Has anybody done the parody version of Fitzgerald's blog yet?
Kinda makes sense, nomatter what his decision.
He is, after all, the ONLY one with all the FACTS
Fitzgerald spokesman Randall Samborn minimized the significance of the Web launch in an interview this morning.
Just looking at the website tells me one thing, it took all of about 5 minutes to create it. I wouldn't be jumping around like the Washington Compost is about it.
It's certainly not the action of an office about to fold up its tents and go home.
Actually, its not inconsistent with that action at all, when you consider the barrage of criticism, complaining and slander the office is going to face, from those like the Washington Post, if it has decided to decline to indict anybody.
uh, isn't this the website of the office of the Special Counsel
http://www.osc.gov/
Could it also be, though, where Fitzgerald will post some sort of a clearing house for information to keep the left wing media at bay and clear up many of their false allegations?
Isn't facinating how this article is almost lustful in hope? When it comes to DemonRats and the media trying to get a Republican, there's usually a lot of premature speculation that occurs among them.
Those two documents have been on other web sites for a year and a half.
Think about this.
IF they're were indictments (pretrial), why would the documents potentially (evidence) be posted on a website for the "public"....
Keeping it real.
This is actually a very smart idea no matter how this comes down. If there is one definitive source that anyone can go to, there is diminished opportunity for the media to cherry pick the pieces of the information they want to publish and ignore what does not support their agenda. Anyone with internet access will be able to fact check what the networks and newspapers publish.
Fitzgerald's not going to address the White House spin. Which I expect to be fast and furious.
Too bad Bush screwed the conservatives over by appointing Miers.
If he expects "forgive-forget-and-lets-all-hold-hands-and-sing-Kumbaya" he's out to lunch.
"I would strongly caution, Dan, against reading anything into it substantive, one way or the other," he said. "It's really a long overdue effort to get something on the Internet to answer a lot of questions that we get . . . and to put up some of the documents that we have had ongoing and continued interest in having the public be able to access."
So, now this Federal GJ investigation has more leaks that it's supposed point of subject. This is fresh warm crapola, to say the least.
I thought grand jury proceedings and documents were secret.
Possible cover-up a focus in Plame case
Fri Oct 21, 2005 3:23 PM ET
By Adam Entous
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With a decision on indictments expected next week, prosecutors investigating the outing of a covert CIA operative are focusing on whether top White House aides tried to conceal their involvement from investigators, lawyers involved in the case said on Friday.
The Department of Justice opened a special Web site for special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/index.html, and the leak investigation in what lawyers said was a sign indictments were likely.
Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's top political adviser, and Lewis Libby, who is chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, are at the center of Fitzgerald's investigation into who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
Plame's identity was leaked to the media after her diplomat husband, Joseph Wilson, challenged the Bush administration's prewar intelligence on Iraq.
The lawyers, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said Fitzgerald appears likely to bring charges next week in the nearly two-year leak investigation.
The grand jury, which expires on October 28, convened on Friday with two of the lead prosecutors present, but it was unclear what issues they were working on since the panel appears to have completed hearing from witnesses.
Fitzgerald is expected to meet with the grand jury early next week for a possible vote on indictments.
One of the lawyers said prosecutors were likely starting to present their final case to jurors, either for bringing indictments or to explain why there was insufficient evidence to do so.
"I would be hesitant to say it's a sign one way or the other," the lawyer said.
After the grand jury broke up, the two prosecutors, lugging giant legal briefcases, left the federal courthouse without comment.
While Fitzgerald could still charge administration officials with knowingly revealing Plame's identity, several lawyers in the case said he was more likely to seek charges for easier-to-prove crimes such as making false statements, obstruction of justice and disclosing classified information. He also may bring a broad conspiracy charge, the lawyers said.
Legal sources said Rove may be in legal jeopardy for initially not telling the grand jury he talked to Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper about Plame. Rove only recalled the conversation after the discovery of an e-mail message he sent to Stephen Hadley, then the deputy national security adviser.
Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, had no immediate comment.
Luskin said earlier this week that Rove "has at all times strived to be as truthful as possible and voluntarily brought the Cooper conversation to Fitzgerald's attention."
Libby could be open to false statement and obstruction charges because of contradictions between his testimony and that of New York Times reporter Judith Miller and other journalists. Miller has testified she discussed Wilson's wife with Libby as many as three times before columnist Robert Novak publicly identified her.
Libby has said he learned of Wilson's wife from reporters but journalists have disputed that.
Wilson says White House officials outed his wife, damaging her ability to work undercover, to discredit him for accusing the administration of twisting intelligence to justify the Iraq war in a New York Times opinion piece on July 6, 2003.
After initially promising to fire anyone found to have leaked information in the case, Bush in July offered a more qualified pledge: "If someone committed a crime they will no longer work in my administration."
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From: White House Press Releases Sent: Fri Jul 15 13:03:44 2005 Subject: POOL REPORT #2, 7/15/05
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At one point, Reuters reporter Adam Entous felt a tap on his shoulder. It was Rove, who handed him a small bottle of Tylenol PM pills. "You look like you could use this," Entous said Rove told him.
As noted in our Court filings, by October 2004 when the appeal in this matter was first filed, the factual investigation – other than the testimony from these reporters and any further investigation that might result – was for all practical purposes completed.Now that the legal obligations of the reporters are settled and all appeals exhausted, we look forward to resuming our progress in this investigation and bringing it to a prompt conclusion on behalf of the citizens we represent.”
Interesting...... "By October 24, 2004... factual investigation...was for all practical purposes completed"
In think that Miller went to jail in order to delay telling the prosecutor that Libby was NOT her source, rather than to protect her source.
Typical obstructionist liberal move. Preventing Fitzgerald from bringing the investigation to a conclusion.