Month: October 2005

Does anyone see the “Shame, Shame” moment in the House as a turning point?  Maybe the Dems will start showing some pluck.  They definitely need to get more vocal on the floor of the House and show some outrage.  Besides, it gives the media some theater to over-report and might start spotlighting what’s going on.

Hope you enjoy tonight’s cartoon:

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As Posted over at After Downing Street by David Swanson

Poll: Americans Favor Bush’s Impeachment If He Lied about Iraq
Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2005-10-11 12:46. Media
For Immediate Release: October 11, 2005
Poll: Americans Favor Bush’s Impeachment If He Lied about Iraq
By a margin of 50% to 44%, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.

Yahoo News/Reuters: “Prosecutor asks NYT reporter to testify again.”

… The decision by federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald comes just days after Miller found notes from a previously undisclosed conversation — on June 23, 2003 — with Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby.

“She is to return to the grand jury Wednesday to supplement her earlier testimony,” New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller said in a memo on Tuesday to New York Times staff, a copy of which was forwarded to Reuters.

CNN is also reporting that Judith Miller will testify tomorrow (thanks, Catnip).

Update [2005-10-11 20:41:20 by susanhu]: “Reporter Miller, Prosecutor Have Tangled Before” (AUDIO) , via MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann:

… The legal fight over the CIA leak case isn’t the only time Miller and Fitzgerald have been at odds.

In fall 2001, Miller and Times Washington correspondent Philip Shenon were reporting on Islamic charities suspected of funnelling money to al Qaeda.

At that time, Fitzgerald was leading the prosecution as the newly named U.S. attorney in Chicago. He and the Justice Department argued that Miller’s calls while working the story tipped off a foundation to an impending raid — a charge the Times rejects.

… MORE BELOW THE FOLD

(Can this story be used to try to discredit Fitzgerald in going after Miller so hard? Or does it explain that Fitzgerald is initmately aware of how Miller bobs and weaves, deceiving and mucking about with sensitive information.)

Also: MSNBC’s Hardball, which reairs at 8pm PT, is a must-see today for Plamegate-ophiles. (However, MSNBC has not yet broken the story about Miller testifying tomorrow.) Among the topics discussed:

• “Libby Did Not Tell Grand Jury About Key Conversation,” by the indefatigable and ahead-of-the-pack Murray Waas. Published today in the National Journal.
  

  
  

  In two appearances before the federal grand jury investigating the leak of a covert CIA operative’s name, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, did not disclose a crucial conversation that he had with New York Times reporter Judith Miller in June 2003 about the operative, Valerie Plame, according to sources with firsthand knowledge of his sworn testimony.

  
  

• Judy Miller might end up being indicted. (Many of us have thought that Judith Miller may have been a source.)

If Miller is indicted, I wonder when the NYT will distance itself from her, and stop its non-reporting reporting of the CIA Leak case.

And don’t miss:

• Catnip’s “Tell Us Who Fabricated the Iraq Evidence”
• BooMan’s “Ripples in the Pond”
• Larry Johnson’s “Mambo Italiano and Plame Gate”
  
• JPol’s “Is Rove the Scapegoat?”
  
• JPol’s “Saint Judith Miller”
  
• and much more (use the search, bottom right)

Q: How many Bush Administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: None. There is nothing wrong with the light bulb; its conditions are improving every day. Any reports of its lack of incandescence are a delusional spin from the liberal media. That light bulb has served honorably, and anything you say undermines the lighting effect. Why do you hate freedom?