From Shuster’s Mouth To Fitzgerald’s Ear

According to Mr. David Shuster, who has been right about so many reports he does, Mr. Rove is going to be indicted. It’s about time. I know that Mr. Fitzgerald does a slow, careful investigation, and when you are trying to bring an indictment for a crime of this magnitude to a man like Mr. Rove, you must make sure that you dot every “I” and cross every “T”. But even a blind man can see that Mr. Rove should be indicted and brought to justice.
I am surprised that Mr. Rove was removed only to another office in the White House and not kicked back to Texas. The further away he is from Mr. Bush, when this indictment comes down, the better for Mr. Bush. But I guess, you can’t have your brain too far away. One can only hope that we finally see a perp walk. But, don’t count on it. Those in power are never subjected to the same treatment as you and I would get, if we had lied to a Federal Prosecutor.

Well, Karl Rove’s legal team has told me that they expect that a decision will come sometime in the next two weeks. And I am convinced that Karl Rove will, in fact, be indicted. And there are a couple of reasons why. First of all, you don’t put somebody in front of a grand jury at the end of an investigation or for the fifth time, as Karl Rove testified a couple, a week and a half ago, unless you feel that’s your only chance of avoiding indictment. So in other words, the burden starts with Karl Rove to stop the charges. Secondly, it’s now been 13 days since Rove testified. After testifying for three and a half hours, prosecutors refused to give him any indication that he was clear. He has not gotten any indication since then. And the lawyers that I’ve spoken with outside of this case say that if Rove had gotten himself out of the jam, he would have heard something by now. And then the third issue is something we’ve talked about before. And that is, in the Scooter Libby indictment, Karl Rove was identified as ‘Official A.’ It’s the term that prosecutors use when they try to get around restrictions on naming somebody in an indictment. We’ve looked through the records of Patrick Fitzgerald from when he was prosecuting cases in New York and from when he’s been US attorney in Chicago. And in every single investigation, whenever Fitzgerald has identified somebody as Official A, that person eventually gets indicted themselves, in every single investigation. Will Karl Rove defy history in this particular case? I suppose anything is possible when you are dealing with a White House official. But the lawyers that I’ve been speaking with who know this stuff say, don’t bet on Karl Rove getting out of this. You can find the partial transcript of Keith Olbermann interviewing Mr. David Shuster here.

Just remember, that being convicted of a felony is no problem for Republican Neo-Conservatives. They will either get off on a technicality, with the help of those damn lawyers they say they have such loathing of or they will be pardoned by Mr. Bush. (Think John Poindexter or President Nixon. One got off with a technicality and one accepted a pardon from President Ford). For more indepth on all the players in the Administration of Mr. Bush, read this great report.

Normally, this would be a problem, as they went after President Clinton for his pardons, but with the American people waking up to these scum bags unethical conduct, they can’t make it much worse. With your approval numbers at 31%, it is not far to the bottom.
When you have no where to go but down, America and the world better watch out. Even Mr. Bush must have realized that history will not be good to him. Mr. Bush has said that he wanted to go down in history as the greatest President ever and that the only Presidents who were great, were the ones who fought big wars and won. He has neither. Iraq is not a big war and he certainly has not won in either Iraq or Afghanistan.
He has nothing to lose now. The only way that history will be good to him, is if there is no history written. With his belief in the “End Times” he is working hard to make sure that this is the way it is.

After Mr. Bush is done with this world, the world may be done.

