Taking a leak
Scandal in Washington! This is what everyone lives for! Heaped upon the missing WMD (Verbal Jazz actually prefers WoMD, pronounced "wom-dee"), is now the revelation that the identity of CIA operative, Valerie Plame, has been revealed, ostensibly to punish the operative's husband, Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV (usually by the fourth movie the concept has grown thin, don't you think?) for having the absolute gall to question the Nigerian "yellowcake" (now made by Duncan Hines!) story in the New York Times. Got that?
Verbal Jazz makes no assumption of motive on the part of the leaker(s), so we have come up with an alternate list of reasons for spreading this information:
1.Perhaps the leaker(s) just likes to spread gossip. Verbal Jazz knows many people who like to spread gossip.
2. Maybe it is a cry for help on the part of the leaker(s). There are many people who do not get the help they need.
3. Maybe Robert Novak, the columnist to whom this information was revealed, made it up and simply guessed right by following the clues along the way, much like a contemporary Jessica Fletcher of "Murder, She Wrote." (The S.O. of Verbal Jazz loves that show, she will appreciate the reference, I hope).
4.Maybe the leaker(s) were drugged before talking to Novak. But who drugged them? Verbal Jazz would guess that it might be Lincoln's Ghost, and only Scooby-Doo and the rest of the gang could actually figure out who is wearing the Lincoln's Ghost costume.
To make matters more conflicted in their interest; the Department of Vengeance (formerly known as The Justice Department) is conducting a full investigation. Vigilante in Chief (formerly: Attorney General) John Ashcroft, who heads up the Dept. of Vengeance, owes his cozy position to the very Administration that he intends to investigate. This will lead to one of two possible conclusions: the Dept. of Vengeance will find nothing or the Dept. of Vengeance will find a scapegoat who will take the fall, go to trial (that is the order under the Dept. of Vengeance), and then will be a Rah-rah patriotic radio talk show host (think: Ollie North), or keep getting government positions with creepy names and even creepier missions (think: Admiral Poindexter).
All in all, the leaker(s) is guilty of treason, should that not be grounds for an independent investigation?
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Scandal in Washington! This is what everyone lives for! Heaped upon the missing WMD (Verbal Jazz actually prefers WoMD, pronounced "wom-dee"), is now the revelation that the identity of CIA operative, Valerie Plame, has been revealed, ostensibly to punish the operative's husband, Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV (usually by the fourth movie the concept has grown thin, don't you think?) for having the absolute gall to question the Nigerian "yellowcake" (now made by Duncan Hines!) story in the New York Times. Got that?
Verbal Jazz makes no assumption of motive on the part of the leaker(s), so we have come up with an alternate list of reasons for spreading this information:
1.Perhaps the leaker(s) just likes to spread gossip. Verbal Jazz knows many people who like to spread gossip.
2. Maybe it is a cry for help on the part of the leaker(s). There are many people who do not get the help they need.
3. Maybe Robert Novak, the columnist to whom this information was revealed, made it up and simply guessed right by following the clues along the way, much like a contemporary Jessica Fletcher of "Murder, She Wrote." (The S.O. of Verbal Jazz loves that show, she will appreciate the reference, I hope).
4.Maybe the leaker(s) were drugged before talking to Novak. But who drugged them? Verbal Jazz would guess that it might be Lincoln's Ghost, and only Scooby-Doo and the rest of the gang could actually figure out who is wearing the Lincoln's Ghost costume.
To make matters more conflicted in their interest; the Department of Vengeance (formerly known as The Justice Department) is conducting a full investigation. Vigilante in Chief (formerly: Attorney General) John Ashcroft, who heads up the Dept. of Vengeance, owes his cozy position to the very Administration that he intends to investigate. This will lead to one of two possible conclusions: the Dept. of Vengeance will find nothing or the Dept. of Vengeance will find a scapegoat who will take the fall, go to trial (that is the order under the Dept. of Vengeance), and then will be a Rah-rah patriotic radio talk show host (think: Ollie North), or keep getting government positions with creepy names and even creepier missions (think: Admiral Poindexter).
All in all, the leaker(s) is guilty of treason, should that not be grounds for an independent investigation?
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