Posted on 02/05/2006 7:12:06 PM PST by Tyche
Feb. 13, 2006 issue - Newly released court papers could put holes in the defense of Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, in the Valerie Plame leak case. Lawyers for Libby, and White House allies, have repeatedly questioned whether Plame, the wife of White House critic Joe Wilson, really had covert status when she was outed to the media in July 2003. But special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald found that Plame had indeed done "covert work overseas" on counterproliferation matters in the past five years, and the CIA "was making specific efforts to conceal" her identity, according to newly released portions of a judge's opinion. (A CIA spokesman at the time is quoted as saying Plame was "unlikely" to take further trips overseas, though.) Fitzgerald concluded he could not charge Libby for violating a 1982 law banning the outing of a covert CIA agent; apparently he lacked proof Libby was aware of her covert status when he talked about her three times with New York Times reporter Judith Miller. Fitzgerald did consider charging Libby with violating the so-called Espionage Act, which prohibits the disclosure of "national defense information," the papers show; he ended up indicting Libby for lying about when and from whom he learned about Plame.
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The liberals in the media cite that the CIA sent a referal over to Justice as proof "some" law was broken. They never address whether CIA has the discression to NOT send one over in a case like this.
What made you bump this month-old article?
That's interesting. Fitz isn't going after Judy for perjury, yet she MUST have lied when she said, "No."
SNORT.
Why do you ask Grasshopper? Do you not see the folly of your question?
PS: You must first snatch this pebble from my hand before I answer you...
If you must know, I hadn't seen it before as my schedule doesn't allow much Freeping anymore. While researching Crewdson's article, I came across this thread and who could resist making fun of Izzy and Newsweek...
I understand.
I also wanted to alert newcomers that the article was a month old.
this article ain't old
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/politics/14076459.htm
These are the toilets at Camp X-Ray that Michael Isikoff reported that Korans were flushed down, resulting in many deaths of Muslims and Coalition members around the world. His credibility has been shot, and never to be trusted again. (Rusty Humphries photo)
I keep getting interuppted here by daughter when she can't see the score to the Duke game : )
I'm glad someone caught this!! (And I'm glad that someone was you : )
Not only the perjury, but he's GIVING her the material, 'leading the witness' doesn't quite describe it!!!
Again....did he reciprocate for Libby?
No kidding! Did anyone see Issie and a newsbabe from the WAPost get knocked down to size this a.m.? They were on Howie Kurtz's CNN Unreliable Sources along with John H. Hinderaker of the Power Line blog.
Kudos to Kurtz for having Hinderaker on. He simply devastated the other two media types, especially Issie. It struck me that those jerks never really get any tough responses or questions. They just engage in a happy circle-jerk with each other, telling themselves how great they are and how they're protecting 'the people's right to know' while they give away top security secrets. Hinderaker tore them new ones today. It's worth watching a rerun.
Does it repeat later today?
I really don't know -- I watch CNN very seldom and just happened to surf into that confrontation.
Ho, ho, ho!
Merry Fitzmas to all, and to all a good night!
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