If the JOY administration had wanted to repeal the Intelligence Identities Protection Act at any time
before the Plame incident, thereby making us all a little bit freer in a way they’d probably never
notice (and themselves much freer to lie us into war), they could have. Hell, the GOP controlled
Congress at the time! It would’ve been a breeze. But they did not wish to decriminalize that behavior,
or any other. Moreover, they would have thrown me or Lew under the goddamn prison had one of us done
the revealing.
Second, the fact that Libby was convicted of perjury and such instead of mass murder, which he is
certainly an accomplice to, should be filed under “Some Guys Have All the Luck.” It’s as if Charles
Manson had simply been convicted of hate speech for carving that wacky swastika on his forehead: I’d
be against the law, but I wouldn’t be out holding a candlelight vigil for the defendant. And since
Scooter has the best lawyers money can buy and a sure pardon coming his way, now ain’t the time for
anyone’s tears (except maybe Cheney’s).
John Mueller, professor of political science at Ohio State University and author of Overblown: How
Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats and Why We Believe Them and
this great Foreign Affairs article, discusses the bogus “Things on Terror,” the Fear Industry (public
and private) and the waste and violations of rights that go along with them.
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