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[geekchick]

Hang up the stockings, kiddies, it looks like Fitzmas Eve.

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[crouchback.livejournal.com]

It's going to be pretty lame if all they get people on are perjury and obstruction of justice based on their grand jury testimony. That would mean that the Valerie Plame leak wasn't a crime at all, and would add a rather Ken Starrish flavor to the whole affair.

Patrick Fitzgerald's reputation is much, much better than that. He's been single-handedly cleaning up a lot of corruption here in Illinois (hurting the Dems and Repubs-the latter got annoyed at Peter Fitzgerald, no relation, for pushing for Patrick Fitzgerald to be appointed, and basically made Peter Fitzgerald retire), and he does not seem to make BS charges.

He also doesn't leak much at all. (I'd hate to play poker against him.) I wouldn't be surprised if the indictments he does issue haven't been anticipated at all.

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

One thing I find interesting: why is Fitzgerald ,a href="http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20051023-104217-9679r">looking at the Italian documents which turned out to be fakes?

It might be that indictments get issued over things not connected to the naming of Valerie Plame as a CIA agent.

[geekchick]

Someone in one of the comments pointed over to Citizen Spook, which made for an interesting sort of read.

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

That would be a massive power grab by state prosecutors (especially if the conspiracy took place in DC).

If it turns out that the Niger documents were forged, and that people knew it and covered it up, there should be some charges.

We'll still have the problem that the Intelligence Community was darn near unanimous that Iraq had WMDs, under two administrations, and it turned out to be incorrect (and, if you read the transcript (http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/Wilkerson%20Speech%20--%20WEB.htm) of Colonel Wilkerson's speech (http://www.newamerica.net/index.cfm?pg=event&EveID=520), he says the same was true of the British, German and French intelligence communities).

What it looks like to me is that they cooked the books on one bit of evidence, for reasons that baffle me, since it looks like they seriously believed the rest of it, as did the previous administration.

I wonder if they just covered up to avoid losing face by admitting that one bit of evidence was wrong, and were horribly surprised to find out how off all of the claims on Iraqi WMD were.

I suspect we'll find out when someone (if anyone) gets indicted.

[(Anonymous)]

I suspect we are not going to learn much new about Dubya's motives, but it sure would be gratifying to see Rove fry.

Nicola