Richard Sale: Indictments will be announced this afternoon

[sunnystarr]

An hour ago I was contacted by a U.S. government official close to the Fitzgerald case. This person told me that there WILL be indictments announced later this afternoon, and the Special Prosecutor will hold a press conference tomorrow.


Richard Sale

http://turcopolier.typepad.com/

I'm so glad we don't have to wait another day or so!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. Dick Sale?

Who is Dick Sale, and why is he so special?

[understandinglife]

8. Here's what Larry Johnson has to say about Richard Sale ...

Aides To Be Indicted, Probe to Continue
by Larry Johnson
Wed Oct 26th, 2005 at 01:44:59 PM EDT

For your background, Richard was the first to tip me last year to the developing Larry Franklin spy scandal, which proved to be right. - LJ

http://www2.boomantribune.com/story/2005/10/26/105036/84

Peace.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

11. I found some very old screenwriting credits

that seem to be his, but they go back almost fifty years.

So, he's a blogger of some kind, I guess.

I'll wait for the real deal.

[AlCzervik]

18. i wish we still had Hide thread, i'm done specualting, i can wait until

he annouces whatever he's got.

[Mabus]

12. Richard Sale -- UPI intelligence correspondent?

which is the name used might be Richard Sale the UPI intelligence correspondent.

"Richard Sale is an intelligence correspondent for UPI, a sister wire service of Insight magazine." http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/002070.php


edited to add second Richard Sale as UPI correspondent url and byline: http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040824-102938-1916r.htm

"FBI probes DOD office


By Richard Sale
UPI Intelligence Correspondent"

Could be another Richard Sale, could be a sick joke. :shrug:

[sunnystarr]

13. The same guy quoted by Larry Johnson

in the breaking article at http://www.rawstory.com. Sale authored that article presented by Johnson.

Aides To Be Indicted, Probe to Continue
by Larry Johnson
Wed Oct 26th, 2005 at 01:44:59 PM EDT

For your background, Richard was the first to tip me last year to the developing Larry Franklin spy scandal, which proved to be right. - LJ
Aides To Be Indicted, Probe to Continue

By Richard Sale, longtime Intelligence Correspondent for UPI

This comes to us courtesy of Pat Lang at turcopolier.typepad.com. I've found Richard to always be on target in my experience. -- Larry Johnson

[WinkyDink]

23. Not sure, but

is it Buy-one, Get-one-free?

[OldLeftieLawyer]

32. TO YOUR ROOM

RIGHT NOW

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------->

(and, welcome to DU!)

[RevolutionStartsNow]

2. What is this source?

Like everyone else, I'm at once frustrated, anxious, excited, nervous, annoyed, and cautiously optimistic.

[hang a left]

3. Well lets hope that extra hour that the prosecutors spent in the

courthouse were requesting warrants to be issued.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. That would be with a judge

[hang a left]

7. that's correct.

The gj adjourned and the prosecutors were there for an additional hour.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. ah that is what KGO's Ray Tal reported last night

that we woudl have indictments today, and a press conference soon after

We will soon know

S-T-E-A-D-Y

[Nordmadr]

6. I think this is a bad joke. N/T

[Nordmadr]

9. ...and in other news Mike Hunt had lunch with Dick Sale

to work out the "details".

Olaf

[OldLeftieLawyer]

15. If you say those two names real fast,

one after the other, you get a very, very funny and dirty result.

[Nordmadr]

20. I know. I was trying to make a funny. :) N/T

[OldLeftieLawyer]

22. You succeeded!

I thought I was the only one .............

[deadparrot]

10. No one knows anything.

Can we PLEASE stop taking random sources and pretending like they have some sort of profound, exclusive information?

[OldLeftieLawyer]

14. THANK YOU!

Here. You take my big hatpin and puncture these fantasy balloons, will you? I'm tired of doing it by myself.

Welcome, voice of reason in a deadparrot.

That parrot's not dead, is it?

[meganmonkey]

24. Hey, OLL, I applaud your efforts to keep everyone sane and grounded

:applause:

I think there are some people, though, who are going to freak out at every rumor and there is nothing that can be done about it :shrug:

I really hope no one gives themselves a stroke or something! :P

[OldLeftieLawyer]

30. Here's why I'm doing it

Remember how many people crashed and burned after the Presidential election in November 2004? It was just awful, all those hopes and expectations, and then the crushing depression and anguish that followed.

