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Go read this DailyKOS article for a well-written presentation of the latest revelations and a sumkmary of enough background to put it all in context, to help understand the Rove-Plame-Wilson-Novak controversy,

Daily Kos: 16 words & the 11 hour gap
16 words & the 11 hour gap

In the flurry of “grand jury leaks” and Friday afternoon news dumps about the criminal investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame’s name, it’s critical we keep the facts straight and the big picture in focus.

WITNESS TO A CRIME
What has been lost in the focus on Novak is the fact that there are SIX WITNESSES TO THE LEAK. On September 28, 2003, an administration source told the Washington Post that at least 6 other journalists were contacted with the leak before Novak’s article: “Clearly, it was meant purely and simply for revenge.” He stated that he was sharing the information because the disclosure was “wrong and a huge miscalculation, because they were irrelevant and did nothing to diminish Wilson’s credibility.”

Almost two years later, a clearer picture has emerged [. . .]

A Libertarian Democrat is vigorously pro-personal liberty, and believes government can play a constructive role in regulating our economy and providing a social safety net.

D.C. Says:
July 16th, 2005 at 4:53 pm

With all the lies coming out of the Ministry of Truth (the White House),
it reminds me of Orwell’s 1984 in the methods they use to make a new “reality” and pretend the old reality never exisited in the first place.

“All history was a palimpsest,
scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.

And somewhere or other, quite
anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole
effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should
be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of
existence.

And presently some master brain in the Inner Party would select this version or that, would re-edit it
and set in motion the complex processes of cross-referencing that would be required, and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth.

Thus history is continuously rewritten. This day-to-day falsification of the past, carried out by the Ministry of Truth, is as necessary to the stability of the regime as the work of repression
and espionage carried out by the Ministry of Love.

The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in
human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in
full control of all records and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it.

For when it has been recreated in whatever shape is needed at the moment, then this new version is the
past, and no different past can ever have existed. At all times the Party is in possession of absolute
truth, and clearly the absolute can never have been different from what it is now.”

Every citizen should read, or re-read Orwell’s 1984. 1984 is now.

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