Roger Noriega is the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. Before that, he was the United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS).[3] But his career got its running start when he became an aide in the Bureau for Inter-American Affairs of the US State Department. Like the Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America, this was an instrument of the Reagan administration’s campaign to destroy the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Dubbed “Iran-Contra” by the press, that campaign was being run by a coterie of felons including Elliot Abrams, John Negroponte, John Poindexter, and Otto Reich. [4] The Vice President during this episode was George Herbert Walker Bush, former Director of Central Intelligence.
Reagan’s Office of Public Diplomacy was run by Otto Reich, who zealously planted scads of bogus stories in the press – for instance, that MiGs were being shipped to Nicaragua, that Sandinistas were persecuting Miskito Indians – all untrue, but never recanted by the US press. [6] Dubya tried installing Otto Reich as Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs during a legislative recess, but the returning Senate refused to renew Reich’s appointment. In August 2001, the job went to Mr. Noriega; but like so many of the Iran-Contra werewolves, Reich is back in the government. He’s now reporting directly to Condoleezza Rice from a special post (apparently created just for him) called “Special Envoy for Western Hemisphere Initiatives.” He’s the kind of person they have to keep moving around: toward the middle of the second Reagan administration when the huge cocaine element of Iran-Contra broke into view, Reich’s deep involvement with CIA assassin Felix Rodriguez and terrorist Luis Posada Carriles became too obvious for the administration’s comfort, and off he went. From 1986 to 1989 Reich was US Ambassador to Venezuela, where he tried very hard to secure the release of the Miami-mafia airline bomber Orlando Bosch. That downing of a civilian passenger airline from Cuba was an act of terrorism in which Posada Carriles had also been implicated.
That’s all been forgotten somehow, and Otto is back on the government payroll. His first task for Bush II, which he performed with admirable enthusiasm and success, was another disinformation campaign against the democratically elected Venezuelan government of Hugo Chavez.[9]
One of the high-level players in Iran-Contra was John Poindexter, a retired Navy admiral who specialized in illegal covert operations and spying on American citizens. With Oliver North, he engineered and oversaw the massive plot by the Reagan administration to sell weapons to Iran (despite the public show of bitter hostility between the US and Khomeini’s Iran), ship huge quantities of cocaine into the United States via Central America, and use the cash to buy illegal weapons and materiel for Nicaraguan terrorists. Congress had cut off the funding for aid to the right-wing “Contras,” so Poindexter, North and the others simply moved their operation outside the government by funding it with cocaine.
Eventually convicted of several felonies, the good Admiral Poindexter managed to get them all thrown out in an immunity deal. He got caught trying to destroy over 5,000 White House emails, and was also the originator of yet another disinformation campaign, this one directed at Libya’s Col. Muammar Qaddafi.[10] For his sins, John Poindexter – now the Vice President of Syntek Technologies, a surveillance technology outfit with juicy federal contracts – was appointed by Bush II to head up the sinister Information Awareness Office (IAO), a subset of the Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, a favorite of Donald Rumsfeld). IAO’s main task is to vastly expand the Pentagon’s capacity to spy on A merican citizens. But from the moment Poindexter’s appointment went public, the internet began to hum with popular outrage about the IAO’s domestic spying program and Poindexter was canned.
John Negroponte is now the United States’ Ambassador to the UN. He’s another Cocaine-Contra figure with a great resume for disinformation. In 1981, USA mbassador to Honduras, Jack Binns, made the error of reporting that the Honduran military was engaged in death-squad activity. This did not sit well with the Reagan administration, who never met a right-wing Latin A merican killer they didn’t like. Binns was fired and his job went to Negroponte. Between 1981-1985, during Negroponte’s diplomatic tenure, there was a direct correlation between the level of military violence – especially that of the specially US-trained “intelligence” unit called Battalion 3-16 – and the level of military assistance provided to Honduras by the US taxpayer: an increase from $4 million to $77.4 million. This was when Honduras was being used as a launch platform for the Nicaraguan Contras, as I can attest: when I was in Ojo de Agua, Honduras, in 1991, the locals informed us that the same base at which we were working was used by the Contras.
When the Senate later questioned Negroponte in the course of the Iran-Contra investigation, Negroponte said he had no knowledge of Battalion 3-16 or its activities, indicating that he was either dead drunk for four years or not actually staying in Honduras where he was the ambassador(or, of course, that he was lying through his teeth).
Through this whole sordid period of death squads, the murders of nuns and Catholic clerics, arms-and-cocaine swaps, and felony-as-executive-branch-policy, the regional boss was Elliot Abrams, described by friend and foe alike as a snarling macho asshole. Convicted for his role in Iran-Contra as Reagan’s Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, Abrams was soon pardoned by George H. W. Bush. And in what must be a sick joke, Bush the Younger named Abrams Senior Director of the National Security Council’s “Office for Democracy, Human Rights and International Operations.”
Last December, Peter Kornbluh of the National Archives told a Newsday reporter:”The resurfacing of the Iran-Contra culprits has been nothing short of Orwellian in this administration. These are not 21st-century appointments. They are retrograde appointments, a throwback to an era of interventionism when the U.S. was the big bully on the block.” There is much speculation that these appointments – most intimates of the Miami-Cuban right-wing and mafia – are a form of reciprocation for gusano assistance with the Florida-based judicial coup that put George W. Bush into the Oval Office.
While Roger Noriega has been coordinating the details of President Aristide’s forcible removal from office, Otto Reich has run the disinformation campaign in the Organization of American States(OAS).[12]
Another institution for building coups developed during the Reagan administration. The CIA’s covert operators had proven perfectly capable of engineering the development of paramilitaries and death squads, but they had proven unequal to the task of developing political opposition to seated governments. So the National Endowment for Democracy was established. {Source}