Rove Indicted–Frog March the Bastard
By Larry Johnson
Email: larry_johnson@earthlink.net
Site: http://NoQuarterUSA.net
About: Larry C. Johnson is CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism and investigating money laundering. Mr. Johnson works with US military commands in scripting terrorism exercises, briefs on terrorist trends, and conducts undercover investigations on counterfeiting, smuggling and money laundering.
Mr. Johnson, who worked previously with the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism, is a recognized expert in the fields of terrorism, aviation security, crisis and risk management.
Mr. Johnson has analyzed terrorist incidents for a variety of media including the Jim Lehrer News Hour, National Public Radio, ABC's Nightline, NBC's Today Show, the New York Times, CNN, Fox News, and the BBC. Mr. Johnson has authored several articles for publications, including Security Management Magazine, the New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. He has lectured on terrorism and aviation security around the world, including the Center for Research and Strategic Studies at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France. He represented the U.S. Government at the July 1996 OSCE Terrorism Conference in Vienna, Austria.
From 1989 until October 1993, Larry Johnson served as a Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He managed crisis response operations for terrorist incidents throughout the world and he helped organize and direct the US Government’s debriefing of US citizens held in Kuwait and Iraq, which provided vital intelligence on Iraqi operations following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Mr. Johnson also participated in the investigation of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103. Under Mr. Johnson’s leadership the U.S. airlines and pilots agreed to match the US Government’s two million-dollar reward.
From 1985 through September 1989 Mr. Johnson worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. During his distinguished career, he received training in paramilitary operations, worked in the Directorate of Operations, served in the CIA’s Operation’s Center, and established himself as a prolific analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence. In his final year with the CIA he received two Exceptional Performance Awards.
Mr. Johnson is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security. He taught at The American University’s School of International Service (1979-1983) while working on a Ph.D. in political science. He has a M.S. degree in Community Development from the University of Missouri (1978), where he also received his B.S. degree in Sociology, graduating Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1976.See Authors Posts (889) on May 13, 2006 at 11:15 PM in Uncategorized
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As Freddy Mercury sang, "Another One Bites the Dust".
Jason Leopold beats the Main Stream Media Stenographers again. Check his story out.
Will we see the following real world?
Frog went a COURTIN…He Did Go..
CROAK…..
Amen, Larry! This is getting closer & closer to Cheney.
I’m so sick of these criminals in the White House! God I hope Jason Leopold is correct!
Speaking of more criminal bullshit:
Fired Officer Believed CIA Lied to Congress
Friends Say McCarthy Learned of Denials About Detainees’ Treatment
By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 14, 2006; Page A01
A senior CIA official, meeting with Senate staff in a secure room of the Capitol last June, promised repeatedly that the agency did not violate or seek to violate an international treaty that bars cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees, during interrogations it conducted in the Middle East and elsewhere.
But another CIA officer — the agency’s deputy inspector general, who for the previous year had been probing allegations of criminal mistreatment by the CIA and its contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan — was startled to hear what she considered an outright falsehood, according to people familiar with her account. It came during the discussion of legislation that would constrain the CIA’s interrogations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/13/AR2006051301311.html
From an AP Peport at USA Today:
Cheney the focus of CIA leak court filing
Updated 5/13/2006 11:51 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a new court filing, the prosecutor in the CIA leak case revealed that Vice President Dick Cheney made handwritten references to CIA officer Valerie Plame — albeit not by name — before her identity was publicly exposed.
The new court filing is the second in little more than a month by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald mentioning Cheney as being closely focused with his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, on Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson, who is married to Plame.
With the two court filings, Fitzgerald has pointed to an important role for the vice president in the weeks leading up to the leaking of Plame’s identity.
In the latest court filing late Friday, Fitzgerald said he intends to introduce at Libby’s trial in January a copy of Wilson’s op-ed article in The New York Times “bearing handwritten notations by the vice president.” The article was published on July 6, 2003, eight days before Plame’s identity was exposed by conservative columnist Bob Novak.
