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Anything left of your fingernails?
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Waiting to Exhale
Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has asked the grand jury investigating the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson to indict Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby and Bush’s Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, lawyers close to the investigation tell RAW STORY.
Fitzgerald has also asked the jury to indict Libby on a second charge: knowingly outing a covert operative, the lawyers said. They said the prosecutor believes that Libby violated a 1982 law that made it illegal to unmask an undercover CIA agent.
If Libby is charged with the 1982 act, that will destroy the Martha Stewart defense. Of course, the Martha Stewart defense isn’t much of a defense. She went to jail.
CNN is reporting that the White House is, ironically, disappointed at news that Fitz may not make any announcements today. Apparently, they are ‘waiting to exhale’, also known as their ‘asses are puckered tight’.
And based on the Washington Post’s editorial on Cheney today, I’d say they are doing a poor job of pre-indictment spin:
As for Mr. Cheney: He will be remembered as the vice president who campaigned for torture.
That’s right, even with his ass on the line for coordinating a conspiracy to violate Joe and Valerie Wilson’s civil rights, Darth Cheney is more interested in making sure torture remains legal.
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Since we are all jumpy with P.I.S.S. (pre-indictment stress-syndrome), I thought we might want to fantasize and speculate a little. Some people are calling this Fritzmas Eve. What do you want under the tree tomorrow?
And what the hell do you think will happen if Cheney has to resign?
Read MoreThe Conspiracy the MSM Won’t Touch
CNN’s Bill Schneider posted the following article on September 12, 2002.
There’s a big question hanging over President Bush’s Iraq policy: Why now? Why, more than 11 years after the Gulf War, is it suddenly so urgent for the U.S. to go after Saddam Hussein now?…
Why did the Administration wait until September to make its case against Iraq? White House chief of staff Andrew Card told The New York Times last week, “From a marketing point of view, you don’t introduce new products in August.”
In his speech to the United Nations, President Bush tried to shut down the political speculation. This is a life-and-death matter, the President insisted. “Should Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year,” he told the U.N. General Assembly in New York Thursday.
To those who say, we want more evidence that there’s a real threat, the Administration says, we can’t wait for a smoking gun to turn up. “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud,” National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice said on CNN’s Late Edition recently.
So, we see the White House used their August Crawford vacation more productively in 2002 than they did in 2001 (when they ignored warning signs about a 9/11 type plot).
In August 2002, the administration decided to roll out a ‘new product’. The product was a war in Iraq. The sales pitch was the spector of a mushroom cloud going off in an American city. Seen in this light, it makes the following very interesting:
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Thump: The First Shoe Drops
The Washington Note reports:
An uber-insider source has just reported the following to TWN:
1. 1-5 indictments are being issued. The source feels that it will be towards the higher end.
2. The targets of indictment have already received their letters.
3. The indictments will be sealed indictments and “filed” tomorrow.
4. A press conference is being scheduled for Thursday.
The shoe is dropping.
More soon.
Comments?
Update [2005-10-25 19:54:49 by BooMan]: CBS Nightly News.
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