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Kristol: ‘Mood is Bleak’ at White House (uh-huh)
newsmax ^ | 10/18/05 | staff

Posted on 10/18/2005 11:35:27 AM PDT by pissant

Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, said he expects indictments this week in the CIA leak case involving White House advisers Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.

Kristol said "the mood is bleak in the White House today,” and said the environment surrounding the federal grand jury testimony is "pretty grim.” Although the indictments may not ultimately result in anything substantive, Kristol said there is a pins-and-needles feel to the grand jury investigation into the leaking of a CIA agent's name to the media in 2003.

"The net has been cast wide,” Kristol told Fox News Tuesday. "Lots of junior aides have testified. It’s been a very comprehensive investigation by the prosecutor. I think there will be indictments and the mood is pretty bleak in the White House.”

As for what this means for President Bush and the daily working of the White House, Kristol said it is too early to tell.

"The White House has to ask, ‘How do we segregate this?’ … This is a problem, but the legal system has to run its course.

"Meanwhile,” Kristol said, "the president has to take the initiative on foreign policy and economic policy and sort of set this aside.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: billyboy; cialeak; kristol; nigerflap; plame; plamegate
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To: USS Alaska

Kristol isn't a RINO, although I admit he comes across like a smarmy kibitzer on television. He may be "about"
Bill Kristol, but to be a RINO you need to have unconservative politics, and Kristol is pretty conservative.

I think a better case can be made that Bush is a RINO.


161 posted on 10/18/2005 1:48:15 PM PDT by California Patriot
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To: pissant

Like many, I was struggling with what is going on in this whole affair. The vital clue came when Mrs. Karl Rove opened the garage door to prove to reporters that Karl was not home. Folks, it's the missing file boxes in Karl's garage. The CIA knows the gig is up. After the disastrous intelligence failure of WMD, GWB gave Rove the special assignment of bringing down the pimps at the Agency.

Judgement day is at hand.


162 posted on 10/18/2005 1:50:02 PM PDT by Paraclete
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To: new yorker 77

"my head was bashed apart, and i was layin' there in my own p*** and blood."


163 posted on 10/18/2005 1:51:03 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!)
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To: OldFriend

That just shows that the talk radio audience is smart and informed. Unfortunately, most of the people who don't listen to talk radio are politically way to the left of the talk radio audience.


164 posted on 10/18/2005 1:52:12 PM PDT by defenderSD (At half past midnight, the ghost of Vince Foster wanders through the West Wing.)
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To: petitfour

I think Alan Keyes roommate may be his best quality.


165 posted on 10/18/2005 1:52:14 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

I guaran-damn-tee you nobody in the White House talks to Kristol anymore. If they ever did.


166 posted on 10/18/2005 1:53:15 PM PDT by AmishDude (If Miers isn't qualified, neither are you and you have no right to complain about any SC decision.)
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To: Owen

I don't know of a single person who listens to Bill Kristol. And I know a lot of conservatives. Of course, the conservatives I know are mostly not Beltway-conservatives.


167 posted on 10/18/2005 1:54:06 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: California Patriot

I couldn't disagree with that more. GWB may not be as conservative as Ronald Reagan, but he's pretty close. That puts him fully on the right side of the republican party.


168 posted on 10/18/2005 1:54:13 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Paraclete

Interesting.....LOL


169 posted on 10/18/2005 1:54:51 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Paraclete
very interesting assessment...
170 posted on 10/18/2005 1:57:32 PM PDT by Battle Hymn of the Republic
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To: AmishDude

part of the issue we potentially face with Fitzgerald - came from Rove talking to Matt Cooper, and Libby talking to Miller. Did you see the excerpts of that release letter from Libby to Miller? It read like he had a crush on her.

If you worked in the white house and Mandy Grunwald's husband called you, would you talk to him?

I'm not sure where this Fitzgerald thing is going, but I don't put alot of faith in him. If Rove and Libby are indicted, so much for "cooperating fully" as being the good faith approach to this investigation - when a prosecutor spins a perjury trap for you, "cooperating fully" is simply handing him your a*s for indictment. We'll know by the end of next week.


