Here's A Question For You: 
When You Cross The CIA, Will The CIA Retaliate?



Do you
happen to remember back in the day when Howard Dean was the only person
in America speaking publicly about holding someone accountable for the
Valerie Plame leak?



Dean:  Mr.
President, we urgently need an explanation about the very serious
charge that senior officials in your Administration may have retaliated
against Ambassador Joseph Wilson by illegally disclosing that his wife
is an undercover CIA officer.



From the history-making July 18, 2003, Des Moines, Iowa, speech by Gov. Howard Dean that came to be know as “16 Questions”




Well,
even with as naïve as I seem to be at times, when I realized that
someone in the Bush Administration had purposely exposed a deep-cover
CIA agent in order to retaliate against her husband for speaking out
against Bushco, I wondered just how wise it really was to double-cross
the CIA.  Can the neo-cons really be so naïve as to believe that
they can betray the CIA and that the CIA will not retaliate? 
Personally, that is one agency I would not want to take on.



But, it
seems, somewhere deep inside the Bush Administration, the neo-con
shadow government was blinded by the same thing that they had used so
effectively to blind the American public to the truth about what they
were up to: the specter of 9/11.



Bush is
reported to have said that 2001 was one of the best and happiest years
of his life.  Support for his pseudo-presidency was riding high,
and American patriotism was at fever pitch.  The Bush Regime felt
invincible, and I am convinced this, and a very pronounced vindictive
quality, led Bushco to make what may become their fatal mistake.



In an article passed along to us from Ellen Ballas, Co-coordinator of the Iowa Rapid Response network, FromTheWilderness.com
speculates on the role the CIA is now playing in the downfall of the
Bush Empire.  It's a long article, well sourced, and well worth
reading if you have the time.  It answers some of the questions we
were all asking a year ago.  Click here.