Oh, I forgot to mention that Victoria Toensing, the lawyer who wrote the law about revealing an agent's name, has stated in an editorial in the WSJ, that the law was not violated. .....but the media and the partisan prosecutor pushed forward anyway. Now the reporters are all going to be dragged into open court and forced to make their accusations in public, before tv cameras. This time the other reporters, the ones that were not called, will be forced to testify as well. These are the reporters who will testify that Plame's name was common knowledge in DC, among reporters who covered the CIA. This testimony will not only prove that the name was not classified and already in the public arena, they will prove that the prosecutor's case is nothing more than a he said, she said, between the left wing media and the defendant. The case will be dismissed. The repercussions will be that the reporters will have lost the protection of sources that they have always claimed and we know how much importance the left puts on precedence.
I hadn't seen this....(Yahoo w/link to the Nation, gag)
"These newly released records disclose that former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer told Fitzgerald's grand jury that he had a lunch with Libby during which Libby told him that Wilson's wife did counterproliferation work at the CIA and that this information was "hush-hush." Fleischer described the lunch as "kind of weird." Usually, Libby "operated in a very closed-lip fashion," Fleischer said. But in this instance, it seems, he was trying to spread information that could be used against a White House critic."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20060206/cm_thenation/357174;_ylt=A86.I0_cpOdDn0EA4QP9wxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--
something new?
I hope you are right, but the actual charges sound solid, even if the underlying crime never occurred.
As Fitzgerald said:
If Mr. Libby is proven to have done what we've alleged -- convicting him of obstruction of justice, perjury and false statements -- very serious felonies -- will vindicate the interest of the public in making sure he's held accountable.
In his October 2005 press conference, Fitzgerald said in effect that while his case began with an investigation of the illegal disclosure of Plame's classified status, the current charges against Libby had nothing to do with that status. The MSM continue to report a different story to promote their agenda, but their lies are not necessarily relevant to Fitzgerald's case.