Fitzgerald Eyes Plame-Niger Conspiracy [Good Read]

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Monday 23 January 2006
"There was a discussion about what to do about Mr. Wilson," the current State Department official said. "There was a decision to leak a story to the press - I think a few journalists - about the Wilson trip, that it was a non-issue because his wife set it up for him."

Over the past few months, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has been questioning witnesses in the CIA leak case about the origins of the disputed Niger documents referenced in President Bush's January 2003 State of the Union address, according to several current and former State Department officials who have testified in the case.

The State Department officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because some of the information they discussed is still classified, indicated that the White House had substantial motive for revealing undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to reporters.

They said the questions Fitzgerald asked them about the Niger documents suggested to them that the special prosecutor was putting together a timeline. They said they believe Fitzgerald wants to show the grand jury how some people in the Bush administration may have conspired to retaliate against former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, an outspoken critic of the administration's pre-war Iraq intelligence.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012306Z.shtml

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1. Careful Mr. Fitzgerald there are rocks they don't want turned over.

The origins of the bogus Niger documents are dangerous territory.

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3. why? Because Niger documents prove Bush to be guilty of going to war

under false pretenses!

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4. Beyond that..

they point to a deliberate conspiracy to create the fraudulent evidence. Not only did they lie, they went out and cooked up bogus documents to support their lies. The point is we alreeady know who lied: essentially the entire administration lied. What we don't know are the details of how their conspiracy to defraud congress and the public worked. We don't know who committed what overt acts, and that is where the niger documents come in: somebody didn't just tell a lie here, somebody created those documents so that other people use them in their lies.

The niger documents point straight towards a much higher level of corruption than the media has been allowed to discuss. Organizations willing to create fictional documents to justify a war that would kill tens of thousands of people are pretty much capable of doing anything: they clearly are not constrained by normal morality.

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2. Already posted in GD at about 12:30pm today - here is link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=215947&mesg_id=215947


and you are right it is a great read to think that Rover and others are going down for Conspiracy charges - wahoo!