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Originally Posted by loquitur
dc, you really think Americans are ready for a president who shares a name with a reptile?
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thanks for the now blatant " ' jack" of the thread, guys.....
...if I can steer it back....what , IYO, can this mean ?:
<h2>Then:</h2>
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0060622-8.html
For Immediate Release
Office of the Vice President
June 22, 2006
Interview of the Vice President by John King, CNN
The Vice President's Residence
....Q I want to bring you to some domestic issues here at home. I have spent a fair amount of time in recent months in court with your former chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who, of course, is charged in the CIA leak investigation. One of the things that his defense has introduced as evidence is this -- it's a copy of this New York Times article that started all this, by Ambassador Joe Wilson -- and these scribbles are allegedly yours. Is that a fact?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: John, I am not going to comment on the case. It's -- I may be called as a witness. <b>Scooter Libby, obviously, one of the finest men I've ever known -- he's entitled to the presumption of innocence. And I have not made any comments on the case up until now, and I won't.</b>
<h3>["host" asks: By vouching so firmly for Libby....the quote has been on the whitehouse.gov site for almost eight months....didn't "shadow president" Cheney, disingenuously break his "vow", not to "[make] any comments on the case up until now" ??]</h3>
Q Let me ask you one question, one more question about that then. You said you may be called as a witness. The President urged everyone very early on to cooperate in this investigation, does that mean that if you are called as a witness that the administration would under no circumstances cite any privileges, either to shield you from testifying about certain issues or protect certain documents, or anything?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, you're getting into hypothetical now, and I'm not able to answer that. We have cooperated fully with the investigation from day one. .......
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Link to Libby's court filing, described in "LIBBY PLANS TO TESTIFY", story below:
http://www.talkleft.com/libby922cipamemo.pdf
Quote:
http://www.townhall.com/News/NewsArt...c-8b9882287edd
<b>Libby Plans to Testify in CIA Leak Trial</b>
Friday, September 22, 2006
Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff plans to take the stand at his upcoming trial to tell jurors that he never lied to investigators in the CIA leak case, defense attorneys said Friday.
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is charged with perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI about his conversations in 2003 with reporters regarding Valerie Plame's CIA job.
Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, leaves federal court in Washington in this May 16, 2006 file photo. A federal judge handed a victory to the defense in the Valerie Plame case, siding with Vice President Dick Cheney's indicted former chief of staff in a fight over release of classified information. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)
Libby plans to testify about President Bush's daily terrorism briefings and other classified information to persuade jurors that he had more important things on his mind at the time and didn't remember his discussions with reporters, attorneys said in court papers filed Friday evening.
"Mr. Libby must be able to discuss classified information to give the jury an accurate picture of his state of mind during the relevant time period and to show the jury that any errors he made in his statements and testimony were the product of confusion, mistake and faulty memory rather than deliberate misrepresentations," defense attorneys wrote.
The documents were filed as part of Libby's bid to use classified information at his trial in January. Defense attorneys plan to use a digital slide show to present material to jurors, according to court papers.
Prosecutors oppose the use of many documents, saying Libby is trying to torpedo the case by demanding information that is too sensitive to be released at trial. The tactic they described, known as "graymail," is used to get a case dismissed.....
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<h2>Now:</h2>
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http://news.google.com/nwshp?ie=UTF-...cheney%20wells
Libby, Cheney will not testify, lawyer says
Buffalo News, NY - 3 hours ago
Wells said he planned to finish presenting evidence in the case as soon as today. The decision to not call Libby and Cheney means an abrupt end to the trial ...
Libby, Cheney won't testify in perjury trial Chicago Tribune
Libby, Cheney won't testify at leak trial Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription)
Libby, Cheney will stay off the stand Los Angeles Times
Chicago Sun-Times - Guardian Unlimited
all 658 news articles »....
