The Smoking Gun?

"The memo, first disclosed in full by the Sunday Times of London, hasn't been disavowed by the British government. A spokesman for the British Embassy in Washington referred queries to another official, who didn't return calls.
A White House official said the administration wouldn't comment on the leaked document.
However, a former senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, called it "an absolutely accurate description of what transpired" during Dearlove's visit to Washington.
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is circulating a letter among fellow Democrats asking Bush for an explanation of the charges, an aide said. "
An excerpt from May 6th, Seattle Times.

John Conyers is heading this thing up. That's good news because impeachment proceedings start in the House Judiciary committee. It's got to be heading that direction...I mean it just has to, doesn't it?? Well, truthfully, it may go nowhere. All the Bushies have to do is deny it. Point to the findings of the Senate commission on Intelligence. And the people will buy it, just like they have bought the last five years of garbage expounded by this administration. Isn't it interesting, however, that Blair called for elections, and that the elections took place the very day before this memo was leaked? Do you think he would have been reelected if this thing had gone public before his election? Was it leaked purposely by his administration to give him post-election time to recuse himself, distance himself from Bush?

Anyway, I'm e-mailing Conyers tonight to urge him to start impeachment proceedings. There was criminal violation of the Constitution, and it's time.

Another story; the Republicans are going to hammer PBS for having so-called liberal bias. These fascists - they don't let up, do they? Here's my letter to the papers today - it hasn't been published yet, but hopefully in the next day or two.
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....It would appear that the last bastion of liberal media (and by ‘liberal’ I mean ‘reporting with accuracy and telling the truth’), the Public Broadcasting Service, is about to be reigned in by our own Minister of Disinformation and Propaganda, Karl Rove. Under Rove’s ever-watchful eye, the Republicans have appointed former Reader’s Digest editor Kenneth Tomlinson as chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Mr. Tomlinson has created an office to oversee the content of PBS television, investigating what the Republicans undoubtedly see as bias in public media. The folks who have been hired to do this overseeing are another former Reader’s Digest editor, and a fellow at the Hudson Institute. This is how we are going to insure “fair and balanced”, no doubt. The soon-to-be appointee as president of CPB is Patricia Harrison, former co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee.

The lie began with the depiction of PBS as biased, when in fact PBS has aired many conservative and pro-corporate shows, including shows hosted by Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Peggy Noonan. I guess that real balance is not enough.

So what more needs to be said here? This is a right-wing coup of public airwaves. The next step is for public (taxpayer) funding of PBS to be slashed in favor of large private donations. Any guesses as to who the big donors will be? Wake up, sheeple. This is a strategy that Goebbels himself would be proud of.