Posted on 01/30/2006 8:58:09 AM PST by SirLinksalot
This should be good. The 'Rats and MSM should be careful what they wish for--"discovery" can bite them on their backsides.
R-U-S-S-E-R-T
What is Fitz hiding? Cough up the docs, Patty!
The OSM (old stream media) is history. Rathergate will mark the turning point in history as we look back 20 years from now.
How the judge rules on this will be key to the disposition of the case. If Libby gets his discovery, then all he has to do is hang tough and eventually the political pressure by dems and the Old Media will force the prosecutor to drop charges. The stakes for the media and the dems are jut too high to let the case go to trial.
But until the judge rules, the pressure on him NOT to grant discovery will be huge. He knows, if he grants discovery to Libby, he and his wife will not get invited to any of the power DC parties for ten years. If he has kids who want internships or contracts with the government, those doors will close. If his kids are attorneys, their clients will hire someone else. If there is an illegitimate child thirty years ago, it will somehow find its way into the NY Times.
The dems and the Old Media (and the Clinton holdovers in the CIA and State Dept) will play the hardest of hardball on this one because it goes to one of the core pillars of their power.
Let's just hope the judge is a red-state kind of guy who could care about the power parties and that his kids work in a decent place in flyover country and don't do business with the government.
What will NOT happen in this case is a public airing in court of the way the press has handled this case.
Hot damn!! I hope their comeuppance is around the corner.
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was singled out as the person who identified Valerie Plame, renown and erstwhile spouse of Joseph C. Wilson IV, as an agent of the CIA. If she was covert, it was one of the most clumsily kept secrets in CIA, as her face and name were widely known among the media in the DC area, and she or her husband made no secret of the fact she was employed at CIA, in fact, he kind of bragged it up.
The "culture of corruption" existed at CIA long before the phrase became common currency among Dem'crat congresscritters and the wider world of the media rumorpeddlers.
Have you no decency?
I remember some months ago after it came out that Bob Woodward had information on Flamer a discussion on Fox News and a prediction that Libby would seem discovery from reporters. This should be fun.
ping
BTTT
"One of the things that drives Republicans crazy is the media's enormous double-standard in how they cover various scandals... Skeptics can go to the Web site of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, popularly known as the House ethics committee. Click on 'historical documents,' and go to a publication called 'Historical Summary of Conduct Cases in the House of Representatives.'... By my count, there have been 70 different members of the House who have been investigated for serious offenses over the last 30 years, including many involving actual criminality and jail time. Of these, only 15 involved Republicans, with the remaining 55 involving Democrats." —Bruce Bartlett
"But until the judge rules, the pressure on him NOT to grant discovery will be huge."
Not granting discovery is probably reversible error.
If it was “widely known” it would be natural to assume that once Wilson’s op-ed was published and the matter became the topic of the day, she’d have shared that with her boss, Russert, isn’t it? And her many efforts to distance herself from her earlier admission since then have only added to the suspicion that she did share this information with him and has not been forthcoming about how and when she came to know this, who else knew, and whether and when she shared that information with Russert.
She hasn’t even a consistent story about whether she was questioned by the Special Prosecutor about her “widely known” story. At one point she said she had spoken to investigators and yet later she denied having any contact with Fitzgerald’s office. Since the Special Prosecutor alleges in the indictment that Plame’s employment was not widely known and a major broadcasting figure said otherwise well before the issuance of the indictment, it would be fair to conclude the indictment statement could only be true if the Prosecution deliberately avoided pursuing the lead Andrea Mitchell threw out or that she somehow persuaded him that she hadn’t said what she clearly had… even though no one else seems to find her backstroke convincing.
Andrea Mitchell on Imus show: I 'Messed Up' on Leakgate Answer .
--snip--
IMUS: Well, then - why did you say you did, Andrea?
MITCHELL: Because, I messed up.
IMUS: Oh.
--snip--
IMUS: Did you ever have a discussion with Russert about it?
MITCHELL: Sure, after the fact.
IMUS: Oh.
I messed up
..Andrea's boss...Tim Russert
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,,Houston....I think we've got a problem
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