- This is the hottest and most explosive story behind the
scenes in Washington in terms of how it could affect the Bush administration.
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- Ambassador Joseph Wilson has been turning up the
heat in this situation. He revealed on Friday August 29 in a symposium
in Washington the person in the Bush administration, who had leaked it
out to the Washington Post that Wilson's wife is a CIA agent of 26 years.
As a consequence of this leak, her entire team of overseas assets were
liquidated.
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- The leaker, it turns out, was none other than the
notorious Karl H. Rove, Bush's so-called White House advisor. Ambassador
Wilson identified him as Karl Roverer, with the umlaut over the "o."
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- According to reliable sources, as well as our own
Al Martin Raw.com investigation, Karl Rove is, in fact, the grandson of
Karl Heinz Roverer, the gauleiter of Mecklenburg, who was also a partner
and senior engineer of Roverer Sud-Deutche Ingenieurbüro AG. They
built Birchenau, the concentration camp in Nazi Germany.
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- So Karl Rove has been identified as the leaker
responsible for the deaths of more than 70 CIA assets overseas (See previous
story "Will the Real Chemical Ali Please Stand Up? The Curious Case
of Ambassador Joseph Wilson)
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- When Ambassador Wilson was asked how he knew it
was Rove, he had documents in his possession identifying Rove as the leaker
from a secret investigation of the State Department's Internal; Security
Unit. It was a from a small clique, four Clinton holdovers in that department
of the State Department that were sympathetic to what had happened to Wilson.
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- These investigations could not have possibly been
made without at least the tacit acquiescence of Secretary of State Colin
Powell.
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- Wilson has announced that he will have his private
attorneys petition the Department of Justice demanding that Roverer a/k/a
Karl Rove be prosecuted under the 1982 Intelligence Identity Protection
Act . This law specifically supposed to prevent what has happened in this
case and that is the Bush administration attempting to retaliate against
a senior government official who tells the truth about that administration
by revealing the identities of intelligence members within their own families.
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- This is a law that was specifically designed to
prevent this from happening. It is a law that was proffered by the Democrats
in 1982 that the Republicans fought and could not defeat. The law carries
an automatic mandatory 10 years to life imprisonment as punishment.
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- And where would Rove go? Karl Rove, it should be
noted, is a dual citizen of the United States and Germany. Because of his
position he has special diplomatic status. The idea is that if its absolutely
necessary he could go to Switzerland where he couldn't be extradited.
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- The law specifically states in this case (and this
depends on how much Secretary of State Colin Powell is prepared to get
involved, if he signs a formal complaint from the State Department, then
the Attorney General has no choice but to prosecute. He is required to
prosecute, even if he doesn't want to do so.
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- This is very explosive and what makes it so explosive
is that this Intelligence Identity Act, if it can be proved, and Rove can
be successfully prosecuted and if Rove reveals that the president George
Bush told him to institute this leak, then the President's automatic shield
of immunity is removed and the president himself can be prosecuted for
murder if any deaths of any US intelligence agents or assets resulted from
the leak. This is the only legal statute that has this provision.
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- The Bush Administration is exerting enormous pressure
on Colin Powell because he is the real linchpin. They are exerting pressure
on him NOT to proceed to file a formal complaint with the Department of
Justice.
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- Wilson's problem is that he has no greater legal
standing than that of a private citizen. The Department of Justice, unbeknownst
to anybody, has had a lot of communications with Wilson's attorney and
they're claiming that Wilson has no special status, that he's just an everyday
citizen, so that any demand he would make for prosecution would carry no
more weight than a private citizen or OFU.
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- (OFU is George Bush Senior's term to describe the
average American citizen. It stands for "One Fodder Unit.")
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- Wilson is saying, however, that when Rove leaked
this out, he was still formally employed by the State Department. Wilson,
it should be remembered, was the former ambassador during the Clinton Regime,
was formally rehired, and he received a paycheck from the Department of
State. When these leaks took place he still had another three weeks left
on his contract. Therefore he was still a United States Ambassador and
that apparently is also a key legal point.
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- When this goes before the US Court of Appeals in
Washington and if the court agrees that Wilson was a formal ambassador
at the time, then Colin Powell can not refuse to formally petition the
Department of Justice for the prosecution of Karl Rove and to open an investigation
into the president's and vice president's role in the affair.
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- Was Rove really the source of the leak? The investigation
held thus far by the State Department's Internal Security (ISD) has stated
that Rove did indeed leak the information out about the Ambassador's wife,
CIA agent Valerie Wilson, to the Washington Post. Apparently they have
an affidavit from the reporter he leaked it to.
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- The way the Bush Regime is trying to quash it is
to slow it way down by exerting so much pressure against Pro-Bush Media.
Please note that you have not heard one word about this on CNN or MSNBC
or Fox News And not one word about this on ABC, CBS, or NBC.
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- If there is no public attention, there will be
no steam behind it. Some of the congressmen are trying to push this into
higher quarters. They're trying to get Howard Dean to talk about it since
he's getting so much press coverage
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- It's been said that Dean is himself frightened
to start talking about it because it would diminish the press coverage
he's been getting. The Bush Administration has let it be known to the Democratic
National Committee that any Democrat who tries to push this will find press
coverage severely limited.
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- When the Democratic presidential selection process
filters out (since there are now nine declared Democrats) and when there
is one Democrat that everyone is behind, who's going to be the contender,
then they won't be so frightened.
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- But this is a story, which should be more widely
known, since the treatment of Ambassador Wilson and his family (not to
mention the US intelligence assets who were liquidated overseas) is certainly
one of the most egregious abuses of power yet perpetrated by the Bush administration.
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- Yet. However, who knows what they might do tomorrow?
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- It is the day after -- Happy McLabor Day in the
Land of Bushonomics.
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- As reported by CNN --
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- * 9 million unemployed in the US, and increase
of 6 million since election of Bush-Cheney
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- * 4 million high paying tech jobs permanently lost
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- * Another 3 million tech jobs to be exported overseas
in next 15 years, but the good news is that 3 million new minimum-wage
food-service jobs will be created in the US over the same time period.
Happy McLabor Day!
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