The notations “support the proposition that publication of the Wilson Op Ed acutely focused the attention of the vice president and the defendant — his chief of staff — on Mr. Wilson, on the assertions made in the article and on responding to those assertions.”
The article containing Cheney’s notes “reflects the contemporaneous reaction of the vice president to Mr. Wilson’s Op Ed article,” the prosecutor said. “This is relevant to establishing some of the facts that were viewed as important by the defendant’s immediate superior, including whether Mr. Wilson’s wife had ’sent him on a junket,’ the filing states.
The reference is to the fact that the CIA sent Wilson on a trip to Africa in 2002 to check out a report that Iraq had made attempts to acquire uranium yellowcake from Niger.
Wilson concluded that it was highly doubtful an agreement to purchase uranium had been made.
More at: USA Today | Saturday May 13, 2006 | Cheney the focus of CIA leak court filing
And ….
If your interested in viewing the copy of the notations that Big Dick actually made on his copy of Joe Wilson’s Op-Ed there is a copy of it over at Talking Points Memo…
Here’s the link: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/cheney-notes/
Larry– someone posted to DU under your name that Joe Wilson had heard about Rove getting indicted and that Leopold has multiple sources. Was that really you or someone abusing your credibility?
Right now, noone but Leopold has run with the story. Have you heard anything from a source not derived from the Truthout article?
I have been wondering why many in the blogosphere have been reluctant to run with Jason Leopold’s “scoops” on the Plamegate scandal. I also noticed that Rawstory.com has stopped linking to him. I finally looked him up on Wikipedia where they briefly described a plagiarism controversy over an article of his on Salon.com in 2002. Below is a link to both sides of the story:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0210/S00084.htm
I hope he’s not wrong this time and that it truly is Fitzmas!
Keep up the great blogging, Larry…
Dan, that’s a heck of an account in Salon. I’m blown away.
Then again, I’ve felt occasional mistrust of Truthout since about 2000. In those days, Truthout produced no original content — it just reproduced others’ articles. And it was constantly begging its e-mail subscribers for contributions.
Back then, I was active in a marine mammal protection mailing list. One day, everyone on the list was atwitter about a great story on whales that was published at Truthout. Truthout’s whale story was accompanied by a plea for contributions to keep Truthout afloat. I went Truthout’s original link. Since there was no attribution, I had to assume Truthout had written the piece. Suspcious, however, I pulled some key phrases, and searched for them … my search took me to a Greenpeace article published the same day Truthout published it.
Truthout had published Greenpeace’s article verbatim, and without a link to Greenpeace.
What made me particularly angry was that Greenpeace wrote and sent out this article as its OWN fundraiser, yet Truthout had appropriated it for its own fundraising. I contacted Greenpeace. I don’t know what transpired after that, but Truthout removed the piece a day or so later.
P.S. I think that, if blog writers link to a Truthout article written, say, by Newsweek, it’s important to also mention, and link, the original article at Newsweek. Credit should go where it’s due.
Btw: This was a long time ago. It was around 2000. Perhaps the operation has become more professional in the time being.
Actually, the song that sprang to mind was K.C. and the Sunshine Band’s “That’s The Way I Like It.”
Uh-huh, uh-huh!
Larry,
it sure looks like the rove indictment will be made public monday morning. notice how ‘convenient’ that bush’s immigration speech is monday night — to draw attention away from rove’s indictment. the bush’s are infamous for changing the subject when they’re boxed into a corner.
notice when the bush white house came out with their announcement that bush would address the nation — after ag gonzales had heard the indictment, and then rushed back to the white house to brief bush & crew.
That is rather a humiliating photograph of Rove. It would be fun to see Cheney in a similar pose.
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libby, rove, then cheney.
Cheney is the target and always has been.
Cheney knew Val was Noc.
I so hope Jason Leopold is correct and Rove is frogmarched out of the White House Monday. Next up: Cheney’s frogmarch.
Let the Frog March begin and may Cheney be Rove’s dance partner.
Mr. J., you too, too much. Queen, indeed.
“Frog March the Bastard”
Hey Larry, tell us how you REALLY feel!!! Love that title. Have my fingers crossed that Jason Leopold is spot on in his story.
if leopold is accurate, then let the marching begin.
