Careful, those ain't no regular girls.
Posted on 06/02/2004 3:48:03 PM PDT by RWR8189
Edited on 06/02/2004 3:57:11 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
BUSH CONTACTS OUTSIDE ATTORNEY IN LEAK CASE: ABC News' Kate Snow reports that President Bush has contacted an outside attorney in case over leak of name of CIA operative Valerie Plume, wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson...
Heck, I don't understand what the big deal is, it isn't like she might not have "outted" herself to Novack's source. According to her blabbermouth and totally ungallant husband, by their fourth date she spilled her guts about that little secret during pillow talk.
Uh, he's not estate planning.
Yeah, sheesh.
All someone had to do was buy this skank a Chalupa Platter
and she was dictating launch codes with the heavy petting...
Due to the Wilson/Plame business? Nonsense.
So you think the election will be that bad.
But how about when the dims loose. Now that will get bad.
Well, in the absence of anything to panic over, some people start to panic.
Again .. it says consulted
That's no different from me picking up a phone and asking my lawyer a few questions for advice
Press "brought down Richard Nixon"?
What flavor Kool-Aide you drinking?
Nixon was a criminal.
Thank you for putting this into perspective. Chances are that Bush is hiring a private lawyer to determine if this case can be dropped, settled or otherwise ended.
Well well well.
Why am I not surprised to see you carrying on in that fashion.
It seems to me to be just another one of those rotten meals the laughable leftist media want to offer us to chew on: yellowcake, National Guard service, Abu Ghraib, etc. I'm not going to sup at their table because all they serve up is garbage.
Intriguing, yes. But if this is such downer news, why is President Bush looking so happy and glowy-like? :o)
Careful, those ain't no regular girls.
Jun 2, 7:36 PM (ET)
By TERENCE HUNT
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush has consulted an outside lawyer in case he needs to retain him in the grand jury investigation of who leaked the name of a covert CIA operative last year, the White House said Wednesday.
There was no indication that Bush is a target of the leak investigation, but the president has decided that in the event he needs an attorney's advice, "he would retain him," White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan said.
The lawyer is Jim Sharp, Buchan said, confirming a report by CBS News.
"The president has said that everyone should cooperate in this matter and that would include himself," the spokeswoman said.
She deflected questions about whether Bush had been asked to appear before a grand jury in the case.
A federal grand jury in Washington is investigating who leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame, wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, to the news media. Plame was first identified by syndicated columnist and TV commentator Robert Novak in a column last July. Novak said his information came from administration sources.
Wilson has said he believes his wife's name was leaked because of his criticism of Bush administration claims that Iraq had tried to obtain uranium from Niger, which Wilson investigated for the CIA and found to be untrue.
Disclosure of an undercover officer's identity can be a federal crime. The grand jury has heard from witnesses and combed through thousands of pages of documents turned over by the White House, but returned no indictments.
The probe is being handled by Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, appointed after Attorney General John Ashcroft stepped aside from case because of his political ties to the White House.
Absent a breakthrough from the documents or a cooperating witness, prosecutors may be forced to try to identify the leaker through Novak or other reporters. However, journalists pressed by the prosecution could assert a First Amendment privilege to protect their sources.
Wilson has suggested in a book that the leaker was Lewis "Scooter" Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Cheney. But Wilson's book, "The Politics of Truth," give no conclusive evidence for the claim.
The White House denies the claim and accuses Wilson of seeking to bolster the campaign of Democrat John Kerry, for whom he has acted as a foreign policy adviser.
Wilson also said it's possible the leak came from Elliott Abrams, a figure in the Reagan administration Iran-Contra affair and now a member of Bush's National Security Council. And Karl Rove, Bush's chief political adviser, may have circulated information about Wilson and Plame "in administration and neoconservative circles" even if Rove was not himself the leaker, Wilson writes.
Another possibility is that two lower-level officials in Cheney's office - John Hannah or David Wurmser - leaked Plame's identity at the behest of higher-ups "to keep their fingerprints off the crime," Wilson speculates.
Because he's a newbie poseur?
Leave it up to the AP though to put in a free plug for wilson's book in their news "report".
Boy, you're ready to throw somebody overboard at the drop of a hat.
OMG, MORE female CIA operatives????
Try not to be anxious or you will drive up the American mental illness statistics--currently, 26% of Americans have a "mental illness" as is in the news today. They are listing folks with anxiety disorders & other mental problems including those on Zoloft, Effexor, Xanax, etc.
Bush is good. Above all, he is honest. Trust in God. He is all powerful and has a purpose.
No, everyone doesn't know that. Why would they know that? What are you basing that on?
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