slaughtergate

* "(The AIPAC) investigation will continue to investigate the identities of unnamed "agents and representatives." As previously reported here, the AIPAC investigation has dovetailed with the White House CIA leak and the forgeries of the Niger documents. McNulty and Fitzgerald have intersected in their investigations. The senior fellow reference at a Washington think tank, reportedly AEI, and Iran are key. A check of AEI's web site shows Michael Ledeen, Karl Rove's chief foreign policy adviser, and Michael Rubin as the only two advertised resident Iran experts at AEI. It is also noteworthy that Lynne Cheney, the Vice President's wife, occupies a $125,000/year senior fellowship at AEI reportedly funded by Israeli Likud Party sources." (link)

* raimondo attempts to understand the aipac indictments. go read. heres one bit: "(franklin) could wind up with a 50-year sentence. Rosen is charged with two counts, good for 20 years, and Weissman is hit with one count that carries a 10-year maximum"
and:
" When these people are finally brought to trial, it is the War Party that will be put in the dock. All those mysterious government officials, not identified by name in the indictment, will be called to testify under oath: the same goes for reporters who laundered Franklin's ill-gotten secrets."

* more on aipac here

* and the $64 gazillion question - will plamegate merge with aipac-gate? can we please call it slaughtergate?

* or as kleinman discusses - perhaps there are simply lots of direct parallels in the crime committed

* lets hope Franklins trial starts on schedule sep6. who else will get sucked in? bolton? perle? Wurmser? feith? rove? hadley? wolfowitz? how delicious. please, jeebus. if you send those 3 to jail i wont mock you for a week.