Posted on 10/18/2005 11:35:27 AM PDT by pissant
Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, said he expects indictments this week in the CIA leak case involving White House advisers Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.
Kristol said "the mood is bleak in the White House today, and said the environment surrounding the federal grand jury testimony is "pretty grim. Although the indictments may not ultimately result in anything substantive, Kristol said there is a pins-and-needles feel to the grand jury investigation into the leaking of a CIA agent's name to the media in 2003.
"The net has been cast wide, Kristol told Fox News Tuesday. "Lots of junior aides have testified. Its been a very comprehensive investigation by the prosecutor. I think there will be indictments and the mood is pretty bleak in the White House.
As for what this means for President Bush and the daily working of the White House, Kristol said it is too early to tell.
"The White House has to ask, How do we segregate this? This is a problem, but the legal system has to run its course.
"Meanwhile, Kristol said, "the president has to take the initiative on foreign policy and economic policy and sort of set this aside.
Kristol isn't a RINO, although I admit he comes across like a smarmy kibitzer on television. He may be "about"
Bill Kristol, but to be a RINO you need to have unconservative politics, and Kristol is pretty conservative.
I think a better case can be made that Bush is a RINO.
Like many, I was struggling with what is going on in this whole affair. The vital clue came when Mrs. Karl Rove opened the garage door to prove to reporters that Karl was not home. Folks, it's the missing file boxes in Karl's garage. The CIA knows the gig is up. After the disastrous intelligence failure of WMD, GWB gave Rove the special assignment of bringing down the pimps at the Agency.
Judgement day is at hand.
"my head was bashed apart, and i was layin' there in my own p*** and blood."
That just shows that the talk radio audience is smart and informed. Unfortunately, most of the people who don't listen to talk radio are politically way to the left of the talk radio audience.
I think Alan Keyes roommate may be his best quality.
I guaran-damn-tee you nobody in the White House talks to Kristol anymore. If they ever did.
I don't know of a single person who listens to Bill Kristol. And I know a lot of conservatives. Of course, the conservatives I know are mostly not Beltway-conservatives.
I couldn't disagree with that more. GWB may not be as conservative as Ronald Reagan, but he's pretty close. That puts him fully on the right side of the republican party.
Interesting.....LOL
part of the issue we potentially face with Fitzgerald - came from Rove talking to Matt Cooper, and Libby talking to Miller. Did you see the excerpts of that release letter from Libby to Miller? It read like he had a crush on her.
If you worked in the white house and Mandy Grunwald's husband called you, would you talk to him?
I'm not sure where this Fitzgerald thing is going, but I don't put alot of faith in him. If Rove and Libby are indicted, so much for "cooperating fully" as being the good faith approach to this investigation - when a prosecutor spins a perjury trap for you, "cooperating fully" is simply handing him your a*s for indictment. We'll know by the end of next week.
Karl Rove keeps classified intelligence information about the CIA in little file boxes in his garage?
Good thing Bush isn't Clintonesque. Kristol might end up in the Potomac river with concrete boots. ;o)
I wouldn't be too quick to reach that conclusion. Remember what Tenet said about CIA intelligence: their information isn't all correct but it isn't all incorrect. The truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Remember those reports about satellite photos of five heavy trucks driving from Iraq into Syria just before the invasion? Have you seen the reports of chemical weapons being used by Syrians in Darfur province in the Sudan? WMD doesn't have that much weight or volume and therefore it isn't that difficult to move or conceal. That's what makes it WMD--on a pound for bound basis it's incredibly lethal. The MSM has completely screwed up its analysis of WMD in Iraq. They are clueless about science.
I think they may be a perfect pair because they are both girlie men, and between the two of them they do not have "a pair". LOL!
I read a couple of his father's books, and I loved him. Didn't necessarily agree on everything, but he came across as so reasonable and intelligent and good-natured and, well, likable. The son is a great disappointment.
Mccain may have suffered as a POW, but he was a lousy Pilot that did not like to follow rules. He crashed his plane into the water and instead of going by how he was trained to get out of a plane under water he cut his way out therefore destroying Taxpayer Military Equipment. He comes from a long line of Military Brass and he did not measure up. I am glad he survived, but he is not one I respect except for his imprisonment and service to our COuntry.
I find the man an obnoxious bore sometimes. Particularly over all this Miers stuff. Yeah, yeah, I was disappointed too. But I still think the woman deserves a hearing.
As for the bleak "mood" at the WH and the speculation, I saw a lot of speculation in the media during Katrina too, and that media is directly responsible for aid not getting to the people that needed it. So, speculation reported as news can have a damaging effect to the public and really does no one any good.
If it is a slow news day, tough excrement!!! But, considering all that is going on that is positive in Iraq, Kristol and other "media whores" would be well advised to open their pathetic biased eyes and report the *&%$ news, the GOOD and the bad.
Methinks little Billy Krystol is engaging in a little wishful thinking.
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