Read the entire 22 page, 5 count indictment here:

The Smoking Gun

He faces 30 years and a $1.25 million fine. Rove isn’t under indictment, but could be the next grand jury since he’s still under investigation for the same crimes as Libby: false statements, perjury and obstruction of justice.

guilty! Guilty! GUILTY!!!

Of course, the bigger crime by far is lying to the American people about the administration’s justification for going to war in Iraq. Let’s not forget that these crimes are about an attempt to discredit a former ambassador’s published account of his investigation (at Vice President Cheney’s behest) into the false claim that Saddam sought yellowcake uranium from Niger and his assertion that Bush & Co. had “twisted” intelligence to meet their theories. Now, when it’s too late to keep 150,000 Americans out of peril, we also know that the other WMD that Bush & Co. claimed were in Iraq — biological and chemical weapons — also didn’t exist except in Dick Cheney’s fevered imagination. We’ve also learned that the assertion by Don Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and David Feith, all still honored members of this administration, that there were ties between Saddam’s Iraq and al-Qaida is also an out and out lie, supported only by faked documents, just as the nuclear threat assertion was supported only by forged documents. 2,000 AMERICANS HAVE DIED FOR A HOAX!!!! CAN YOU IMAGINE AMERICA’S SCHOOLS IF WE SPENT $200 BILLION PER YEAR ON THEM INSTEAD OF ON THIS WAR???

Harriet Miers has withdrawn her Supreme Court nomination.

Thank God. I was never opposed to her on ideological grounds; she was unqualified.

Newsweek exclusive: Bush’s Iraq-al Qaida link was phony and based on faked documents. Get your morning upset stomach right here:

Newsweek Exclusive

WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek
Updated: 7:07 p.m. ET Oct. 26, 2005
Oct. 26, 2005 – A secret draft CIA report raises new questions about a principal argument used by the Bush administration to justify the war in Iraq: the claim that Saddam Hussein was “harboring” notorious terror leader Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi prior to the American invasion.

The allegation that Zarqawi had visited Baghdad in May 2002 with Saddam’s sanction—purportedly for medical treatment—was once a centerpiece of the administration’s arguments about Iraq. Secretary of State Colin Powell cited Zarqawi’s alleged visit in his speech to the United Nations Security Council. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld referred obliquely to Zarqawi’s purported trip as an example of “bulletproof” evidence that the administration had assembled linking Saddam’s regime with Al Qaeda.

But like the uranium yellowcake claims—since determined to be fraudulent—that are at the heart of the CIA leak case, the administration’s original allegations about Zarqawi’s trip also seem to be melting away. An updated CIA re-examination of the issue recently concluded that Saddam’s regime may not have given Zarqawi “safe haven” after all.

Here’s the part that made me spit out my morning coffee because it’s just too much like the faked documents from Italy that supposedly showed that Iraq was seeking yellowcake from Niger:

The new report is only the latest chink in the armor of the alleged Saddam-Al Qaeda connection. Last year, the September 11 Commission found there was no “collaborative” relationship between the Iraqi regime and Osama bin Laden; one high-level Al Qaeda commander—who had been cited by Powell as testifying to talks about chemical- and biological-warfare training—later recanted his claims. But the Pentagon and Cheney’s office have been reluctant to abandon the case: in the months after U.S. and allied forces deposed Saddam, NEWSWEEK has learned, Iraqi informants approached U.S. intelligence personnel with what purported to be caches of documents proving that Saddam’s dealings with Al Qaeda were extensive. (One cache of documents even claimed that six of 19 of the September 11 hijackers had been trained to fly in Iraq.)

Current and former U.S. counterterrorism officials said that when officials at the Bush White House learned about the existence of documents linking Saddam to Al Qaeda, they became very excited and pressured intelligence agencies to work quickly to validate and decipher them. However, the CIA ultimately established that most key documents about the Saddam-Al Qaeda connection turned over were faked—just like the documents purporting to show Iraqi purchases of uranium.

We now have 2,000 Americans killed in this war. They died because Dick Cheney was hoaxed by forged and faked documents. Osama bin Lauden walks around free and we can’t turn on the lights and water in Baghdad after millions of dollars and more than a year of occupation. We are estranged from most of our traditional allies and despised by millions of ordinary people all over the world. This war is the most expensive, most self destructive foreign policy blunder in the entire 200 years of American history.

This statement by our President, and this is from ABC News, scares the beejesus out of me, especially now that my son-in-law is in Iraq. If you can’t figure out why this is a radical change in American foreign policy that makes us the most bellicose nation on earth, the nation that spends more than all other nations combined on its military, just email me at School4Idiots.com

Bush, who contends that setting a date for troop withdrawal would aid the enemy’s cause, said that to fight Islamic radicals, the U.S. must work to prevent terrorist attacks before they occur, keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of “outlaw regimes” and deny radical groups the support and sanctuary of such governments.

“State sponsors like Syria and Iran have a long history of collaboration with terrorists and they deserve no patience from the victims of terror,” he said. “The United States makes no distinction between those who commit acts of terror and those who support and harbor them. Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has chosen to be an enemy of civilization and the civilized world must hold those regimes to account.”

Considering that nuclear arms have proliferated to Iran and North Korea, two “outlaw nations”, while Bush was coddling Saudi Arabia, where 19 of the 20 World Trade Center hijackers came from, this statement is outrageous. When you consider the Vice President’s stand on torture (see next item), what makes us think we’re so civilized? This president’s arrogant stupidity and ignorance have translated into fatal incompetence, in my opinion.

The WP and NYT both have editorials unleashing against Vice President Cheney’s effort to exempt the CIA from the McCain Amendment’s prohibitions against abusing detainees. The Post writes:

“Cruel, inhuman and degrading” treatment of prisoners is banned by an international treaty negotiated by the Reagan administration and ratified by the United States. The State Department annually issues a report criticizing other governments for violating it. Now Mr. Cheney is asking Congress to approve legal language that would allow the CIA to commit such abuses against foreign prisoners it is holding abroad. In other words, this vice president has become an open advocate of torture.

The headline: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/25/AR2005102501388.html"VICE PRESIDENT FOR TORTURE.”