Posted on 10/28/2005 12:22:42 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Newsweek magazine reporter Howard Fineman, who's been at the forefront of recent media speculation that top White House official Karl Rove would be indicted, has pronounced Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's decision to indict only Cheney aide Lewis Libby "a victory" for the Bush White House.
"Given the expectations that have evolved around here in the last week or so, if it turns out that this phase of the grand jury ends with only Scooter Libby being indicted," Fineman told MSNBC's Joe Scarborough last night, "that will be seen as almost be seen as a backwards kind of victory here."
Scarborough agreed, saying that the indictment of Libby without Rove would be, "a huge political win for the White House."
Fineman said Rove, not Libby, was Fitzgerald's "big fish."
"Karl Rove is a big national figure and as close to the president of the United States as you can get without being a member of the president`s family," he told Scarborough. "And so, politically, Karl Rove is the much bigger fish here."
Bout time someone said it! IT IS A BUSH VICTORY! The Dems and Leftists were aiming for the BIG FISH (Rove, Cheney, Karen Hughes, Bolton & even BUSH) but got nothing but Libby!
It's not over yet. He'll charge Rove before he's through.
if the libs tell you diferently just read this AP headline:
Rove Not Expected to Be Indicted Today
Dont' think so. He said he wanted to get this over with. I think he's going to indict a journalist!
IT WILL BE A BLUE FITZMAS WITHOUT ROVE!"
Libby was basically indicted for remembering a conversation with Russert slightly differently than the way Russert remembered it.
I agree, It is not over, he could not get Rove...Yet, but he is being creative with a new Grand Jury and will get Karl if he can find a way to do it.
BTW...what does it mean for Rove to still be "under scrutiny" now?
Meanwhile one of the biggest scandals in this century gets underreported so we can key on this non-story.
He'll have to - if one of those FBI files that Hillary illegally had upstairs in their private quarters pertained to Fitzgerald.
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Office of the Deputy Attorney General Washington, D.C. 20530
December 30, 2003
The Honorable Patrick J. Fitzgerald United States Attorney 219 S. Dearborn Street Chicago, IL 60604
Dear Patrick,
By the authority vested in the Attorney General by law, including 28 U. S .C. §§ 509, 510, and 515, and in my capacity as Acting Attorney General pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 508, I hereby delegate to you all the authority of the Attorney General with respect to the Department's investigation into the alleged unauthorized disclosure of a CIA employee's identity, and I direct you to exercise that authority as Special Counsel independent of the supervision or control of any officer of the Department.
/s/ James B. Comey James B. Comey Acting Attorney General
They were saying it was starting to feel a lot like Christmas.
Both will be reversed upon appeal, but the rat point will be made.
Newsmax had another story about how this investigation lags behind the Whitewater one.
Fitz is a joke compared to the stuff Starr found.
Hear, hear. The libs were never after Libby (who?). From day one, they were after Rove. This is all about revenge for The Architect keeping them out of the White House. Because of The Architect's brilliance, the libs are in my opinion 18 months from seeing Roe v. Wade overturned. That's why they were literally crying in the streets at the end of election night, and it's why they're so rabid to go after Rove.
I love watching them crow now, because they're fooling themselves if they think this does anything for them. If anything, it only galvanizes our base to make sure to pay them back in future elections, and it won't do anything on that day in, say, early 2007 when the SCOTUS decision comes down that overturns Roe v. Wade.
"We congratulate Orlando for the kill and acknowledge that we are targeted. Though we are dead, our torpedoes were fired before your transmission...If we fired them right, any hits should be visible in your scope. They hit, we still win. Har, har."
Sandy Burglar? Oil for food? CIA plot against the president?
I know, it's ridiculous!! The LSM makes me so mad.
The Liberals just don't get it yet. WE determine who will be the Majority. Not Fitz, not Earle. We don't like them using the Courts in a political witchhunt. This only galvanizes our side. If Bush nominates Alito or another fine Judge, Dems are toast. We'll be stoked for '06.
They dig their own grave with this injustice towards Libby.
Though I agree strongly Rove was the target, they didn't get him, they trumped weak charges on Libby. There is not joy in Liberalville tonight.
No. There is more to it than that.
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