"The stature and credibility of the president must be maintained"

"Brewster Jennings & Associates was the cover organization to which CIA spy Valerie Plame Wilson was assigned . . . Its mission was deadly serious: tracking human intelligence on black market transfers of weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear materials," according to Pensio Review, which asserts that "One likely scenario is that the revelation tipped black marketers in nuclear materials that they were being monitored, thus helping them to escape scrutiny." WMDs?  What WMDs? How about imminence, your eminence?  We thought it was all about oil. 

"Whenever something like this happened, and [Anthony] Lake was not able to convince the president to accept his counsel, his only recourse was to appeal to Hillary Clinton," wrote Athanasios K. Strigas in an online article that popped up at the end of a convoluted google search that started with a Drudge reference to Brewster Jennings as a front-company name for Plame and ended up with results from "hillary clinton aramco" via a suggestive Plame-related comment on Bush Lied, People Died™ Daily Kos from last July that asserted "Almost the entire Bush administration has an interest in ARAMCO." It's not just the entire Bush administration, but every American administration in recent history.  Take the two-for-the-price-of-one Clinton administration:

It was Saturday afternoon on 4 January 1996. Clinton was scheduled to meet the next day with Lake and Lake's assistant Sandy Berger. The topic for discussion was to be the action taken regarding the memo he had issued to Lake concerning operation "Omega" . . . "Provoking" Greece was already U.S. policy, but had not yielded the desired results in the decade of the 80s. Ever since then these "provocations" had continued through the use of Turkey with better results.

The next day, aside from Lake and Berger, those present at the meeting were foreign undersecretary Richard Holbrooke, high-ranking State Department official Strobe Talbot, presidential advisor George Stephanopoulos, David Gergen, Thomas Maclarity (chief of staff), James Carville, Paul Begala and Susan Thomases . . .

You remember Paul "stroke of the pen, law of the land, kinda cool" Begala. Scary to think of such a light-weight, moral-equivalency fellow close to the switch in the control room. Fortunately, Mr. Begala has been gelded and farmed out to the MSM for the next period of time.

Last to speak was Susan Thomases: "It's obvious that you are all in agreement that there must be an armed conflict between these two countries, although not in the immediate future. But at the same time, the stature and credibility of the president must be maintained. Let's not forget that we have elections in November." Finally, the president said: "Then let's do it, but strictly in accordance with operation 'Omega.'" It was obvious to all present that he'd been influenced most by . . . Richard Holbrooke.

. . . Of course the danger for Lake in such situations was that Hillary might misinterpret Lake's concerns as a sign of emotional instability. In this case, however, Lake felt that she would accurately transmit his thoughts to the president, even if she did not agree with them or considered them to be overly exaggerated.

He therefore told Hillary that the president had not concentrated his attention upon the real problem. The real problem was that should there be only the one planned "incident" between Greece and Turkey at the end of January, Clinton would then be able to easily neutralize any criticism against him for not doing something to help Greece by simply imposing a "moratorium." If, however, the planned "incident" escalated into a series of armed clashes in the Aegean that lasted into the autumn of the coming year -- in other words into the campaign and election season -- how could America's inaction in preventing this war between two allies be explained? And all of this because the president was being pushed into this action by the Rockefeller (ARAMCO-N.Y.) petroleum interests who were trying to gain the advantage over their fierce competitors, the "Texans."

Our colleagues on the left side of the aisle are forever bashing us folk on the right with "It's all about oil." 'Could be, but it really depends upon what your definition of "all" is. Who is this fellow Athanasios K. Strigas, you ask?  A precis from a now deleted Free Republic article posted 11/08/98:

Athanasios Strigas, interviewed here, studied Political and Economic Science at the University of Heidelberg. He then took Foreign Relations and International Strategy in the University of Georgetown in Washington D.C. and Propaganda in Patris Lumumba of Moscow. You might be surprised how it relates to the recent events that are baffling many. Unfortunately his books are only available in Greek, but in them he reveals a great deal about the US National Security Agency and the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Club, sometimes far more than anything you can find on the world-wide web.

It's Greek to us. No idea of the credibility, but vast right-wing conspiracies are in the air, and frankly, my dear, we don't trust anyone on either side of the aisle out there.

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It is a dangerous world out there with many who want the power to tell us what to do and what to think. There are some who wish to help us keep our freedom. I hope we can chose wisely whom to trust. I know it is not the ones who wish to direct my life.