There was an interesting little nugget dropped on Hardball last night.  With all the speculation around the circumstances surrounding Dick Cheney's shooting of Mr. Whittington, the press has failed to report who the primary "witness" and press liason, Kathryn Armstrong is, who Cheney was keeping company with that weekend and why the Vice President took so damn long in getting his story out.

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Now I'm not a huge fan of Arianna Huffington.  She spends way too much time bragging about hanging out with her celebrity friends and sailing on yachts. And she did a complete sellout job on her date with Chalabi. But she does argue well and in an entertaining manner.  On her website, she lists 15 questions she'd like to ask Bob Woodward.

Below are some of the better questions:

Everyone remembers Bob Woodward's very disparaging comments regarding Patrick Fitzgerald's conduct in the CIA Leak Investigation.  Well, Laura Rozen has some interesting thoughts:

Miss Run Amok, meet your soul-mate.

It's time to call Harry Reid or your senators to ask them to demand the FBI fulfill their promise to question Ahmad Chalabi regarding his part in leaking classified documents to Iran nearly two years ago.  And while they're at it, they need to interrogate him about the PreWar Intelligence which he passed to our leaders which proved to be wrong, wrong, wrong.

This is potentially an extraordinary opportunity for Senator Reid to make the nation aware of the level of moral bankruptcy in the White House.  Chalabi used our taxpayer money to falsely help this Bush Administration lead our nation into war and this week he'll be partying and taking meetings with our nation's movers and shakers.  Most Americans have only a vague idea of who Chalabi is and now is the time to call upon our leaders to drag the Thief of Baghdad in to fill the gaping holes left by Cheney and Roberts in Phase II of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee's report.  

The Thief of Baghdad, Ahmad Chalabi is coming to Washington this week to be honored by the American Enterprise Institute (Lynne Cheney is a board member).  While he's on American soil, it's high time for the FBI to bring his thieving ass in for questioning.

Harry Reid can kill two birds with one stone by demanding the FBI interrogate Chalabi.  If the FBI interviews him, the Senate Select Intelligence Committee can get a whole heap of work done on their Phase II report on the misuse of prewar intelligence by going to the very source of that intel. And Mr. Reid's actions will show how far the administration will scramble to cover-up their association with Chalabi.

Ahmad Chalabi is honoring the American Enterprise Insitute with his presence next week.  Mr. Chalabi will also be visiting the ubiquitous Condeleeza Rice while in town.

Certainly there must be all kinds of officials who would love to have a moment or two with Mr. Chalabi, namely, Mr. Harry Reid, the Select Senate Intelligence Committee (well, maybe three members), the FBI, the CIA, the Justice Department, a Special Prosecutor or two, and lots of journalists.

But in case Mr. Chalabi's schedule proves to be a wee bit tight, and he's fully committed, I would love, with the assistance of DailyKos Readers to submit a few questions on behalf of the above mentioned names.

Dear Mr. Fitzgerald,

So much has been written about what you may or may not be doing.  I'm certain that you must feel and indescribable pressure to perform your job as Special Prosecutor on what we all view as a monumental case.  Perhaps you read the blogs and laugh to yourself about the wild speculation, perhaps you take some of it seriously.  I don't know.

I watch as we project ourselves onto your every action.  I read postings in which individuals speculate that you are doing thus and such because it is what they so desperately hope for.  I often say "Fitz is doing this because...." as if you're "one of us" and it's ridiculous because I don't know anything about you.  I don't know how you think and I certainly have little knowledge of what you know.

In the frenzy that is Fitzmas something major may go unnoticed.  Reports are coming in that the Senate Select Intelligence Committee will be finally turning in their long overdue Phase II report on intelligence and its misuse leading to the war in Iraq.

I smell big-time coverup, here.  And it's being handcrafted by non other than Dick Cheney and Pat Roberts.

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We've got a situation here that goes far beyond Plame and may well spell out just how far ANY investigation will go into the Niger forgeries.  According to Laura Rozen in her October 19th report in American Prospect:

"Republicans (the Senate Select Intelligence Committee)view their mission as being not oversight but cover-up.  Indeed one source told the "Prospect" that Roberts worked closely behind the scenes with Vice President Dick Cheney's office in crafting the language defining and limiting the investigation's terms - even though the committee is supposed to be investigating and providing oversight of the administration's use of Iraq intelligence."

So many delicious interviews and declarations from former president Bush 1 loyalists excoriating the prodigal son's administration.  There's Brent Scowcroft who never believed in the Iraq war and who has a heavy distaste for the Neocons.  There's Larry Wilkerson, former aide to Colin Powell, who called Cheney, Libby, Condi and the neocons a "Cabal". There's the new, supposedly anti-Neocon Deputy Attorney General, the former Special Prosecutor of AIPAC. And of course there is the intrepid Mr. DeFrank, reporter from the Daily News and good friend of Bush One who seems to have amazing "access" to sources in the Administration.  He says that W is furious with the nefarious doings of members of his cabinet. We're hearing "Neocon" a lot right now. We'll be hearing it a lot more.

Do you think it's a coinkydink that all these people are
suddenly, in the space of one week, talking? Hell, no.

Russert interviews Dr. Richard Land who heads the Southern Baptist Convention.  Land wants the Miers nomination to go through.  He says that she'll "Do want the President wants.  A betrayal in Texas is akin to being a child molester."

You see folks.  As I keep saying, this is about Texas Society.  I guess they don't care if they "betray" a nation.

And how about the notion that a Supreme Court judge will do the bidding of a sitting President?  Land said that she would do exactly that.

Bushco is using the horror of Katrina and Rita to run amok and destroy environmental laws.  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., National Resources Defense Council Senior Attorney sent an urgent and blistering letter to constituents spelling out what the Administration is up to:

"The next several months will be "do or die" for America's environment.

The Bush White House is quietly putting radical new policies in place that will let its corporate cronies poison our air, foul our water and devastate our wildlands for decades to come."

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In a turnaround of military policy, the US generals running the war in Iraq gave a new assessment of the military situation in sworn testimony this week.  They claim that the 149,000 troops in Iraq are part of the problem.

According the today's LA TIMES the generals went to Washington and said that U.S. forces were fueling the insurgency and energizing terrorists across the Middle East.

They said that a gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops was IMPERATIVE.  You can find the article at:  latimes.com