of the first kind…
In the doldrums of a glum mood about the State of the Union following the 2004 re-election of President Bush, I got interested in the jailing of Judith Miller and that lead me to a lot of things I didn’t know, reading Peter Bergen and Jack Shafer – and that lead to P.N.A.C. and A.E.I. and the Joseph Wilson/Valerie Plame story. It was all so unbelievable to me, that our government had possibly lied that much to get us into a war – a horrible war…
of the second kind…
So I started blogging about it [to my friend’s great horror, thus the nom·de·plum 1boringoldman]. But the real close encounter of the second kind was the Downing Street Memos. We really had planned the war way before it became public. We really had a campaign to sell the war. And then the evidence began to mount as Fitzgerald’s investigation progressed. And, there were all these others blogging about these same things so I became something less of a burden to my friends with my endless preoccupation with the details of "leak week" [July 6, 2003 through July 14, 2003]. The indirect evidence began to give way to tangible evidence. The books next to my computer began to pile up…
of the third kind…
But, the Libby Trial has been my close encounter of the third kind. It was like seeing the space ship at the real Devil’s Tower in the movie. These vague innuendos and mental pictures that had coalesced and taken form in our minds were finally placed before us in the form of notes, faxes, documents, eye-witness accounts. We could hear Libby’s actual lies on tape from the Grand Jury. And Patrick Fitzgerald capped it off today with his rebuttal in the Libby Trial. No longer bound by just the details, he spelled out what it meant – that the Office of the Vice President of the United States had actively revealed the name and identity of a Secret Agent as part of a cover-up for their lies that lead us into this shameful war in Iraq – and lied about the cover-up.
We saw the beast up close in this trial, particularly today. It wasn’t pretty…
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