Before Fitzgerald forced him to resign, Scooter Libby held one of the top posts in the country, and I'm sure had a very high security clearance.
Fitzgerald is a mid-level prosecutor, for all his current fame. Is his security clearance as high as Libby's? Has he been as thoroughly backgrounded?
I doubt it. Now he's trying to say that the assistant to the Vice President can't be trusted with classified documents?
Fitzgerald has been involved in the most major prosecutions of terrorists that have occurred. He most assuredly has an extremely high clearance just from prosecuting the WTC1 attack.
You'd be wrong about that .. but with all the crimefighting in which he's engaging in IL as well, I'm starting to see tears in Superman's cape.
No. He's saying that certain statemens and papers should not be PUBLIC documents. To the extent material can be unclassified and/or not compromise the secrecy of grand jury proceedings, it will be made public.
The correspondence between the lawyers and the public court filings provide some details as to the nature of what is filed under seal or kept from discovery altogether.
I have said that I think Judge Walton's eventual ruling on the defense motions to compel discovery will be appealed, no matter which way it goes.
Here's a link to another AP story - no thread at FR ...
Chron.com | Prosecutor: Libby Has Evidence He Needs | Feb. 17, 2006
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/3668438.html
I have held a security clearance since the mid 1970's and this "public talk" is all very unnerving. All of this NSA stuff does NOT belong out in public and I really want the NYT publisher is prison for treason - he has damaged this country's ability to intercept islamofacists electronic communications forever. No different than Ethel and Julius Rosenberg but for a different type of war! I really could care less about the freedom of the press when it conflicts with NATIONAL SECURITY!!