When Prosecutors Attack
Media Channel has the transcript of Spooky Judy’s appearance on Lou ‘I hate hispanics’ Dobbs’s program: DOBBS: …I am also dismayed that this investigation has taken this long without result. And the...
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Open Thread
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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 MoreIndictment Rumor Mill
Update [2005-10-5 20:10:58 by BooMan]: 22 Indictments?
Pre$$titutes has the rumors:
Interrupting our regular focus on Pre$$titution, we want to let readers know that rumors are flying around D.C. that over a dozen indictments may be coming in the Plame case.
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 MoreLibby: ‘I’m Sorry You’re in Jail, Judy’
CNN’s latest article on the Miller case offers some interesting tidbits. It appears that she was keen to avoid having to testify about her reporting on WMD. First some quotes, then some speculation on the flip.
Here, CNN is discussing the negotiations for Miller’s release from jail. They involved Libby’s attorney, Joseph Tate, Miller’s attorney, Bob Bennett, and Fitzgerald’s office.
Miller had spent nearly two months in jail on civil contempt-of-court charges when negotiations between the two camps resumed. Another Miller lawyer, Robert Bennett, picked up the phone on Aug. 31 to call Tate. Bennett told TIME that the Miller camp had received an indication from a third party that it might be a good time to approach Libby with a new request to personally waive the confidentiality agreement.
It took Miller’s lawyers a month, till Sept. 29, to hammer out the details with Libby and Fitzgerald. A legal source told TIME that Fitzgerald gave both camps a letter saying that if Miller and Libby were to have a talk about making a deal, the prosecutor wouldn’t view the conversation as collusive or obstructive as long as they didn’t discuss what Miller would testify to.
Said Bennett: “She would not testify until she was satisfied that the source personally was waiving confidentiality, and she wanted to hear it directly from him.” Negotiations with Fitzgerald were complicated, involving not only Miller’s testimony but her notes as well. The legal source told TIME that the prosecutor did not give the final O.K. for Miller’s release until after he received and reviewed the notes from one of two conversations with Libby in July 2003.
In his deal with Miller, the prosecutor agreed to limit the scope of her testimony before the grand jury, focusing only on the reporter’s conversations with sources about Plame, according to her lawyer Bennett. Miller wanted to rule out of bounds any questions about her reporting on WMD, a lawyer involved in the case told TIME.
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