The dirt is starting to fly against Patrick Fitzferald:

Tom Tully

The dirt is starting to fly against Patrick Fitzgerald:

Sat Oct 15, 2005 14:16

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The dirt is starting to fly against Patrick Fitzgerald:

Rove-gate: Who Leaked to the Leakers? This isn't about Rove

http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=38213&start=50

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

October 14, 2005 -- To all those who have been kind with their support for this site, thanks again so much! Now, let me report to you what I discovered prowling Washington last night on the CIA Leakgate story, the "October Surprise" scandal that threatens the survival of the G.W. Bush/Cheney administration.

Political insiders tracking this scandal are reporting that the GOP and neo-con political machines, which have also targeted Travis County, Texas, District Attorney Ronnie Earle in retaliation for his indictments of Tom DeLay and other Texas GOP operatives, are also setting their sights on CIA Leakgate special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald.

For an example of this new strategy of attacking Fitzgerald, see this Washington Post OP-ED piece by Richard Cohen.

The word inside the Beltway is that if Fitzgerald delivers indictments against senior White House officials, he will face unspecified "consequences."

"It's a sign of desperation on the part of the White House and Karl Rove's machine," said one individual familiar with the case. Another informed observer pointed out that Fitzgerald "is the last guy the White House would want to threaten with retaliation."

This morning, Rove testified for the fourth time before the grand jury investigating the CIA leak and the associated conspiracy to obstruct justice by the White House Iraq Group (WHIG). There are reports that former Secretary of State Colin Powell provided the grand jury with a mother lode of evidence on the role of the WHIG in its conspiracy against Valerie Plame Wilson, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, and the lies and forgeries used to lay the groundwork for the war against Iraq.

Legal experts believe that with political pressure being brought to bear on his investigation, it is in Fitzgerald's interest to issue any indictments as soon as possible and not request an extension for the grand jury, which is due to adjourn on October 28.

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Richard Cohen (who is an apparent Jewish Israel firster) & Washington Post (which is owned by Jewish Israel firsters who pushed for the war in Iraq for Israel as well) Attack Piece/editorial on Patrick Fitzgerald:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/12/AR2005101202002.html

washingtonpost.com
Let This Leak Go

By Richard Cohen
Thursday, October 13, 2005; A23

The best thing Patrick Fitzgerald could do for his country is get out of Washington, return to Chicago and prosecute some real criminals. As it is, all he has done so far is send Judith Miller of the New York Times to jail and repeatedly haul this or that administration high official before a grand jury, investigating a crime that probably wasn't one in the first place but that now, as is often the case, might have metastasized into some sort of coverup -- but, again, of nothing much. Go home, Pat.

The alleged crime involves the outing of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative whose husband, Joseph Wilson IV, had gone to Africa at the behest of the agency and therefore said he knew that the Bush administration -- no, actually, the president himself -- had later misstated (in the State of the Union address, yet) the case that Iraq had sought uranium in Niger.

Wilson made his case in a New York Times op-ed piece. This rocked the administration, which was already fighting to retain its credibility in the face of mounting and irrefutable evidence that the case it had made for war in Iraq -- weapons of mass destruction, above all -- was a fiction. So it set out to impeach Wilson's credibility, purportedly answering the important question of who had sent him to Africa in the first place: his wife. This was a clear case of nepotism, the leakers just as clearly implied.

Not nice, but it was what Washington does day in and day out. (For some historical perspective see George Clooney's "Good Night, and Good Luck'' about Edward R. Murrow and that most odious of leakers-cum-character assassins, Joseph McCarthy.) This is rarely considered a crime. In the Plame case, it might technically be one, but it was not the intent of anyone to out a CIA agent and have her assassinated (which happened once) but to assassinate the character of her husband. This is an entirely different thing. She got hit by a ricochet.

Now we are told by various journalistic sources that Fitzgerald might not indict anyone for the illegal act he was authorized to investigate, but some other one -- maybe one concerning the disclosure of secret material. Here again, though, this is a daily occurrence in Washington, where most secrets have the shelf life of sashimi. Then, too, other journalists say that Fitzgerald might bring conspiracy charges, an attempt (or so it seems) to bring charges of some sort. This is what special prosecutors do and why they should always be avoided. (The one impaneled in 1995 to investigate then-HUD Secretary Henry G. Cisneros for lying about how much he was paying his mistress is still in operation, although the mistress most certainly is not.)

I have no idea what Fitzgerald will do. My own diligent efforts to find out anything have come to naught. Fitzgerald's non-speaking spokesman would not even tell me if his boss is authorized to issue a report, as several members of Congress are now demanding -- although Joseph E. diGenova, a former U.S. attorney in Washington, tells me that only a possibly unprecedented court order would permit it. Whatever the case, I pray Fitzgerald is not going to reach for an indictment or, after so much tumult, merely fold his tent, not telling us, among other things, whether Miller is the martyr to a free press that I and others believe she is or whether, as some lefty critics hiss, she's a double-dealing grandstander, in the manner of some of her accusers.

More is at stake here than bringing down Karl Rove or some other White House apparatchik, or even settling some score with Miller, who is sometimes accused of taking this nation to war in Iraq all by herself. The greater issue is control of information. If anything good comes out of the Iraq war, it has to be a realization that bad things can happen to good people when the administration -- any administration -- is in sole control of knowledge and those who know the truth are afraid to speak up. This -- this creepy silence -- will be the consequence of dusting off rarely used statutes to still the tongues of leakers and intimidate the press in its pursuit of truth, fame and choice restaurant tables. Apres Miller comes moi .

This is why I want Fitzgerald to leave now. Do not bring trivial charges -- nothing about conspiracies, please -- and nothing about official secrets, most of which are known to hairdressers, mistresses and dog walkers all over town. Please, Mr. Fitzgerald, there's so much crime in Washington already. Don't commit another.

cohenr@washpost.com

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A Second Take on Scooter-gate
It's all about treason
by Justin Raimondo

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7490

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Special prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, is investigating the outing CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson. Suspicions have been solidly cast upon Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. There is no doubt that the crime wasn't committed alone or without the help of others.
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Subject: [apfn-1] War Without End View topic - Rove-gate Who Leaked to the Leakers This isn't ab
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 04:43:09 -0400
From: ftully ftully@rcn.com
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To: Tom Tully ftully@rcn.com

If Mr. Fitzgerald goes fwd. with his indictments, the Bushies will do more than sling a little dirt at Fitzgerald!

If I were Fitzgerald I would seek the indictments ASAP, at the same time, I would install the best Home security system available, retain a top notch security agency to provide 24 hour protection for his entire family. Expensive yes but when one goes up against "The Bush Family That Preys Together" you best be prepared!
The Cohen article is just the beginning of a massive slam Fitzgerald campaign!
For starters , I urge those Americans who believe in Liberty and Justice for all, approximately
65 %, open up a massif Support Federal Prosecutor Fitzgerald Campaign. Let him know America supports him!
When/if the indictments do come down Mr. Fitzgerald will need more than just moral support.
In normal times the Government provides protection for Judges, Prosecutors and witnesses involved in an emotional issue, like say an abortion case. Not so with outing of a C.I.A. Intelligence agent by members of this administration. It's perfectly acceptable that where we provided moral support for Mr. Fitzgerald we will now provide financial support to offset the cost of a security network.
We have the Issue, we have a guy who will press the issue, let's protect the issue by protecting Mr. Fitzgerald!
This Could Be The Start Of Something Big
Tom Tully

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