Fleischer must be a walking computer if he can remember the exact date that someone told him something. I can't remember what I had for breakfast.
I thought the Grand Jury had expired, or was another one empaneled?
And to think that this same Fleischer used to be seen [while a press-secretary] - right here, on FR, - almost as demigod. And now - 'ex-flack' and 'walking computer'. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Funny, I did not know they have shown anything about the so-called outing was illegal.
This case reminds me way too much of the Duke University 'rape case'. . .you know the 'rape case; where there was no 'rape'. . .but for one fricken year; and 'more now'. ..we have heard the lies and misrepresentations; and still. . .there is 'still' a case.
Seems to me Fitzgerald should have been thrown out long ago; but then, the 'Get Bush' factions would have to start all over. . .
Pulleeeeze! Just tell us, what the crime is Fitzgerald. . .There is not a place in hell; big enough for Fitzgerald and the rest of these people. . .IMHO
Three strikes in the very first paragraph!
1. It hasn't yet been extablished that the "outing" was illegal. Certainly no one has been charged with such a thing.
2. It has never been extablished that Valerie Plame was a spy. We know that she's an analyst, which means she's not a spy.
3. Fleischer couldn't be the guy who unmasked the "secret agent" who's not a secret agent since Armitage already said he's the one who did it.
Ari Flieischer may have invoked the fifth as "federal prosecuitors" say, but on looking closer this article doesn't say "Federal prosecutors" gave the reason- the author appears to have made up the reason or perhaps obtained it from the reporter Kristoff and inserted it behind the info from prosecutors in order to give the impression the prosecutors were the source for hat sentence too.
WOW!!!
"DEBUNKING" ???
Another gaping inaccuracy.
Freakin Chaney was infuriated because of an OBVIOUS UNDECLARED BIAS!!!! charading as a top level State Dept.(?) mission. (I can't recall what agency sent Wilson)
Ari did the smart thing. Had Libby done the same, he wouldn't be in a trial. If not for political considerations he probably would have.
I still don't understand why Libby is even on trial; except this is another tactic to wear the good American people down.
"Wilson had infuriated Cheney by inaccurately debunking the White House claim that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had tried to buy uranium in Niger for a nuclear bomb"
That is a lie. Nobody has ever proved that naming Valerie Plame as a CIA employee was illegal. The prosecutor knows who brought her name out, and cannot bring charges because nothing illegal occurred.
The press knows this and is LYING.
If claim about the Fleischer testimony is as accurate as the rest of the stuff in the article, then I'd bet the Fleischer testimony isn't going to be anything like predicted.
"Ari Fleischer had conversations with reporters about Wilson's wife that he should not have had," Fitzgerald said.
don't you just love that one - all of these reporters probably already knew Wilson's wife was CIA - from his appearances on the DC cocktail party circuit, as tipped by andrea mitchell during her CNBC interview.
....when asked in front of a grand jury about the illegal outing of spy Valerie Plame
It wasn't illegal and even Fitz doesn't believe it was illegal, or he would have charged somebody. In fact, NOBODY with a clue has claimed there was anything illegal about revealing that Plame was an employee of the CIA.
Wilson had infuriated Cheney by debunking the White House claim that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had tried to buy uranium in Niger for a nuclear bomb.
Wilson "debunked" nothing. All he did was take a junket, shmooze a little bit with some old "diplomat" acquaintances, and then come back home to claim he "found no evidence" that British Intelligence was correct about Saddam seeking yellow cake from Niger.
Anyway, I know it's only the Daily News, but you would think they would want to set their sights a little higher if they want to catch up to the Post.
Assuming this is accurate, so what if Libby told Fleischer something that is "hush hush"? Last time I checked, telling someone something is "hush hush" doesn't mean "run out and blab this to the press."