Posted on 07/22/2005 8:53:27 PM PDT by jjwalker
Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has been reviewing over the past several months discrepancies and gaps in witness testimony in his investigation of the unmasking of CIA operative Valerie Plame, according to lawyers in the case and witness statements.
Fitzgerald has spent considerable time since the summer of 2004 looking at possible conflicts between what White House senior adviser Karl Rove and vice presidential staff chief I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby told a grand jury and investigators, and the accounts of reporters who talked with the two men, according to various sources in the case. (snip) Lawyers involved in the case said there are now indications that Fitzgerald either did not initially know or suspect that Rove was Cooper's primary source for the reporter's information about Plame. (snip) Two lawyers involved in the case say that although Fitzgerald used phone logs to determine some contacts between officials and reporters, they believe there is no phone record of Cooper's now-famous call to Rove in the days before Novak's column appeared in July 2003. That is because Cooper called the White House switchboard and was reconnected to Rove's office, sources said. (snip) The sources said Fitzgerald looked surprised in the August 2004 deposition when Cooper said it was he who brought up Wilson's wife with Libby, and that Libby responded, "Yeah, I heard that, too."
The prosecutor pressed Cooper to then explain how he knew about Wilson's wife in the first place, and Cooper said he would not answer the question because it did not involve Libby, the sources said. (continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Well, I guess it wasn't Rove since there was a waiver.
"Rove testified he also may have heard about her from another reporter or administration official who had heard it from a reporter, but he could not recall the second source of his information, his attorney said." OK, still not Rove.
"But Cooper, writing about his testimony in the most recent issue of Time, said he "can't find any record of talking about" welfare reform. "I don't recall doing so," Cooper wrote." OK, now Cooper is lying. Per Washington Time, Rove sent contemporaneous email to Rove regarding the Welfare discussion. Per Wash Times: "Matt Cooper called to give me a heads-up that he's got a welfare-reform story coming," Mr. Rove wrote Mr. Hadley, who since has risen to the top job of national security adviser. "When he finished his brief heads-up, he immediately launched into Niger. Isn't this damaging? Hasn't the president been hurt? I didn't take the bait, but I said if I were him, I wouldn't get Time far out in front on this." http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050717-121150-3026r.htm
If WaPo and LA Times are trying to nail Cooper, they are doing a bad job.
The more I hear about this prosecutor the more i think he is incompetent.
(WaPo and LAT) "Yeah we really botched the effort, but since our intent was sincere, ya kin go ahead and frog-march Rove, cancha, huh, pretty please?" Piss on these pigs.
The famous Clinton defense, I do not recall.
"The more I hear about this prosecutor the more i think he is incompetent."
I think it is less a matter of incompentence and more of a matter of having to gather testimony from reporters who either hold back because of so-called "confidentiality" or outright lies. Fitzgerald is a already a little leery of reporters based on his prior experience with Miller leaking to an Islamic charity. Per US News...
"In a separate leak inquiry, Fitzgerald is also seeking to obtain the telephone records of Miller and a Times colleague, Philip Shenon, to determine who tipped the reporters off about an imminent raid on two Islamic charities that Fitzgerald was investigating, leading the reporters to contact the charities for comment and, Fitzgerald believes, compromise the surprise raid."
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/050704/4fitzgerald.htm
how can Cooper refuse to answer the questions because "they are not about Libby" - and not be sharing a cell with Judith Miller?
"The sources said Fitzgerald looked surprised"
Nice touch, but if true, sources are cooper and his lawyer.
he could put Copper in jail in 10 minutes - the precedence is already there after Miller. why doesn't he?
Not even gonna worry about it. The facts don't look too good, from where I sit, but it's not like the country even knows who Karl Rove is, let alone "Scooter" Libby. Something tells me Americans have better things to do with their summer than pore over some many headed hydra investigation on the tax payer's dime.
hmm, just weird this has taken 2 years and this is all he has...?
Welcome to the FreeRepublic. Just sign up and already posting. Impressive. How are things over at du?
jjwalker
Since Jul 23, 2005
Hmm not in before the zot.
hehe. :D
You're damn right he's incompetent. This investigation should have been over months ago when it was learned that Mrs. Wilson wasn't an undercover agent and was just another soccer mom living in the D.C. area. This investigation is a farce.
Well it gives the boys over at du something to do. Making hit and run posting over here. It must really piss off the intelligent ones over at du to realize this investigation is going nowhere. All one of the intelligent ones over there. LOL
Exactly.
Cooper is doing a WHOLE lot of talking, IMO.
How do we know if what he is saying in public now, is the truth? It's like like he's trying to sell a story or anything.
The only intelligent ones at DU are the FReeper lurkers that go over there for some laughs. :D
I'm sitting here trying to think of ANY "information" that has been written about that doesn't concern Cooper directly.
It seems like if a lot of people were talking, they'd be a lot of information about others, not just about Cooper, doesn't it?
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