I couldn't risk what little credibility I have on this forum by posting the Rove indictment news when I saw it. We need a journalist from a more prominent publication to break the news of a Rove indictment, IMO.
Let me be the first to post that Patrick Fitzgerald is reported to have introduced damning evidence that Cheney was quite interested in Wilson's July, 2003 NYTimes Op-Ed article, and was possibly the author of the Plame nepotism "Op" that I detailed ten months ago, in the 2nd and 3rd posts on this thread.
Heres' a link back to the first page:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...3&page=1&pp=40
After Scooter was indicted, his defense strtategy was that he was a very busy man doing very important work for the VP, during a time of war. He did not perjure himself in front of Fitzgerald's grand jury....an important man like him, in an important job like his, could not be expected to remember if he told a reporter that Plame was CIA.
Now we found that even Scooter's boss, Cheney wasn't too busy to escape notice of Wilson and his wife, Plame. He was also careless enough to let the Op-Ed fall into Fitzgerald's hands, and he seemed to put importance on the question of whether Wilson's CIA wife sent him on a "junket" to Africa, instead of whether what Wilson wrote in the article was true. Silly, petty, untruthful, incompetent, bully of a politician...that Mr. Cheney...it would seem!
Quote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12774274/site/newsweek/
A Fresh Focus on Cheney
Hand-written notes by the Vice President surface in the Fitzgerald probe.
By Michael Isikoff
Newsweek
Updated: 6:21 p.m. ET May 13, 2006
......Cheney's notes, written on the margins of a July 6, 2003 New York Times op-ed column by former ambassador Joseph Wilson, were included as part of a filing Friday night by prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the perjury and obstruction case against ex-Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
The notes, Fitzgerald said in his filing, show that Cheney and Libby were "acutely focused" on the Wilson column and on rebutting his criticisms of the White House's handling of pre-Iraq war intelligence. In the column, which created a firestorm after its publication, Wilson wrote that he had been dispatched by the CIA without pay to Niger in February, 2002 to investigate an intelligence report that Iraq was seeking uranium from the African country for a nuclear bomb. Wilson said he was told Cheney had asked about the intelligence,but the White House subsequently ignored his findings debunking the Niger claims.
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12774143/site/newsweek/">Read the Fitzgerald Filing on Cheney Notes</a>
<b>In the margins of the op-ed, Cheney jotted out a series of questions that seemed to challenge many of Wilson's assertions as well as the legitimacy of his CIA sponsored trip to Africa: "Have they done this sort of thing before? Send an Amb. [sic] to answer a question? Do we ordinarily send people out pro bono to work for us? Or did his wife send him on a junket?"</b>
It is extremely rare, if not unprecedented, for Cheney's own notes to be made public. The notes—apparently obtained as a result of a grand jury subpoena—would appear to make Cheney an even more central witness than had been previously thought in the criminal probe. Fitzgerald's prosecution has created continued problems for the White House. Karl Rove, the President Bush's chief political advisor, recently made his fifth grand jury appearance in the case and remains under scrutiny while Fitzgerald weighs whether to file criminal charges against him. For now, Libby is the only figure charged in the case.
Lea Ann McBride, a spokeswoman for the vice president, declined to comment on the newly disclosed notes. "We continue to cooperate in the investigation as we have since its inception," she said
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