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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Does Fitgerald explain why he did not bring charges against anyone for blowing Plame's covert status? Given the information presented and presumed information, this should be a charge easy to prove and get a conviction on.
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ace, please go down the list of threads on this forum and read what Fitzgerald stated in court at Libby's trial, at the
"Are Supporters of the VP and Libby Aiding and Abetting War Time Treasonous Acts ?" thread....
I think that your POV has been clouded by the republican "noise machine", when it comes to what Fitzgerald has said and done. Now, the excuse from folks like Victoria Toensing, et al, that <b>"no underlying crime was committed"</b>, is gone.
I detailed and supported in the "Aiding and Abetting" thread, that Rep. Henry Waxman's (D-CA) House Committee, elicited testimony from the white house chief of security, that no internal white house investigation was ever launched to attempt to determine who in the executive branch, leaked the details of Plame's CIA employment. Waxman wrote a follow up letter questioning this security lapse to Bush's COS, Josh Bolton.
Fitzgerald has done his job, ace. Libby, by his obstruction, "threw sand in the umpire's face....obscuring the play", as Fitzgerald likened Libby's crimes, in his October, 2005 press conference.
What Waxman now has is proof that there was no backing to Bush's empty, Sept., 30, 2003 rhetoric that leaking classified info:
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......And if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.
And so I welcome the investigation.....
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...because the white house security chief has now testified that neither Bush or anyone else asked him to attempt to find out who leaked Plame's classified employment details.
Fitzgerald has set the stage, ace. He's proved that Libby, Karl Rove, Ari Flesicher, and others...at the white house, all intentionally leaked classified info about a covert CIA agent, during war time.
The "ball" is now in the court of Rep. Waxman's investigative congressional committee, and, from what I can see, his committee is running with the ball.
Stay tuned....