Scowcroft's Coming Whipping of the Bush Administration

It seems the New Yorker will quickly sell out tomorrow. Scowcroft's article is expected to be a public whipping of the Bush Administration and to include a lesson from Daddy to Dubya as well. I wait with bated breath. Empty Wheel at The Next Hurrah has some facts and anticipatory speculation about what we might discover down the road about Scowcroft's involvement in Plamegate. The fact is another stunning revelation of the public cover-up of high level complicity in Plamegate by quoting from Wilson's book:

In Fall 2002, as both Scowcroft and Wilson started publishing op-eds against regime change, Scowcroft was at least partially responsible for bringing Wilson to the attention of the Administration. Scowcroft brought a copy of Wilson's San Jose Mercury News column to show some people in the White House.

I sent my article to Scowcroft, Baker, and the president's father out of courtesy, because I referred to the lessons learned in the diplomacy of the first Gulf War.

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Brent called me when he received the article. He kindly asked if he could "take it over to the White House," only about two blocks from his downtown office. He said that he thought senior officials ought to read the views of somebody who actually had experience in Iraq and with Saddam's government. By this, I took him to mean that he intended to share it with the national security adviser, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, or her deputy, Stephen Hadley. (Wilson 295-6)

So Scowcroft is--at the very least--witness to the fact that someone in the Administration knew about Wilson well before his July 6 2003 article.

He goes on to speculate with some credibility that Wilson and Scowcroft made numerous attempts to get the Bush Administration to correct the record on Niger in the run up to the war. If this is true, it's unconscionable that Scowcroft didn't speak up BEFORE we went to war, rather than just before indictments are handed down to cover his butt.