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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: Txsleuth
Mark Levin just said on his radio show...that according to a lefty website...there will be 1-5 indictments sent up tomorrow

Wow, that's really going out on a limb. /sarcasm

681 posted on 10/25/2005 7:15:35 PM PDT by bluefish (Holding out for worthy tagline...)
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To: cwb
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.

And of course the GOP spokemen and leaders have cataloged all these facts and will confront the press with them ( Of course they will)
682 posted on 10/25/2005 7:15:45 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: oceanview

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.


683 posted on 10/25/2005 7:16:50 PM PDT by babaloo
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To: jveritas

sounds about right.


684 posted on 10/25/2005 7:18:24 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: conservativepoet
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.

Anybody believe this BS

Cut me a break. A day before supposed indictments
The fact they even print something this stupid shows how wacked out they are
685 posted on 10/25/2005 7:19:28 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: conservativepoet
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)."

Good grief, if he can't figure it out in 2 years, close up shop and call it a day.

686 posted on 10/25/2005 7:19:28 PM PDT by ReaganRevolution
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To: cmsgop

687 posted on 10/25/2005 7:19:57 PM PDT by petercooper (The Republican Party: We Suck Less.)
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To: oceanview

Chicago 5 - Houston 4 ...top of the 6th
:o)


688 posted on 10/25/2005 7:20:04 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: oceanview

If Rove is not indicted the Left would have lost BIG in this whole non story that they made a huge story.


689 posted on 10/25/2005 7:20:05 PM PDT by jveritas (The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
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To: ReaganRevolution

"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.


690 posted on 10/25/2005 7:21:34 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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Bookmark


691 posted on 10/25/2005 7:22:15 PM PDT by LowOiL ("I am neither . I am a Christocrat" -Benjamin Rush)
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To: conservativepoet

let's just hope we get a judge someplace to deny the extension if he asks for it.


692 posted on 10/25/2005 7:23:00 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: oceanview

"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!


693 posted on 10/25/2005 7:24:10 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: All

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.


694 posted on 10/25/2005 7:24:26 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: churchillbuff

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.


695 posted on 10/25/2005 7:25:45 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: conservativepoet
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.

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.

696 posted on 10/25/2005 7:26:08 PM PDT by CedarDave (Life was simpler before Cindy showed up in Crawford.)
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To: conservativepoet
In the middle of a Tuesday conference call announcing Infinity Broadcasting's plans to replace Howard Stern, a familiar voice appeared: Beetlejuice, the diminutive, snaggle-toothed fixture from the shock jock's nationally syndicated morning show.

This can not be good for Rove... the plot thickens!

697 posted on 10/25/2005 7:26:18 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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To: uncbob

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.


698 posted on 10/25/2005 7:26:31 PM PDT by cwb (Liberalism is the opiate of the *asses)
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To: STARWISE

That's him


699 posted on 10/25/2005 7:27:19 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: conservativepoet; Mo1
Christopher Wolf

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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He's also with the ADL:

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.

700 posted on 10/25/2005 7:27:53 PM PDT by STARWISE (The liberals and terrorists belong to the same club: THE HATE AND DESTROY AMERICA CLUB.)
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