tomder55
Aug 14, 2022, 05:18 AM
I have been ashamed to hear members of my party attacking the integrity of the FBI agents involved with the recent Mar-a-Lago search. These are sickening comments that put the lives of patriotic public servants at risk.
Rep. Liz Cheney on Twitter: "I have been ashamed to hear members of my party attacking the integrity of the FBI agents involved with the recent Mar-a-Lago search. These are sickening comments that put the lives of patriotic public servants at risk." / Twitter (https://twitter.com/RepLizCheney/status/1557809792822824960)
I am burdened by history . Time for another flashback to a time when the deep state had their cross hairs on VP Cheney . Oh they wanted to put him in jail in the worse way. So they concocted a fable based on a "leak" of the name of a CIA employee or low level operative ;or master spy depending on the narrative of the day.
The narrative went something like this . The White House leaked the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame to punish her husband Joe Wilson who sipped sweet tea in Africa before declaring to the world that the WMD claims by the Bush WH were bogus . It was a perfect tale for the compliant press. Plame was good looking .Wilson spun a tale they were predisposed to believe. And the target was the evil Darth Vader Cheney.
Oh yes ;they wanted to frog marchr Cheney himself . But the most they could do is concoct phony charges against his Chief of Staff Scooter Libby.
Someone had indeed accidently leaked Plame's name. It was Deputy Sec State Richard Armitage who was a Colin Powell loyalist. He gave backround info to sometimes serious and sometimes gossip columnist Robert Novak .
Deputy AG James Comey convinced AG John Ashcroft to recuse himself. Then Comey went ahead and appointed lifelong friend Patrick Fitgerald to do the original Inspector Javert style investigation. The target was Cheney but they set their sites on Libby.
They knew early on about the Armitage admittance that he was the leaker .Still they pursued Libby. Libby made the grave mistake of not remembering all the details of a conversation he had with NBC talking head Tim Russert. So they got Libby on a perjury trap .They took that to a friendly DC jury after telling them to ignore all the other evidence about Armitage.
The jury dutifully convicted Libby.
VP Cheney was furious. He correctly called the whole thing politically motivated .He was also pissed at President GW Bush who refused to pardon. Libby .
But Libby was eventually pardoned ........... by Donald Trump.
Now Cheney calls Trump the greatest threat to democracy.
Rep. Liz Cheney on Twitter: "I have been ashamed to hear members of my party attacking the integrity of the FBI agents involved with the recent Mar-a-Lago search. These are sickening comments that put the lives of patriotic public servants at risk." / Twitter (https://twitter.com/RepLizCheney/status/1557809792822824960)
I am burdened by history . Time for another flashback to a time when the deep state had their cross hairs on VP Cheney . Oh they wanted to put him in jail in the worse way. So they concocted a fable based on a "leak" of the name of a CIA employee or low level operative ;or master spy depending on the narrative of the day.
The narrative went something like this . The White House leaked the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame to punish her husband Joe Wilson who sipped sweet tea in Africa before declaring to the world that the WMD claims by the Bush WH were bogus . It was a perfect tale for the compliant press. Plame was good looking .Wilson spun a tale they were predisposed to believe. And the target was the evil Darth Vader Cheney.
Oh yes ;they wanted to frog marchr Cheney himself . But the most they could do is concoct phony charges against his Chief of Staff Scooter Libby.
Someone had indeed accidently leaked Plame's name. It was Deputy Sec State Richard Armitage who was a Colin Powell loyalist. He gave backround info to sometimes serious and sometimes gossip columnist Robert Novak .
Deputy AG James Comey convinced AG John Ashcroft to recuse himself. Then Comey went ahead and appointed lifelong friend Patrick Fitgerald to do the original Inspector Javert style investigation. The target was Cheney but they set their sites on Libby.
They knew early on about the Armitage admittance that he was the leaker .Still they pursued Libby. Libby made the grave mistake of not remembering all the details of a conversation he had with NBC talking head Tim Russert. So they got Libby on a perjury trap .They took that to a friendly DC jury after telling them to ignore all the other evidence about Armitage.
The jury dutifully convicted Libby.
VP Cheney was furious. He correctly called the whole thing politically motivated .He was also pissed at President GW Bush who refused to pardon. Libby .
But Libby was eventually pardoned ........... by Donald Trump.
Now Cheney calls Trump the greatest threat to democracy.