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Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Notes Show
NY Times ^
| 10/24/05
| DAVID JOHNSTON, RICHARD W. STEVENSON and DOUGLAS JEHL
Posted on 10/24/2005 6:28:34 PM PDT by nj26
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To: StAnDeliver
It's all chicken and no egg, Pinch. Why? Because she wasn't NOC, she was a desk jockey, and apparently well known inside and outside the Agency. So just eat a salad and relax, hippie. You got nothing.
You're absolutely right, of course...but there will still be Republican Administration folks indicted, and the 'Rats will gorge and feast on that point for next year's conveniently timed election cycle.
I can already hear Nancy Puke-losi shrieking about "corruption"...
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posted on
10/24/2005 6:46:37 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Like a midget at a urinal - stay on your toes...)
To: ez
The DUers must be positively nerve-wracked.Like some of US aren't?
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posted on
10/24/2005 6:47:04 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
ping!
Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my miscellaneous ping list.
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posted on
10/24/2005 6:47:26 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
To: nj26
It would not be illegal for either Mr. Cheney or Mr. Libby, both of whom are presumably cleared to know the governments deepest secrets, to discuss a C.I.A. officer or her link to a critic of the administration. But any effort by Mr. Libby to steer investigators away from his conversation with Mr. Cheney could be considered by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special counsel in the case, to be an illegal effort to impede the inquiry. The old Martha Stewart gotcha. If anything ever said or done on an issue by the targets they want to nail can be classified as illegal obstruction, then you can get anybody for anything.
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posted on
10/24/2005 6:47:43 PM PDT
by
JustaCowgirl
(I could care less if the Gitmo prisoners got force-fed.)
To: oceanview; norton; the Real fifi; Shermy; frankjr
The lawyer involved with the leak is Bob Bennett. What is this "Under cover Status" BS again?
"Some lawyers in the case have said Mr. Fitzgerald may face obstacles in bringing a false statement charge against Mr. Libby. They said it could be difficult to prove that he intentionally sought to mislead the grand jury. Lawyers involved in the case said they have no indication that Mr. Fitzgerald is considering charging Mr. Cheney with wrongdoing." I thought George Tenet was before the GJ. The theory is that Tenet was Novak's source, and once Tenet confessed Novak was never summoned.
But any effort by Mr. Libby to steer investigators away from his conversation with Mr. Cheney could be considered by Patrick J. Fitzgerald.
Not so. The US Supreme court ruled that "Lying" to investigators was not obstruction of Justice, unless Libby was told that his evidence could be presented before a GJ.
It appears that that Cheney broke no law, duh!
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posted on
10/24/2005 6:47:54 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
("Facts are stupid things." - President Ronald Wilson Reagan)
To: nj26
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posted on
10/24/2005 6:49:11 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Monthly Donor spoken Here. Go to ... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: digger48
I'm not nerve-wracked. I think either he's got nothing or, if he indicts, he'll get no convictions.
There's a big push to make R's appear corrupt before the Queen set forth.
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posted on
10/24/2005 6:49:25 PM PDT
by
ez
(I believed Juanita Broaddrick and I believe Harriet Miers.)
To: oceanview
You trust the N.Y. Slimes? You base your opinions on what appears in its pages?
Okay, then hope that President Bush, VP Cheney, Rove, and Scooter Libby are ALL indicted, as well as Secretary Rice and all the members of WHIG. Dennis Hastert will then be the president. Happy now?
To: dufekin
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posted on
10/24/2005 6:49:42 PM PDT
by
golfisnr1
(Democrats are like roaches, hard to get rid of.>)
To: gov_bean_ counter
Do you blame Tenat for wanting to know who was behind sending a flunkie like Joe Wilson to Niger on a mission he knew nothin g about?
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posted on
10/24/2005 6:49:42 PM PDT
by
MJY1288
(Whenever a Liberal is Speaking on the Senate Floor, Al-Jazeera Breaks in and Covers it LIVE)
To: nj26
Tenet to Cheney to Libby.
"Mr. Libbys notes indicate that Mr. Cheney had gotten his information about Ms. Wilson from George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, in response to questions from the vice president about Mr. Wilson.
But they contain no suggestion that either Mr. Cheney or Mr. Libby knew at the time of Ms. Wilsons undercover status or that her identity was classified."
And if the leaker to the NYT is neither Libby nor his lawyer, an investigation should be launched.
That irksome Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
Not that Fitzgerald or anybody at Justice cares.
To: NautiNurse; doug from upland; Mia T; ALOHA RONNIE; jwalsh07; Born Conservative; mhking; ...
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posted on
10/24/2005 6:50:31 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
To: nj26
When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. Methinks that about sums up the NYT rag.
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posted on
10/24/2005 6:50:32 PM PDT
by
Ursus arctos horribilis
("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
To: Zeppo
Generally, no Obstruction of Justice. Perjury, well, no, There has to be MENS REA and you have to prove it beyond reasonable doubt.
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posted on
10/24/2005 6:50:33 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
("Facts are stupid things." - President Ronald Wilson Reagan)
To: nj26
This is Bennett, Judith's attorney & probably NYTs too putting out information not the prosecutor, IMO. If the prosecutor's office is leaking that would be rather ironic. Maybe they should start an investigation about that! I think that's exactly what David Kendell did during Monicagate. He would leak something to the press, then claim it came from Starr's office. An investigation was started by Reno and then Kendell's office would find out about what Starr was investigating. There should have been a RICO case against the Clintons. They are as slick as any mobster in the country.
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posted on
10/24/2005 6:51:03 PM PDT
by
kcvl
To: nopardons
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posted on
10/24/2005 6:51:17 PM PDT
by
MJY1288
(Whenever a Liberal is Speaking on the Senate Floor, Al-Jazeera Breaks in and Covers it LIVE)
To: nj26
The question left begging is this: Why would Cheny disclose a CIA agents name? It is because the CIA had launched a covert operation using Wilson as a plausibly deniable foil for a public campaign against President Bush's Iraq policy. Cheny had a valid reason for drawing
the Wilson CIA connection. The Liberal 5th column inside the CIA, those responsible for NOT apprehending the Al Quaida terrorist operations in the USA, were and are
reassigned or drummed out of the CIA. Our president was quietly cleaning house and replacing the CIA Director.
In other words Cheny had a valid reason for making a Wilson/CIA connection, and it was his duty to do so.
The CIA is out of conmtrol here, and it needs to stop.
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posted on
10/24/2005 6:51:43 PM PDT
by
Candor7
(Into Liberal Flatulence Goes the Hope of the West)
To: JustaCowgirl
Now, and this is a big if, if this is true, this is not illegal. But.... Libby apparently told the grand jury that he heard Valerie Plame's names from reporters.
Assuming this is correct, my guess is he didn't want the boss involved, and he perjured himself. The only thing might be the Martha crime.
To: nopardons
as Rush was saying last week:
- either all these stories we've seen since late last week are totally invented - which would mean the MSM is totally pathological. Or, Fitzgerald has been compromised and they have first hand leaks about what is happening.
take your pick.
To: dufekin
Please tell me you forgot your sarcasm tag..
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