White House CIA leak investigation still ongoing, prosecutor hints (AFP)

("...Wall Street Journal petition...," Hummmm?)

White House CIA leak investigation still ongoing, prosecutor hints

03/12/2005 02h52

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US special counsel probing a politically explosive CIA leak case signalled he was not ready to wrap up the investigation which has already toppled a top White House aide. The case, over the alleged White House outing of CIA spy Valerie Plame because her husband was a prominent critic of the US invasion of Iraq, is fuelling the controversy over the Bush administration's rationale for war against Saddam Hussein.

Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby has already pleaded not guilty to five counts of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements, arising from the probe. After the charges forced Libby to resign his White House job, the lawyer for Bush's chief political aide Karl Rove said Rove has been told he is still under investigation in the two-year probe.

Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's comments contained in court papers filed Friday will fuel more speculation he may still be mulling new charges in the case. Responding to a Wall Street Journal petition to have still-secret details of his investigation released, Fitzgerald said in his court filing that some grand jury testimony must stay secret to protect the integrity of the probe.

Fitzgerald called for continued secrecy to ensure that prospective witnesses "come forward voluntarily and will testify fully and frankly, and to prevent any efforts to obstruct the investigation," he wrote. He also said some documents identifying witnesses who testified to a grand jury, who had not been identified publicly and who had not been and may never be charged, should also be kept under wraps.

<http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/051203005646.2ncua7ny.html>
(more at link above)

it's just busy work for Fitz.

find information which they can use to discredit the investigation.

:popcorn: :party: :popcorn: :party: :popcorn: :party:

Merry Fitzmas to all, and to all a goodnight!

Hekate

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IT'S BEGINNING TO FEEL A LOT LIKE FITZMAS

It's beginning to look a lot like Fitzmas
Ev'rywhere you go;
Take a look in the mainstream press, critical once again
And calling for Dick Cheney's head to roll.
It's beginning to look a lot like Fitzmas,
Rumors on every blog,
But the prettiest sight to see is the frog march that will be
Out the White House door.

An indictment for treason and juries that reason
Is the wish of Barney and Ben;
Flacks that will talk and a public perp walk
Is the hope of Janice and Jen;
And Bush and Rove wish they could count on war to start again.

It's beginning to look a lot like Fitzmas
Ev'rywhere you go;
There's a Grand Jury in Washington, one in Texas as well,
The sturdy kind that doesn't mind the press.
It's beginning to look a lot like Fitzmas;
Soon the writs will fall,
And the thing that will make them stick is the witnesses who flipped
In the jury hall.

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WALKING IN A BELTWAY WONDERLAND!

Pundits talk, are you listening?
On Rove's brow, sweat is glistening.
A beautiful sight,
Fitz will indict,
Walking in a beltway wonderland!

In the meadow we can build a snowman,
And pretend that he is Preznit Bush.
We'll call him an indicted co-conspirator,
And then we'll start to kick him in the tush!

Can you tell, we're excited?
Just to see, who's indicted!
Those who have clout,
Will be frog-marched out,
Walking in a beltway wonderland!

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originally posted here, I think:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5016450#5016512

Like these - especially the Beltway Wonderland one.

:toast:

...have a right to interfere with this investigation. Anyone familiar with their filed papers?

I hope Fitz goddamned nails the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Wall Street Journal for obstruction of justice and treason! --and for falsely advertising themselves as news journals!

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/documents/final_response_dow_jones_motion_unseal.pdf

(I know this was just posted to their site, but the date is from a year ago)

I'm not good at reading legalese. Can someone help translate?

...This Court denied the reporters’ petitions for rehearing on April 19, 2005.

The reporters’ petitions for certiorari were denied on June 27, 2005.

On October 28, 2005, the grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby with obstruction

of justice, perjury, and making false statements to federal investigators, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1503, 1623 and 1001.

Beginning before...:popcorn:

They run the Wall Street Journal.

heh

Of course he's still investigating. That's why he called another GJ. Naturally, if all of this gets out before it's supposed to the case is in jeapordy.

Kinda makes you feel like that's THE POINT!!!

I think I have a teeny tiny orgasm. :blush:

We are so lucky to have this guy on our side and with each filing his gives us a glimmer of hope.

could write and describe it to me!

:toast:

:kick:

of the Plame outing "Rove's War" and WHY then I have created it at Takebackthemedia.com http://www.takebackthemedia.com where you can have a look at the 12 minute Preview trailer and listen to the end credit song I performed (that Randi Rhodes sang TWICE on Air AMerica a few week ago) called "Secret Agent Plame" :)

I researched this subject for over a year and it's ALL THERE.

H2OMan, a venerated (and in my opinion genius on the DU) watched it three times at home and received multiple copies which he handed out to friends and family, he wrote a great review for it and called it a pretty important tool to fight the spin going on, as we knew would be coming..

There's a lot more to the story than many people know and it's all WICKED, but in the end it IS "Rove's War" for many reasons, most of all because he was able to fool enough people (and use Diebold) to get this Insane Serial Killer into our precious White House..

He had a hand in all this, and I see him getting indicted within MONTHS if not weeks..

Take a look and tell your friends, it'll make a great Fitzmas Present :)