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The White House’s Legal Katrina
Human Events Online ^ | oct. 18 , 2005 | Victoria Toensing

Posted on 10/18/2005 2:34:42 PM PDT by blogblogginaway

There now appears to be consensus that no one violated the 1982 Agent Identities Protection Act in publishing the name of CIA employee Valerie Plame. It’s a hard law to violate. Its high threshold requires that the person whose identity is revealed must actually be covert (which requires at the least a foreign assignment within five years of the revelation), that the government must be taking “affirmative measures” to conceal the person’s identity, and that the revealer must know that the government is taking those measures.

So why didn’t Patrick Fitzgerald, the special counsel investigating the “leak,” close up shop long ago?

(Excerpt) Read more at humaneventsonline.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cialeak; toensing
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To: Txsleuth

'especially since she basically just said it is all BOGUS!"

Please leave me out of this!


61 posted on 10/18/2005 4:44:35 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: right right

When does the clock run out?


62 posted on 10/18/2005 4:47:23 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Diddle E. Squat; leadpenny
Darn, missed it by 'that' much.

Click on the link to Human Events and their Table of Contents will come up.

63 posted on 10/18/2005 4:56:26 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Bahbah

What I worry about is the "theory" that he has spent 2 years and millions of dollars...so he would be inclined NOT to want to say "NEVER MIND".

Therefore, he would go for the old conspiracy or whatever, just to have something to show for it.


64 posted on 10/18/2005 4:58:49 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Please say a prayer, and hold positive thoughts for Texas Cowboy...and Faith.)
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To: syriacus
Wilson didn't put that little detail about Cheney in his "columnful of lies" for no reason.

By the same token, Kristof and Pincus didn't make up the connection between their anonymous source and the Vice President out of pixie dust. It was planted there by the "anonymous source" -- who took pains not to correct the misrepresentation once it was published.

65 posted on 10/18/2005 5:00:05 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

lOL---sorry!!


66 posted on 10/18/2005 5:00:26 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Please say a prayer, and hold positive thoughts for Texas Cowboy...and Faith.)
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To: Cicero
Wasn't Harriet Miers the person who should have been making those calls and giving legal advice, but apparently failed to do so even after having days and weeks of warning?

Either Harriet Miers...or Alberto Gonzales. Recall that Ashcroft was still AG when this imbroglio began.

67 posted on 10/18/2005 5:02:48 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Txsleuth
Therefore, he would go for the old conspiracy or whatever, just to have something to show for it.

I think that would be the act of a weak and unprincipled man, so I guess we'll see where Mr. Fitzgerald stands. I keep thinking of those who are saying this, virtually all the kinds of people who would seek and relish the spotlight. Maybe they are just projecting? I just watched the Matthews thing, which was awful. Hayes was the only reporter there.

68 posted on 10/18/2005 5:05:03 PM PDT by Bahbah (This is a no Miers zone)
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To: okie01
t was planted there by the "anonymous source" -- who took pains not to correct the misrepresentation once it was published.

Rumors have a life cycle of their own.

69 posted on 10/18/2005 5:08:44 PM PDT by syriacus (Don't look for medical breakthroughs to be accomplished by pro-abortion or pro-euthanasia doctors.)
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To: Bahbah

I know...and did you notice that at the end, when Chrissy had made yet another of his unsubstantiated "thoughts" about something, and Hayes started to correct him...

Chrissy cut him off and said, "no more time"? sheesh


70 posted on 10/18/2005 5:08:47 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Please say a prayer, and hold positive thoughts for Texas Cowboy...and Faith.)
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To: sarkozy
Contrast that to the Starr investigation, which seemed more intent on influencing news coverage through leaks than on conducting a criminal inquiry.

With the exception of Sam Dash (who was leaking privately -- to Clinton's defense team), Starr's team didn't leak either.

Instead, what you saw was an orchestrated campaign conducted by Clinton's witnesses and their attorneys, who were only too anxious to leak (often contrived) stories to the media. It is not illegal for witnesses and their attorneys to make their testimony public. In fact, they can even tell out-and-out lies about it with impunity (as Sid Blumenthal did).

The media was complicit in that they spun the stories so that it appeared their sources were within the grand jury itself or the prosecution team.

The same thing is going on now. The reporters and their attorneys are free to report their experience and speculations -- which is ALL they've got.

71 posted on 10/18/2005 5:09:19 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Txsleuth
when Chrissy had made yet another of his unsubstantiated "thoughts" about something,

Tonight, Matthews and Fineman really showed that, to "philosophicating" liberals, facts are less important than "the grand scheme of things" (i.e., "spin").

72 posted on 10/18/2005 5:16:54 PM PDT by syriacus (Don't look for medical breakthroughs to be accomplished by pro-abortion or pro-euthanasia doctors.)
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To: syriacus

Whoa...perfect $10 word there to describe it!!! LOL


73 posted on 10/18/2005 5:19:23 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Please say a prayer, and hold positive thoughts for Texas Cowboy...and Faith.)
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To: blogblogginaway
The dark clouds are filled with Wilson’s spin spurred on by a media frenzy, a White House that did not have federal criminal law expertise, and a dogged prosecutor who appears willing to stretch the criminal law to get an indictment.

And just who was the incompetent White House legal counsel who didn't understand federal law?

Oh yeah... Harriet Miers.
74 posted on 10/18/2005 5:34:15 PM PDT by counterpunch (Save the GOP - withdraw Miers now)
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To: NormalGuy

Here, here. Wait and see what the guy has to say. If he has nothing, he investigated thoroughly and plumbed any possible wrongdoing. If he has something - well, then, he probably has something.


75 posted on 10/18/2005 6:11:48 PM PDT by lugsoul (Sleeper troll since 1999.)
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To: syriacus

Perhaps it means Mitchell had that straight from Wilson.... OR it may just indicate once again that she's just as crappy and sloppy a 'reporter' as most in the MSM.


76 posted on 10/18/2005 8:29:47 PM PDT by Enchante (Bill Clinton: "I did not have sex with any of the skeletons in my closet!")
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