Office of Special Counsel To Investigate Rove

According to the L.A. Times, (registration required) the Office of Special Counsel will investigate U.S. attorney firings and other political activities led by Karl Rove. If this is indeed true Land I have no doubt it is}, this will throw the entire Bush Administration into turmoil. First, the inquiry comes from inside the administration, not from Democrats in Congress. Second, unlike the splintered inquiries being pressed on Capitol Hill, it is expected to be a unified investigation covering many facets of the political operation in which Rove played a leading part. "We will take the evidence where it leads us," Scott J. Bloch, head of the Office of Special Counsel and a presidential appointee, said in an interview Monday. "We will not leave any stone unturned." Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special Counsel confines itself to monitoring the activities of relatively low-level government employees, stepping in with reprimands and other routine administrative actions for such offenses as discriminating against military personnel or engaging in prohibited political activities. But the Office of Special Counsel is preparing to jump into one of the most sensitive and potentially explosive issues in Washington, launching a broad investigation into key elements of the White House political operations that for more than six years have been headed by chief strategist Karl Rove. This is awesome news for those of us who were disappointed when the Plame investigation didn't completely expose Rove and his questionable tactics. In fact we may yet get to see the Rove "perp-walk" we've been waiting for. MORE..... In addition to the above link, Raw Story also is covering this story.

The Three Faces Of Death

PNAC planning that has been in effect for years could be closer to reality than many non-conspiracy die-hards believe is possible. So now, when the perfect storm moved into place that gave King George (who likes to play dress up as a warrior), along with (Darth Vader himself) Dick Cheney and then mix in a good helping of Donald Rumsfeld (the apparent S&M expert at the Pentagon) who found a sure-fire way to add even more blood to his own hands than Saddam Hussein - the very person he embraced with enthusiastic friendship when their common enemy was then and appears to be once again, Iran. He along with Alberto the impaler who vigorously defended the Bush administration's decision to detain alleged illegal enemy combatants without protection under the Third Geneva Convention. . The non-applicability of the Geneva Conventionsto cover illegal combatants is disputed by international jurists. Critics feel that Rumsfeld should have been held personally responsible for the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal. Rumsfeld himself said, "These events occurred on my watch as secretary of defense. I am accountable for them." Let's not forget however, this was probably preceded by a few well-placed questions to himself such as 1) Did these incidents occur on my watch? Well golly-be ha-ha-ha they sure did. 2) Does that make me a poor Secretary of Defence? Well heck by golly no under my watch we actually managed to shrink the Pentagons' budget.....that is of course if you don't count the money wasted on faulty equipment obtained from Dicks' and Yours' favorite military contractors. Or the billions upon billions of money that will be needed to assist the traumatized and badly amputated areas of the anatomy that were never even a thought before. This also caused by the Rumsfeld/Cheney Military Outfitters Association. Boy it sure is awfully convenient for the criminals that make up this administration from top to bottom that military investigations into the matters did not find ANY responsible for any wrongdoing.

When Will Bush's Conscience Bother Him?

In a broadcast last week (clip and transcript are available at C & L), CNN's Jack Cafferty asked “Is 3,006 deaths not enough? How many do you suppose it’ll take before President Bush’s conscience begins to bother him—5,000, 10,000, more? The words Bush and Conscience shouldn't even even be used in the same sentence, let alone applied to the little dictator who plays dress-up and pretends to be President (or anyone in his family for that matter). Remember George Sr? Take a look at this shining record: 1. As director of the CIA, he funneled enormous amounts of cash to drug runners including Manuel Noriega and helped in the destabilization of Argentina. 2. Facilitated the Iran-contra affair selling Central American cocaine in America and weapons to Iran while using the profits to fund the contras and to overthrow democratically elected socialists in Central America, and 3. As VP, began propping up a dictator by the name of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Although forbidden by congress to do so, he continued to sell chemical and biological weapons to Saddam even after he used them on villages of innocent civilians. Now we have George Jr., and oh what a surprise he names none other than Don Rumsfeld as his Secretary of Defense. This family's entire history is riddled with subterfuge and dead bodies so if anyone is waiting around for him to get a conscience, my advice is don't hold your breath. Hell you can even go back to his Great-Grandfather George Walker to see how this family's history is probably connected to as many deaths as Saddam - probably more. Take a look at Project For An Old American Century it's stunning. Keep in mind that billions of dollars are being made from the current debacle in Iraq (at the expense of thousands US soldiers' lives and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilian lives) by Halliburton, once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney; Bechtel, once headed by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; and Trireme, a defense company started by Bush's former Deputy Secretary of Defense Richard Perle.

2006 A Republican Year In Review

Courtesy of Peace Takes Courage Thank You Ava

The Delay/Abramoff Scandal - A Look Back

Of course the Delay/Abramoff scandal is old news now, but I thought maybe some of you like myself, may not have had a chance to see this most compelling report from Bill Moyers of PBS. "Capitol Crimes" "It's a dizzying scope of perfidy and politics that boggles the imagination, and although Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay have been brought down, the system remains as vulnerable as ever," says Bill Moyers. "The scale of corruption still coming to light dwarfs anything since Watergate. In one sense it's the age-old tale of greed, but greed encouraged now by the way our system works. Deep in the plea agreements of Jack Abramoff and his cronies is the admission that they conspired to use campaign contributions to bribe politicians; campaign finance is at the core of the corruption. They took great pains to cover their tracks, and they might have pulled it off except for a handful of honest people, and the work of some enterprising print reporters, Senate investigators, and the ethics team at the department of justice. Following the money in this story leads through a bizarre maze of cocktail parties, golf courses, private jets, four-star restaurants, sweatshops - and the aura of chandeliered rooms frequented by the high and mighty of Washington." The entire 8 part series entitled Capitol Crimes, is available for viewing HERE....