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’
Just in on Drudge:
"SPECIAL COUNSEL SEEKS MORE INFO IN CIA PROBE: NYT /// ' Fitzgerald is still to be trying to determine whether Rove had been fully forthcoming about his contacts... Fitzgerald spent the day in Washington and summoned his team, including his chief FBI investigator, Jack Eckenrode, for what appeared to be a final round of discussions about how to proceed'... MORE..."
If you google "plame neighbors knew" you will find quite a controversy. It would be surprising if Fitz is just now getting around to this.
Oh, I agree, they should at least bring in the Robert Blake criminal jury from California for fairness.
NYT smells "The Brain" slipping through their fingers..DU bridge watch is in effect.
SPECIAL COUNSEL SEEKS MORE INFO IN CIA PROBE: NYT /// ' Fitzgerald is still to be trying to determine whether Rove had been fully forthcoming about his contacts... Fitzgerald spent the day in Washington and summoned his team, including his chief FBI investigator, Jack Eckenrode, for what appeared to be a final round of discussions about how to proceed'
I don't know for sure .. but I don't think so
"NYT smells "The Brain" slipping through their fingers..DU bridge watch is in effect."
I love it!
Lewis Libby comes to Marc Rich’s defense. by Byron York
March 2, 2001 8:55 a.m. Lewis Libby, a top Republican lawyer who is now vice president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, told the House Government Reform Committee last night that he agreed with much of Bill Clinton's widely discredited op-ed article outlining the former president's reasons for pardoning fugitive tax evader Marc Rich.
In a session that stretched late into the evening, Libby, who represented Rich for several years ending in the spring of 2000, told the committee he believes Rich is not guilty of the tax and racketeering charges filed by federal prosecutors in 1983. Libby also said he "quite possibly" would have considered applying for a pardon for Rich had Rich asked him to do so.
Libby, who said his law firms collected as much as $2 million for representing Rich, testified he had nothing to do with the application that led to clemency for Rich. He declined to say whether he approved of the decision to pardon Rich, but he conceded that he called Rich on January 22, two days after the pardon, to "congratulate him on having reached a result that he had sought for a long time." Libby testified he made the call from his home to make clear that he was calling in a personal capacity, and not as a representative of the Bush administration.
In a particularly damaging exchange with Pennsylvania Democrat Paul Kanjorski , Libby agreed that Rich might be characterized as a traitor for fleeing the country and renouncing his American citizenship. Kanjorski asked Libby why he would call a traitor to congratulate him on his good fortune in winning a pardon. Visibly uncomfortable, Libby had no answer.
For Republicans, Libby's testimony was a sour endnote to what had been a long day of revelations that made President Clinton's decision to pardon Rich seem even more inexplicable than previously thought.
Now THATS interesting!
Dan Rather himself on the first David Letterman after the 9/11 attacks:
"Sadaam Hussein, if he isn’t connected to this, he’s connected to many other things. He’s part of this ‘hate America” thing. You have to understand that Sadaam Hussein is somebody that I have sat this close, eye to eye. When his feet hit the floor every morning, he dreams of leading a victorious Arab army into Jeruselem. And, ah, he sees himself as a new Saladeen. And his hate is deep for us- I don’t even like to use the word hate, but ya know, this is what we’re dealing with and we have to wake up."
I remember that there was talk back months ago about her nature of her "career" was being rather freely tossed about in DC, in general, and specifically there was an article where her neighbors were interviewed. Her lawyer, I believe, Christopher Wolf is it??, is her next door neighbor, and was nearly oozing with praise and compliments about her
If they don't have the goods on Rove before now I do not believe Fitz would go out on a limb to prosecute him.
correct.
the GJ did not want to indict Rove, so Fitzgerald is throwing a "hail mary" pass with no time left on the clock to try and get him.
don't put any faith in Fitz. if he can whip up some magic to get Rove at the last minute, he will.
Massive spin/lie campaign by the MSM, so when people get up tomorrow, and nothing happens, the Dems can scream cover-up.
Yeah, I frankly can't imagine what a fiasco a trial for the prosecutors.
I've always thought the media was more dangerous than even the dem-politicos. It is specifically their role as enablers that allows the Democrats to get away with what they do because they know their media brethren won't hold them accountable. In fact, where the Dems once led the agenda, they now follow the lead of the media since they know the media won't undermine their own agenda by questioning the dems honesty.
The fact that neither can be honest about what they both were saying about WMDS BEFORE Bush was president is a perfect example of this. Heck, Kerry was on MTP in 1998 with McCain talking about how Clinton was being too soft on Saddam because his WMDs were a greater threat than realized. They're downright dangerous.
My thanks to blogblogginaway for finding this information.
Roll Call: Fitzgerald visited Rove's attorney Tuesday in leak case
RAW STORY
Appearing to jibe with a report in the Los Angeles Times Tuesday evening which asserted that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is turning his sights back to Bush's chief advisor, Karl Rove, Roll Call's Mary Ann Akers will report in Wednesday's editions that Fitzgerald was seen at Rove's lawyer's offices.
Rove is among numerous officials who have been questioned about whether they had a role in outing covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, the wife of ardent Iraq intelligence critic Joseph Wilson.
According to Roll Call, Fitzgerald was spotted Tuesday at the law offices of Patton Boggs, the firm that employs Rove's lawyer Robert Luskin.
Though Akers says in her column she "heard about the visit from a well-placed source," Luskin refused to confirm "why or even whether Fitzgerald visited him."
Akers adds: "The rumor floating around Patton Boggs Tuesday was that there “may” be no indictments this week because Fitzgerald “may” need to seek an extension from the presiding judge to wrap up his investigation of Flamegate (or Plamegate for those of us who aren’t Judy Miller)."
Sources close to the investigation told RAW STORY Tuesday that indictments had already made their way to the grand jury in the case, and that others were in preparation.
Fitzgerald's agents also visited the Wilson's neighbors Monday, asking them whether they were aware that Valerie was a covert CIA agent, according to the L.A. Times and the Associated Press.
Rove, Akers asserts, "was spotted visiting his lawyer on Friday."
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Roll_Call_Fitzgerald_visited_Roves_attorney_1025.html
Libby (60% probability) and Miller (80% probability) will be indicted for false statement, or obstruction of justice, or perjury, or all of the above.
Rove (80% probability) will not be indicted, if indicted (20% probability) it will be on false statement, or obstruction of justice, or perjury, or all of the above.
Dewey Defeats Truman!
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