempting to discredit the selective nature of Wilson's public "leaking" of information about his trip to Niger rather than attempting to disclose any "covert" status of Plame, which status the "classified" paragraph did not describe or identify.   Absent Wilson's and Plame's pattern of conduct from 1998 through July 6, 2003 (see "Common-sense assumptions and conclusions" above), all the public would have known was that a CIA employee named Mrs. Valerie Wilson had recommended her husband for the trip.  

            One may legitimately argue that one should assume that every CIA employee not already publicly known (such as Porter Goss) is a "covert" employee and therefore should never disclose the name of any CIA employee to avoid accidentally disclosing the name of an employee serving in a covert capacity.  Perhaps doing so should be criminalized, but the fact that the law currently criminalizes only the deliberate, intentional identification of one known to be a covert agent negates the basis for arguing that identifying someone as a CIA employee without such purpose and knowledge should be construed as a criminal offense under the law as written.  

        What about the alleged disclosure of "classified" information?  Other than the fact that Wilson had been "recommended" by "his wife," the "classified" information in that paragraph had already been "leaked" by Joe Wilson on the preceding day in his July 6, 2003 article in the New York Times.  Of course none of Bush's critics complains about that leak or about the fact that Wilson's July 6, 2003 article virtually guaranteed that even adversaries too stupid to have already discerned Valerie Plame's prior, covert role would thereby learn what their non-stupid counterparts had long known-- i.e., that as a Brewster-Jennings employee Valerie Plame had served in a covert role.

        Novak seems to be saying that someone other than Rove was his original source and that he treated Rove's reaction to hearing such information from Novak as a "confirmation" that Novak's real source had been correct.   It also seems that Rove's initial public denial was more limited than interpreted by the press and thus not inconsistent with his subsequent, more explicit assertion that he had not given anyone the name "Valerie Plame."  The larger point that everyone seems to be missing is that her formerly covert status had ceased to be a secret in the minds of adversaries and virtually everyone else to whom such knowledge would matter long before Novak's column.

        For what appears to be a reasonably objective time-line with respect to this whole controversy, go to http://www.factcheck.org/printerfriendly337.html.  That time-line seems more objective and less filled with opinion than the "time line" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame.

·º¹·I remember several news reports indicating that Plame's status as a CIA employee was virtually "common knowledge" in the Georgetown cocktail circuit, but I haven't been able to find url links to those sources, which links I did not at the time save.

·º²·I also remember several news reports indicating that Plame's status as a CIA employee was virtually "common knowledge" among many in the inside-the-beltway media circles, but I haven't been able to find url links to those sources, which links I did not at the time save.

--Jim Wrenn, Editor at PoliSat.Com.

July 22, 2005--

Brits Order New Defense assigning snipers to surveil suspected terrorists and shoot-to-kill whenever they appear to be preparing to commit a terrorist act.

It's cheaper than Gitmo and safer too, but, of course, it might upset Kennedy, Durbin, Dean, Soros, MoveOn, etc.

July 21, 2005--

Canadian Hero of D-Day Enterprise, James Doohan, died on July 20, 2005, the 36th Anniversary of man's first landing on the moon on July 20, 1969, on the Apollo 11 Mission.

            According to Fox News, James Doohan, who died on July 20, 2005, was among the "Canadian forces that landed on Juno Beach on D-Day.... [They] crossed a minefield laid for tanks; the soldiers weren't heavy enough to detonate the bombs. At 11:30 that night, he was machine-gunned, taking six hits: one that took off his middle right finger (he managed to hide the missing finger on the screen), four in his leg and one in the chest. Fortunately the chest bullet was stopped by his silver cigarette case." This was, of course, the same James Doohan that later achieved fame as Star Trek's "Scotty."  

           Thus, in real life, Doohan displayed even more courage than the character, Scotty, the Enterprise's chief engineer with a sense of protectiveness for the ship often making him resentful of the captain's willingness to demand performance beyond the ship's engineered capabilities.  Until the news media's "bio" sketches of James Doohan, I had not known about his gallant service at Normandy and his continuing to serve after such severe wounds.

            Links for credits in sound/video version:  Theme from The Longest Day:  Main site, Specific URL link.  Star Trek Theme;   Apollo 11:  The Eagle Has Landed, One Smal Step...; More about Apollo 11.  Heroes, such as Neil Armstrong, Buz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and countless more stand on the shoulders of earlier heroes such as James Doohan and others in his generation whose gallantry in World War II "beamed us up" into a future in which the forces of freedom have the means to defeat the forces of totalitarianism.

            Returning to the moon is long overdue.  Abundant scientific evidence from recent-years analysis of lunar materials indicate the surface of the moon has a high concentration of helium-3, a substance containing enough energy to make it cost-effective to resume lunar missions to establish lunar mining to transport helium-3 back to earth.  (One load of helium-3 could power a city the size of Los Angeles for a year.)  For speculation on where the 21st Century physics may take us, go here.

--Jim Wrenn, Editor at PoliSat.Com.

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