Bush Has Hog-Tied Fitzgerald and Hung Libby Out To Dry

[kpete]

Bush Has Hog-Tied Fitzgerald and Hung Libby Out To Dry
By Evelyn Pringle

With the latest revelations in the CIA leak case, the question on the minds of most Americans, is whether Bush and Cheney were the masterminds in an organized plot to destroy Joe Wilson by revealing his wife's name and status as a undercover agent of the CIA.
Hands down, yes they were. And a brilliant scheme it was....

A concerted effort to destroy a critic is not a jailable offense. But it would seem that because they knew Valerie Plame was an under-cover operative, and knew the information was classified, that such a disclosure would be in legal terms "willful." In other words, a disclosure of information on purpose, even though they knew it was classified.

Although that may be true, since Bush and Cheney knew they were the culprits at the center of the investigation, they came up with a plan to hog-tie Prosecutor Fitzgerald and sabotage his investigation right from the start.

While it may appear that Bush stepped in to take the fall for Libby, don't believe it for one minute. Bush would never, never take a fall for anyone, probably not even his own mother. Or I should say for sure not his own mother, because he obviously has a lot of unresolved issues with her.

more at:
http://www.bushwatch.com/pringle.htm

[Hamlette]

1. Libby is not charged with leaking, article makes no sense n/t

[walkon]

2. Except for "classified info"

this is the way mobsters handle themselves. These people are criminals through and through.

[stepnw1f]

3. Heh?!

:rofl:

Yuh, Hog-Tied...

[Meridian]

4. Libby was not charged with leaking info. He was charged with....

obstruction of justice.

[TahitiNut]

10. ... and perjury. (What he calls memory failure.)

Funny how he can always recall things that are to his advantage, though. :eyes:

[Fridays Child]

5. Is a president entitled to declassify information if doing so...

...violates the Agent Identities Protection Act? I know it hasn't been stated that B*sh declassified information about Valerie Plame, specifically, but wasn't her name in the NIE footnotes? And, even though, Fitzgerald's filing says that Libby was cleared to release the key judgments of the NIE, didn't he give out information that wasn't even included in the key judgments? And didn't Libby talk to Miller before the date that the NIE was declassified?

So much keeps emerging about this that I haven't really digested it all, yet. But can B*sh exercise a presidential prerogative if doing so violates an act of Congress?

[saltpoint]

6. Can't give any inside scoops, but Fitzgerald strikes me as unhogtie-able.

He seems thick-skinned and clear-headed with a real good view of the big picture.

From the start I've felt he will bring some clarity and justice to this mess.

I'd love to have the fly-on-the-wall position to hear what Libby's attorneys are telling him to do, based on what Libby well knows he COULD do.

The coming months could get REAL entertaining.

[Meridian]

7. I agree a hundred percent.

Fitz's record is impecible and he will NOT allow anyone to stop him from bringing justice.

[saltpoint]

11. I have a hope, if not exactly an expectation, well... ok, an expectation,

that Fitzgerald will bring charges against Vice President Cheney.

There's an accumulative evil to Dick Cheney that goes well beyond his shooting Harry Whittington on that quail hunt in Texas. There's a polished venality to him.

If Scooter Libby knew about Valerie Plame, the logical link is to Cheney, even before Bush, since Bush seems kind of out of it a lot of the time.

If Fitzgerald has enough hard evidence to indict Dick Cheney, the historians are going to have a field day.

And there'll be a lot of champagne flowing on the boards at DU!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

8. Fitz "Hog-Tied"?? LOL!! I don't even think that's remotely possible!

[Post]

9. How The Chinese Press Sees NSA Spying

It's pretty scary when the Chinese Press Xinhau is protraying Bush as not sorry for spying!

http://postanapology.blogspot.com/2006/04/bush-not-apologizing-for-spying.html#links

[newyawker99]

13. Hi Post!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Garbo 2004]

12. I'd say the author hasn't carefully read Fitz's filing. And perhaps she

might consider that Libby's testimony for what is essentially his cover story (the NIE Key Judgments) for his discussion with Miller on July 8 may not be entirely accurate. Or what he says Cheney told him might not be entirely accurate, either. Or that what Cheney told him was not entirely accurate.

The filing refers to Libby's testimony. That include Libby's claims that he never told Miller about Plame because he didn't know, or forgot he knew about Plame. People know that was a lie, but assume everything else Libby testified to was unalloyed truth?

Also, Fitz himself states in the filing that as late as around Sept/Oct 2003 Bush was unaware of Libby's role in outing Plame. One assumes Fitz just didn't simply take Bush's word for that.

The dueling court filings are not simply to be taken at face value. Not only are they matters for the court in Libby's case, they are part of a dance for advantage and leverage, and also signals to those not currently before the court but have a personal and professional interest in the outcome of the investigation.

For example, one wonders how the NY Sun (not exactly part of the so-called "liberal" media, as I recall) so quickly got a copy of Fitz's filing, from who, why and why did they run with their story as they did? Just to get a jump on other media? I somehow doubt that. IIRC they had it online before it was "officially" online. And on Friday the Sun had an editorial attacking Fitzgerald. Reading it one imagines it could just as easily have been written by one of Libby's defense team IMO, considering whose purposes it appeared to serve. Think about it.