[Izzy Dunne]

what caused Clinton's impeachment "wasn't that he had an affair with Monica Lewinsky but he lied about it."

Wow! How did THIS get by the AP editors?

[sam_paine]

What? A correct headline?

[Gondring]

AP: Charges Don't Directly Address CIA Leak

They are correct; Joseph Wilson was not indicted today.

[syriacus]

What I will remember about today---

David Gergen said, just a short time ago, (on CNN or MSNBC) that the White House can't blame it's troubles on an overzealous prosecutor or on being "kn*cked-up" by the press.

I think he meant "knocked-about."

[Tzimisce]

WOW! Someone in the press is suggesting this is political?

Get ready, this reporter is going to be dragged to the woodshed by the rest of the "unbiased" reporters in the biz....

[dirtboy]

Levy said the indictment is "very narrow, very focused: it follows, very provable."

Until you look at the indictment itself and see it is about he said, he said situations.

[smonk]

there wasn't a crime until there was an investigation.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Hat tip to Drudge on this one, by the way!

[telebob]

Scooter was indicted on five counts of contradicting a reporter...

At least that's all I could garner from reading the indictment.

[Logical me]

Once again, and now after seeing this jacka@@ on TV, Fitzzzzzzzz is an lame excuse for a prosecutor. I've been in the Court system for 27 years, and I know a nut when I see one. Doesn't take much to pass the bar now days, just dumb every exercise with memory with no solid intelligence. Lawyers, salt of the earth, sure, sure, sure. Takes ten to screw in a light bulb, but they have a time finding the burned our bulb, and then looses the socket.

[Jeff Chandler]

D.C. jury


D.C. jury


D.C. jury


D.C. jury


D.C. jury


D.C. jury

[popdonnelly]

That is correct, Fitzgerald did not charge anyone with the crime of "outing" a covert agent. Is he required to? Of course not. If the evidence doesn't meet the requirements of the statute, he's not going to charge anyone.

I note that the news media still can't get this straight. ABC Radio News led off with, "Valerie Plame was a covert agent."

[Berlin_Freeper]

We can thank the useless coward Ashcroft for unleashing this democrat power hungry career and media whore fritzgerald on the Bush Administration.

The only good thing about Ashcroft is that he quit, that was the only good thing he ever did as AG. All he had to do was announce that obviously no crime was committed in outing a covert CIA agent because she was not such, and the whole BS thing would have been over in 5 minutes.

I hope that dickweed is happy with himself today.

[RogerWilko]

Uh Ohh... It's been picked up by The Washington Post and ABC News too so far!

They better watch out or they may cause a controversy!

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Someone, please answer me this: If a crime had never been committed, how can one lie about it?

[dead]

Steven Reich, a New York attorney and former senior associate counsel to President Bill Clinton, said Fitzgerald has his reasons for not charging anyone with the leak. "Either he thought there was not a crime, or he thought he couldn't prove it. No one will know which but him," he said

What the hell kind of idiotic statement is that?

We are paying Fitzgerald to do this job. That would imply a certain obligation that he let us know whether or not a crime was committed prior to the time he started gathering evidence in the case.

[freekitty]

I believe Wilson, his wife and whoever else are the culprits here.

When I heard Wilson had not signed a confidentiality agreement; I went WHAT? Most companies request of whoever works with or for them do.

This is a red flag and it makes me wonder if this obvious set up for whatever reason did not come from Wilson, his wife and whoever backed them. People sign confidentiality agreements or whatever especially when dealing with high sensitivty issues as Wilson has been spouting off to the world he was involved in. If they don't you have to wonder WHY?

[jec41]

Two lessons here!!! Never trust a reporter and never lie to a GJ.

[BenLurkin]

"Fitzgerald has his reasons for not charging anyone with the leak. "Either he thought there was not a crime, or he thought he couldn't prove it."

If it isn't a crime then what in the world is the point????

[montag813]

"Either he thought there was not a crime, or he thought he couldn't prove it.

Either way, he had an obligation to the taxpayers to drop the case. Tricking Scooter into perjury over a trivial matter was not worth $750,000.