Posted on 10/09/2005 7:32:02 PM PDT by huck von finn
Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol predicted on Sunday that there will be at least one and perhaps several indictments of "senior [Bush] administration officials" by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, who is investigating the outing of CIA employee Valerie Plame.
"Criminal defense lawyers I've spoken to who are friendly to the administration are very worried that there will be one or more indictments in the next three weeks of senior administration officials," the influential editor told "Fox News Sunday."
"Just looking at what Fitzgerald is doing and taking him at his word as a serious prosecutor here," Kristol said, "and I think it's going to be bad for the Bush administration."
FNS co-panelist Brit Hume noted, however, that at least some of the speculation that top Bush adviser Karl Rove may be indicted has been based on false reports in the press.
Noting ominous-sounding press reports on Thursday claiming that Fitzgerald had withdrawn a previous assurances that Rove's testimony would not be used against him during an upcoming fourth grand jury appearance, Hume said: "My information is that there was never any such promise attached to his earlier testimony either."
2nd terms sometimes don't even seem worth the effort.
Most likely not.
Quick, quick, attack "barking moonbat" "elitist" "snob" Kristol!
I think Scooter is in trouble.
Kristol ball is cloudy
Kristol is now showing his true colors, the guy is a raving lunatic.
I think Scooter's going to take the heat on this one.
Best have the title corrected.
Are we the only two who think this is weird?
What the....???!!
And if this all comes to pass, there goes the rest of the agenda for the next 2 years since such things would take that long to play out. *sigh* -- exactly what the D-Rats want.
I was surprised that Bush people were giving info to NYT reporters and such.
Kristol is almost always a puddle-glum! If I were a betting person, I would bet that he's wrong.
He's just ticked off at the Whitehouse over Meiers, so he's stirring up trouble for them. That's my opinion, anyway.
Ahem.
bttt
Nobody will remember if he is wrong. If he is right, he gets a bump in pay and his own TV show on MSNBC as the latest Bush-basher.
IN the meantime, as Hume notes, the "news" that the prosecuter "withdrew" the promise of no prosecution was false, as the prosecuter never gave that promise. Not only was it untrue, it would be ludicrous that he would EVER have given such assurances to participants such as Rove -- and any journalism student would have known that.
So I have to assume the news reports were DELIBERATELY MISLEADING.
Now, this is all speculation, which I hate -- we will know the truth in a week or two. But given the way people leak stuff, if there was a REAL expectation of trouble, why would the news media make stuff up?
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