Slate has a funny summary of "new" developments in the Plame

[tblue37]

investigation: http://www.slate.com/id/2124333/

[clydefrand]

1. What in hell does this quote mean?

"The official requested that his name not be published because it contains characters that aren't part of the English alphabet."


In fact what does the entire article say? I've never seen anything about this case that has no names in it?????????

[tblue37]

3. The author is mocking the silly things that are showing up

in stories about the investigation. Fitzgerald runs a tight ship. His people are not leacking, so no one has any real information to go on. Yet everyone is absolutely desperate to know something. In a situation like that, "information" that is nonsense will be bandied about, and everyone has a "source" who is "close to the investigation."

The whole thing is satire.

[tblue37]

5. I like the way he starts it off sounding perfectly serious,

and then very subtly becomes more and more absurd as the piece progresses. The first few ridiculous statements aren't that ridiculous, and since so much nonsense is presented as "news" in the Plame case--and in every other case--we can't immediately recognize that the article is not intended seriously.

[Celebration]

2. Hilarious

No wonder there are no new news articles!!

[vard28]

4. Pretty amusing...

... I liked the source that wasn't directly involved but carpooled with someone who was. :crazy:

[sattahipdeep]

6. Our lips are sealed...lol Heres a thought

Edmonds said....

In the past three years, I have been threatened; I have been gagged several times;
I have continuously been prevented from pursuing my due process; all reports and
investigations looking into my case have been classified; and every governmental
or investigative authority dealing with my case has been shut up. According to legal
experts familiar with my case, the level of secrecy and classification in my court case
and the attitudes and handling of the court system in dealing with my case is
unprecedented in the entire U.S. court history. According to other experts I am one of
the most, if not the most, gagged woman anybody knows of or has heard of. Why?

http://www.justacitizen.com

We have caught the government lying to us. What will Mr. Fitzgerald do about it?

Patrick J. Fitzgerald began serving as the United States Attorney for the
Northern District of Illinois on September 1, 2001. Mr. Fitzgerald was initially
appointed on an interim basis by Attorney General John Ashcroft before being
nominated by President George W. Bush. The United States Senate confirmed his
nomination by unanimous consent on October 23, 2001, and President Bush signed
his commission on October 29, 2001.

Mr. Fitzgerald served on the Attorney General's Advisory Committee
from 2001-2005, and he remains Chair of that Committee's sub-committee on terrorism.
He is also a member of the President's Corporate Fraud Task Force.
In December 2003, he was named Special Counsel to investigate the alleged disclosure
of the identity of a purported employee of the Central Intelligence Agency.

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/aboutus/patrickjfizgerald.html