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Grand Jury in CIA Leak Case Adjourns
AP via Yahoo! ^ | October 26, 2005 | PETE YOST and JOHN SOLOMON

Posted on 10/26/2005 10:36:20 AM PDT by Brilliant

WASHINGTON - The federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA officer's identity met for three hours Wednesday with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald and adjourned for the day without announcing any action.

Fitzgerald is known to be putting the finishing touches on a two-year criminal probe that has ensnared two senior White House aides.

After the grand jury left for the day, federal prosecutors conferred for about an hour in the grand jury area of the federal courthouse.

There was no word on whether Fitzgerald planned to make any announcement or whether the grand jury planned to meet again.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: beltwaywarzone; cia; cialeak; fitzgerald; leak; libby; nomodstoday; plame; redundant; rove; wilson
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To: frankjr

They were there for such a short time, I'm thinking they just issued subpoenas, or something like that.


21 posted on 10/26/2005 11:07:37 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Queen of Excelsior; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; NormsRevenge
Much more typical AP release here:

Grand jury in CIA leak case adjourns

INteresting excerpt .....

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Fitzgerald has been in Washington since Monday and over the last two days dispatched FBI agents to conduct some 11th-hour interviews, according to lawyers close to the investigation, who also spoke on condition of anonymity.

One set of interviews occurred in the neighborhood of Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson, whose wife Valerie Plame was outed as an undercover CIA officer. Agents asked neighbors whether they had any inkling that Plame works for the CIA.

"They wanted to know how well we knew her, which is very well," said neighbor David Tillotson. "Did we know anything about her position before the story broke? Absolutely not."

Agents also interviewed a former unidentified associate of Rove about his activities around the time the leaks occurred.

Two lawyers familiar with the activities said the interviews involved basic fact-checking and did not appear to plow new ground.

Fitzgerald may want to establish Plame had carefully protected her CIA identity as part of the process of determining whether the disclosure of her name amounted to a crime.

22 posted on 10/26/2005 11:07:57 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: Brilliant

I'm beginning to suspect Fitzgerald may be having trouble getting the Grand Jury to do everything he wants.


23 posted on 10/26/2005 11:09:53 AM PDT by Swampmarine
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald (R) departs the U.S. District Court in Washington October 26, 2005. The federal grand jury investigating the leak of a covert CIA operative's identity met on Wednesday with special counsel Fitzgerald amid signs the prosecutor was preparing to seek criminal charges. Fitzgerald later left the building following the session with no comment. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst


24 posted on 10/26/2005 11:10:03 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Monthly Donor spoken Here. Go to ... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald leaves the U.S Federal courthouse after meeting with the grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA officer's identity on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2005 in Washington. Fitzgerald is putting the finishing touches on a two-year criminal probe that has ensnared two senior White House aides. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)


25 posted on 10/26/2005 11:11:00 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Monthly Donor spoken Here. Go to ... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Queen of Excelsior
Ummm, not so fast...

Fitzgerald is known to be putting the finishing touches on a two-year criminal probe that has ensnared two senior White House aides.

If inclusion on the witness list (which is all we know for a fact at this point) ensnares somebody, then there were a few more people than just two senior WH aides involved.

The AP just couldn't resist, could they?

26 posted on 10/26/2005 11:13:14 AM PDT by liberty_lvr (Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.)
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To: Swampmarine

I doubt that. He probably doesn't think much of his case, though, or he would have brought it to a head long ago.


27 posted on 10/26/2005 11:13:33 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: NormsRevenge
LA Times has done their own spin job here (I assume):

Fitzgerald Meets With Grand Jury as CIA Leak Probe Wraps Up

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Excerpt:

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On Monday, two FBI agents combed the northwest Washington neighborhood where Wilson and Plame live, showing their badges and questioning neighbors about whether they knew Plame worked for the CIA before her employer was revealed by Novak in July 2003.

Critics of the leak investigation have said it was an open secret that Plame worked for the CIA; if many people knew that she worked for the agency, it would make prosecution under the 1982 law protecting covert agents nearly impossible.