171 posted on 10/18/2005 2:00:04 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: cardinal4
Most of us are getting tired of you so-called "conservatives" trashing nearly the entire list of outstanding and respected conservative national commentators because they almost unanimously believe George Bush has made and continues to make MAJOR blunders and leftist moves, Miers being only the latest in a long, long list.

Your belittling of the best conservative commentators in the nation makes you look uninformed and really, really bad.
172 posted on 10/18/2005 2:00:30 PM PDT by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888 (Bush's #1 priority Africa. #2 priority appease Fox and Mexico . . . USA priority #64.)
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To: Paraclete

Karl Rove keeps classified intelligence information about the CIA in little file boxes in his garage?


173 posted on 10/18/2005 2:01:48 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: AmishDude

Good thing Bush isn't Clintonesque. Kristol might end up in the Potomac river with concrete boots. ;o)


174 posted on 10/18/2005 2:03:29 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Paraclete
"After the disastrous intelligence failure of WMD...".

I wouldn't be too quick to reach that conclusion. Remember what Tenet said about CIA intelligence: their information isn't all correct but it isn't all incorrect. The truth lies somewhere in the middle.

Remember those reports about satellite photos of five heavy trucks driving from Iraq into Syria just before the invasion? Have you seen the reports of chemical weapons being used by Syrians in Darfur province in the Sudan? WMD doesn't have that much weight or volume and therefore it isn't that difficult to move or conceal. That's what makes it WMD--on a pound for bound basis it's incredibly lethal. The MSM has completely screwed up its analysis of WMD in Iraq. They are clueless about science.

175 posted on 10/18/2005 2:06:48 PM PDT by carl in alaska (Blog blog bloggin' on heaven's door.....Kerry's speeches are just one big snore.)
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To: OldFriend

I think they may be a perfect pair because they are both girlie men, and between the two of them they do not have "a pair". LOL!


176 posted on 10/18/2005 2:09:23 PM PDT by samantha (cheer up, the adults are in charge! Soldier in Bucket Brigade Reporting for Duty.)
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To: samantha
He is a little man that cannot live up to is Mother's reputation let alone his Dad's reputation.

I read a couple of his father's books, and I loved him. Didn't necessarily agree on everything, but he came across as so reasonable and intelligent and good-natured and, well, likable. The son is a great disappointment.

177 posted on 10/18/2005 2:14:24 PM PDT by maryz
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To: defenderSD

Mccain may have suffered as a POW, but he was a lousy Pilot that did not like to follow rules. He crashed his plane into the water and instead of going by how he was trained to get out of a plane under water he cut his way out therefore destroying Taxpayer Military Equipment. He comes from a long line of Military Brass and he did not measure up. I am glad he survived, but he is not one I respect except for his imprisonment and service to our COuntry.


178 posted on 10/18/2005 2:16:59 PM PDT by samantha (cheer up, the adults are in charge! Soldier in Bucket Brigade Reporting for Duty.)
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To: FlipWilson
Well, for the record, I did not call Kristol a "homo". I could care less.

I find the man an obnoxious bore sometimes. Particularly over all this Miers stuff. Yeah, yeah, I was disappointed too. But I still think the woman deserves a hearing.

As for the bleak "mood" at the WH and the speculation, I saw a lot of speculation in the media during Katrina too, and that media is directly responsible for aid not getting to the people that needed it. So, speculation reported as news can have a damaging effect to the public and really does no one any good.

If it is a slow news day, tough excrement!!! But, considering all that is going on that is positive in Iraq, Kristol and other "media whores" would be well advised to open their pathetic biased eyes and report the *&%$ news, the GOOD and the bad.

179 posted on 10/18/2005 2:24:52 PM PDT by el_texicano (Liberals, Socialist, DemocRATS, all touchy, feely, mind numbed robots, useless idiots all)
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To: pissant

Methinks little Billy Krystol is engaging in a little wishful thinking.


180 posted on 10/18/2005 2:27:08 PM PDT by EternalHope (Boycott everything French forever. Including their vassal nations.)
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