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Wed Jun-29-05 07:55 AM
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Why isn't Novak going to jail? |
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I don't get it - why the others and not him?
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Wed Jun-29-05 08:56 AM
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17. So do I. Keep the sexual euphemisms for x-rated forums, please. |
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Wed Jun-29-05 07:59 AM
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2. Let us just see what happens before the statute of limitations runs out |
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For the crimes he has apparently committed, there is surely a healthy statute of limitations. Sure the Borg is in power, but as Star Trek fans know, even the Borg can be defeated. Someday, a party that is not the Republican party, will be after him like white on rice. It may be a while, and I am not even sure any more what that party will be called. But his day will come.
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Wed Jun-29-05 08:06 AM
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6. I don't think there is a statute of limitations on treason |
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Wed Jun-29-05 08:01 AM
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3. He lied multiple times. |
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Then refused to disclose source. He could be held in contempt or perjury.
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Wed Jun-29-05 08:04 AM
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4. Novak isn't concealing anything |
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It's been suggested by smarter people than I that he gave up the source.
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Wed Jun-29-05 08:32 AM
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12. Then how come we don't know the source, and why isn't the source |
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Wed Jun-29-05 08:53 AM
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Those who have paid attention know the sources. The sources can't be convicted because they haven't been indicted yet; the grand jury needs to complete its investigation, and Miller & Cooper have taken actions that stretched it out for 11 months.
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Wed Jun-29-05 08:05 AM
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5. Rumor has it that he cut a deal and sung to the GJ |
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The GJ proceedings which US Atty Pat Fitzgerald is conducting are sealed. If they bring in a true bill, then at trial it should come out if Novak did sing and was granted some sort of immunity for his testimony before the GJ.
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Wed Jun-29-05 08:17 AM
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7. Because he knows things that Bush Co. dont want released.. |
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Wed Jun-29-05 08:17 AM
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He didn't break the law. Miller and Cooper have. How is that difficult to understand?
Writing the infamous article broke no laws. Refusing to cooperate with a federal grand jury breaks a law. Our system of justice has consequences for breaking laws. That is not so complicated that it should be cause for confusion.
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Wed Jun-29-05 08:24 AM
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9. Let's Go One Step Further |
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The reason Miller and Cooper's testimony is important is because of things Novak has said. They can either corraborate or refute...thus making Fitzgerald's job a lot easier. Without it, he has to go with a lot of he said/she said.
From what I was reading, Fitzgerald already has indictments ready to present, but wants to exhaust all avenues on these reporters as their testimony could drastically affect how this case is prosecuted. I don't know how he'll play this now...push for the indictments now or see what other options he has, but I suspect this case will start moving off center in the weeks/months ahead now.
Regarding Novak, the people who should be exerting the pressure are his own peers...the people who he's betraying by refusing to come clean about his source and letting two other journalists he told take the heat. This is not "protecting sources"...this is covering one's ass.
Remember, whomever this leaker was, it had to be someone with some very high access of power...and that is a small number of people. These reporters aren't protecting some unknown, who upon coming forward, could put their life or livelihood in peril.
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Wed Jun-29-05 08:27 AM
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Miller and Cooper's testimony will not reflect on Novak's .... it has to do with John Hannah's testimony. It will have to do with if the mid-level officials are attempting to fall on their swords to protect two high level officials named Bolton and Rove.
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Wed Jun-29-05 08:28 AM
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11. Because he is old and rich and has influential friends in the White House. |
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Wed Jun-29-05 08:33 AM
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13. I'd like to see him making license plates |
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right next to Bush, Rove and Rummy. His loose lips caused deaths in the intelligence community. They all belong in prison where they can do the least harm to society.
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Wed Jun-29-05 08:56 AM
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15. He's not a leftie or moderate. He's pro-* all the way. |
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Wed Jun-29-05 08:56 AM
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16. I heard that he turned into a song bird... |
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and sang for the authorities.
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Wed Jun-29-05 09:06 AM
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18. because he's a bush whoremonger fascist repuke_that's why |
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