Posted on 07/17/2007 3:35:15 PM PDT by greyfoxx39
You are correct.
And this is MORE evidence this was a political prosecution.
Try googling Walter Pincus’s name and see what pops up!
Besides the fact that the dame wasn't 'outed' in the first place... OHmmm,maybe because they couldn't take down Bush, Cheney and Rove through getting ARmitage?
They weren't after truth, remember, they were concocting, fabricating, lying and anything else they could get away with to get at Bush, Rove and Chaney - using Libby as the pawn
Sounds like Fitzgerald actually interfered with his own investigation and commited perjury.
If he had given a full pardon, and many FR’s were castrating him for not doing so, we wouldn’t be hearing any of this now or what is to come.
A full pardon - which Libby and his lawyers DID NOT want at this time - would have meant it was all over and Libby would forever be a felon, forever disbarred and not able to launch and appeal....which will open up the whole case and shine a bright light on the real criminals... Fitzy can’t be sleeping good these nights. He's probably having Nifong nightmares...I hope
Under a coffin lid?
Thanks, Bookmarked for later.
So why did Armitage testify that he only discussed Plame with Novak, and why did Armitage refuse to allow Woodward to come forward with the fact that he had told the story to Woodward? Armitage must have had conversations with other people as well prior to July 14. Andrea Mitchell? Colin Powell? Our ace investigator, Fitzgerald, is on the job.
“I smell a rat, Walter, a big one.” - Edward G. Robinson, “Double Indemnity”.
In October of 2003, Pincus cowrote a story for The Washington Post which described a July 12, 2003 conversation between an unnamed administration official and an unnamed Post reporter. The official told the reporter that Iraq war critic Joe Wilson’s wife Valerie Plame worked for the CIA’s nonproliferation division, and suggested that Plame had recommended her husband to investigate reports that Iraq’s government had tried to buy uranium in Niger. It later became clear that Pincus himself was the Post reporter in question. Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald issued a grand jury subpoena to Pincus on August 9, 2004, in an attempt to discover the identity of Pincus’ secret informant. On August 20, the Post filed a motion to quash the subpoena, but after Pincus’ source came forward to speak with investigators, Pincus gave a deposition to Fitzgerald on September 15; Pincus recounted the 2003 conversation to Fitzgerald but still did not name the administration official. In a public statement afterward, Pincus said that the special prosecutor had dropped his demand that Pincus reveal his source. On February 12, 2007, Pincus admitted to Scooter Libby’s lawyer, William Jeffress Jr, that it was former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer that told him of the identity of Valerie Plame and her job with the CIA. Pincus was interviewed about his involvement in the Plame affair, and his refusal to identify his source, in the first episode of Frontline’s documentary “News War”.
“Novak said part of the reason he wrote about Wilson and his wife was that he found Wilson unpleasant and a “questionable choice” to look into the Niger claims after he met him while both were waiting to go onto a television interview program.
“He was saying that things had been done in a superior way in the National Security Council before in the Clinton administration,” Novak recalled. “I thought it was sort of an obnoxious performance.””
Washington DC politics is a war waged with dirt. Everybody is trying to get dirt on everybody else. I have a feeling somebody got some dirt on Fitzgerald. Prior to the obscene Libby railroad job, Fitz had an average reputation as a prosecutor, but at least nobody questioned his ethics. Now he has gone and thrown that all away, and I think somebody compelled him to do it.
Unless Fitz is flat out stupid, that is.
Should Libby pursue his appeals (which I assume he will)will it be finished before Bush finishes his term in office?
Would Libbys team rather have a pardon at that point or a chance at vindication?
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