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.”
That happened to me about 6 years ago. LOL
So what you're saying is he's humorlessly silly?
Honestly, we should not heap abuse upon Mr. Kristol, i.e. calling him a homo. I think what is really going on here is that NOBODY in the media, the new media included, knows what the heck is going on in the inside of this investigation. But, the media is not payed to report nothing, thus, they have to report something. Kristol is no different than any other media whore. He is speculating. He can be wrong, he has been in the past, by his own admission. For example, he admits to being wrong on the aftermath of Iraq.
I just have to wonder if there is any concrete information coming out that would lead us to believe what Fitzgerald is going to do? If not, then we will just have to hold our breath and wait, just like the Whitehouse. This brings up another interesting point. The Whitehouse would know or have the highest indications, above anyone else, what the hell Fitzgerald is going to do. Why then, wouldn't the Whitehouse be doing something now to prepare for the potential impact of indictments? I mean, if the mood is bleak, why would they just wait around to be hammered?
Barnes is good, he seems more of a common sense type, doesn't have an axe to grind, and leaves his ego at the door.
The trouble with Kristol, and alot of the pundits..is that they are smart, and they want everyone to know it.
Agreed, we shouldn't eat our own by hammering on Kristol and ignoring the issues. He brings up some interesting points....perhaps that we have been taken for granted to be Bushbots rather than conservatives.
I'd guess he was right. The WH needed a dose of reality regarding free spending, open borders, etc.,
WTF? Bush isn't running for re-election. The Dims are wasting their ammunition (cr*p, hope they don't read this).
I think it is not hard to understand that the other side is looking for an indictment for politial purposes.
Like with Delay, it does not have to have any merit.
It is abuse of grand jury system for political means rather than for issues of justice.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know what the other side is doing and have done, now, with Delay.
OUCH! Bill's gonna need some ice for that!
I must have missed those times.
He heard about the leak from the White House plummer. :P
Joe Wilson, with that fancy hairdo, will make some prisoner a real nice cell beeyatch.
Bill Kristol is always wrong. I disticntly remember him giving all the reasons why Kerry beat Bush on election day before the polls closed. He bought the phoney exit polls hook line and sinker because he's an idiot and a sunshine patriot. When the going gets tough, Kristol starts backstabbing.
No. It is that it is obvious what the dem strategy is. They've just done it with Delay, now they want to do it with Rove or anyone else in the administration.
We'll see. But I doubt it will Karl Rove.
I'm not wild at all about Miers... but Kristol's a miserable poltroon. When he came out against Rumsfeld, I wrote his whinning a$$ off.
LOL. That's good if true!
Kristol at it again. I can't believe that he has sources in this WH.
for the dems it's just more of the same...the haven't moved away from what loses them elections in the first place.
"All shrill no plan all the time" =the dems.
The only people that favor their mispercieved reality won't get up long enough from the playstation or X-box to vote (or stay sober).
Kristol was a leaker when he was Dan Quayle assistant,and for that reason was kept out of big meetings where there was important policy decisions being discussed. He could not be trusted, and he caused the president and his aides to keep Quayle out of the meetings also. Kristol told Quayle a BS story that the aides were against him because he was so much smarter than them, not because he could not be trusted. He was for John McCain and never got over that McCain is not supported by most Republicans because he is a raving lunatic that cannot be trusted to say "Hello". The only time he says anything good about President Bush is when he is trying to get a job in the White house. When he fails because no administration in their right mind would trust him, he starts on the negativity against GWB. He is a little man that cannot live up to is Mother's reputation let alone his Dad's reputation.
Tell us what you really think, Grampa Dave. ROFL!!
Kristol is nuts.
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