Plame promises appeal...Iraq said gripped by fear...

Plame promises appeal...(click here)

Former C-I-A operative Valerie Plame and her husband, Joseph Wilson, say they'll appeal a federal court ruling against them. A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit in which they sought damages from Bush administration officials they blame for leaking Plame's C-I-A identity.

CAPITOL HILL (AP) The U-S ambassador to Baghdad says Iraq is a nation gripped by fear. Speaking by video link from Iraq, Ryan Crocker told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee progress can only happen when fear is replaced "with some level of trust and confidence."

Currently, the 'best hope' in defeating Osama bin Laden comes in the form of widows, including 911 spouses.

Mariane Pearl's suit contends that Pakistan's biggest bank aided her husband's killers.

Pearl widow sues bank, extremists (click here)
NEW YORK - Daniel Pearl's widow sued more than a dozen reputed extremists and Pakistan's largest bank, blaming them for the 2002 torture and murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter.
A complaint filed yesterday in Brooklyn federal court by Mariane Pearl and her husband's estate alleges that Habib Bank Limited of Karachi knowingly provided financial services for al-Qaeda and other terror groups. Backed by the bank, terrorists "carried out the kidnapping, ransom, torture, execution and dismemberment of Daniel Pearl and broadcast those images nationwide," said the suit, which seeks unspecified damages.
Also named as a defendant is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the imprisoned mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
There was no immediate response to a message left with the bank's Manhattan office.- AP


There is a lot of validity to the 'idea' that cutting off funding to a military operation, which al Qaeda is, will stop, slow and prevent any ability for the war to survive. To stop the funds available to terrorist networks is a very, very smart and 'real strategy' against their ability to carry out attacks. The West has a lot to be grateful for if these widows are successful. I wish them all the best.

Judge Halts Valerie Plame's Lawsuit

In this Friday, March 16, 2007, file photo, former CIA analyst Valerie Plame listens to opening statements on Capitol Hill during the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. A federal judge on Thursday, July 19, 2007, dismissed Plame's lawsuit against members of the Bush administration in the CIA leak scandal. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)

ANOTHER 'GREAT MOMENT' for the Bush Administration. Outing a CIA agent is not only legal and pardoning a liar essential but 'the power brokers' have never been more obvious.

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge in Washington is tossing out a lawsuit filed by former CIA (click here) operative Valerie Plame against members of the Bush administration in the CIA leak scandal.
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates dismissed the case on jurisdictional grounds, and said he wouldn't express an opinion on the constitutional arguments.
Plame accused Vice President Dick Cheney and others of conspiring to leak her identity. She said it violated her privacy rights, and that it was an illegal act of retribution for her husband's criticism of the administration.
Her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, was a prominent critic of the administration's justifications for the war in Iraq.
Bates dismissed the case against all defendants: Cheney, White House political adviser Karl Rove, former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.
Libby, the vice president's former chief of staff, was convicted of obstructing the investigation into the leak. He was fined and sentenced to two and a-half years in prison, but the prison sentence was commuted by President George W. Bush.
Plame's attorneys had said the lawsuit would be an uphill battle. Public officials are normally immune from such lawsuits filed in connection with their jobs.

Mr. Big Mouth has written a book. Like "No Clue." I won't ever buy it. Not worth it.

Prince of Darkness Illuminates Sources (click here)

Men like Bob Novak have no conscience. He has 'alliances' when performing his 'job' as a pundit to the Neocon Americans of the Republican Party. Bob Novack is a prime example of how a democracy upheld as the last word in freedom can fall into the "W"rongest of hands and be exploited for criminal and commercial purpose.

Bob Novak's answer to the American Health Care Crisis is to close the office of the Surgeon General. Incredible the 'gall' these men have in putting forth an anarchic agenda to defeat democracy rather than uphold it.

The word is treason. It exists in this dialogue because 'of the people' involved with the 'power structure' within the USA democracy. Will they ever be punished? No. They will be excused by the power structure while under the direction of 'Their Party' members.

Trusting an Executive Branch of the USA has never been more important. While 'outing' a CIA agent is NOT a crime and a means of 'muting' a runaway CIA operation that actually 'endangers' the foreign policy of the USA, this operation by Valerie Plame was NOT a danger to the USA so much as necessary. She was operating a covert operation to expose people involved with WMD globally.

Mr. Novak acted out of pure unadulted lust for power and money. He had no desire to serve the USA in a patriotic manner, but, more 'The Republican Party' and it's Neocon substructure that promotes war as international policy and poverty as domestic policy.

The operative word here is 'justifies.' It speaks eons to the lack of truth exuded by the Neocons.

Novak justifies outing Plame & sources (click here)
Posted: Thursday, July 19, 2007 2:36 PM by Domenico Montanaro

Categories: Security
From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro
At a breakfast meeting with reporters, Bob Novak defended his decision to print Valerie Plame Wilson’s name in his column -- which sparked the CIA leak investigation. And he justified his outing of several once-anonymous sources in his new book, The Prince of Darkness....

What happened to reverence for the truth?

U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq at 3,583

By The Associated Press

07.02.07, 8:30 PM ET

As of Monday, July 2, 2007, at least 3,583 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,942 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

The AP count is six higher than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Monday at 10 a.m. EDT.

The British military has reported 156 deaths; Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 20; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four; Latvia, three; Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand, two each; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Romania, South Korea, one death each.

The latest deaths reported by the military:

_ A soldier was killed Monday by an explosion in Salahuddin province.

_ Two soldiers and one Marine were killed Sunday in Anbar province.

_ A soldier was killed Sunday by small-arms fire in southern Baghdad.

The latest identifications reported by the military:

_ Army Staff Sgt. Robb L. Rolfing, 29, Milton, Mass.; died Saturday in Baghdad of wounds from small-arms fire; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Carson, Colo.

_ Army Pfc. Jonathan M. Rossi, 20, Safety Harbor, Fla.; died Sunday in Baghdad of wounds from an explosive and small-arms fire; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Bliss, Texas.

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George W. Bush is One Tough Hombre (click here)

…Mr. Bush is tough enough to invade a country that was no risk to America, causing tens of thousands of civilian deaths and shedding precious American blood in the process. Tough enough to sanction torture. Tough enough to order an American citizen arrested and held without trial.

But if you're rich and right-wing and Republican, George is a real softie. As George W. Bush demonstrated in giving Scooter Libby a Get Out of Jail Free Card, he is only compassionate to conservatives.

What does it say about America in the age of Bush when Judith Miller spends more time in jail over the Valerie Plame smear than Scooter Libby?...

The Culture of Bush

The Desperately Deceptive Power Broker

The Pandering Manipulator

The Liar