Posted on 05/15/2006 12:36:56 AM PDT by freespirited
Byron York, who reports for Captitol Hill and National Review has spent the day trying to run down the Karl Rove indictment story.
According to Jason Leopold's original story at truthout.org-a lefty, indymedia-style web site: Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove.
During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 business hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning. No other news service—or perhaps I should drop the "other" from the preceding phrase—has run with the story over the weekend. That's odd, since it would be a major political story.
According to York, however: I talked with Rove defense spokesman Mark Corallo, who told me the story was completely baseless. Part of our conversation: Did Patrick Fitzgerald come to Patton Boggs for 15 hours Friday? No. Did he come to Patton Boggs for any period of time Friday? No. Did he meet anywhere else with Karl Rove's representatives? No. Did he communicate in any way with Karl Rove's representatives? No. Did he inform Rove or Rove's representatives that Rove had been indicted? No. So there seems to be nothing to the story, certainly nothing which any other reporter has seen fit to report. Which raises a question: What is going on here? That's a very good question. Is Mr. Leopold actually in touch with anyone important enough to know what is going on? Is he being snowed? Is he making it up? And why would he run with such a declarative, ostensibly fact-jammed story, when even the basic facts appear to be incorrect?
Very odd.
As soon as I saw that in Leopold's original story, I knew it was a crock. What exactly was that supposed to mean? 24 hours until what?
Where does the left get these people? I am thinking there must be something like moon rocks that they can buy, put in water, and in a couple days they turn into nutbars like this one.
Probably in much the same way that half of Washington heard that his wife worked for the CIA long before Novak's column.
The left IS those people.
Who can ever forget the Clinton Administration's own Sid Blumenthal, emerging from his grand jury testimony and holding court on the courthouse steps to answer questions and make statements about his appearance that were later proved to be flat-out brazen lies - - complete fabrications?
Being a Democrat means being a shameless liar.
The only thing that is "odd" is that anyone believes anything our media publishes. The first assumption has to be, "This is either false or only part of the story". At that point, a person is wise to forget the whole thing, or if he is really curious, do a lot of independent research looking of factual data to build a more accurate picture. Anything else, and you deserve the increased blood pressure and sore knees from excessive jerking. (so to speak)
Jason Leopold:
A tumultuous life that includes years of drug addiction, a felony conviction that Leopold hid from his employers, getting fired from a Los Angeles Times community paper for threatening a reporter, and leaving Dow Jones Energy Service after an inaccurate story got Leopold pulled from the Enron beat." "This is stuff that I've really hidden my whole life," Leopold tells the Voice, adding that the book "really allowed me to purge all those feelings.
Book cancelled:
His book Off the Record, about his journalistic career and rough family life, was dropped by publisher Rowman & Littlefield over a complaint about accuracy.
Jason Leopold, who survived a life of drug abuse, petty crime, and prison. Jason Leopold served time for grand larceny. Leopold spent three days in jail after being charged but did not serve time after the conviction.
Jason Leopold, a Poor Man's Jayson Blair
Salon only reluctantly retracted the story after editors were confronted with the fact that Leopold had plagiarized seven paragraphs, virtually verbatim, from an earlier story in the Financial Times of London, and shortly thereafter, the New York Times raised its own questions regarding the purported the "smoking gun" e-mail on which Leopold's story relied.
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Exactly. One reason why I left that pathetic party.
The frog march man, the frog march. Karl Rove frog marched across the whitehouse lawn. The left dreams of this while touching themselves in an impure manner. It's all about the frog march.
Go for it , honey! Since no one else is writing about it and you're dumb enough to believe that Rufkin doesn't know what's 'out there' about his client (this IS Washington, you know), that he let something slip and you have a scoop.
If this is an example of her doing what she does best, then she really needs to rethink her role in life :)
"I always thought that the target was hardly ever called on th testify to the grand jury."
I think the target is always called before the grand jury. It is the grand jury that indicts, not the prosecutor, and they can't indict without hearing testimony.
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