Leaks came from Starr's office, but not Fitz's.

[Inland]

How Clinton got railroaded by Starr, who leaked grand jury investigation to the press, see, eg,

http://slate.msn.com/id/9140/

When people talk about "leaks" in the plamegate investigation, they don't mean anything coming from Fitz's office. They mean witnesses, or their attorneys, people who can't "leak" because they aren't under any duty of secrecy. They can blab all they want, legally, and they do, to spin the media.

So when the Hannitys of the world complain about "leaks", what they are complaining about is people like themselves in the media letting Scooters' attorney point the finger at Rove and vice versa. Instead of using "leaks" as the term, just call it "cannibalism".

[Debi]

1. It would take Libby a month to eat Rove! n/t

[Jose Diablo]

4. I'd say dressed-out, salted and smoked

Rove could last out the winter. He looks like about 75 pounds dressed-out, and losing say 35% during the curing process leaves a good 45 pounds of cured meat.

Which eating say a half pound a day would last a good 90 days, easy.

[Debi]

5. Whereas Libby? Meh, gone by Halloween! n/t

[Jose Diablo]

7. Libby? I don't know.

He looks like he's got parasites. I doubt there would much good meat on him. Even the liver is probably yellow.

Ya know though, I bet Libby could be boiled down to make some candles, for light and starting the fire in the mornings.

Edit to add: And of course, his long bones can be used as springs for traps and his skin for drums. So he wouldn't be a complete waste.

[Debi]

8. I think we've crossed THAT line n/t

[Inland]

10. Rove steaks, Rove tetrazinne, Rove hash, eventually Rove soup. nt

[Debi]

13. This thread has become so wrong n/t

[longship]

2. All the more reason to be anxious and excited about Fitzmas

All the information we have on this investigation has come from either the perpetrators, witnesses, or their lawyers. The article is correct that this is being spun. It's incredible that there has been virtually no good news for * in all this laundered and dry-spun (lather, rinse, repeat) information.

I wonder what's really going on. My brain is telling me that this means that what Fitz has is much deeper and graver (for *) than what we're hearing. Gees, this is maddening.

[NYC Liberal]

3. That's because Fitzgerald knows what he's doing.

Starr was a two-bit hack who was LOOKING for a crime rather than investigating something that had already happened.

[fooj]

6. Fitz is a professional with some integrity...

unlike Starr who is nothing but a partisan, Repub pitbull.

Peace.

[Inland]

12. The perjury trap for Clinton.

Starr just kept Clinton testifying until he found something he could get him on. Of course, it was the "independent" civil suit of JOnes that he denied having sex.

So sleazy,compared to Fitzpatrick.

But that won't stop the claim of "leaks".

[KittyWampus]

9. so technically there have been no "Leaks", Right?

[Inland]

11. No, substantively there have been no leaks.

Leaks implies something that shouldn't be disclosed. Witnesses and attorneys can disclosre or lie about what they know. And that's all that's occurred.

Hannity wants to use the word to make it seem like it's coming from the SC office. It isn't. It's coming from libby's attorney, Roves attorney, Mehlman, whoever.