28 posted on 10/26/2005 11:14:53 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: pierrem15

Sounds like an accurate prediction. What I have to laugh at is the pundits. They will sit there and issue projections. Then the news breaks and we see that they were totally wrong. Then they sit there and discuss the next things to happen as if they are actually right all the time. And I thought only weatherman were paid even when they were consistently wrong!!


29 posted on 10/26/2005 11:17:50 AM PDT by John SBM
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Dog Gone; tubebender; sergeantdave; BOBTHENAILER
Hey Ernie, remember that old time radio drama show named "SUSPENSE!"?

Man-O-Man I sure do! The announcer would warm everybody up with a cresendo of hype, ending in the phrase... "Well calculated to keep you in SUSPENSE!"

30 posted on 10/26/2005 11:18:59 AM PDT by SierraWasp (The only thing that can save CA is making eastern CA the 51st state called Sierra Republic!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

It's obvious that SP is looking at the CIA.


31 posted on 10/26/2005 11:19:45 AM PDT by Perdogg ("Facts are stupid things." - President Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: All
MORE:

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As anticipation built in Washington about potential indictments -- and what it would mean for a Bush administration beset by low approval ratings, the Iraq war and a controversial Supreme Court nomination -- a related problem was brewing in Italy over how the Niger allegations made their way into the intelligence stream.

Italian parliamentary officials announced that the head of Italy's military secret service, the SISMI intelligence agency, would be questioned next month about allegations that his agency gave the disputed documents to the United States and Britain, an Associated Press report said. A spokeswoman said Nicolo Pollari, the agency's director, asked to be questioned after reports this week in Italy's La Repubblica newspaper claiming that SISMI sent the CIA and U.S. and British officials information that it knew was forged.

The newspaper reported that Pollari met at the White House on Sept. 9, 2002, with then-deputy national security advisor Stephen J. Hadley. The Niger claims surfaced shortly thereafter. A spokesman for Hadley, now the national security advisor, confirmed that the meeting took place but declined to say what was discussed.

Hadley played a prominent role in the controversy over Bush's claims in his State of the Union address. He took responsibility for inserting into the speech the famous 16 words that laid out the allegations.

32 posted on 10/26/2005 11:20:06 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: SierraWasp

I remember Suspense....from the Green Hornet....what a radio show....


33 posted on 10/26/2005 11:22:49 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

those forged documents were planted as a poison pill to discredit what was otherwise a valid story - that's why the Brits never backed off from the Niger uranium claim. that the documents were forged is not in question, they were - its how and why they got into the intel stream that is the question.


34 posted on 10/26/2005 11:25:54 AM PDT by oceanview
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To: Perdogg

why wouldn't he send that part of the case back to the DOJ?


35 posted on 10/26/2005 11:26:58 AM PDT by oceanview
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To: NormsRevenge
Looking at the picture, I notice he does not have the big briefcase he went in with. This could only mean one of several things.

1) Homeland security should be called and search for the briefcase.

2) The briefcase had his lunch in it and he ate it, therefor no longer needed said briefcase

One could speculate Both of these possibilities mean Scooter and Rove are indicted.

36 posted on 10/26/2005 11:28:00 AM PDT by JIM O
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Dog Gone; tubebender; sergeantdave; BOBTHENAILER
How 'bout "Sky King" and the "Bobby Benton at the B bar B ranch in Big Bend TX" show???

Hey! I know it's off the thread's subject, but heck... We're not going to learn anything via all this speculatin we're doin anyways!!! (grin)

37 posted on 10/26/2005 11:31:45 AM PDT by SierraWasp (The only thing that can save CA is making eastern CA the 51st state called Sierra Republic!!!)
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To: JIM O; NormsRevenge; SierraWasp
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38 posted on 10/26/2005 11:32:05 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: SierraWasp

How about the ....The Lone Ranger...and Tonto....damn I loved those shows....


39 posted on 10/26/2005 11:33:23 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: SierraWasp

Hey...Sky King was a TV show...?

I didn't have no TV....I was half way between Denver and KC....the original fly over country...


40 posted on 10/26/2005 11:36:07 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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