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Fitzgerald will "give direction" on the investigation (UPDATE: Fitzgerald Press Conference at 2pm )

Posted on 10/28/2005 5:00:46 AM PDT by kcvl

Per Fox News...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cialeak; doublestandard; fitzgeraldism; fitzgeraldpressconf; fitzpressconference; getbush; getrove; iraqwar; joewilson; livethreads; mediabias; plamegate; rattricks; scooterlibby; smearcampaign; witchhunt; zogbyism
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
Fitz sounds scared! LOL!

I wonder if someone kidnapped his cat!

2,821 posted on 10/28/2005 12:33:17 PM PDT by maryz
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To: Howlin

Tucker Carlson saying if Libby committed this crimes .. they were dumb crimes and doesn't understand why Libby did it


2,822 posted on 10/28/2005 12:33:22 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: All

When does Libby's marathon press conference start?


2,824 posted on 10/28/2005 12:33:39 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: Sacajaweau

" Fotz even lost it."

I am not making this up.
Gergen just told Matthews that Fitz's performance was the single most impressive presser he has ever seen. He was tremendous.
An objective person would have to be honest and say that public speaking is not Fitzgerald's strong suit.
Oh and Gergen continues to reiterate that the Bush presidency is over.
Andrea Mitchell- Fitzgerald said the Rove investigation is still open.
The one part of this I did understand was that Fitzgerald refused to say one way or the other who or what was still being investigated.


2,825 posted on 10/28/2005 12:33:51 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: onyx
Did you hear Wilson's statement read by his lawyer?

Liberal's framing the debate. "Don't talk about me! I reserve the right to trash this president!"

2,826 posted on 10/28/2005 12:33:54 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("Tucker Carlson could reveal himself as a castrated, lesbian, rodeo clown ...wouldn't surprise me")
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To: Sacajaweau

What's up is that the Dems have fired the first blow in the next presidential election. They aimed low, below bush&Cheney to stir up the mud in hopes it would spatter up to Bush.

The CIA & FBI have shown their power to manipulate the justice system for political purposes and made a mockery of the special prosecutor law.


2,827 posted on 10/28/2005 12:34:04 PM PDT by MilleniumBug
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To: Jackie
Libby goes to trial, calls Plame for a witness and when she can't or won't answer certain questions he walks. Libby has the right to question all accusers that lead up to any charges.
2,828 posted on 10/28/2005 12:34:12 PM PDT by tobyhill (The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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To: mewzilla

Yup, really private. Snort.

2,829 posted on 10/28/2005 12:34:27 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Jackie
Libby might plea bargain and squeal on the others.

Ahem:

Fitzgerald: “We’re not saying that Libby knowingly outted a covert agent.”

What would Libby have to squeal about?

2,830 posted on 10/28/2005 12:34:36 PM PDT by TonyInOhio ("This indictment is not about the war.")
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To: rollo tomasi

GOOD point.
That's what Libby ought to do, but he won't.
His every word subjects him to even more scrutiny.


2,831 posted on 10/28/2005 12:34:39 PM PDT by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: rhombus

"Fitz looks nervous. Voice quivering"......Hilary's got his FBI file......


2,832 posted on 10/28/2005 12:34:51 PM PDT by mo
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To: A Citizen Reporter

Wall Street Journal | October 24, 2005


Posted on 10/28/2005 3:07:54 PM EDT by MrTed


All About Iraq October 24, 2005; Page A14 ... "Mr. Wilson's original claims about what he found on a CIA trip to Africa, what he told the CIA about it, and even why he was sent on the mission have since been discredited. What a bizarre irony it would be if what began as a politically motivated lie by Mr. Wilson nonetheless leads to indictments of Bush Administration officials for telling reporters the truth." ...


2,833 posted on 10/28/2005 12:34:54 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Mo1

Fitzgerald certainly gave the Wilsons plenty of ammunition to continue their status as victims.


2,834 posted on 10/28/2005 12:35:03 PM PDT by mommybird
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To: Wild Irish Rogue

I would refer to Gergen as a two-bit whore, but I'm scared he'd clobber me with a sack of qarters....


2,835 posted on 10/28/2005 12:35:22 PM PDT by abb (Because News Reporting is too important to be left to the Journalists.)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Feeding frenzy and MSM see it Wilson's way --- so Wilson will take full advantage.


2,836 posted on 10/28/2005 12:35:36 PM PDT by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: Lizarde

The indictment disclosed that the CIA were responsible for the information.

What we need is a new thread for questions for the trial.


2,837 posted on 10/28/2005 12:35:39 PM PDT by LibWrangler
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To: Annie Gram

Cooper is married to Mandy Grunwald, Hillary's media advisor and best friend. Cooper mentioned Valerie to Libby. Libby said "I heard that, too." I'm guessing that there were all kinds of calls and plays being made AT ALMOST THE SAME TIME and it's impossible to get a time line.


