Thursday Afternoon Intrigue from FDL (Gonzo, Fitz, Miller & the Holy Land Foundation)

[mod mom]

Thursday, September 6th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Thursday afternoon, as I don my tin foil chapeau
By: looseheadprop




I saw the strangest article in the American Spectator the other day. If I read it correctly, it suggested that Alberto Gonzales resigned a week or so earlier than he or the White House intended.

So why the speed up? According to DOJ staff, revelations that the Department was continuing to improperly vet partners for Muslim outreach programming were brewing, particularly with the resignation of the head of the department’s civil rights division.

So what’s the big deal with that?

Earlier in August, it was reported that the department had canceled a Muslim outreach event at Washington headquarters, which would have featured Gonzales, after it was learned one of the cosponsors had ties to a Muslim organization that was an unindicted co-conspirator in the federal Holy Land Foundation terrorist financing prosecution.

Holy Land Foundation??? Where or where intrepid Plamesters have we heard the name of the Holy Land Foundation before???? Hmmmm?

Wait, wait, something is coming back to me from my foggy memory? Why do I associate Holy Land Foundaton with the Libby Trial?? What is the connection?

-snip more intrigue @

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/06/thursday-afternoon-as-i-don-my-tin-foil-chapeau/



The Miller/Fitzgerald Backstory


By Josh Marshall | bio
Don't forget: This isn't the first time Plame prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has tangled with Judy Miller while investigating a leak out of the Bush White House.

A little more than a year ago, I reported on TPM how Fitzgerald had quite aggressively investigated another Bush White House leak in late 2001 and early 2002. Fitzgerald had been investigating three Islamic charities accused of supporting terrorism -- the Holy Land Foundation, the Global Relief Foundation, and the Benevolence International Foundation. But just before his investigators could swoop in with warrants, two of the charities in question got wind of what was coming and, apparently, were able to destroy a good deal of evidence.

What tipped them off were calls from two reporters at the New York Times who'd been leaked information about the investigation by folks at the White House.

One of those two reporters was Judy Miller.

-snip

http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/7/7/1148/62336

[Missy Vixen]

1. If FDL and TPM get going on this one

Judy's going to need a clean pair of underwear.

Just sayin'.
Julie
still president for life of the PFEB

[mod mom]

2. What's a member of the * administration having a connection to an organization

that our pal Fitz was investigating? Isn't it a terrorist organization? or not when Saudi cronies are associated w it.

[lovuian]

9. You mean Chalibi's b*tch

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BLMQOu0o6TA

She was quite the witness

and in the thick of things
with Aspens turning Scooter

[Me.]

3. Judy, Or Miss Girl Run Amok, Has Dirty Digits In Many Pies

As to the Holy Land Foundation, I always wondered. no proof, if when she warned the FBI was on the way, if there was a connection to the charity and Ahmed Chalabi, and that;s why she did it.

Also, look for her to be involved in the AIPAC case, when, or if, it ever goes forward.

[madrchsod]

4. what`s even worse about this story is that fitzgerald

went ahead with the case and became so pissed off that his case was blown that he was reprimanded by the judge for over zealous prosecution. he ended up with a conviction on supplying the islamic fighters in the balkin war and another useless conviction....ya he`s got it in for miss miller and who ever phoned her from washington dc.

he wanted to go after miller during the libby case but the judge told him he could`t use the information he had to get to miller. he had to find another way to get to her...is that why she went to jail?

[mod mom]

5. She went to jail for the same folks seen here cavorting with a possible terrorist

organization.

[KT2000]

6. By Executive Order

can't we now take all of the Gonzalez' family's possessions? And I mean extended family.
Hey - we should be able to take the possessions of everyone at the DOJ!

[mod mom]

7. exactly-aiding a terrorist organization.

[blogslut]

8. Darn that Osama and his newly darkened beard!

I almost missed this tread because of him!

K&R

[glitch]

10. K & R nt

[spindoctor]

11. I love it.

Good work.

:kick:

[rateyes]

12. W.O.W.

Judy Miller is a damned traitor.

[flyarm]

13. THIS NEEDS GIANT K&R!!! WOW THANKS FOR FINDING THIS!!

THOSE FOLKS AT FDL AND TPM..ARE TERRIFIC!! thanks modmom!!

fly