Posted on 10/29/2005 6:54:33 PM PDT by Libloather
INDICTMENT THE HISTORY: ANALYSIS
Backstory: The push for war
Faulty intelligence in the run-up to invation
BY CRAIG GORDON
WASHINGTON BUREAU
October 29, 2005
WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush's administration did all it could Friday to close the book on I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
Don't have any contact with Libby about his indictment, staffers were warned. His security clearance - gone. And no goodbye meeting with the president. Libby "has left the White House, and I do not expect him to return," spokesman Scott McClellan said.
If only it were that easy.
Far from a clean end to the CIA leak investigation, Libby's indictment is just the start of a potentially drawn-out legal process and does nothing to halt an ongoing investigation of the president's top political adviser, Karl Rove.
It is that legal never-never land that worries some Republicans who fear the uncertainty will limit Bush's ability to put the case behind him and try to regain momentum for a presidency in free fall.
Libby's indictment "is bad. Nobody can spin it otherwise, but the real bad part is the lack of closure," said Rich Bond, a former Republican national chairman. "You've got the trial potentially coming up. You've got the vice president potentially appearing as a prosecution witness. And you've got a grand jury still going on and looking at Rove."
A trial or further indictments could lay bare some of the White House's most politically embarrassing secrets: How did they come to use such flawed intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war? How did they deal with political enemies like war critic Joseph Wilson? And did Vice President Dick Cheney or even the president himself know anything about Libby's activities?
(Excerpt) Read more at nynewsday.com ...
Pray for W and Our Troops
Nope. Testimony in grand jury proceedings is secret up until the witness spews. After that, they can say whatever they want to in public. If Timmy lied, we'll know about it later - in court...
Good grief! They can't even spell "invation" (invasion) correctly .. and they want me to believe they have a brain ..??
I just checked. They haven't made any correction. They sure could use a good spell checker - and story writer...
Pray for W and Our Trops
Could get interesting. Apparently, neither Plame nor Wilson were called as witnesses in front of the grand jury. That should change during the trial. Hold on tight.
Looks like the DU bloggers are at it again.
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