Fitzgerald Again Points to Cheney

[kpete]

Fitzgerald Again Points to Cheney

In Friday's eminently readable court filing, Fitzgerald quotes the Libby defense calling his prosecution "unwarranted, unjust, and motivated by politics." In responding to that charge, the special counsel evidently felt obliged to put Libby's crime in context. And that context is Dick Cheney.

Libby's lies, Fitzgerald wrote, "made impossible an accurate evaluation of the role that Mr. Libby and those with whom he worked played in the disclosure of information regarding Ms. Wilson's CIA employment and about the motivations for their actions."

...

The investigation, Fitzgerald writes, "was necessary to determine whether there was concerted action by any combination of the officials known to have disclosed the information about Ms. Plame to the media as anonymous sources, and also whether any of those who were involved acted at the direction of others. This was particularly important in light of Mr. Libby's statement to the FBI that he may have discussed Ms. Wilson's employment with reporters at the specific direction of the Vice President."

Not clear on the concept yet? Fitzgerald adds: "To accept the argument that Mr. Libby's prosecution is the inappropriate product of an investigation that should have been closed at an early stage, one must accept the proposition that the investigation should have been closed after at least three high-ranking government officials were identified as having disclosed to reporters classified information about covert agent Valerie Wilson, where the account of one of them was directly contradicted by other witnesses, where there was reason to believe that some of the relevant activity may have been coordinated, and where there was an indication from Mr. Libby himself that his disclosures to the press may have been personally sanctioned by the Vice President."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/05/29/BL2007052901024.html?hpid=topnews

[TahitiNut]

1. It's not important to DU today unless it's "Fitzgerald Again Points to Cindy"

... which invites the local brainless horde of forum locusts to feed on the grain of gossip and personality assassination.

:puke:

[Toots]

2. Okay so who is mentioning Cindy again????

:crazy:

[TahitiNut]

6. Uhmmm ... that'd be you.

:rofl:

My reply to the OP was nothing more than a 'kick' to a rapidly sinking thread. (I thought that was obvious.)

[krkaufman]

10. That's just what I was thinking.

Hold the Tahiti? :)

[madrchsod]

3. nicely put.....

[helderheid]

!

:rofl:

[calimary]

4. Well, it's important to me...

ANYTHING that brings us even a tiny step closer to nailing that bastard cheney is important to me.

[leveymg]

5. and, if we believe him, also personally sanctioned by the President.

What did Bush think he was declassifying, anyway? That question was never adqeuately addressed.

[madrchsod]

7. is libby going to sing if he get 3 years?

a whole lot has changed since the trial was over. is libby and more important his wife going to let him fall on the sword and keep his mouth shut and do at least 2 years? did libby get an assurance from bush that he`d pardon him? it`s going to get real interesting in the next few weeks

[Annces]

8. He knows who the scoundrel is

but he has to keep repeating himself. I bet he wishes he were over and done with this case.

[Missy Vixen]

9. I recommend reading the sentencing filing

Let's just say that I think Patrick Fitzgerald must have enjoyed writing it. http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/Libby_Sentencing_memo052507.pdf

Julie
still president for life of the PFEB; let's see if Scooter's willing to throw his life away for the Executive Branch

[goclark]

11. Sad to say, he will throw his life

away to protect his "Godfather."

[Patsy Stone]

13. It was a thing of beauty

And I want to see those sealed bits.

[L. Coyote]

12. Good reading. I look forward to other "Gates" reaching sentencing stage. K&R

Thank kpete. May this float.

[Patsy Stone]

14. I completely agree with Froomkin here:

"(The defense's decision not to call Cheney to the stand remains a massive bummer.)"

[Rosa Luxemburg]

15. I think Fitzgerald is finally able to "wash the sand from his eyes"

in reference to his statement when Libby was first indicted....

[ejbr]

16. whateverthefuck...

people just fold when up against these nefarious bastards. All bark, no bite.