Author: Oui

“Now Ronnie Earle has the mug shot he wanted,” said DeLay lawyer Dick DeGuerin, referring to the Travis County district attorney who sought the indictments. “I wanted to avoid the circus. . . . He wanted a perp walk, and we did not want to do it.”

Video grab of former House Majority leader Tom DeLay's lawyer Dick DeGuerin holding Delay's booking sheet outside of the Harris County sherrif's office in Houston October 20, 2005. NBC/Reuters

DeLay wants new judge, new trial location

Citing partisan differences, U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, wants a new judge to hear his conspiracy and money-laundering charges somewhere other than Travis County. DeLay’s lawyer on Thursday asked state District Judge Bob Perkins, a Democrat, to remove himself from the case because of donations the judge made to the Democratic Party, its candidates and the political organization, Moveon.org.

The Prosecutor Zeroes In
By Dan Froomkin  ◊ Special to washingtonpost.com

Tuesday, Oct. 18 — Could the CIA leak investigation turn into an accountability moment for the Bush administration and the way it handled intelligence before and after taking the country to war?

Jim VandeHei and Walter Pincus write in The Washington Post: “As the investigation into the leak of a CIA agent’s name hurtles to an apparent conclusion, special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has zeroed in on the role of Vice President Cheney’s office, according to lawyers familiar with the case and government officials. The prosecutor has assembled evidence that suggests Cheney’s long-standing tensions with the CIA contributed to the unmasking of operative Valerie Plame. . . .

AP/Eugene Hoshiko

“In the course of the investigation, Fitzgerald has been exposed to the intense, behind-the-scenes fight between Cheney’s office and the CIA over prewar intelligence and the vice president’s central role in compiling and then defending the intelligence used to justify the war …

The Saddam-911 Link Confirmed
By Laurie Mylroie
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 11, 2004

Important new information has come from Edward Jay Epstein about Mohammed Atta’s contacts with Iraqi intelligence.  The Czechs have long maintained that Atta, leader of the 9/11 hijackers in the United States, met with Ahmed al-Ani, an Iraqi intelligence official, posted to the Iraqi embassy in Prague. As Epstein now reports, Czech authorities have discovered that al-Ani’s appointment calendar shows a scheduled meeting on April 8, 2001 with a “Hamburg student.”

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So Many Errors: the Clinton Years

Opinion polls show that most Americans still believe Iraq had substantial ties to al Qaeda and even that it was involved in 9/11. Yet among the “elite,” there is tremendous opposition to this notion. A simple explanation exists for this dichotomy. The public is not personally vested in this issue, but the elite certainly are.

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Former White House counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke is a prime example of this phenomenon. Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, when President Bush asked him to look into the possibility of Iraq’s involvement, Clarke was “incredulous” (his word), treating the idea as if it were one of the most ridiculous things he had ever heard.  On September 18, when Deputy National Security Adviser Steven Hadley asked him to take another look for evidence of Iraqi involvement, Clarke responded in a similar fashion.

… Clarke’s adamant refusal to even consider the possibility of an Iraqi role in the 9/11 attacks represents an enormous blunder committed by the Clinton administration.

You’re kidding, right?

Who do you think leaked the story of the FBI investigation into Feith’s staff to CBS News? That effectively “killed” the inquiry, and Franklin (the patsy for the scandal) was basically told to sit down and shut up by Plato Cacheris because it was all about to come out, which he did.

Now, the investigation is nowhere. All the leads have dried up and Franklin’s not talking.

You want to know who outed Valerie Plame? Look at
Doug Feith and Scooter Libby.

“The beginning of thought is in disagreement — not only with others but also with ourselves.” – Eric Hoffer www.InTheArena.bravehost.com

by Thinking Republican on Sun Feb 06, 2005 at 09:57:53 AM PDT