The foundations of the BushCo powerstructure is collapsing. Last week saw a gaggle of former Administration loyalists under the gun, and everyone of them pointed up the chain.
Court filings show that
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby implicated his boss, Vice President Dick Cheney, in the CIA Plame scandal. Libby's defense is that Cheney and other senior administration officials authorized him to leak classified information to smear the reputation of former ambassador Joe Wilson, Plame's husband, after Wilson had written an editorial piece for the New York Times discrediting alleged intelligence that served as the basis for the war in Iraq. Libby has retained the services of Oliver North's former lawyer. We can expect to see more Administration stonewalling and late-night, White House shredder parties as special prosecutor Fitzgerald tries to gain access to evidence material to the case that the Administration has classified.
Michael "Brownie" Brown, the unqualified political appointee formerly in-charge of FEMA, dropped a dime on the Department of Homeland Security and the White House while testifying to congress about the hurricane Katrina response effort. Emails from Brown show that the DHS and the White House were notified of the disaster the day the levees broke, contradicting Bush's assertion that he and his staff did not know about the situation until days later. This now puts Michael Chertoff, head of the DHS, in the hotseat.
Finally, Jack "I'm GOP Slut"
Abramoff outted Bush as an outright liar. As the White House struggles to maintain distance from the stench that is Abramoff the man himself claims that he met with the president a dozen times, and that Bush knew him well enough to joke with Abramoff about his children. White House press secretary Scott McClellan is going to have fun squirming his way out of this one.
It just goes to show, there is no honor among thieves.
Labels: cia, Dick Cheney, FEMA, Jack Abramoff, Joe Wilson, Michael Brown, Scooter Libby, Scott McClellan, Valerie Plame
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