Posted on 11/19/2005 9:20:05 AM PST by new yorker 77
Headline of Article: Fitzgerald sees new grand jury proceedings
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A lawyer in the case said Woodward's source had not previously testified before a grand jury in the leak case.
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"Fitzgerald is a dumkopf!"
Actually he is a very dangerous and predatory liberal masquerading as a moderate. Hopefully he will be a dumkopf as this rolls forward.
He will probably try again to slime Rove or Dick Cheney with his new game of who not to interview to slime the Republicans.
If he subpoenas Walter Pincus and David Corn and makes their testimony public, we can cut him some slack.
Now he is looking more each day like the left wing DA in Texas who is trying to smear/frame DeLay.
I think you are on the right track. I think he is lying and will name someone close to Chaney or Bush.
He and Fitz had this worked out.
Seeing that his entire career has been based on the lies he told about Watergate, what makes anyone believe he wouldn't do it again.
Man. If a special prosecutor who was going after Democrats had screwed up like this, the MSM would bury him, and his investigation.
(steely)
On to the Ronnie Earle .. shop FoR a Grand Jury phase
Yes, you nailed it.
Less witnesses means less chance of contradiction. This clown Fitzgerald wants to frame somebody good and he only wants to let in that testimony which supports his agenda. This is why he has had "meets" with people prior to bringing them in before the gj. He wants to know ahead of time exactly what questions to ask and what the answers will be.
It would not surprise me at all to find out that Fitz has had lunch with both Corn and Pincus.
No idea myself.
Perhaps because Wilson himself was Corn & Pincus' source. Maybe he was afraid of where it would lead...
I may have nailed. However, you have summarized what this left wing POS has been doing and apparently is trying to do:
"Less witnesses means less chance of contradiction. This clown Fitzgerald wants to frame somebody good and he only wants to let in that testimony which supports his agenda. This is why he has had "meets" with people prior to bringing them in before the gj. He wants to know ahead of time exactly what questions to ask and what the answers will be."
Yep, compartmentalize and never ask a question that you don't know the answer. Prearranged data insures the right questions in the Grand Jury.
"It would not surprise me at all to find out that Fitz has had lunch with both Corn and Pincus."
He probably had them report to one of his junior staff meetings. The jr staffer aske prearranged questions while Fitzy looked. After the prearranged questions, Fitzy told Corn and Pincus, we will not need your testimony.
"A lawyer in the case said Woodward's source had not previously testified before a grand jury in the leak case."
Well, maybe. Or this lawyer in the case could simply be mistaken.
Woodward also got a lot of mileage out of what William Casey (AKA "Mumbles") supposedly told him on his deathbed.
This whole non story make me want to:
YYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN.
I'm so tired of this bs.
You know what.
I am trying to be interested in this.
I can't.
It is so friggin boring.
403-3 and a sea of angry libs. That's interesting.
Where has Woodward been for two years?
I don't believe Corn was ever interviewed and he should have been, Plame was obviously a source and known to him.
Pincus cut a deal where he responded under oath to some pre-agreed upon questions from the Prosecutor--questions which quite obviously did not explore his prior knowledge of Plame--And he certainly had some--both thru social and professional contacts in DC and because one of his first interviews was at the Wilson home and she was there at the time.
I think the media is more accurately stating that it was an "administration" official. It is important to note that the State Department arranged the Wilson trip to Niger. There would therefore be a number of State Department employees who would be aware of the trip. All of these could be called "administration officials". Since Wilson was often bragging of his "Spy" wife, any of these could be the source.
He and his wife had far more contacts with State- which knew about the trip. I think Armitage is likely.
What is unlikely is that the prosecution was handled in a way designed to uncover the truth--her name and employment were no secret to the press many of whom knew about it well before the WH did.
"On Monday, November 14, I testified under oath in a sworn deposition to Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald for more than two hours about small portions of interviews I conducted with three current or former Bush administration officials that relate to the investigation of the public disclosure of the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501829.html
"Mr. Woodward said he spoke with Mr. Libby by phone on June 23, 2003, and met with him at his office four days later."
"Mr. Downie also said yesterday that the White House chief of staff, Andrew Card Jr., spoke with Mr. Woodward at about that time, but did not mention Ms. Plame."
http://www.nysun.com/article/23154
Bob Woodward said a Bush administration official's reference to Plame was "casual and offhand."
"Woodward, an assistant managing editor at the Post, said he provided a sworn deposition to Fitzgerald on Monday about conversations with three administration officials after being contacted by the prosecutor on November 3, almost a week after Libby was indicted."
"All three sources cleared the Pulitzer Prize-winner to testify."
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Woodward+three+sources&btnG=Search
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