I think Leopold is just too tempting a target…. And, I do not like Truthout because they edit out embarrassing stuff so you can’t refer back to it, and they add in stuff to make it look as if that was how the piece was to begin with. It drives me nuts. For a place called “Truthout” they’re not very honest. Harumph.
The roof of heaven’s whole
Dropped down yesterday
As if a planned demolition;
Story by story she came tumbling,
Slip-knotting tongue, Lie-splattering lips!
The entire luminary came with,
As if a God-bomb had been leveled,
As if upon a house of sticks,
Clipping-truth, distorting-whisper, censoring turncoat!
(No more security clearance.
No more blossoming smirks
No more spin of your collusion.
No more freedom, autonomy, liberty!
The irony’s palpable!)
The world felt the sky’s fist plunge
Willfully into America’s wanton throat;
Strip-mining souls of human-monstrosity,
And wickedness whispered no more!
(Be done with it!
You traitorous bastard
Of the progeny of Satan!
You’ve now your just deserts!)
The sky lunged forth into misery
And extracted her source.
The trees bowed down, limbs, like colossal headstones,
Wedged into the red ground
Making a gruesome sound
That echoed across the world.
Suddenly, out of the chaos, rose the children’s voices,
“Freedom’s come at last!”
“I so hope Jason Leopold is correct and Rove is frogmarched out of the White House Monday.”
Wednesday or Friday.
I’ve heard the Wednesday or Friday meme on the crustier in-the-know sites too. But there’s supposed to be a chance that Rove will bargain out of it anyway, no?
Let me guess, Rove struck a deal… after he had already been indicted… in an unprecedented move by Fitzgerald…
Time to start spilling the beans Mr. Johnson.
I want to know if you neo-left bastards are going to apologize for fabricating this entire indictment fiasco - not only to your gullible readerships, but to Karl Rove as well. As the subject of Leopold & Madsen’s lies he’s due an apology, if you all had any class at all.
What a bunch of incompetents. The world is laughing at you.
Why drag Joe Wilson’s good name into this?
Well I’m not laughing Espella Humanzee, well accept at the term “neo-leftist”. What the hell’s that?
At present Rove is in the centre of a hell of a mess. And that is neither left nor right.
Your comment about the World laughing, well it’s on the right track. But I shall put it more accutely. The World, at present, is grimacing at the United States. Some find different people or cirmumstances to criticise. So, if you are looking for credibility here Espella Humanzee, you need to get with the pace. I am not suggesting everyone’s a Bush basher (though I suspect most are, right now), but no-one’s happy. And that means something’s gotta give!
Ah, I just caught your snarky remark about “neo-leftists” via a Google search. Excuse me for not visiting more often. I don’t keep up with your daily insanity.
I believe the term “neo-leftists” DOES apply in the sense that the Democratic party has been overrun by liberal fundamentalism. What the Democratic party use to stand for has been replaced by unhinged paranoids bent destroying America and her core values.
As for credibility, I’m not the one who swore Rove was getting indicted. You and your TruthOut buddies have your own credibility issues. But that was a fun weekend watching you all backtrack and post date your claims.
So frog march this, buddy.
“All of this matters because it suggests that Mr. Fitzgerald is scrambling even now to explain why a seasoned attorney such as Mr. Libby would lie to a grand jury. The prosecutor’s original indictment doesn’t mention a motive. And his mention of our editorial suggests he’s now trying to invent a motive out of Mr. Libby’s attempt to defend the White House from Mr. Wilson’s manifestly false allegations at the onset of a Presidential election campaign. (Mr. Wilson joined the Kerry campaign until he was dropped after the official probes destroyed his credibility.)
The more of Mr. Fitzgerald’s case that becomes public, the more it looks like he has made the terrible mistake for a prosecutor of taking Joe Wilson’s side in what was essentially a political fight.” - WSJ Editorial
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008476
Opinion’s all you got. Fitz is dealing with the facts. The law technically doesn’t apply to rove as he had no clearance at the time he helped out Plame.
It applies in whole regarding intent with his “fair game” comment.