Plamegate - it isn't misnamed

So I have been following this and have put together the pieces more or less. So this is what I think happened. First, let's start with Bob Novak. Bob why haven't we heard more from him? Well, I think it is because at the first frown from Fitzgerald he was on his belly begging for mercy and telling all he knew. This led to his source. Probably John Hannah.

So how would he respond. If he tells up the ladder he can save himself but lose all his support. If he keeps quiet he does what, 18 months and then has a wonderful high-paying and cushy job waiting for him at Halliburton. I figured from what was going on that he must have talked. That was why the investigation was going the way it was, and the rumors of what was going on became so prevasive. So why would he talk?

Well, here is one possible reason. Maybe he wasn't ready to do any time for his bosses. On the other hand maybe it was something else. Remember when the FBI raided Chalabi's INC offices a while back? The leaks were that they were looking for information about who was giving classified information to the INC that was ultimately migrating from Baghdad to Tehran. Well, according to todays reports, the main contact between the INC and the administration was Hannah. Hannah was in contact with various people including Feith, whose name I believe came up at the time of the INC raid.

Now all of a sudden it maybe isn't 18 months and then Halliburton's VP for Sales in Bermuda if he keeps quiet. Giving classified information to a foreign national who then passes it on to the intelligence services of states that are declared by us to be our enemies is a lot more serious than letting slip the name of one covert agent to an American reporter. Now maybe it is life for espionage? That would have to be a rather heavier thumb of the balance of talking or not.

In addition this opened the larger conspiracy to Fitzgerald. The conspiracy to take information from Chalabi and people in our government and plant it in the media with the kind help of Dame Judith and Pravda on the Hudson. All the news that Chalabi and the WHIGs want to print. But if someone attacks it, someone from the inside, then all of the people involved in spreading the false information to build up the war are all of a sudden finding themselves with a vested interest to take down those who would discredit the information.

The beauty of the whole thing, from a truth is beauty perspective, is that the Plame leak is inescapably linked to the "sexed up" information made to support the war in the first place. It can be used to bring in everything from the fake yellowcake information and the incorrect aluminum tube information to the "Downing Street Memo" All in one neat, but large and slimy package.