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ABCNEWS TELLS WHITE HOUSE OF 'INDICTMENT' (White House source: ABC bluffing)
Drudge Report ^ | 25 OCT 05 | DCBRYAN1

Posted on 10/25/2005 3:55:34 PM PDT by DCBryan1

Edited on 10/25/2005 6:59:34 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

ABCNEWS TELLS WHITE HOUSE OF 'INDICTMENT' Tue Oct 25 2005 19:08:02 ET

"We have double sourced that the vice president's chief of staff has been indicted," a reporter for ABCNEWS claimed to a White House press spokesman this afternoon.

The White House refused to comment on the claim. The network said they didn't need comment, they were preparing to run with the development on this evening's network news broadcast, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

ABCNEWS claimed to the White House that it had double sourced how an indictment against vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis Libby was set.

A senior White House source quickly determined ABC was bluffing; the report did not run on the East coast feed of the program.

Developing...

UPDATE

ABC NEWS spokesman Jeff Schneider tells the DRUDGE REPORT: "There is nothing at all true about us having double sourced anything" regarding indictments.

More from Drudge:

CBS’ JOHN ROBERTS: Lawyers familiar with the case think Wednesday is when special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will make known his decision, and that there will be indictments. Supporters say Rove and the vice president’s chief of staff, Scooter Libby, are in legal jeopardy...

Another update from Drudge:

Indictments in CIA leak case ‘about to be handed down’


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abcnews; bluff; cia; cialeak; dirtypolitics; elitist; flame; frogmarch; jaguar; judith; leftists; liddy; miller; muchadoaboutnothing; phishing; plame; rove; rovian; russert; scooterlibby; socialists; valerieplame; vanityfair
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To: airborne

Exactly my point- it seems extremely unlikely Drudge would have run this without triple-sourcing the double-source story:)

Is Rather doing contract work for ABC now?


441 posted on 10/25/2005 5:07:02 PM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: Patriot from Philly

Don't forget Bert Lance at Carter's OMB. Remember BCCI? Of course, being a democrat, there was no prosecution. He just went back to Georgia.

You may be thinking of when Ham Jordan looked down the top the dress of the wife of the Egyptian ambassador and commenting something along the lines of having always wanted to see the Egyptian pyramids. Stupid, but not criminal.

And, while he wasn't officially in the administration, don't forget Billy's payoff from the Libyan government.

Of course, Carter's greatest diplomatic triumph was bringing Mugabe to power in Rhodesia.


442 posted on 10/25/2005 5:07:03 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: DCBryan1
We have double sourced that the vice president's chief of staff has been indicted


Let's see, source number one is the DNC (an ever popular White House source for the MSM) and source number two is the Daily Kos.

443 posted on 10/25/2005 5:07:24 PM PDT by LenS
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To: pollyannaish

Works almost every time! :-)


444 posted on 10/25/2005 5:07:29 PM PDT by HitmanLV (Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
We're going to indict you for that.

Whats with throwing around all the indictments? Who do you think you are, Patrick Fitzgerald?

445 posted on 10/25/2005 5:08:15 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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To: DCBryan1

ABC lied? Go figure.

Does anyone see the irony of the press leaking grand jury testimony regarding an investigation on leaks?


446 posted on 10/25/2005 5:08:27 PM PDT by Hoodat ( Silly Dems)
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To: Howlin
Fineman on Oberman's show is back peddling

Now he saying that Cheney isn't in legal trouble .. just political trouble

Wasn't he saying last night that Cheney was in legal trouble?
447 posted on 10/25/2005 5:08:48 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: Ann Archy
When Kristol was Quayle's chief of staff, he did indeed sabotage Quayle. I have documented three instances:

1. Convinced Quayle to make that "Murphy Brown" speech, which made Quayle a laughingstock on the late night shows and in the press. (Source: Bill Kristol himself, joking about this to Brit Hume)

2. Bill Kristol convinced Quayle to make a speech critical of Bush 41's foreign policy, right before the kick-off of the 92 campaign. It effectively isolated Quayle from the rest of the administration. (Source, Quayle's book Standing Firm)

3. Kristol was distrusted by the Bush White House, and James Baker wouldn't allow Kristol to sit in on campaign meetings, because he leaked everything to the press. Quayle says that this was because Baker was intimidated by Kristol's intellect (HA!) but that sounds to me like a tale Kristol told Quayle. (Source..Quayle's book).

I have been digging stuff up on Kristol since 2000. He is nothing but a disruptive force and should never be allowed in any governmental position.

448 posted on 10/25/2005 5:08:56 PM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's son and keep him strong.)
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To: PAR35; All

Was Joe Califano indicted as Carter's HEW Secretary?


449 posted on 10/25/2005 5:09:30 PM PDT by olde north church (Girding for disappointment.)
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To: SE Mom
Is Rather doing contract work for ABC now?

Maybe Rather wanted to bring ABC down to get back in the good graces of CBS. ;^)

450 posted on 10/25/2005 5:09:30 PM PDT by airborne (Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't!)
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To: clawrence3

NO....a reporter from ABC said to Nicole Wallace about the indictment. I want to know that REPORTER's name!!


451 posted on 10/25/2005 5:09:48 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience. T)
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To: Mo1

Yes, he surely was.


452 posted on 10/25/2005 5:10:00 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Miss Marple

I further submit Kristol told Quayle how to spell potato(e).


453 posted on 10/25/2005 5:10:06 PM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: lugsoul
Tropism

Dowd was just angry that she didn't possess Zeta Jone's tropism. Miller is collateral damage to Dowd's psychosis.

454 posted on 10/25/2005 5:10:27 PM PDT by Praxeologue
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To: SE Mom
Is Rather doing contract work for ABC now?

Or maybe Sam is back on the case! (or they teamed up, thus double sourcing).

455 posted on 10/25/2005 5:10:36 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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To: All

"Mr-X".

How about GJT?


456 posted on 10/25/2005 5:10:52 PM PDT by Perdogg ("Facts are stupid things." - President Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: DCBryan1
Here is to hoping that it is Wilson and Plame to be indicted.

They wont. Bush was an idiot for allowing a Special Counsel to be appointed, and for not exposing Wilson and Plame's fraud early on. He has only himself to blame. I said so at the time and was ridiculed on this forum, and told that it was a master stroke which would only hurt the RATs. Anyone still believe that?
Just one of many stupid actions Bush has made this term. Unfortunately, the GOP will pay the price for his lack of vision.

457 posted on 10/25/2005 5:11:07 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Ann Archy
No, Wallace works at the White House.

You're correct. In the flurry of reading Drudge and posting here, I got all messed up. As far as I can tell the reporter is under the radar.

Terry Moran?

458 posted on 10/25/2005 5:11:20 PM PDT by Rudder
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To: All
Holy crap... screw all this irrelvant 'news'....

"Its the Great Pumpkin Charlie Borwn" is on CBS

Now go check it out!!!! You blockheads ;)
459 posted on 10/25/2005 5:11:44 PM PDT by FreedomNeocon (I'm in no Al-Samood for this Shi'ite.)
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To: SE Mom
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You can't triple source a double source!

460 posted on 10/25/2005 5:12:04 PM PDT by Bird Jenkins
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