Today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution features a guest op-ed from the angriest man in America, Zell Miller, on the Plamegate coverup. He blames the Media, Ambassador Joe Wilson, the CIA and Valerie herself of carrying out a plot to sting Bush. Zell, always delusional and paranoid these days, has reached a new height of fantasy.
According to the former Senator, former Democrat, and former sane person, Plame herself wanted to distort the intel to the public to stop the Bush re-election in 2004.
She realized that she couldn't purposely distort and publicize anti-Bush intel...but her husband could! (Gasp)
And: "No one seems to care that our intelligence agency has crippled our president."
The bizarre fantasy unfolds below the fold......
Go read the column. Be ready to laugh a little, cry a little, and wonder why Zell's not taking his meds a little.
http://www.ajc.com/...
He starts silly:
"It's like a spy thriller. Institutional rivalries and political loyalties have fostered an intelligence officer's resentment against the government. Suddenly, an opportunity appears for the agent to undercut the national leadership. A vital question of intelligence forms the core justification for controversial military actions by the current leaders. If this agent can get in the middle of that question, distort that information and make it public, the agent might foster regime change in the upcoming election.
But the rules on agents are clear. They can't purposely distort gathered intelligence, go public with secret information or use their position or information to manipulate domestic elections or matters without risking their job or jail.
But their spouse can!"
-So all the lies are from Valerie, using Joe, to help a CIA plot against the White House. Oh, Zell. Then the usual right-wing lies about Wilson having said Cheney sent him, that the report finds that Saddam did try to buy uranium, and that the media is out to get Bush too:
"To the media, it doesn't matter that he claimed the vice president assigned him to the uranium investigation when we all know now it was his wife."
"No one seems to care that our intelligence agency has crippled our president. Certainly not the media. They are determined to make Wilson a hero."
"To the media, it doesn't matter that the CIA says what Wilson did actually find supported that Iraq was attempting to buy the uranium -- a direct contradiction to Wilson's public claims."
"And it appears that Plame and Wilson will get away with the biggest sting operation ever."
His conclusion? Pass a law to stop Valerie Plame!
"We need a Plame rule. Any family member of a CIA agent tapped to help out must live by the same rules regarding information disclosure and domestic political manipulations as those imposed on the agent. If the family member fails to live by those rules, the agent is terminated."
What an idiot.