The "phony" Generals are coming out from the shadow

I don't know

From a couple of years ago. I can't remember if he was fired, committed, resigned, or swept under the rug. What was his name?

I think there was an even loonier one then him though.

Boykin you mean, and I think he even got another star

This is no "kiss and tell" book - Goldsmith is truly an unhailed hero. He's the indispensible man. You see, Goldsmith was the top lawyer inside the DoD Inspector General's office. He already had the highest possible security clearance and was fully familiar with the details of how Bush-Cheney had expanded TIA into a domestic political tool of the Administration, spying on everyone, Senators and Congressmen, the FBI, US Attorneys. Everyone. The Generals and Admirals rebelled when the White House began using NSA to try to interfere with investigations of espionage and corruption, and as a tool of the White House's own obstruction and coverups.

So, the Generals and Admirals did what the Senators and Congressmen either wouldn't or couldn't do at the time. They started the chain of investigations that would lead to Scooter Libby's prosecution and Dick Cheney's own doorstep. The irony was that the main instrument the top brass used to push back was the very mechanism of total surveillance, the NSA. You see, the Pentagon ultimately controls the codes and records of the Vice President's secure phones and Rove's e-mails, not the White House, not the RNC.

Almost unnoticed, Bush-Cheney has been contained in place and relieved of most of its power since 2004. If they hadn't been, we would already have bombed Iran.

Actually, most of those involved in the WMD fraud that got us into the Iraq War are long gone, as are many of the original architects of the GWOT torture cells and rendition flights.

Here's a rough chronology of what happened. The Joint Chiefs and CIA knew that the evidence of Iraq WMDs being offered by the Administration to invade was largely a fraud, but everyone hoped that some significant stockpiles of at least biological weapons would be found. There was also lies told about nuclear technologies -- an ace up the sleave -- allegedly sold by AQ Khan to Iraq, but that was a fabrication sold by Iraqi exiles and Italian friends of the neocons. Nothing of the sort was, in fact, found inside Iraq. The initial draft of the Iraq Survey Group study was circulated inside the Pentagon in May, 2003 -- the obvious truth was disclosed -- the White House had been caught in its own naked web of lies. The Generals, feeling betrayed, let lose the dogs. The White House under pressure overplayed their hand, countered by outing Plame, destroying CIA Counter-Proliferation Division where she worked.

Valerie Plame was publicly outed in July 2003, after which the CIA conducted its own damage assessment, sharing that information with the Generals. That assessment became a political football, but in October the CIA IG finally referred the Plame case to the FBI.

The immediate operatives in Office of Special Plans (OSP) -- Feith, Rhodes, Wolfowitz -- were fired or moved out of DoD by early 2004. The core of the parallel Iran WMD falsification operation -- Franklin and the AIPAC guys -- were placed under close FBI surveillance, and their Mossad handler, Naor Gilon, fled the country in July 2004 when word of the FBI investigation was leaked. Franklin and the AIPAC operatives were prosecuted.

By September of that year, Fitzgerald had put together a Grand Jury. On September 30, the final version of the Iraq Survey Group study was published, finding that there had been no WMD. In October, Rove was first called to testify.

Yoo and Haynes resigned soon after the Abu Ghraib story was leaked by military intelligence in late April 2004. Gonzalez hung on somewhat longer, as did Rove. The Plame trial provided enough evidence for the House to indict Cheney.

I disagree. There has been push back, and it isn't over. Cheney's next. The military brass and IC aren't going to let Cheney get away with it again. There isn't going to be an attack on Iran - that's a psyops program.
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