Give me 22 indictments and a show trial to make Stalin blush. I can see it now. There’s Tim Russert testifying about how Scooter Libby is a big fat liar. Here’s Chris ‘Tweety’ Matthews recalling how Rove said Wilson’s wife was fair game. Larry King calls Ann Coulter and she says she is too ill to appear on his show. DeLay’s trial/ Frist’s trial/ Rove’s Trial, on split screen. What’s your fantasy?
Read MoreUpdate [2005-10-5 20:10:58 by BooMan]: 22 Indictments?
Pre$$titutes has the rumors:
We caution that we are reporting a RUMOR. Nothing more. And this may be absolutely false. Still there is definitely chatter in Washington circles….
UPDATE: AMERICAblog has this teaser: “My source tells me that the scuttlebutt around town is that the White House knows something bad is coming, in terms of Karl getting indicted, and they’re already trying to distance him from the president.”
Lord, let it be true. And now for the best guess on twelve people to be indicted:
Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, John Hannah, John Bolton, Douglas Feith, Scott McClellan, Fred Fleitz, Ari Fleischer, Condileezza Rice, Stephan Hadley, Eliot Abrams, Karen Hughes.
Read More Federal investigators say Leandro Aragoncillo, a naturalized citizen from the Philippines, used his top secret clearance to steal classified intelligence documents from White House computers. (ABC News) |
“[T]he alleged spy worked undetected at the White House for almost three years. Leandro Aragoncillo, 46, was a U.S. Marine most recently assigned to the staff of Vice President Dick Cheney. (ABC News via the DrudgeReport).
Former WH terrorism specialist Richard Clarke expressed astonishment:
More from ABC: “Federal investigators say Aragoncillo, a naturalized citizen from the Philippines, used his top secret clearance to steal classified intelligence documents from White House computers.”
Oddly enough, stories about the spying first appeared in Phillipine press back on Sept. 16, but only hit U.S. media yesterday and today.
Philippine News Online, which dubbed Aragoncillo “Agent Smart,” reports that “[t]he FBI last week said they uncovered the two ‘spies’, identified them as Leandro Aragoncillo, an FBI analyst, and Michael Ray Aquino, former police super in Manila now studying to be a nurse in New York. At least three espionage charges were filed against them for supposedly working in tandem to pass classified U.S. information to Philippine officials. “Agents of a foreign government,” is the phrase used in the criminal complaint filed Sept. 9 before Judge Patty Shwartz in New Jersey.” (Phillipine News, Oct. 5, 2005)
“Officials say the classified material, which Aragoncillo stole from the vice president’s office, included damaging dossiers on the president of the Philippines. He then passed those on to opposition politicians planning a coup in the Pacific nation, reports ABC. Aragoncillo, who began working for V.P. Gore in 2000, “has admitted to spying while working on the staff of Vice President Cheney’s office.”
Read MoreWas reading this Diary: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/5/18115/0099#67
Over at KOS when ABC News came on with the FrontLine Story!!!
Courtesy of the Associated Press:
WASHINGTON (AP) – Tom DeLay deliberately raised more money than he needed to throw parties at the 2000 presidential convention, then diverted some of the excess to longtime ally Roy Blunt through a series of donations that benefited both men’s causes.
When the financial carousel stopped, DeLay’s private charity, the consulting firm that employed DeLay’s wife and the Missouri campaign of Blunt’s son all ended up with money, according to campaign documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
According to the AP, Jack Abramoff was also in the picture. Lawrence Noble, the Federal Election Commission’s chief lawyer for 13 years, says these transactions are similar to those involved in the DeLay/TRMPAC case in Texas in that those who donated money may not have ultimately known where that donation would end up.
“These people clearly like using middlemen for their transactions,” said Lawrence Noble. “It seems to be a pattern with DeLay funneling money to different groups, at least to obscure, if not cover, the original source,”
The house of criminal cards is crumbling quickly.
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