I like the good people of DU too much to let that happen again - if I can help it.

Besides, I'm essentially a really mean person, so I enjoy doing this.....

[deadparrot]

25. e's pinin' for the fjords!

;)

Obviously, we tend to get caught up in the mass hysteria that is pre-announcement DU. But people seem to lose all sense of rationality and seem to believe anything they read on the internet(s) as gospel, when it's not. Especially in a case like this.

[Nordmadr]

34. He's just resting...

[WilliamPitt]

16. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[Nordmadr]

36. LMAO, go have a smoke Will. N/T

[Loge23]

17. This will not matter a bit...

...if the scrub is still in charge of this country this time next month. Sweep 'em ALL out!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. He will still be in charge by next month

only way he will be out is, if Chenney is indicted and resigns, we have a VEEP apointed and confirmed and the 25th ammendment is invoked... that is the only way you can get rid of bushie boy fairly fast

So we will still have him around for a little while... STEADY... S-T-E-A-D-Y

[FredStembottom]

19. Oh, for cryin' out loud!

I took today off to clean out a space in the garage for the car and put on storm windows! It's almost Nov. in Minnesota - serious business! But I am frittering it away scanning DU for indictments.....

Must...be...strong.....

Must...put....Air America Minnesota ....on the radio in the garage....

Must....turn....off.....the 'puter......... :yoiks:

[Stephanie]

21. leave the computer on so you can come running back in when it hits

i think it's about to blow!

[wishlist]

27. He says Cheney has been asked for more information, probe continuing

This part of Richard's earlier posting is interesting to me about probe being extended at least in part due to recent revelation about Cheney's involvement:

"Although most press accounts emphasized that Fitzgerald was likely to concentrate on attempts by Libby Rove and others to cover-up wrongdoing by means of perjury before the grand jury, lying to federal officials, conspiring to obstruct justice, etc. But federal law enforcement officials told this reporter that Fitzgerald was likely to charge the people indicted with violating Joe Wilson's civil rights, smearing his name in an attempt to destroy his ability to earn a living in Washington as a consultant.

The civil rights charge is said to include "the conspiracy was committed using U.S. government offices, buildings, personnel and funds," one federal law enforcement official said.

Other charges could include possible violations of U.S. espionage laws, including the mishandling of U.S. classified information, these sources said.

That Vice President Cheney is at the center of the controversy comes is no surprise. Last Friday, Fitzgerald investigators were talking to Cheney's attorneys, and detailied questionaires, designed to pin down in meticulous sequence what Cheney knew, when he knew it, and what he told his aides,, were delivered to the White House on Monday, these sources said.

The probe is far from being at an end. According to this reporter's sources, Fitzgerald approached the judge in charge of the case and asked that a new grand jury be empaneled. The old grand jury, which has been sitting for two years, will expire on October 28."

[Jane Austin]

38. According to something John Dean wrote a while back,

IIRC, this part of your post indicates grounds for an additional charge of fraud:


The civil rights charge is said to include "the conspiracy was committed using U.S. government offices, buildings, personnel and funds," one federal law enforcement official said.


I'd have to look up Dean's FindLaw article that talked about fraud, but that listing of "buildings, personnel and funds" sounds familiar.

If I remember correctly, Dean had suggested that that was a charge for which Fitzgerald could almost certainly get a conviction.



(Edited for clarity.)

[The Stranger]

28. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow . . .

[hang a left]

29. THink about this for a minute, (if this turns out to be true)

How is it that the indictments would be announced but no press conference by Fitz? Are they going to be posted on his webpage? Will there be arrests? How is it that they will be announced?

[OldLeftieLawyer]

31. Do this:

Put your keyboard under your pillow when you go to bed tonight, and when you wake up in the morning, if you've been very, very good, there will be copies of indictments there for you, left by the U. S. District Court fairy.

[nadinbrzezinski]

33. RLOL

now that is funny

What will teh fairy leave if I have been bad? Some lumps of coal?

[DemReadingDU]

35. or attached to Fitzgerald's website

:)

[OldLeftieLawyer]

39. Follow the long

string.................;)

[lovuian]

37. Indictments another two years to make Cheney's case

airtight and Bush backed in a corner to have him resign!!!