just when you think there's nothing left that could shock you

about the criminals running our country, you're proven wrong once again.

Did you catch it? The JTFI [Joint Task Force on Iraq] was ramped up several months before 9/11 even occurred. Well, THAT is new, isn’t it? I do not recall that ever being discussed in any of the Senate Intel reports or the 9/11 Commission report or anywhere else for that matter. Does anyone else? I spent a little time yesterday going back through my notes and some of the documents, and I cannot find a reference to this pre-9/11 ramp up on Iraq at the CIA anywhere. Anyone find a reference to that anywhere that I may have missed — if so, please share it.

Just how many trips to the CIA did Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby and David Addington make prior to 9/11 asking about Iraq, pushing analysts toward conclusions that they wanted? How much of that information that Judy Miller was gleefully printing up in the NYTimes during this period came from Chalabi and the Cheney cabal in an effort to push the JTFI to back them up? Why is Pat Roberts still sitting on Phase II of the Intel Report — reportedly at Dick Cheney’s urging — and how complicit has Pat Roberts been in all of this? What don’t they want us to know?

Read the whole thing, and this and this as well, and while you're at it, here's an indigestible little nugget to chew over:

Valerie Wilson was no analyst or paper-pusher. She was an operations officer working on a top priority of the Bush Administration. Armitage, Rove and Libby had revealed information about a CIA officer who had searched for proof of the President's case.

I'm starting to think impeachment would not even be close to enough.