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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Spikey strikey again.
Libby's lawyers will eat Fitzgerald for lunch
From what I've read so far ... the guy failed to do his job properly
She used to sneak out after Joey and the kids were in bed and jump an SR-71 over to the Middle East. She'd always make it back in time for breakfast sometimes stopping by the local Safeway to pick up bread, milk and eggs. ROTFLMAO!
Fitzgerald would have had a much shorter investigation determining who inside the beltway didn't know that Plame worked at a desk in Langley.
This sounds to me like a new and very convenient spin, formulated by the same rogue elements who sent Wilson on his bogus trip to Niger in the first place, and "leaked" to handy dupe Michael Isikoff for the purpose of muddying the waters.
Porter Goss and certain others have no doubt had everything they needed all along to prove that Plame was not "covert" during at least the five years prior to Wilson's op ed, and I only hope that a trap was set and somebody took the bait.
Pass the popcorn, please.
Sniff, sniff, smells like bull$hit to me. It's been well established that she had not been a cocktail party agent for years.
"Death Knell for the Case against Scooter Libby?"
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5220
Does anybody have one of those Isikoff-English, English-Isikoff dictionaries?
Newsweak? And you know what I'm talking about.
The competence of the CIA is not the question.
The question is why elements within the CIA and the State Department have the power to decide the presidency?
You're probably right. It's too bad we can't see a speedy trial--before election day.
I will have the same. . .
Keeping Repubs on the 'burner' seems to be the 'order' of the day. . .
Newsweek is behind this story - well, that says it all for me!
This whole article "stinks on ice"....and Isikoff was on Hairball regularly for months...just slobbering with Chrissy over the downfall of the Bush Administration....
This sounds like he is trying to salvage a story...
Isikoff is a joke
What do you think of this??
It seems like there is not so much about this "new evidence" to me.
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