Posted on 10/25/2005 9:51:06 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Does anyone know the background of the special prosecutor? He comes across as a lib, but would they really have appointed a lib?
Case against aides doesn't have leg to stand on. (Valerie Plame case) (MUST READ: NO CRIME)
"Consider the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. To violate it, you must disclose the name of a covert agent who has served abroad within the last five years, while knowing that that person was a covert agent. It does not appear that Plame was a covert agent who had served abroad within five years of the disclosure of her name to reporters. She was a desk officer at CIA headquarters at Langley at that time. This law was narrowly drafted and intended only to apply to people who purposefully endangered covert agents abroad. That is clearly not the case here. "
Sounds more like a zealot.
This is precisely what is happening.
Fake but accurate criminal charges?
"The really enormous problem is that our activist "legal" system has decided to begin prosecuting conservatives for simply being conservative. The liberal-socialist-gulag-mentality has firmly entered our "justice" system. What it cannot win at the ballot box (IE elections) it has now begun to push through via an increasingly corrupted judicial system. "
And it is really scary for the future of the country and us living in it.
Terrorists have rights, but conservatives don't.
I have nothing to say, especially about whatever it was.
There will be no indictments.
This stuff about seeing if Plame was really "covert"? - - no way is Fitgerald so incompetent that he waits until three days before the GJ expires before he decides to figure out if Plame was truly "covert". That notion is ridiculous on the face of it. Besides, the Intelligence Identities Protection Act also stipulates that that agent's covert duty took place "abroad".
ADDITIONALLY, the person charged with deliberately revealing a covert agent's identity would have to have done so in a conscious effort to damage national security.
Clearly, NOBODY involved in this mess was interested in deliberately threatening America's national security. Please.... This was all about politics.
For Fitzgerald to indict somebody for "exposing" Plame as a covert agent, he would have to be a nut case. By all accounts, Fitz is anything but a nut case. There will be no indictments, at least not of anybody in the White House (unless somebody was really, really stupid and lied brazenly and repeatedly).
It is all really as simple as it seems on the surface - - Joe Wilson joined the Kerry campaign and, using hyped-up bona fides as a "diplomat", attempted to damage Bush. Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, used her position at the CIA to help her husband by arranging the bogus "fact-finding" trip to Niger. Wilson subsequently lied that it was Cheney who had sent him. The White House responded that Cheney knew nothing of Wilson's trip and that it was actually his wife, the CIA employee, who sent him. Mix in some bad blood between the CIA and the DIA and voila!, a mess.
This is all little more than a tale of political shenanigans gone awry..
Fitzgerald would be a fool to get any more involved than he has already been forced to be. And Fitzgerald is NOT a fool. There will be no indictments.
For what it's worth, I happen to believe that Fitz is merely trying to gather whatever ADDITIONAL ammo he can put in his pocket because he realizes that there will be very loud demands for him to explain why he ended up concluding that no law had been broken and sought no indictments.
In other words, it's all over.
Perhaps he'll be found guilty of "Crimes Against the State."
That was a favorite charge of Hitler's.
He could define the charge any way he wanted to.
Well said- haven't seen this much wishful thinking in the press since BS' breathless reporting on its newly minted TANG docs.
"Terrorists have right but conservatives don't."
That's why we have to be careful with these so-called terrorist laws. They take away freedoms.
Today it's the freedoms of the Muslims, tomorrow it's the conservatives, next week they're calling the American Legion the terrorists.
But you can already see that the conservatives don't have their rights protected under the US Constitution, but the terrorists detainees will, if the McCain amendment isn't dropped from converence with the House.
Rove will do hard time at a Dairy Queen.
It would be laughable if it were not serious.
What a joke. First of all, we let the media get away with spreading the lie that a "Covert CIA Agent" name was leaked. Most people actually believe it.
That would be enough to atone for a multitude of sins.
Thanks for your cogent summary. I also have said - and continue to say - there will be no indictments. But I haven't studied the story as well as you have. We'll know in a couple days, I guess!
:-)
Thanks for your kind post.
He's a Republican.
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