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| 2005/10/27 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:40301 Activity:high |
10/27 Looks like the Fitzgerald indictments might not turn out the
way the Democrats had hoped:
http://www.csua.org/u/cached/dua (redstate.org)
\_ http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/27/cia.leak/index.html
"Sources: Prosecutor focusing on Rove in CIA leak probe"
\_ "This sounds fishy By: Buckland"
\_ "Pobable indictments for Vallerie Plame, Joseph Wilson and one as
yet unknown high ranking Congressional Democrat."
LOL. This is a classic pipedream from the party faithful. It
only gets better if the Scooby team foils the Dems' evil schemes.
\_ More likely a troll. Whatever it is, it gave me a laugh.
\_ Hey, rightwingers can have a sense of humor -- who knew?
\_ Erm, I'd expect more a lefty going undercover... Do you
understand what a troll is?
\_ Yes but trolls usually aren't that funny. The
original article is. |
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| www.csua.org/u/cached/dua Diaries My sources are relaying to me information that may be very good news re: the Plame Case. Although I cannot substantiate this info 100%, I am receiving this from s ources very close to the investigation and grand jury: 1 No indictments for Rove, Libby or any member of the administration. I too was skeptical when I re ceived this tid bit earlier today. Lets just say that anonimity was imp ortant and that in the end we will know if this pans out or not, but my sources were pretty upbeat. I actually heard one other related piece of info that was unbelievable an d quite ironic but I could not substantiate it and left it out completel y But whatever the details my sources were extremely upbeat and confident t o the point of giddy. Let's go for the hat trick - are their sources anonymous officials too? "The American people have got so used to quacks in high office that they have come to feel uneasy in the presence of honest men." com Program in your personal, professional, and political criteria, and preto , custom fitlered news in just one palce. PLUS, you can extend it to th e "Yes Men" section, where numerous folks will tell you how great you re ally are. If you care to provide diary details, they can even customize it. "Have I told you enough this week how cool your project presentation was? " This idea has GOT to be a winner in today's me-obsessive society. Google News already allows a certain amount of customization based on ca tegories of news that you'd like to see, but I can easily see that being extended. You can also get Google News alerts based on specific keywor ds. Google API to create a frontend that would filt er the news of the world in exactly the way you want it. In fact, deriv atives of that idea are exactly what people are continuously working on. In one sense, blogs like DKos and RedState and Atrios Eschaton are alread y highly filtered. The difference on the good sites, like RedState, is that the contributors read the opposition and link to them as well, and also hopefully have enough variability in their personal and intellectua l tastes that the site overall reflects a wide range of views, although presented in a way that definitely has a political point to make. People filter their news all the time within the conceptual framework the y share. It reminds me a little of the old saw about the definition of a specialis t: Specialist: n specialist: Someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know absolutely everything there is to know about n othing. George W Bush, Term II: Will You Crack Under The Pressure? But isn't it a shame that what will be the result (probably Libby hung ou t to dry) should be satire and what should be truth (the prosecution of people who leak classified data) is satire. |
| www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/27/cia.leak/index.html WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is focusing his investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity on whether Wh ite House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove committed perjury, two lawyers involved in the case told CNN. Fitzgerald is expected to announce Friday the results of his investigatio n and whether he has come up with indictments, a source said. The source said Fitzgerald summarized his case before the grand jury Wedn esday and met with the US District Court's chief justice afterward for about 45 minutes. Watch how the leak affected the CIA and its oper atives -- 2:32) The details of what Fitzgerald and District Court Judge Thomas Hogan disc ussed were not immediately disclosed. The grand jury session came two days before its term is set to expire Fri day. While Fitzgerald could ask for more time for the investigation, mos t legal experts CNN talked to do not think he will ask for an extension. Rove testified before the grand jury four times, most recently on October 14. Fitzgerald's investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame's name to repor ters has gripped Washington and kept the White House tight-lipped and on edge. Two aides close to President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney -- Rove, Bush's longtime political adviser, and Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's chief of staff -- have been entangled in the two-year-old investigation. Fitzgerald, the US attorney in Chicago, was appointed as a special pros ecutor to investigate whether anyone in the Bush administration delibera tely leaked the name of Plame, a CIA operative, to retaliate against her husband, Joseph Wilson. Fitzgerald profile) Intentionally disclosing the identity of a CIA operative can be a federal crime. Plame and her husband, a retired State Department diplomat, have accused Bush administration officials of deliberately leaking her identity to th e media to retaliate against Wilson after he published an opinion piece in The New York Times. The July 2003 article cast doubt on a key assertion in the Bush administr ation's arguments for war with Iraq -- that Iraq had sought to purchase uranium in Africa for a suspected nuclear weapons program. Wilson, who was acting ambassador to Iraq before the 1991 Persian Gulf Wa r, said the CIA sent him to Niger, in central Africa, to investigate the uranium claim in February 2002 and that he found no evidence such a tra nsaction occurred and it was unlikely it could have. Full story) Days after Wilson's article was published, Plame's identity was revealed in a piece by syndicated columnist and longtime CNN contributor Robert N ovak. The New York Times reported Tuesday that notes of a conversation between Cheney and Libby indicate that Libby first learned about Plame from the vice president -- and that Cheney got the information from then-CIA Dire ctor George Tenet. However, the Times reported that the notes do not indicate that Cheney or Libby knew Plame was undercover and her identity protected by the feder al law. The Times said lawyers involved in the case described the contents of the notes to the newspaper. About five months after the purported conversation with Libby, Cheney tol d NBC's "Meet The Press" that he did not know Wilson and had "no idea" w ho enlisted him to go to Africa. |