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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I have been asking why Fitzgerald did not bring charges for the "outing" of Plame from the begining. Never got a clear answer.
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It does not get much clearer than this:
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Mr. Libby initially told the Grand Jury that he first learned about Ms. Wilson in conversations with NBC reporter Tim Russert and then passed on that information to Ms. Miller and Time magazine reporter Mathew Cooper.
When confronted with evidence that Vice President Cheney told him about Ms. Wilson a month before that conversation with Mr. Russert, Mr. Fitzgerald says Mr. Libby changed his story. "He said that in fact he had learned from the vice president earlier in June of 2003 information about Wilson's wife but he had forgotten it. And when he learned the information from Mr. Russert during this phone call, he learned it as if it were new. And when he passed the information on to reporters Cooper and Miller late in the week, he passed it on thinking it was just information that he received from reporters and that he told the reporters that in fact he didn't even know if it was true. He was just passing gossip from one reporter to another at the long end of a chain of phone calls. It would be a compelling story that would lead the FBI to go away if only it were true. It is not true, according to the indictment," he said.
The special prosecutor says Mr. Libby was involved in at least half-a-dozen conversations about Ms. Wilson before he started talking to reporters.
The indictments against Mr. Libby do not end the probe. The president's senior political advisor Karl Rove spoke with some of the same reporters and remains under investigation.
Mr. Fitzgerald says he is making no allegations that Vice President Cheney or anyone else involved in discussing Ms. Wilson has done anything wrong. "I can't give you answers on what we know and don't know other than what is charged in the indictment. It's not because I enjoy being in that position. It's because the law is that way. I actually think the law should be that way. We can't talk about information not contained in the four corners of the indictment," he said.
Mr. Fitzgerald says when citizens testify before grand juries they are required to tell the truth because without it the criminal justice system could not serve the nation or its citizens. He says that requirement applies equally to all citizens, including those who hold high government positions.
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell...1029-voa04.htm
Not exactly hard to find
Ace....unless you dont want to see it. He lied to the grand jury while they were investigating his involvement, you dont issue charges until the investigation is complete.