Cheney Adviser Indicted in CIA Leak Case
The AP has filed the article announcing that Scooter Libby, Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, has been indicted by the Fitzgerald grand jury on charges of obstruction of justice, making a false statement and perjury in the CIA leak case. Much to the Democrats’ dismay, Karl Rove wasn’t indicted.
After 22 months of investigating, we still don’t know:
- who told Robert Novak the name of Valerie Plame;
- how the CIA’s confidential referral become public;
- if Joe Wilson or Valerie Plame testified; and
- why their statements were taken at face value.
What we know is that:
- Plame wasn’t outed, which is what the irresponsible media, AKA the Agenda Media, were hyperventillating about;
- Wilson’s findings had nothing to do with why we went to war; and
- the Agenda Media got most of their ‘reporting’ badly wrong, to nobody’s surprise.
What this shows is that the media isn’t about reporting facts; they’re about trying to get Democrats elected while destroying an American president. This also shows that the CIA is waging war with this administration.
Politically, this is sure to get the GOP base fired up. If there’s something that the GOP hates is the misuse of the judicial system, especially if they see it being used for political purposes.
UPDATE: I listened to Fitzgerald’s news conference and I’ve got to say that that baseball analogy is the worst sports analogy I’ve ever heard. Having said that, let me use a baseball analogy of my own to say where we’re at in this investigation. Thus far, Fitzgerald has been warming up in between innings. He can throw pitches straight down the heart of the plate and not suffer the consequences. That all ends when the trial starts, though. Then he’ll be throwing pitches with Garret Anderson or Troy Glaus in the batters’ box. If he grooves one there, it might cost him the case.
It’s also important to remember that the defense attorney gets to attack the credibility of the prosecution witnesses, something that hasn’t happened up until now.
The other thing that came through at the press conference is that he sounded like he really wanted to have had Rove’s indictment in his hand, not Libby’s. It sounded more like he’s using this indictment to twist Libby into turning on Rove. I don’t know if that will happen but that’s what I believe he’s trying to do.
Cross-posted at BoxerWatch
October 29th, 2005 at 10:48 am
Wilson: There Have Been Threats
In his first interview since the indictment of I. Lewis Libby, Joe Wilson tells Ed Bradley that ther