Bomb scare at site of Scooter Libby trial, Fitzgerald evacuated

[grizmaster]

What I want to know is where was Rove at the time of the incident?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/27/courthouse.package.ap/index.html

Law enforcement officials were surveying the area around the building's Constitution Avenue entrance where a police dog alerted to a scent picked up from the package, which was found near a construction trailer outside the courthouse entrance.

Evacuation of the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse occurred shortly before a hearing was to begin in the CIA leak case.

Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and about eight of his associates were forced to leave the building and join more than 100 others on the sidewalks nearby.

The defendant in the case, former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, and his legal team had not arrived.

[Marie26]

1. Or Libby! nt

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Take that you nosy do-gooders." - BushCo Cabal of Cronies

Enough of your truth, honesty, freedom, liberty and justice thing.

BushCo Cabal Inc. will have none of that.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Why is this smelly? And they had to leave

all paperwork behind too

[woodsprite]

9. This is SOOOO transparent. I hope he has an extra copy of all

that paperwork and laptop info that just got swiped or altered or photographed. I also hope he has some aces stuffed up his sleeves for good measure, so the "plumbers" didn't get all the good stuff.

[havocmom]

16. BINGO

Reminds one of various offices on the Hill being evacuated from time to time (usually when Cheney in deep doo-doo and outta ideas- then suddenly finds a way out of a tight spot)

[Demeter]

4. Oh, We Are So Much Safer, You Betcha!

shakes head sadly

[dapper]

5. What a coicidence!

Is this a Rovian stratagy?

Dap

[grizmaster]

7. would be a way to distract from the torture bill push

I wouldn't put anything past these desperate criminals at this point

[dapper]

11. It fits with the terror timeline.

as well, there was something up on Yahoo that the current Al Qaeda #2? is going to make an announcement soon:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060927/ap_on_re_mi_ea/al_qaida_tape

Terra...Terra...Terra

Dap

[Binka]

6. Not A Bomb Scooters Shitty Diaper Was Found n/t

[MindPilot]

8. Bomb-sniffing dog found a construction worker's lunch?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

13. Chili?

That might explain it. :shrug:

[grizmaster]

14. I smell turd blossom

smells way worse than them blooming onions

[MADem]

10. Hopefully the show will go on.....

The judges of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia were moved across the street to the Superior Courthouse. Traffic was routed away from the streets near the building, where numerous police and emergency vehicles lined up.

[grizmaster]

12. I believe this is the graymail hearing

and that the real trial has already been put off till next year unfortunately.

[crikkett]

15. hearing rescheduled for 1:30pm

(heard it on fox news)

[grizmaster]

17. And they're supposed to do a press briefing shortly before the hearing

http://www.myfoxal.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=1020777&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.3.1

[Gregorian]

18. A trick? I hope they have closed circuit tv in that courtroom.

Probably some irate freeper. They just can't stand it when we out their lies.

Oh my god. The comments above are probably true. They had to leave their documents behind! WTF. I don't put anything past these evil criminals in office. I can just see them sneaking aroung in there. Oh man, I've got to get away from all of this stuff. It's eating my insides up. Shit.

[The Backlash Cometh]

19. Damn! Just enough time for someone to put a huge magnet next

to the tapes in the evidence room!

I'm just kidding, I think.

[zreosumgame]

20. what, no Anthrax letters?

[GardeningGal]

21. My, isn't that convenient?

I hope Fitzgerald and his associates were able to take their materials with them.

[progressoid]

22. And now comes the mistrial demands. Tainted evidence or some such BS.

[lovuian]

23. He was going to release some documents

wasn't he obviously Bush didn't want them out for the lunch news

[rudy23]

24. High fastball, behind the batter's head

I'm so sick of all the Michael Corleone wannabes that are blatantly intimidating anyone who dares to speak the truth.

[cascadiance]

25. This wouldn't be the first time Fitzgerald's dealt with a "bomb plot"...

Remember this from July of last year where there were rumors of a British MI-6 team going through Chicago subways to plant a bomb under the Dirksen Federal Courthouse there where Fitzgerald was conducting Grand Jury testimony hearings... HMMMMM!!!!!

http://www.stewwebb.com/Tony%20Blair's%20MI-6%20Agents%20Caught%20Trying%20To%20Blow%20Up%20Chicago%20Subway.htm

It also seems interesting/convenient (coincidence?) that only Fitzgerald and his team were there at that time this morning!

[Laurab]

26. How nice that they're "protecting" the courthouse so well

why am I not surprised? Hopefully tricks like this will backfire - Fitzgerald doesn't appear to be a guy who's easily scared.