AP: Charges Don't Directly Address CIA Leak

BREITBART.COM ^ | Oct 28 3:37 PM US/Eastern | GINA HOLLAND Associated Press Writer

[Izzy Dunne]

what caused Clinton's impeachment "wasn't that he had an affair with Monica Lewinsky but he lied about it."

Wow! How did THIS get by the AP editors?

[sam_paine]

What? A correct headline?

[Gondring]

AP: Charges Don't Directly Address CIA Leak

They are correct; Joseph Wilson was not indicted today.

[syriacus]

What I will remember about today---

David Gergen said, just a short time ago, (on CNN or MSNBC) that the White House can't blame it's troubles on an overzealous prosecutor or on being "kn*cked-up" by the press.

I think he meant "knocked-about."

[marty60]

AGREED

[Tzimisce]

WOW! Someone in the press is suggesting this is political?

Get ready, this reporter is going to be dragged to the woodshed by the rest of the "unbiased" reporters in the biz....

[dirtboy]

Levy said the indictment is "very narrow, very focused: it follows, very provable."

Until you look at the indictment itself and see it is about he said, he said situations.

[smonk]

there wasn't a crime until there was an investigation.

[Gator101]

Wow! How did THIS get by the AP editors?

LOL! I did a double take on that too.

I imagine they relaxed their standards this time because the overall goal is to explain how they have a Republican in their cross-hairs.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Hat tip to Drudge on this one, by the way!

[conservativepoet]

Wow! I can't believe someone got it right for a change.

[telebob]

Scooter was indicted on five counts of contradicting a reporter...

At least that's all I could garner from reading the indictment.

[Archon of the East]

Hat tip to Drudge on this one, by the way!

I know people here don't like him much Hannity is doing a great Job on this also. Good analysis, good guests and good points.

[Logical me]

Once again, and now after seeing this jacka@@ on TV, Fitzzzzzzzz is an lame excuse for a prosecutor. I've been in the Court system for 27 years, and I know a nut when I see one. Doesn't take much to pass the bar now days, just dumb every exercise with memory with no solid intelligence. Lawyers, salt of the earth, sure, sure, sure. Takes ten to screw in a light bulb, but they have a time finding the burned our bulb, and then looses the socket.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Which is why we need to stop all these special prosecutions on both sides.

In retrospect, what did having been a senator have to do with the real reasons Ashcroft recused himself????

[Salvey]

David Gergen said, just a short time ago, (on CNN or MSNBC) that the White House can't blame it's troubles on an overzealous prosecutor

I didn't catch him, but in a way he's correct: when the leak charges first aired a couple of years ago, Bush, in Pavlovian fashion, rushed to appoint a Special Prosecutor. There was no need for him to do this. Had he declined (especially as it now appears that no "blown cover" statute was violated) the flap would have soon died. So, it can be argued that today's indictment is a direct consequence of Bush's lack of resolve early on.

[Grampa Dave]

[Jeff Chandler]

D.C. jury


D.C. jury


D.C. jury


D.C. jury


D.C. jury


D.C. jury

[popdonnelly]

That is correct, Fitzgerald did not charge anyone with the crime of "outing" a covert agent. Is he required to? Of course not. If the evidence doesn't meet the requirements of the statute, he's not going to charge anyone.

I note that the news media still can't get this straight. ABC Radio News led off with, "Valerie Plame was a covert agent."