Posted on 08/28/2006 2:38:02 PM PDT by .cnI redruM
There is no legal standard by which these independent counsel investigations are conducted. This was a witch-hunt from jump street.
The paragraph..."And then came Libby".....I can't make heads or tails of what Byron is writing!! What didn't fit about Russert and Libby??
Imagine if they had been investigating definite organized crime figures we know were guilty as hell. We would applaud them for nailing one of the bad guys on incidental perjury. The analogy falls down completely because the investigators' prejudice in this case is based on a gross misunderstanding of the decision to invade Iraq.
It needs to be made clear that Fitz has made huge mistakes.
Powell/Armitage let MILLIONS and MILLIONS of DOLLARS be spent and a woman went to JAIL, Judith Miller, and Libby will go to prison after having to spend a million on lawyers, Rove and Cheney had to spebd TONS of money....all because Powell/Armitage didn't tell the truth right away!!
This is a hoax investigation. First, as the article makes clear, Fitz knew who the leaker was three years ago.
Secondly, the CIA confirmed her employment over the phone to a reporter. If the CIA confirms your employment over the phone, you are not covert.
The investigation was a hoax. Fitz should be brought up on charges.
And the people in the CIA and State Department who have purposefully harmed this administration are going to go unpunished, despite the fact that they are obligated by law to follow what the administration wants done. Disgusting traitors!
Libby said he heard about Plame from Tim Russert, and I'll bet the farm that he did. Unfortunately, Russert has the bully pulpit and the media all side with him. Of course the media never lies.
Libby's loss of freedom will not bother the media one whit, if that is what ultimately happens. They serve a God higher than truth and justice. It is spelled Democrat.
Powell has not been a "friend" to Bush from the get-go, it seems like..
AND, Powell and Armitage are advisors on JOHN MCCAIN'S POTUS campaign staff...
"...that the initial leak...came from a man who had no apparent intention of harming anyone
"
Because Plame had not been working undercover overseas in the preceding 5 years, the statute *did not apply.* It was meant to stop loons like Phillip Agee from outing people overseas and them getting killed by rebels/revolutionaries/etc. Everybody on both sides of this is smart enough to know this...I can't understand why the Adminisration didn't say "STFU we didn't break any laws."
There have been theories that this was a SOROS plan, using the CIA..and Plame and Wilson to get to Bush...
Diabolical...but certainly possible..considering this turn of events.
However, I wouldn't absolve Powell and Armitage of guilt...THEY should have told Bush...he asked anyone that knew anything to come forward...and it would have been nice if they would have told HIM.
This entire thing was an unmitigated crock of crapola and everyone knows it. This woman was not under cover and had been out of service for more than five years birthing a couple of kids. I find it difficult that no one had a pair of those spherical objects big enough to step up and say so.
I think the only thing that could bring justice to this crap is for Fitzgerald to be disbarred for prosecutorial misconduct. Now THAT would be justice. A ridiculous waste of taxpayer money over a scandal that never was.
Apparently, Russert's remembrance of the meeting doesn't jibe with Libby's.
In which case, for reasons of his own, Fitzgerald has chosen to believe Russert and not Libby -- even though a perjury and obstruction case predicated on "He said, she said" is pretty thin prosecutorial gruel.
What's worst is the Fact most Americans will still believe it was Rove and Libby.This message will not reach Americans as it should because this Administration NEVER fights back.
Just one more reason not to support McQueeg.
As if I needed one...
What to make of Larry O'Donnell's insane rantings?
O'Donnell, Plame and Rove
Larry O'Donnell, the Pouter,
Blames Karl for Valerie's outer
Larry spits and he spins
Weaving "outs" out of "ins"
But he can't change the mind of this doubter.
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