Posted on 08/08/2005 9:08:38 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Former Clinton attack dog James Carville predicted Monday that Leakgate Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will be "coming after more people at the New York Times" - in addition Times reporter Judy Miller, who is in her sixth week behind bars for refusing to divulge her sources.
Calling Fitzgerald "relentless," the Clintonista-turned-CNN commentator told radio host Don Imus: "My sense is he's coming after more people at the New York Times. He's going subpoena Bill Keller and all of them and ask them what Judy Miller told them. And if they don't talk he's going to stick them in jail."
Keller is the Times executive editor.
Carville said there was "heavy, heavy speculation out there" that Miller was being used by the White House to "disseminate this" - an apparent reference to CIA employee Valerie Plame's name.
"There are all sorts of rumors and I hear second hand that [Miller] was screaming out in the news room about this."
The Times, said Carville, "to some extent is going to have to come clean. Because they're going to have to tell us what Judy Miller knew, when she knew it and who she told."
"And there's a lot of people at the Times - and I know this to be a fact - who believe that," he insisted.
"It's going to be very interesting to see," Carville mused, "whether [Miller's] problem is a first amendment [problem] - i.e., I want to protect a source - or a fifth amendment [problem] - I was out spreading this stuff too."
The most interesting item from Carville was about the tight ship Fitzgerald runs and that actually no one knows exactly where this is going. The "heavy, heavy speculation" was political driven to discredit the Bush Administration.
These pundits just make up ideas and then put them out as facts. There is usually a disclaimer which changes a statement into a theory, but the MSM often picks it up and runs with a total fabrication of imagination as if it were fact.
What ever happened to a person saying "I think it is possible that..." instead of pretending like they have some inside information.
I always picture two NYT reporters chatting as they walk down Pennsylvania Ave. whenever I read "sources close to the White House say..."
I think you've got it.
Am I the only one who has considered Mr.&Mrs. Carville-yes, James the liberal and Mary the conservative are both up to their arm pits in the leak to Novak and clowns? I don't trust either one of them and never have. They have become filthy rich being the married Hannity and Combs. like the Capital one commercial says, yet you keep on listening.
Whether what Carville says is true or not, the question is:
Why would he mention it at all?
The lib mantra is that this is all about Rove, and what
Jimmie has just blabbed is entirely inconsistent with
official DNC propaganda (and he's a major author of
that crap).
If true, he's putting the lib community on notice that
the jig is nearly up.
If false, I expected more anti-Bush spin to be woven
into the announcement. It wasn't.
I heard Carville on the Imus program this morning and he was so matter-of-fact that it just went right by me. At the beginning of the interview, Imus asked him what had happened to cause Novak to walk off of the CNN show. Carville lied and squirmed about it and said he didn't know what had upset Novak. Imus just left his answer on the table and I believe that Carville was relieved that the I-Man changed the subject that he just started spouting off whatever rattled around in his brain. Mary Matlin will be on the Imus program tomorrow. We'll see what she says about all of this.
Good point...also..is it perhaps curious that Carville comes out with this a few days after Novak stormed off the set on CNN, after saying a "bad" word to Carville..
Seriously, there are agents for the CIA working at the major newspapers and magazines. She is in all likelihood one of them.
If this were true, it would be on the front page of the NY Times.
Carville has been reading DU again!
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