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Thursday, July 14, 2005

Bush Administration botching may have led to last week's London bombings
Posted by Jill | 9:13 PM

ABC News had the report, John Aravosis has an analysis, and I'm linking you to it here instead of reprinting it.

But it sure looks like leaking information about intelligence assets is standard routine for the Bush Administration when there's political hay to be made. Valerie Plame was outed because of the potential trouble Joe Wilson's New York Times op-ed piece might cause in exposing the Bush Administrations lies-for-war, and the name of our mole Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan after his arrest last year was released as part of supposed threats that just happened to come up the week of the Democratic National Convention.

Aravosis:

Now, why did it matter if Khan's name went public?

That was important because Khan was remaining in touch with his Al Qaeda contacts AFTER his arrest - he was our mole - and the authorities were thus tracking INSIDE Al Qaeda. Once the American official made the info about Khan's arrest public, our mole inside the cell was blown, and the British police, caught off guard, had to make a high speed chase, literally, to catch Khan's contacts before they fled. THAT'S the raid that ABC is talking about. And it's that raid that - guess what? - didn't catch everybody who was plotting to blow up London last week. That's the raid that got botched.


So chew on this, folks. Bush gets a PDB in August 2001 that says "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US" -- and he does nothing, and the 9/11 attacks play out -- giving him an unprecedented ratings boost as Americans rally around whatever he wants to do. After he lies his way into war with Iraq, and the forged Niger documents are revealed to be just that, the CIA wife of the article's author is outed -- an agent who just happened to be working on the trail of WMD in the Middle East through a front company which had to be disbanded after Karl Rove released her name for petty political gain. Then, in 2004, the Administration releases the name of our only Al Qaeda mole because they want to remind the country of the terrorist threat during the Democratic National Convention.

It sure doesn't sound to me as though this bunch really wants to do a damn thing about terrorism. In fact, it sounds like they're FOSTERING terrorism because the threat has worked so well for them in making the public malleable to their perpetual war, evisceration of the middle class policies.

I say that's consorting with the enemy, and I dare call it treason. On the part of the whole bunch of them.
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