Fitzgerald's Eight Pages - Let's unseal the reason he put Miss Run Amok in jail

OpinionJournal.com ^ | November 4, 2005 | Unattributed

[gpapa]

Friday, November 4, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST

Apart from Scooter Libby, the biggest loser by far in the Patrick Fitzgerald probe has been the press. The "leak" investigation that every liberal editorial board demanded has already sent one reporter to jail, and the damage is only going to get worse.

Thanks to the disastrous New York Times legal strategy, the D.C. Circuit of Appeals dealt a major blow to a reporter's ability to protect his sources. Prosecutors everywhere will now be more inclined to call reporters to testify, under threat of prison time. And if Mr. Libby's case goes to trial, at least three reporters will be called as witnesses for the prosecution. Just wait until defense counsel starts examining their memories and reporting habits, not to mention the dominant political leanings in the newsrooms of NBC, Time magazine and the New York Times. "Meet the Press," indeed.

[SaltyJoe]

Concerning Libby.

Keep your friends close. Keep your enemies closer.

I think that the VP would know EXACTLY who was working for him in such close proximity. It's not exactly like VP Chaney just fell off the turnip truck.

I smell a counter-move on behalf of the White House now that wolves were snared.

Considering that Paris is no longer a haven for politicized spies and traitors, some of these anti-Bush GS workers better wake up and realize the canon fodder they are, and turn states evidence before they become liquidated by the same folk that took out Ron Brown.

[TVenn]

From the article:

Rather than join this parade of masochism, we thought we'd try to speed things along, as well as end one of the remaining mysteries in the probe. That's why Dow Jones & Co., this newspaper's parent company, filed a motion late Wednesday requesting that the federal district court unseal eight pages of redacted information that Mr. Fitzgerald used to justify throwing Judith Miller of the New York Times in the slammer.

The pages were part of Judge David Tatel's concurring opinion in the ruling against Ms. Miller and Time magazine's Matthew Cooper. Judge Tatel said the eight pages showed that, with his "voluminous classified filings," Mr. Fitzgerald had "met his burden of demonstrating that the information [sought from the reporters] is both critical and unobtainable from any other source."

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Interesting. The eight pages of redacted information suggests there is more to this story than we have been told.

[timestax]

bttt

[FerdieMurphy]

The Score in the Race to Judgment at the White House

Clinton Democrats:

61 indictments or misdemeanor charges

33 convictions

14 imprisonments

7 independent counsel investigations

72 congressional witnesses pleading the Fifth Amendment

19 foreign witnesses who declined interviews by investigative bodies

17 witnesses fleeing the country to avoid testifying


Bush Republicans:

1 indictment, not even on the primary issue