Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and President Barack Obama
are seen in a combination file photo. REUTERS/File
Posted on 06/18/2009 6:56:24 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – A federal judge said Thursday that he wants to look at notes from the FBI's interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan's decision to review the documents followed arguments by Obama administration lawyers that sounded much like the reasons the Bush administration provided for keeping Cheney's interview from the public.
Justice Department lawyers told the judge that future presidents and vice presidents may not cooperate with criminal investigations if they know what they say could become available to their political opponents and late-night comics who would ridicule them.
Sullivan, Emmet G.
Born 1947 in Washington, DC
Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Nominated by William J. Clinton on March 22, 1994, to a seat vacated by Louis F. Oberdorfer; Confirmed by the Senate on June 15, 1994, and received commission on June 16, 1994.
Education:
Howard University, B.A., 1968
Howard University School of Law, J.D., 1971
Professional Career:
Law clerk, Neighborhood Legal Services Program, Washington, DC, 1971-1972
Law clerk, Hon. James Washington, Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 1972-1973
Private practice, Washington, DC, 1974-1984
Associate judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 1984-1992
Associate judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 1992-1994
Race or Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male
Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and President Barack Obama
are seen in a combination file photo. REUTERS/File
Besides, there was no agent identified.
It does not take any genius to see what is going on here.
I would sum it all up as “typical Obama politics”.
He should question Powell the traitor.
The judge is BLACK, huh??? Cheney DESTROYED Obama in the Smackdown, now Cheney must be destroyed by Obama in the judicial system. Welcome to the Banana republic of Amerika.
Note to Judge Sullivan:
IT WAS RICHARD ARMITAGE WHO LEAKED HER NAME !!!!
Ted Stevens: Charges dismissed
Judge also initiates an independent inquiry of Justice's handling of case
A federal judge dismissed the criminal charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens today, while strongly criticizing the Justice Department lawyers who prosecuted the Alaskan stalwart for their actions in the case.
Doesn’t this “judge” have something better to do? Maybe he could join some of his fellow “judges” out chasing hookers or some little boys or something.
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Here's your culprits, judge and Fitzie:
Hey libs ... Cheney telling the truth bothering you much ?
~PING!
It doesn't matter because no laws were broken when her name was "leaked" to the press. It's nothing but a HUGE RUSE on the public perpetrated by the Fitzgerald, the media, and the democrats.
Libby was prosecuted for "lying" to investigators a process violation. If Libby said sure I mentioned her name to so and so, Fritz couldn't do squat to him.
It was all pure political theater.
* CREW : CREW has been active only since February [2003], so its profile is still relatively low. Yet Republicans detect a strong Democratic orientation. [Melanie] Sloan, most recently an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, is a former aide to Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.; then-Rep. (now Sen.) Charles Schumer, D- N.Y.; and Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. In addition, CREW's three board members are Mark Penn, President Clinton's former pollster; Daniel Berger, a trial lawyer from Philadelphia and a Clinton fundraiser; and Louis Mayberg, the president of a mutual fund company. -------------http://www.citizensforethics.org/news/20030719_natljrnl.php via 10 posted on 01/28/2004 10:52:10 AM PST by jimbo123
From the article:
“Libby told the FBI in 2003 that it was possible that Cheney ordered him to reveal Plame’s identity to reporters.”
I don’t remember ever hearing this...does anyone else, or did Nedra pull it out of thin air?
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