Posted on 10/20/2005 7:14:44 PM PDT by Pikamax
Cover-Up Issue Is Seen as Focus in Leak Inquiry By DAVID JOHNSTON
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 - As he weighs whether to bring criminal charges in the C.I.A. leak case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special counsel, is focusing on whether Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, and I. Lewis Libby Jr., chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, sought to conceal their actions and mislead prosecutors, lawyers involved in the case said Thursday.
Among the charges that Mr. Fitzgerald is considering are perjury, obstruction of justice and false statement - counts that suggest the prosecutor may believe the evidence presented in a 22-month grand jury inquiry shows that the two White House aides sought to cover up their actions, the lawyers said.
Mr. Rove and Mr. Libby have been advised that they may be in serious legal jeopardy, the lawyers said, but only this week has Mr. Fitzgerald begun to narrow the possible charges. The prosecutor has said he will not make up his mind about any charges until next week, government officials say.
With the term of the grand jury expiring in one week, though, some lawyers in the case said they were persuaded that Mr. Fitzgerald had all but made up his mind to seek indictments. None of the lawyers would speak on the record, citing the prosecutor's requests not to talk about the case.
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This had better be good.
Okay hr, your next assignment is to show the class how to conjugate their Latin verbs.
I hope you are right. I still think Rove is ok, but I don't know about Libby.
My guess is based upon the 1/10th of 1% of the testimony that I read (of which, half may be made up by the reporter).
For a carriage-return, you use either < p> or < br> (without the spaces).
Technically you don't need a letter. That's why I am still wondering about why Fitz called Wilson prior to Miller testimony. I wonder why Fitz met with Miller prior to her testimony.
To make italics < i > in front of the sentence (without the space between the brackets and the i. At the end just do < /i > again without the spaces.
Martha Stewart is fresh out of jail and has a new TV show, all is forgotten.
It's entirely possible that the NY slimes is just creating their own tangent based off of old data. For instance since rove could not be guaranteed that he would not be indicted during his 4th interview that could constitute legal danger. Anything else is speculation unless Fitzgeralds boys are leaking as a sieve and then an investigation needs to be made into that.
How can there be a coverup if nobody knew or believed that they were breaking any law? ...and in fact weren't breaking a law? A coverup of failing to break the law?
So in this next week, go out see what others are really concerned about. You'll notice it's not this stupidity that's going on in the media/wilson/or Delay.
It's gas prices, hurricanes and flooding in many parts of the country. Let's hope all this Washington stuff has mesmerized those who hate us long enough to mess up their plans of attack.
chingo; chingas; chinge' (and the ever-so-rare noun-forms, chingalera or chingasos)
If they are going to use HTML, you better show 'em the paragraph code too... < p>
I think Rove is fine. Libby could be indicted just on the strangeness of the letter he sent to Miller (Aspens with the roots connected...). Even if it wasn't intended to be some coded message meaning "if I go down, I'm taking you with me...", I'm sure a prosecutor could get a jury to believe it was. What kind of lawyer would let a client send such an obtuse message like that.
No it was Wilson.
I knew you would come up with something. I just wanted to hand you a straight line.
" Martha Stewart is fresh out of jail and has a new TV show, all is forgotten."
The entertainment industry is more forgiving than politics...you can be fresh out of rehab for the twelth time if they think you can still sell tickets.
This is where I learned. It's called the HTML Sandbox. You can practice there.
Hope this helps .............. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1285967/posts?page=501,50
As to the target letter thing. Yes the prosecutor does not need to send a target letter to a target. BUT, he must inform someone who is testifying, especially if they offer to testify, that they are a target. NOT that they could become a target later on. This leads me to believe Rove is safe.
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