Posted on 10/26/2005 12:10:24 PM PDT by inpajamas
WASHINGTON—The federal prosecutor investigating the alleged involvement of White House officials in the leak of a CIA operative's identity spent most of the lunch hour today meeting with the chief judge of the federal district court in the nation's capital, Judge Thomas Hogan.
As reporters massed outside an elevator lobby leading to the grand jury rooms, the special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, apparently slipped out a back exit to conduct the noontime meeting with Judge Hogan.
Mr. Fitzgerald declined to comment as he and a colleague emerged from the judge's chambers just before 1 p.m.
The prosecutor's visit to the chief judge could signal that Mr. Fitzgerald is seeking to extend the term of the grand jury that has been investigating the leak. Judge Hogan would need to approve any extension to the grand jury's term, which was set to expire on Friday....
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Well, generally speaking I don't know where any of neighbors work, except for one who happens to write for the ComPost. If I did know that my neighbor worked at the CIA however, that would make it a very open secret.
I heard W picked him? True? UGH, if so, hasn't he learned anything over the 5+years he has been dealing with the EVIL RATS at the WH? NEVER, ever trust a RAT, NOT even if your life depends on it.......FREAKIN NEVER!!
If that is true I would have to agree. I hope the judge just says no and tells Fitzgerald to close up shop. No indictments, unless they want to indict Joe Wilson for playing "footsie" with French intelligence.
Hey, somebody told Wilson what was in the "forged" documents. Remember he testified that he saw them but the Senate revealed that he did not see them. So how did he know what was in them? What are the odds of Wilson being indicted. Hmm...somewhere between zero and none.
If he did ask for an extension, absent new and startling facts, I hope the judge told him two years of this nonsense is enough!
This case should have been wrapped up in the first week...
There are lots of people who work for the CIA and aren't covert. I know people who work at the CIA and are not covert, although they don't go around bragging about it or anything. The covert ones say they are consultans at some shell company.
I'm just impressed that you can make that call without knowing any more than 10% of the pertinent facts.
Being one who sees the dark lining in every cloud, you might be right.
I hate to think what if Cheney and/or Bush
were named as unindicted co-conspirators if indictments were handed up against Libby or Rove.
The administration needs to be involved in governing and defending the nation instead of dealing with endless legal attacks in court, Congress, and the MSM.
We might be seeing the last opportunity for conservatives to right the course of the nation being squandered. It is
a shame that hatred from the Dems,the Left,and the MSM have tuned a mole hill into a mountain.
The fact that it was random would be an assumption on your part, wouldn't it?
I was trying to get to the fact that people don't generally know what their neighbors do anymore. I was shocked a couple of months ago when an investigator showed up here at my office to interview me about one of my neighbors - his clearance was being reviewed. I didn't know he had a clearance nor that he worked for the government.
Next he'll be shopping for another grand jury like Ronnie Earle did THREE times before finding one dumb enough and Democrat enough to indict DeLay.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Lugsoul keeps reiterating that Fitz had a slam-dunk case on the initial "outing" charge over a year ago, and that all he needed to tidy things up was the testimony of Miller and Cooper. Well, Miller and Cooper testified, but Fitz still seems to be at loose ends with his "slam-dunk" case and "voluminous" damning testimony that the judges referred to so long ago. In one of his briefs, Fitz mentioned that the investigation had taken an "unexpected turn." Some of us hope that means he might have latched on to the CIA hijinks and the politicization of classified material on the part of the anti-Bush faction, but that would be almost too good to be true. It could mean he is trying to nail everyone who ever uttered the name of Valery Plame as part of some huge conspiracy.
I think the meeting with the judge today was routine and that no extension is necessary.
From all appearances, Fitz personally hand delivered the sealed indictment against Rove to his attorney this afternoon.
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