A New Chapter In The Valerie Plame Case - John Dean at Findlaw

[TacticalPeek]

A New Chapter In The Valerie Plame Case:
Insights Gained From The New Edition of The Book by Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson
By JOHN W. DEAN

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Reading Joe Wilson's book, in combination with the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on pre-Iraq-war failures of the American intelligence community helps clear away some of the fog. In part, that's because Wilson's publisher, Carroll & Graf, retained Russ Hoyle -- an investigative reporter who has been a senior editor at the New York Daily News, Time magazine, and the New Republic - to do what it might be inappropriate for Wilson himself to do: look into the government's investigation of the leak of his wife's identity.

Hoyle's report - included in the paperback edition of the book - notes that "There is little question that the investigation of the White House leaks is now hostage to Fitzgerald's campaign to force Cooper and Miller to testify." But, again, why?

Other information provided in Hoyle's report provides insight. Hoyle writes that Washington Post reporter Walter "Pincus, for example, reportedly confirmed the time, date, and length of his conversation with a source…, but Pincus would not reveal his or her identity."

Hoyle continues, "That lent credence to reports that Fitzgerald had subpoenaed records of every contact that White House personnel had had with reporters during the period in question and was engaged in a meticulous search to match such times and dates with records of meetings and telephone calls between reporters and Bush officials gleaned from calendars and telephone logs."

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[yellowcanine]

1. One of the "big fish" has to be Rove. Who is the other? Cheney?

[TacticalPeek]

2. Maybe John Bolt-on?

Bwaaahahahaha!

Really, he was a nonprolif guy, had means and motive etc.

[havocmom]

3. And he has a history of making life hell for strong women

Hey, Newsweek get all kinds of shit for a story which had been commented on elsewhere for two friggin years yet Novak is still on TV? Why aren't we screaming about that too?

[medeak]

7. Scooter (Libby) from the get go

has been said to be either the fall guy or the real perp.

[donkeyotay]

4. Dean raised the possibility of the Court taking this as a stalling action

From the link, down in the section subtitled, "Could the Supreme Court Become Complicit In Bush Administration Misdeeds?" (to which I would add, "Again?")

For this reason, a Court decision to docket the case should raise deep suspicions. This, after all, is the Court that installed Bush and Cheney in the White House with its dubious Bush v. Gore ruling. Delaying this case until the backside of Bush's second term could give the White House a pass through the mid-term elections as well.

Such delay, then, would suggest complicity by the conservative bloc (those most likely to take the case) of the Court in Administration crimes.

Back when Scalia went duck hunting with Cheney, while Cheney had business before the court, Scalia said it was okay because the two were "long-term friends" or "old friends." Scalia never mentioned this when he was helping install his friend in office back in 2000.

But judges recuse themselves as they see fit and the standards are vague. They are supposed to concern themselves with the appearance of impropriety. The hair that Scalia split in Duckgate was that he could hear Cheney's case as it related to his "official capacity" and not a personal one in which his friend could be facing penalties.

SO, my question is this: IF this case eventually winds up before the Supreme Court and Scalia recuses himself, can we not infer that just maybe one the "senior" members is Mr. Cheney?... not that it will do us any good. Apparently hell is going to freeze over before any of these evil f*s are actually held accountable, but interesting, no?

[acmejack]

5. Scalia will never recuse himself from a case like that

He will merely claim that he can maintain his "unbiased" perspective, just like he has on the two occasions you cite. Scalia is a shit of the worst kind.

[farmbo]

6. Fitzgerald went down this blind alley for one reason...

...to sandbag past the November 2nd election. And mission accomplished. Any second year APA would have had Novak's source indicted by June 2004, but, alas, that was not part of Fitzgerald's instruction.

Miller and Cooper are nothing more than roadkill for the 2004 Bush/Cheney campaign.

[loudsue]

8. I agree, farmbo.

Nothing will ever come of Plamegate, or any of the other crimes committed by this atrocious republican-ruled country. This country is being run by a thuggish mafia, plain and simple. They never pay for their crimes, because they've bought and paid for all the cops and the judges.

America was once a great country. :cry:

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