Thursday, June 03, 2004

By and By a Monster...

Joshua Micah Marshall has a short list of La Famiglia Arbusto satraps who could've tipped off Chalabi that we'd broken Iran's code.
That would be, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Doug Feith, DIck Cheney and Scooter Libby.
Chalabi is also quoted elsewhere as saying he got the info off a U.S. official who was "drunk" at the time.
So assuming the above list is authoritative and assuming Chalabi is truthful (two BIG assumptions), narrowing down the suspects is a mere matter of finding out who is a drinker.

Cheney?
Doubtful I think he takes that dickey heart of his seriously besides, the Veep's comings and going are rigidly supervised by the Secret Service. If Chalabi had been lazing around the "undisclosed location" doin' jello shots with Vice President surely they'd be logged documentation somewheres?

Rummie?
Possible he is a martini and steaks type republican....but is he a mouthy drunk?
I'm inclined to drop anyone at the executive level off the list only because we'd a known by now if they were serious boozers.

Doug Feith?
If indeed he is "the stupidest f*ckin' person on the planet" as quoted in Woodward's new book, then blabbing a state secret like that would be his style.
Liquor and being "light as ashes" are a poor mix in the halls of state.

Wolfowitz?
Wolfie is alleged to be Chalabi's biggest apologist in the current Admin. So even if he wasn't drunk my money would be on him as the leak.

Scooter Libby?
If it is true that Scooter gave the Iranian codes info to Chalabi then the guy would have to constitute a felonious threat to the national security of the U.S.A. Between this situation and his involvement in the Valerie Plame affair serious minds have to wonder whose side Libby is really on.

We are so totally over Kenneth Starr and the Clinton rules it is not funny.
If these yankers were democrats they'd all be under indictment or at least polygraphed by now.
But ah these are Bush's fabled grown-ups and as we all know real grown ups are no good at investigating themselves...they do a king hell job though of coming down like a million pound shit hammer on unwary democrats.
Even a doofus like George Bush could figure out who snitched out Valerie Plame and who spilled the beans to Chalabi.
Supposedly the President has the most loyal courtiers on the planet, if he simply asks them whodunnit point blank won't he get the truth???
At the very least subject them all to a breathalyzer test first thing in the morning...four or five iterations and you'll have your man I guarantee it.

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