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Kristol: ‘Mood is Bleak’ at White House (uh-huh)
newsmax ^ | 10/18/05 | staff

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. It’s 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.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: billyboy; cialeak; kristol; nigerflap; plame; plamegate
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To: podkane

Hey, Billy thinks he was responsible for Bush ouusting Saddam still. He's part of the WH team. /sarc


41 posted on 10/18/2005 11:50:27 AM PDT by pissant
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To: new yorker 77

I'm thinking Bush needs a call from Frank Rizzo to set him straight on this whole Miers.

Thanks for the Jerky Boys flashback, even though we're probably on different pages with this SCOTUS thing.

Humor, folks. Humor.


42 posted on 10/18/2005 11:50:40 AM PDT by borkrules
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To: Battle Hymn of the Republic

Excellent!!!

Kristol is rather myopic.


43 posted on 10/18/2005 11:50:46 AM PDT by Pondman88
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To: Republic of Texas
"Why would anyone in the White House leak to him? He doesn't have their best interests at heart."

No, Kristol has the best interest of the UNITED STATES at heart.

Because Kristol has voiced vehement dissent against the nomination of Harriet Miers, and has disagreed with the Whitehouse on other issues, does not mean he wants to see the Bush Administration go down. BTW, there has also been times he has roundly supported them.

44 posted on 10/18/2005 11:51:10 AM PDT by TAdams8591 (It's the Supreme Court, stupid!)
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To: jennyjenny

Like I said, the source is obviously questionable. Its just what I've managed to dig up online - I'm not saying I believe it. This whole thing should sort itself out very soon, now.


45 posted on 10/18/2005 11:51:19 AM PDT by Rock_n_Roll_Republican (Rock n' Roll ain't just for the Rats.)
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To: FlipWilson

I listen to him on Fox News sometimes. He is humorless and silly at the same time.


46 posted on 10/18/2005 11:51:23 AM PDT by pissant
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To: Grampa Dave

this is a very funny thread. carry on.


47 posted on 10/18/2005 11:51:47 AM PDT by Pondman88
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To: RichInOC

Huh?


48 posted on 10/18/2005 11:51:52 AM PDT by pissant
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To: griswold3

Kristol wishes......

He also wishes he had some influence in the WhiteHouse. Apparently it didn't occur to him that his insider might be leading him astray. What goes around comes around.

He also wishes he were really relevant. Truth is, he is not really required.


49 posted on 10/18/2005 11:52:17 AM PDT by bert (K.E. ; N.P . Chicken spit causes flu....... Fox News)
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To: pissant

If fitzgerald was going to indict Wednesday, would he not have already issued 'target' letters to those to be indicted?

That certainly would have leaked.


50 posted on 10/18/2005 11:52:46 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: pissant

You left out "...and light in the loafers".


51 posted on 10/18/2005 11:52:48 AM PDT by RedRover
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To: dinoparty

Nah. Mr. dour deserves to be shot...figuratively of course.


52 posted on 10/18/2005 11:52:53 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant
Although the indictments may not ultimately result in anything substantive...

Ronnie Earle syndrome.

53 posted on 10/18/2005 11:52:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
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To: MNJohnnie

They could lead us at the top of a 3rd party ticket. Now wouldn't that be sumthin.


54 posted on 10/18/2005 11:53:43 AM PDT by pissant
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To: tdewey10

I only refer to that guy as Plame's servant.


55 posted on 10/18/2005 11:54:49 AM PDT by pissant
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To: 1rudeboy
Bill Kristol was anything but universally admired on this website

Yeah. I, for one, has NEVER admired Mr Kristol. I suspect you too are one who has never admired him. Lots of us Freepers who have different positions on variety of issues have never cared for the slimy little worm

56 posted on 10/18/2005 11:54:53 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (I'll try to be NICER, if you will try to be SMARTER!.......Water Buckets UP!)
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To: pissant

As in, he's working real hard to pump that story up.


57 posted on 10/18/2005 11:54:55 AM PDT by RichInOC (Irving Kristol really was the brains in the family, wasn't he?)
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To: Pondman88
Kristol is rather myopic.

Not only that but he seems deficient in foresight or discernment.

58 posted on 10/18/2005 11:55:31 AM PDT by w_over_w (GO ASTROS!!! Make it to the big one . . . this time?)
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To: jennyjenny

Maybe Fred Barnes, who does have friends in the WH,throws Kristol a crumb now and then.


59 posted on 10/18/2005 11:55:47 AM PDT by pissant
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To: in hoc signo vinces

I love how the dems are salivating at idea of winning big in 2006. Taint happenin.


60 posted on 10/18/2005 11:56:55 AM PDT by pissant
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