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Comment by Larry Ross, October 23, 2005

This is a brilliant analysis of the perilous US political situation and what is likely to develop in the Plame
scandal. I think the Bush Administration will unleash a series of events designed to reverse Bush's declining popularity and frighten the public and divert attention from key issues.

Then the author gives us a valuable list of key journalists, papers and Internet sites which are exposing the Bush
Administrations, its plots and crimes. There are many courageous Americans working very, very hard to save the country from the scourge of fascism and a virulent new McCarthyism. I hope people use these valuable resources.

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Before the Plamegate Deluge:
Honoring Our Journalistic Heroes

By Bernard Weiner, October 12, 2005

A political and media onslaught is about to be unleashed with the indictments of a whole host of key White House officials (including you-know-who) caught up in the Plamegate coverup. The unraveling of this potentially treasonous scandal -- which began with the outing, for political reasons, of a covert CIA officer -- could well provide the tipping point that will allow the Democrats to retake the House in the next election, initiate Congressional investigations of Bush Administration crimes, and possibly even pass an impeachment resolution.

So, before all the craziness begins, it might be useful to remind ourselves how far we've come in the battle to remove the extremists who currently rule so recklessly and incompetently in our names. And how the work we've all been doing in the political trenches, unearthing the corruption and incompetence and dangerous initiatives of the Bush Administration, has helped weaken that crowd of crooks and liars to the point where impeachment is a serious possibility. Of course, the Republicans these days -- with their never-ending exploding scandals and bare-knuckles infighting -- are not doing such a bad job destroying themselves without our help.

We here at The Crisis Papers, along with other progressives websites and organizations, deal so often with the negative high crimes and misdemeanors of the Administration, and with the cluelessness and cowardice of the ostensible Democratic opposition, that it's easy to be swept totally into that Bush shadow world and lose sight of the strength and powers at our command, and the hope they represent.

So I'd like today to recognize the heroes of our battle, who, ultimately, are helping to lead our country to a restoration of Constitutional rule and the banishment of the worst of the Bush&Co. miscreants either to political exile or, for a good many of the worst participants, to jail.

HERO #1: A COURAGEOUS U.S. SENATOR              ....Continue....