2,838 posted on 10/28/2005 12:35:40 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Peach

In today's NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/politics/28niger.html

F.B.I. Is Still Seeking Source of Forged Uranium Reports

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 - A two-year inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation has yet to uncover the origin of forged documents that formed a basis for sending an envoy on a fact-finding trip to Niger, a mission that eventually exploded into the C.I.A. leak inquiry, law enforcement and intelligence officials say.

A counterespionage official said Wednesday that the inquiry into the documents, which were intended to show that Iraq was seeking uranium for a nuclear weapons program, had yielded some intriguing but unproved theories. One is the possibility that associates of Ahmad Chalabi, the former Iraqi exile who was a leading champion of the American campaign to topple Saddam Hussein, had a hand in the forgery. A second hypothesis, described by some officials as more likely, is that the documents were forged at Niger's embassy in Rome, in a moneymaking scheme. The official said the matter was being investigated as a counterintelligence case, not a criminal one.

The United States government did not receive the papers until October 2002, eight months after the Central Intelligence Agency sent Joseph C. Wilson IV, a retired ambassador, to Niger on the fact-finding mission, according to a review completed last year by the Senate intelligence committee. The C.I.A. decided in March 2003 that the papers were forgeries.

But a little-noticed passage in another government report said the C.I.A. had determined that foreign intelligence passed to the agency in the months before Mr. Wilson's trip also contained information that was "based on the forged documents and was thus itself unreliable."

That early foreign reporting, never endorsed by American intelligence analysts, prompted questions from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, which in turn led to Mr. Wilson's trip, a chain of events spelled out in the reviews of prewar intelligence issued this year and last year.

The continuing inquiry into the source of the forged documents has been conducted separately from the investigation by the special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald into the leak case, which has to do with whether Bush administration officials committed crimes related to disclosing the identity of Mr. Wilson's wife, an undercover C.I.A. officer.

Law enforcement officials say they do not believe that the two issues are related. The documents were among the sources of President Bush's claim in a 16-word passage of his State of the Union speech in 2003, later retracted, that Iraq was seeking to obtain uranium from Africa.

The question of who forged the documents remains of intense interest on Capitol Hill, where Senators Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas, and John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia, have received classified briefings on the status of the F.B.I. inquiry. The two are chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the intelligence committee.

That the initial reports prompting Mr. Wilson's trip were based on forged documents was reported in March by the Robb-Silberman commission on intelligence involving weapons of mass destruction. A footnote in the commission's report said, "It is still unclear who forged the documents and why." But it added that a classified version of the report had included discussion of "some further factual findings concerning the potential source of the forgeries."

Among American allies, Britain was the most vocal proponent of the argument that Iraq was trying to obtain uranium, but former senior intelligence officials said the reporting had actually come from Italy's military intelligence service.

An Italian journalist handed the documents over to the United States government in October 2002, months after the Wilson mission to Africa, according to the review by the intelligence committee.

A month earlier, the deputy national security adviser at the time, Stephen J. Hadley, met in Washington with the head of an Italian intelligence service, according to a report that was published this week in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. The White House has confirmed that the meeting took place, but a spokesman for Mr. Hadley described it as a courtesy call of 15 minutes or less.

"No one present at that meeting has any recollection of yellowcake being discussed or documents being provided," Frederick Jones, Mr. Hadley's spokesman, said Thursday, referring to a form of uranium.

The Italian government denied on Wednesday that its intelligence services had played any role in the "manufacture or spreading" of such a falsified dossier.

Wendy Morigi, a spokeswoman for Mr. Rockefeller, would say only that he and Mr. Roberts had been briefed by the F.B.I. about the Niger inquiry. An aide to Mr. Roberts said only that "ongoing investigations of that type are the kinds of things they are briefed on."

According to the review by the committee, the C.I.A. produced intelligence documents in October 2001 and February 2002 describing reports by "a foreign government service" that Niger planned to send several tons of uranium to Iraq, but cautioned that the information was uncorroborated. The second report provided what the C.I.A. described as the "verbatim text" of what the foreign service had said was an Iraq-Niger agreement.

The Defense Intelligence Agency then issued a Feb. 12, 2002, report repeating the details in the C.I.A. report, but its assessment "did not include any judgments about the credibility of the reporting," the Senate report said. It said Mr. Cheney, after reading the report, asked for the C.I.A.'s analysis of events.

In response to those questions, the Senate report said, the C.I.A.'s counterproliferation division decided to contact Mr. Wilson, who was posted early in his career in Niger. His wife, Valerie Wilson, also known as Valerie Plame, was an undercover officer in that division. The Senate report says that when the division decided to send Mr. Wilson to Niger, she approached him on behalf of the agency and told him "there's this crazy report" on a possible deal for Niger to sell uranium to Iraq.


2,839 posted on 10/28/2005 12:35:50 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: Wild Irish Rogue

Gergen is wacked? How can Bush43s presidency be over?


2,840 posted on 10/28/2005 12:35:59 PM PDT by hawkaw
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