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IMO, Mr. Cheney will not testify on behalf of <b>"one of the finest men I've ever known"</b>, for the same reason that Mr. Libby will not testify in his own defense, because both now know that the majority of us know, (including Libby's criminal trial jury....) that they intentionally committed a traitorous act....during a "time of war", by deliberately "outing" a CIA employee who worked for the Agency's covert Directorate of Operations....disclosing classified information....her name and the circumstances of her employment at CIA, resulting in the compromise of her "cover", and the shutdown of her CIA "front" company, Brewster Jennings.....
Quote:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,107027,00.html
Raw Data: Statement by James Comey
Tuesday, December 30, 2003
A text of Deputy Attorney General James Comey on Attorney General John Ashcroft's decision to recuse himself from the CIA leak investigation Tuesday as transcribed by eMediaMillWorks Inc.:
COMEY: Good afternoon, folks. I'm joined behind the podium by Assistant Attorney General Christopher Wray. <b>We are here to announce a couple of procedural developments in the investigation into allegations that the identity of a CIA employee was improperly disclosed to the media last July.</b>
The first development is that, effective today, the attorney general has recused himself and his office staff from further involvement in this matter.....
.....<b>QUESTION: President Bush said soon after the leak story broke that he wasn't sure that the leaker would ever be caught.</b> I know you can't talk about specific suspects that you may be narrowing in on, but in general are you confident that this case is going to result in a prosecution?
COMEY: That's not a characterization I could make. I wouldn't do it about any cases, but I'm not going to do about this case.
All I can tell you is that I'm confident that the facts will be found professionally, and that the judgments will be made by someone with impeccable judgment and impartiality, and that is Mr. Fitzgerald........
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Quote:
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/do...er_30_2003.pdf
December 30, 2003
The Honorable Patrick J. Fitzgerald
United States Attorney
219 S. Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60604
Dear Patrick,
By the authority vested in the Attorney General by law, including 28 U. S .C. §§ 509, 510,
and 515, and in my capacity as Acting Attorney General pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 508, <b>I hereby
delegate to you all the authority of the Attorney General with respect to the Department's
investigation into the alleged unauthorized disclosure of a CIA employee's identity,</b> and I direct
you to exercise that authority as Special Counsel independent of the supervision or control of any
officer of the Department.
/s/ James B. Comey
James B. Comey
Acting Attorney General
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Quote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11179719/site/newsweek/
Newsweek
Feb. 13, 2006 issue - Newly released court papers could put holes in the defense of Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, in the Valerie Plame leak case. Lawyers for Libby, and White House allies, have repeatedly questioned whether Plame, the wife of White House critic Joe Wilson, really had covert status when she was outed to the media in July 2003. But special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald found that Plame had indeed done "covert work overseas" on counterproliferation matters in the past five years, and the CIA "was making specific efforts to conceal" her identity, according to newly released portions of a judge's opinion. (A CIA spokesman at the time is quoted as saying Plame was "unlikely" to take further trips overseas, though.) Fitzgerald concluded he could not charge Libby for violating a 1982 law banning the outing of a covert CIA agent; apparently he lacked proof Libby was aware of her covert status when he talked about her three times with New York Times reporter Judith Miller. Fitzgerald did consider charging Libby with violating the so-called Espionage Act, which prohibits the disclosure of "national defense information," the papers show; he ended up indicting Libby for lying about when and from whom he learned about Plame.
The new papers show Libby testified he was told about Plame by Cheney "in an off sort of curiosity sort of fashion" in mid-June—before he talked about her with Miller and Time magazine's Matt Cooper. Libby's trial has been put off until January 2007, keeping Cheney off the witness stand until after the elections. A spokeswoman for Libby's lawyers declined to comment on Plame's status.
—Michael Isikoff
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....and Libby did this on Cheney's orders....to send a message to anyone else who might think about discreditng Cheney....a message that it would be, at minimum, a career ending move to fuck with Cheney.
<b>Can you argue that Libby's defense has been "so strong", that there is no need for Libby and Cheney to testify as to Libby's innocence and "integrity"?</b> |