Posted on 06/19/2006 8:32:44 PM PDT by HoldFast
You've got to read it to believe it:
After spending the past month retracing our steps and confirming facts, we've come full circle. Our sources continue to maintain that a grand jury has in fact returned an indictment. Our sources said that parts of the indictment were read to Karl Rove and his attorney on Friday, May 12, 2006. Last week, we pointed to a sealed federal indictment, case number "06 cr 128," which is still sealed and we are still pointing to it. During lengthy conversations with our sources over the past month, they reiterated that the substance of our report on May 13, 2006, was correct, and immediately following our report, Karl Rove's status in the CIA leak probe changed. In summary, as we press our investigation we find indicators that more of our key facts are correct, not less.
Ash provides additional detail on Truthout's historic role in this affair:
The electronic communication from Fitzgerald to Luskin, coming immediately on the heels of our Monday morning, June 12 article "Sealed vs. Sealed" that became the basis for the mainstream media's de facto exoneration of Karl Rove was, our sources told us, negotiated quickly over the phone later that afternoon. Luskin contacted Fitzgerald, reportedly providing concessions that Fitzgerald considered to be of high value, and Fitzgerald reportedly reciprocated with the political cover Rove wanted in the form of a letter that was faxed to Luskin's office.
Our sources provided us with additional detail, saying that Fitzgerald is apparently examining closely Dick Cheney's role in the Valerie Plame matter, and apparently sought information and evidence from Karl Rove that would provide documentation of Cheney's involvement. Rove apparently was reluctant to cooperate and Fitzgerald, it appears, was pressuring him to do so, our sources told us.
The first comment on the post is titled, "I want some of that stuff you are smoking!"
Me too.
Well, I will be durned. Never could have seen this coming....
Another fake, but accurate indictment.
How do you indict when a crime hasn't been committed?
Fitzboy must be a whiz.
It's called "just kick the can down the road and hope to hell everybody forgets we blew this, big time!"
Creepy.
Truthout still stands by their thoroughly debunked story.
Ping.
I do believe in spooks! I do I do I do I do I do I do I do I do I do I do I do !!!!
And the REALLY weird thing is that HoldFast has broken all of its fingers. Now a brief perusal of the web indicates differently, but who am I? Just ARMSF.
These guys need mental help.
It is amazing how they can play the same game forever using this methodology.So now they wait for the indictment against Cheney that will never come.
Ouch.
Hunt & Peck typing with fingertips.
Ho boy! Stick with the story if your sources say stick. That's how Dan Rather did it, right to the end. Proud and inaccurate right to the very end.
Un-friggin-believeable!
Morons. Jaosn Leopold is a pathological liar. He also pretended to be WAPO reporter Joe Lauria and called Rove's attorney using that name and phone number.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/16/AR2006061601754.html
My Unwitting Role in the Rove 'Scoop'
By Joe Lauria
Sunday, June 18, 2006; B02
The May 13 story on the Web site Truthout.org was explosive: Presidential adviser Karl Rove had been indicted by Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald in connection with his role in leaking CIA officer Valerie Plame's name to the media, it blared. The report set off hysteria on the Internet, and the mainstream media scrambled to nail it down. Only . . . it wasn't true.
As we learned last week, Rove isn't being indicted, and the supposed Truthout scoop by reporter Jason Leopold was wildly off the mark. It was but the latest installment in the tale of a troubled young reporter with a history of drug addiction whose aggressive disregard for the rules ended up embroiling me in a bizarre escapade -- and raised serious questions about journalistic ethics.
In his nine-year reporting career, Leopold has managed, despite his drug abuse and a run-in with the law, to work with such big-time news organizations as the Los Angeles Times, Dow Jones Newswire and Salon. He broke some bona fide stories on the Enron scandal and the CIA leak investigation. But in every job, something always went wrong, and he got the sack. Finally, he landed at Truthout, a left-leaning Web site.
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