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’
Wow, that's really going out on a limb. /sarcasm
Fitz is going to have to justify the time and money he spent. If all he comes up with is Scooter on misremembering this will be a fiasco for him.
sounds about right.
Good grief, if he can't figure it out in 2 years, close up shop and call it a day.
Chicago 5 - Houston 4 ...top of the 6th
:o)
If Rove is not indicted the Left would have lost BIG in this whole non story that they made a huge story.
"Good grief, if he can't figure it out in 2 years, close up shop and call it a day."
I agree, their time is up.
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let's just hope we get a judge someplace to deny the extension if he asks for it.
"let's just hope we get a judge someplace to deny the extension if he asks for it."
Now that would be a nice surprise!
It occurred to me that all these rumors of indictments may actually be true but the context is incomplete.
It might be that Fitz is going to submit to the GJ a vote on each potential party and therefore technically an indictment is being prepared subject to the vote of the GJ.
This would eliminate Fitz from taking unilateral action.
Do you know anything about Mary Madelines' acativities in this mess. She was part of the Iraq group. She runs in the same social circles as Plame in Georgetown. She was examined by Fitzgerald before the Grand Jury. Could she have told Libby...then Libby and Cheney had their conversation? Do you know anything about her activity in this matter? What prompted Fitzgerald to bring her befoe the GJ.
From this Drudge story ("CIA leak investigators hold last-minute interviews"):
Two lawyers involved in the case said such questioning could indicated (sic) that prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald intended to charge administration officials for the leak itself, in addition to possible charges for easier-to-prove crimes like perjury and obstruction of justice.
How questioning of Plame's neighbors could lead to a conclusion like that is beyond me, except for the lawyers hoping for such an outcome and passing it on to a sympathetic reporter who himself believes all the hype ("so it just must be true!") and reports it.
This can not be good for Rove... the plot thickens!
Of course not; they leave that job to us...and others like us. I'm beginning to think this may be part of the problem so BushCo can look to be "above it all." They better start realizing that Democrats aren't just looking to ruin their political careers...but also their very freedoms and livelihoods. I don't think you'll see Democrats arguing for leniency as the Bush DOJ did for Bergler.
That's him
He is the Plame/Wilson attorney, helping them prepare their lawsuit against the Bush White House, and I believe, is their next door neighbor
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Wolf is chairman of the Anti-Defamation League's National Committee on the Internet. Wolf was the first president of Responsible Electronic Communication Alliance (RECA), an organization started to promote professional standards for online communication and marketing. He is a member of Hands Off, the Internet coalition which lobbies against regulation of high-speed Net access.
An expert on internet privacy and security, Wolf speaks regularly at international conferences and represents clients in high profile cases. He spoke at a Stanford Law School Symposium: Securing Privacy in the Internet Age on March 13, 2004. Wolf addressed a session on "The Nature and Extent Between Racist, Xenophobic and anti-Semitic Propaganda on the Internet and Hate Crimes." in Paris, France June 16, 2004.
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He also wrote THIS
Plame Investigation Is Not a 'Game'
Tuesday, January 18, 2005; Letters to the Editor -Page A16
In their Jan. 12 op-ed column ["The Plame Game: Was This a Crime?"] Victoria Toensing and Bruce W. Sanford misrepresented the scope of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which certainly does cover former covert agents who remain at risk (along with their contacts) even after their covert operations end.
They also said that Valerie Plame's status was allegedly known on the "Washington cocktail circuit," implying that it was widely known that she worked as a covert agent for the CIA. But columnist Robert D. Novak has said that he learned of Ms. Plame's status through a leak by senior administration officials. Even I, Ms. Plame's lawyer and neighbor, was unaware of her status until Mr. Novak blew her cover.
African nations that produced uranium, including Niger, and had been ambassador to one of them, Gabon. In all, he served in seven African countries and as senior director for African affairs in the National Security Council under President Bill Clinton. His bona fides for the trip are spelled out in the report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which divulged that Mr. Wilson had traveled to Niger in 1999 at the request of the CIA to look into other uranium-related allegations.
The Plame investigation is not a "game." Reporters may need to be protected, but calling for a halt to the investigation into the leaking of Ms. Plame's identity to Robert Novak is not the way to do that.
CHRISTOPHER WOLF
Washington
The writer is the attorney for Ambassador Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame.
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