Does the Plamegate investigation discount LIHOP/MIHOP?

[HamdenRice]

As most of you are aware, yesterday the media broke the story that President Bush authorized the leak of classified information by Scooter Libby to Judith Miller of the New York Times. This suggests that Prosecutor Fitzgerald has been relentlessly following his investigation up the chain of command, and as all prosecutors have a tendency to do, expanding the scope of his investigation.

Is it possible that Fitzgerald, having access for far more information than we could dream of possessing, including hours of sworn testimony of the highest officials in the White House, would not have come across evidence of LIHOP/MIHOP if that evidence existed? And if he did, wouldn't he have expanded the investigation?

This suggests one of several possibilities:

1. There is no evidence of LIHOP/MIHOP to be had from the White House senior staff.

2. Senior white house staff have been able to maintain their silence about 9/11 even as their resistance to talking on the record about Plamegate has crumbled.

3. Fitzgerald has uncovered 9/11 evidence but he is strictly and rigidly staying within his original mandate to investigate the leak of classified information and nothing else.

4. Fitzgerald has uncovered 9/11 evidence, but he is part of the Washington consensus that even if one knows that 9/11 was an inside job, it is just too destabilizing to bring it into the open.

Just wondering what your views are.

[petgoat]

1. Fitzgerald's participation in the trials after the '93 WTC bombing

caught my attention. Did he see something then that he didn't like?
Did he participate in something dirty? Remember the FBI had an informant
in the plot who was in a position to make the bomb harmless. He was
instructed to go ahead and let them build a real bomb. It was alleged
that if the truck had been parked next to the column instead of 12' from
the column it might have brought the tower down.

An interesting figure in the '93 plot was an Army Sergeant and ex-CIA spy,
Ali Mohamed. The FBI photographed him providing weapons training to
members of the Blind Sheikh's al Qaeda cell. Later he worked as a
bodyguard to Osama, and was arrested and charged with involvement in the
African embassy bombings. Fitzgerald was part of the prosecution team.
After a year of secret negotiations with prosecutors, Ali Mohamed pled
guilty to five counts. He was never sentenced, and his whereabouts are
unknown.

I'd like to comment on the hypothesized lack of evidence and silence, but I
don't have time right now.