Welch - Abrams - Cheney et al. have violated federal law, including, but not limited to, several provisions of the US Patriot Act

From reader "Sid" of SicSemperTyrannis come this comment:

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The Welch Club essay -- and Sy Hersh's March 07 New Yorker article -- suggest the following:

1. Probable cause may exist that Welch - Abrams - Cheney et al. have violated federal law, including, but not limited to, several provisions of the US Patriot Act , to wit: providing material support for terrorists and violating title III, "International Money Laundering".

2. No evidence exists that intent of the Welch club is to protect the people of the US, UK, or Europe.

3. Instead the strategy of the Welch Club suggests that the US VP office is employing an antiquated and anachronistic tactic of "divide and conquer", presumably to fulfill Israel's security aims as well as ease Saudi concerns of the growing influence of a Shia crescent.
4. Welch Club offers further proof of the pathos and disintegration of the USG in regards to ME foreign policy. On one hand, we support Sunni terrorists cells with ideological ties to Al-Q. On the other hand, we support Shia factions in Iraq. Futhermore, we green light -- and fund with US taxpayer money -- the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, without even safeguarding beforehand thousands of American citizens in Beirut and elsewhere. Then the USG channels US taxpayer money to Lebanon to help with the cost of repairing the country ravaged by American bombs.
Where is Joseph Heller of Catch 22 fame when we need him?
5. No evidence exists Welch-Abrams et al. are attempting to out "G" the guerrilla. If the USG does not do so, then odds increase greatly that we lose. Questions arise: Does divide and conquer -- as well as exterminate an entire people -- have any role today in the American-British post WWII military tradition? Does it fulfill the maxim that to win, "you out 'G', the guerrilla"?

In other words does the Welch-Eliot Abrams strategy in Lebanon and the Middle East satisfy the principles set forth by British SAS and USM experiences?
Sid