Here it is:
If you're having trouble with the Dickster's handwriting, allow me to translate:
Has to happen todayObviously, Cheney was going to write "this President asked..." That, my friends, remains our best evidence that George W. Bush orchestrated the strategy to "get" the Wilsons.
Call out to key press saying same thing about Scooter as Karl
Not going to protect one staffer & sacrifice the guythis Presthat was asked to stick his neck in the meat grinder because of the incompetence of others.
Nota bene: The phrase "one staffer" refers to Karl Rove. At the time Cheney scribbled -- September, 2003 -- McClellan had already offered a statement exonerating Rove, but had yet to mention Libby.
That note is not the only evidence against W, of course. During the trial, the judge asked Ted Wells (Libby's attorney) about Cheney's role as a Bush "surrogate." The actual question: "Does the Vice President sort of become his surrogate to deliver the message to the White House press people to get them to act?"
After some verbal back-and forth, Wells answered: "I think you would have to talk to President Bush because he's probably somewhere in that chain."
The "Bush did it" theory has one drawback -- it's a little hard to visualize the Clueless One actually doing things. Odd thought: What if, in writing "this Pres...", Cheney actually referred to himself? I offer the idea half in jest -- but only half.
A more serious question: When Cheney referred to "the incompetence of others," to whom was he referring? Here's another odd thought: Maybe the "incompetent ones" were Rove and Bush himself. A Master Schemer sneers at the amateurish twerps.
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It looks like he wrote "Pres." and intended to abbreviate. The entire note's text angles slightly upward above the x-axis, indicating a modicum of interest (as opposed to tedium or something perfunctory). The absence of any pronominal self-reference ('I') is undermined by the relatively long descenders (y, p, g), which can be interpreted as phallic (either insecurity or braggadocio), according to handwriting experts.
It's hard to imagine that Cheney would refer out loud or in writing to Bush as being incompetent -- that's the way rank and insecure amateurs behave. It's pretty clear he means CIA and whoever else Cheney perceived as Establishmentarians.
Good half jest, though, about Cheney meaning himself as "this Pres." The other half would have been a great Bob Newhart telephone routine.
"It's pretty clear he means CIA and whoever else Cheney perceived as Establishmentarians."
Nah, I can't see it that way. They weren't involved in the Plame leak. Rove was. Armitage was. Bush...?
What's striking about this note is that it pretty much admits that McClellan was directed to lie about Rove. "Hey," Cheney is saying, "if he can tell whoppers about karl, he can tell whoppers about my guy Scooter as well."
IMO, the usage of "this Pres" instead of "George" or "President Bush" or "Bush" is interesting by itself - clearly Cheney appears pissed off.
Also, it's my belief, based on the words after "this pres," that Cheney was about to write something like "this pres decided would take the fall."
And if true, it would give Cheney a good reason to be pissed off, per my first paragraph.
SluggoJD
what i find of particular interest is the fact that fitz's case is STIll open; he has not closed it.
i've been wonderin just whatever happened to that GJ sealed indictment that jason leopold got in such trouble over. it was numbered and everything, and he and others (including myself) were highly suspicious - he was actually TOLD - that it was an indictment of rove that would be withdrawn if he outed cheney in testimony. well, he didn't have to testify, so what was the default for that situation?
so, whatever DID happen to that sealed indictment? and will either/both the house and/or senate judiciary committees open investigations? again?
as for the dick's penmanship, the upward angle is typically considered a personality trait over a mood trait by experts. the long descenders are also associated with base or material concerns, as opposed to more spiritual ones associated with high upward stems (such as "i" and "h, k, l," etc.
as for his content, well.... if there was ever a master of setting up plausible deniability, he be d' man. this is how he carefully crafts the wording so as to deflect any such questions, from himself or the pres.
whom, it appears, dick does not hold in high regard here, and yes, he does appear to be a bit piqued at the puppet, do he not?
As long as we are reading large things into small pen strokes, look carefully, really carefully, at the initial O in the final word, "others." Compare it to the Os elsewhere. It looks different, doesn't it?
(Click on the image to see an enlarged version.)
Look at how and where he started the letter -- a sharp upward angle. No-one makes an O that way.
So I'm thinking now that maybe he was going to put a proper name there. A name that starts with an initial letter beginning with a sharp, straight upward stroke.
Karl, perhaps?
Okay, this is getting silly. Fun. But silly.
here's the thing folks. Jason Leopold continues to take a severe beating for his "rove indicted" story but we have moved closer and closer to that story being probably true and even worse; that Rove cut some deal of some sort. I remember reading Leopold saying Bush was involved in the leak way before anyone else, and that includes Murray Waas, was reporting it. And here we now seem to have evidence that Bush was involved. But reporters like Leopold continue to be crapped on while reporters like David Gregory who was involved in the leak thrive. Something seems unfair. Truthout just posted a link to Leopold's past stories and I am pretty shocked that no one picked up on the fact that truthout first reported Cheney's involvement in the leak, and Bush's involvement in the leak, and more.
Maybe Rove was indicted. Maybe not. But I am still interested in reading that letter he says Fitz sent him
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