Mr.Fitzgerald, Here's What I Want for My Birthday

Yep, my b-day is in a couple of weeks, and I can think of no better present than to have the head of Condoleeza Rice served up alongside those of Rove and Scooter Libby on a handmade plate of indictments from the special prosecutor. Counterpunch has a fantastic treatment of her complicity or complete control over the outing of Valerie Plame entitled "Condoleezza Rice at the Center of the Plame Scandal: The Source Beyond Rove" written by former National Security Council staff member Roger Morris.

In fact, though her pivotal role has been missed entirely ­or deliberately ignored-in both the media feeding frenzy and the rising political clamor, Condoleezza Rice was also deeply embroiled in the Niger uranium-Plame scandal, arguably as much as or more so than either Rove or Libby.

This article goes to the larger crime of which the Rove/Plame scandal is but a single part: the illegal war on Iraq.

Slowly, relentlessly, despite the evidence, the hoax of the Iraq-Niger uranium emerges as a central thread in the fabricated justification for war, and thus in the President's, Rice's, and the regime's inseparable credibility. The discrediting of Wilson, in which the outing his CIA wife is irresistible, becomes as imperative for Rice as for Rove and Libby, Bush and Cheney. And when that moment comes, she has the unique authority, and is in a position, to do the deed. Motive, means, opportunity-in the classic terms of prosecution, Rice had them all.

As the author notes, it's not a simple, easy-to-follow story, hence the kneepad press, who couldn't put two Legos together unless they were handed them already joined, has never reported it. But take the time to read this. It will be the new turn in the story, and when Chimpie's star player, Condi Rice, is ultimately indicted, it's going to be a thing of beauty to watch him try and squirm out of responsibility for what will follow.

Chimpie and the criminal cabal is finished. It's over, twerp!