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Tuesday, September 30, 2003

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Build-A-Meme Project: PROJECT FROG-WALK -- Critical Mass Reached?

Note the percentages don�t change on an AOL-based survey from mid-afternoon to 11 pm this evening:

Did senior White House officials deliberately leak a CIA agent's identity? (mid-afternoon)

Yes 61%

No 24%

Not Sure 15%

Total Votes: 40,000

Did senior White House officials deliberately leak a CIA agent's identity? (11:00 pm EDT)

Yes 61%

No 24%

Not Sure 15%

Total Votes: 82,671

More than half of the people surveyed feel the leak was deliberate. Sure hope these people vote their conscience come November 2004, along the same percentages!

And it looks like even the right-wing media might be starting to cave a bit, based on this post at NewsMax:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/9/29/220207.shtml

I take particular note of these two items from the same article:

11) Leaking and blackmail have always been a part of governing inside the Beltway. But it has been one of this Administration's unexplained curiosities why President Bush has kept Clinton's CIA Director - especially after so many massive intelligence failures: 9/11; our failure to get Osama; our failure to prove the existence of WMD before the war; our failure to get Saddam; and our failure to find WMD in the six months since the end of the war.

12) Many have wondered if Tenet has 'something' on the Bushes. Now many more are wondering who made those six phone calls - and who authorized them?

Yeah�why is it that Tenet �fell on his sword� � kind of � and was allowed to stay on board? Does he have something on certain people in the Administration? How does this play out with the Plame outing? Is there an underground movement by current and former spooks to remedy this situation, and what will come of it if there is?

Curiouser and curiouser�

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Build-A-Meme Project: PROJECT FROG-WALK -- Project Update

Dear Team Members:

Can't believe something this serious took a couple of months to catch fire. But look out, it's burning now! We're cooking with gasoline and matches!

Kriselda (http://www.differentstrings.info) and Rob (http://www.emphasisadded.com), you must be spending night and day reading up on this topic to keep up! Great job!

All making great contributions to Project Frog-Walk:

Paul Hinrichs (http://blogs.salon.com/0001444)

Neva (http://blogs.salon.com/0001216/2003/09/29.html)

Catnmus (http://blogs.salon.com/0001787/2003/09/29.html#a245)

Rose of Charon (http://blogs.salon.com/0001939/2003/09/30.html#a119)

Adrian at Global Suburb (http://blogs.salon.com/0001879/2003/09/29.html)

Andrew Bayer (http://blogs.salon.com/0001033/2003/09/29.html#a1525)

Jennifer at Synaesthesia (http://blogs.salon.com/0002721/)

Plus a few more peeved off Salon bloggers also annoyed about this scandal -- not under the Project umbrella just yet, but good righteous anger stuff anyhow:

Dr. Omed (http://blogs.salon.com/0002296/categories/poetry/2003/09/30.html)

Fiona (http://blogs.salon.com/0001705)

Mark Hoback at FGAQ (http://blogs.salon.com/0001424/2003/09/29.html#a881)

Great job, you guys, covering this! Proud of you! Stay on it, we need to see an independent counsel or special prosecutor on this situation. This Administration can't use the fear of WMD to corral us when it undermines the intelligence community researching WMD; they can't call people unpatriotic when they backstab intel professionals protecting this nation.

Thank you all so much!

~Rayne

p.s. Check out DayPop at http://www.daypop.com using "frog-walk" -- it's coming along nicely! I'm sure more of us will show up as the site continues to index. Cool, huh?

p.p.s. Let me know if you see any other Salon bloggers assisting with Project Frog-Walk so I don�t miss them, okay? Wanna� give credit where due; there�s so much to read on this story right now that I�m sure to miss something or somebody.

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