Posted on 10/24/2005 2:18:05 PM PDT by irons_player
CHICAGO - Patrick J. Fitzgerald's final witness was behind bars, refusing to testify, and no one was budging. Hunting for room to maneuver, the special counsel talked with one side, then the other. He drafted a letter that nudged the witness and needled I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's chief of staff. Three days later, Libby put fingers to keyboard and told New York Times reporter Judith Miller that she was freed from her promise to protect his identity. He praised her mightily and urged her to "come back to work -- and life."
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You sound excited about that prospect.
Don't worry, Rove is in the clear. Any other indictments are meaningless. The lefties only care about Rove. The best part will be the investigation into the CIA roll after this.
If he decides not to indict anyone, I am going to laugh my head off at the lamestream media.
"He drafted a letter that nudged the witness and needled I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's chief of staff."
More like he got tired of Miller's waiver games and asked Libby too play along with her "personal" waiver gambit.
She copied Cooper's gameplan to excuse her conduct. At least with Cooper, he might have believed Rove's words "double super secret", or whatever, deserved a "special" waiver.
The RATS are really sucking up to this guy. I hope he disappoints them badly.
I think two things are going on here:
1 - in the absense of leaks, the press has to write nonsense like this to keep the story going, and
2 - make all kinds of unsubstantiated allegations based on anonymous sources that damage Bush and Rove, just in case no indictments against Rove are handed down.
It is clear that the elements to prove violation of the "protect the covert operative" statute are not present. No one is going to get indicted for that, because the crime itself never occurred. It would be like charging bank robbery against a customer who walked in, and then walked out, without taking a single penny.
The only question is whether Fitzgerald will bring charges of perjury or obstruction against anyone -- including anyone in the press, Miller not excepted. And after that question comes the one whether anyone will ever be convicted of anything.
I'm willing to wager that NO ONE will be convicted of ANYTHING. However, the way the American press works, the story is the indictment, and the trial. Guilt is absolutely irrelevant.
Congressman Billybob
Latest column: "Reporting on the 2,000th American Death in Iraq"
Chris Matthews is giddy tonight...it is sickening to watch.
About what?
What do you make of the media attacks on Judith Miller?
This is exactly what I thought when I read this; and I wonder why.
I wonder what the MSM will say when Fitzgerald makers it clear that, as defined by the statute, Plame was never outted? Ooops, never mind?
How the coming indictments will hurt Bush....the normal stuff....they finally think they have Bush on the ropes.
It's almost like the press is BEGGING Fitzgerald through words and columns to deliver to them what they believe they so richly deserve.
Thanks for the warning; now I don't have to watch at 7.
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