I found a link for a site called muckety.com in one of the comments on Luke Ryland’s DailyKos diary. Anyway, I got to playing around with it a bit- actually for several hours- and decided that the best way to get the most muckety listed names from Sibel Edmonds’ States Secrets Privilege gallery on one page with the least amount of extraneous information appears to be by using the American Enterprise Institute as a bridge.
Here’s the link to what I’ve ended up with so far: Sibel Edmonds map
Now, if I could add in names and organizations and tweak it, I’m sure it could be improved on, but so far I haven’t looked into that. Anyway, here’s how what I did worked out- Perle and Feith are naturally linked, Perle links to AEI. AEI links up with Paul Wolfowitz. Wolfowitz links up with the Scooter Libby trial. Henry Kissinger links up with the Scooter Libby trial and with Brent Scowcroft. Marc Grossman also links up with the Scooter Libby Trial.
Now, if I could toss in WINEP and associates (and former associates) thereof, Perle and Wolfowitz would link up there with David Makovsky, Alan Makovsky, and Professor Sabri Sayari (according to Luke). I’m fairly sure there are better ways to link up Grossman and Scowcroft with Perle and Wolfowitz than through Kissenger and the Libby trial, but at the moment I’m too tired to look into that.
A couple of notes- Stephen Solarz can be linked in by adding in the JINSA associates, but that adds a lot more names.
Most of the rest of the House of Reps people pictured in the gallery aren’t very linkable through muckery without bringing all the Reps into the picture. Tom Lantos and Dan Burton are on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (ah, irony).
Dick Cheney, of course links up with many areas of the map- JINSA, AEI, DoD, Libby, White House, Rumsfeld… you get the idea.
Libby connects with Perle through the Hudson Institute, Council on Foreign Relations and the AEI affiliated Project for a New American Century according to the notes I have from a DailyKos diary I wrote awhile back.
I learned from muckery that Rumsfeld and Carlucci were roomies at Princeton. Who’da thunk it?
January 27, 2008 at 7:06 pm |
Just a quick note on how you can refine and/or simplify these maps. You can group unwanted names on a map by moving them together and then selecting them (click on the background of the map and drag your mouse). Then choose EDIT-> DELETE to delete them from the map.
You can also do the opposite, by grouping names together, selecting them, and then choosing EDIT->EXPAND to see the other connections of people in the group.
Enjoy!
January 28, 2008 at 2:22 am |
Thanks for the tips Laurie.
January 29, 2008 at 12:39 am |
Come on over to my blog, and you’ll see how you can link A. Q. Khan.
Come over again, and you’ll see how you can link Communist China’s People’s Liberation Army and Condoleeza Rice.
If names are leaves and connections are twigs,
Then are we constructing a corruption tree?
A better question yet, what rewards very big
Are there for those whose visits number three?
January 30, 2008 at 1:29 pm |
[...] an entry for WINEP or perhaps WINEP is better?, anyway… that’d be helpful for my Sibel Edmonds map, among others… heck, muckety entries for the 18 names listed here (and Sibel Edmonds, too) [...]