Who is David Margolis? <---- He's got oversight on Fitz (TREASONGATE)

[jsamuel]

Career Lawyer Gets Oversight of CIA Probe


David Margolis, a lawyer at the Justice Department for 40 years, was named Friday to oversee a special prosecutor's investigation of who in the Bush administration disclosed the name of an undercover CIAofficer.

Margolis, whose title is associate deputy attorney general, is taking the place of Deputy Attorney General James Comey, whose last day of work was Friday. Comey will be Lockheed Martin's new general counsel. Comey made the designation of Margolis. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has stepped aside from the probe because he was White House counsel when Valerie Plame's name was leaked in 2003 and he has testified to the grand jury investigating the unauthorized disclosure.

Comey gave broad discretion to U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald of Chicago when he was appointed to investigate the leak in December 2003. Margolis is not expected to alter Fitzgerald's mandate in what are likely to be the final months of his investigation. The grand jury ends its term in October. No one has been charged in the Plame case. However, it's known that Karl Rove, a top aide to
President Bush, and Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, discussed Plame with reporters before her name was first published by columnist Robert Novak in July 2003.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050812/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_leak_probe_1

And who appointed him to have oversight?

[jsamuel]

1. From Iran-Contra cover-up

The man who replaced Louis Freeh as FBI director that summer was Robert Mueller, a man whose name was way near the bottom of the list of people the FBI considered best for the job. But Mueller had qualities that put him at the very top of G.W. Bush's list. In the 1980s, Mueller was third in command in the FBI under under George Terwilliger. Mueller apparently put in a lot of overtime working to keep the Iran-Contra scheme under wraps, and then, once things got sticky for Reagan, helped the Dept. of Justice's Domestic Criminal Secition Chief Dave Margolis and International Criminal Section Chief Mark Richards limit liability for Reagan, and then Bush, Sr. According to political watchdog Al Martin, Mueller personally handled damage containment for Bush Sr. during Bush's potentially scandalous dealings with Jordanian coffee merchant Mansour Barbouti. Barbouti was involved in the illegal exportation of chemicals used in chemical weapons to both Iraq and Iran.

So, while on the FBI payroll technically, Mueller appeared to have worked in actuality as a master cover up artist for Republican presidents involved in scheming and intrigues. So...what better man could Bush, involved up to his eyebrows in scheming and intrigues, want? If Mueller could shield Bush, Sr. and Reagan from consequences while just the No. 3 man - just imagine the tracks he could sweep clean as FBI director!

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:eAFqIGxF8mkJ:www.democrats.com/view.cfm%3Fid%3D7506+david+margolis+and++Iran-Contra&hl=en&lr=lang_en

[wli]

3. sounds like the coverup we expected will happen

Liberty for the super-rich Republicans, and justice for none.

[lostnfound]

9. Definitely. Check this out:

http://denverpost.ezboard.com/fdenverpostnewsfrm8.showMessage?topicID=103.topic
Lee Radek has been Chief of the Public Integrity Section for a very long time. He has acted with his confederates within the DoJ, namely Dave Margolis, then Chief of the Domestic Criminal Section and Mark Richards, then Chief of the International Criminal Section of the DoJ. These three men, operating under the auspices of Deputy Attorney General George Terwilliger, essentially managed the Iran-Contra Cover-up for the Department of Justice.

I have talked with Dave Margolis several times. The only thing he ever did was threaten me. He would say to me that if I revealed anything to congressional committees, or if I leaked any thing out into the press, that I would be subject to all sorts of unpleasant things. Everything was "national security" with these guys.

...
Radek, Margolis, Richards and Scruggs were all involved in the so-called Reagan-Bush kidnapping policies that started in 1986 and were extant until 1991. It involved kidnapping both US and foreign citizens on foreign soil. After the US Supreme Court in its 1986 landmark decision gave the administration the right to use "extralegal" procedures to bring foreign fugitives before American courts. There were 21 in all who were kidnapped, mostly those who were under indictment for cocaine trafficking in the United States. The commonality is that all of these cocaine traffickers were controlled by the CIA. In their own defense, they had all begun to leak out information to Congress and the media about their connections to the CIA. That's why they were targeted for kidnapping.

[wli]

11. omfg this is really bad news

We're screwed. Fitz' investigation is toast.

[Doo_Revolution]

2. Deputy Attorney General James Comey.

He is who appointed Margolis. It says so in fact in the original news release. It was supposed to be Robert Mcallum who is Bush's Skull & Bones classmate. Apparently he has been relocated to another area of the justice department, meaning the Admin will not have any power to disrupt the investigations into the war.

[lostnfound]

8. Welcome to DU. Investigations into the Treasongate, do you mean?

The Plame / Brewster-Jennings outing by Rove and Libby etc. is the investigation he will be overseeing.

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[jsamuel]

4. kick

[Halliburton]

5. this is actually a good thing

Comey appointed Margolis to this job, not *. He's a Comey cohort, and that's a good thing. It's a hell of a lot better than Skull and Bones.

[tableturner]

6. Here's a link to a discussion on Late breaking news......

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1697382

[Doo_Revolution]

7. Thanks for this TT. n/t