What is going on in the Plame matter?

Are there any recent updates?

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/shoptalk_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000853514


There is now little expectation that the special prosecutor will succeed in identifying the person or persons who violated the law by revealing Valerie Plame's covert CIA identity to journalists. Meanwhile, Matt Cooper and Judith Miller are still on the hook.

By William E. Jackson Jr.

(March 23, 2005) -- A Washington week of interviews with numerous reporters and editors for national news outlets leaves one with a checkered perspective in the case of Valerie Plame and the two witnesses/defendants -- Matthew Cooper of Time magazine, who wrote about Plame, and Judith Miller of The New York Times, who did not -- still under sentence for contempt of court.

On March 21, more than a month after a three-judge panel of the circuit court for the District of Columbia upheld their October contempt convictions, joint counsel Floyd Abrams filed an appeal requesting a re-hearing. In talking to E&P this week, he did not sound very optimistic as to their chances: ""It's not as if the court routinely grants such a request -- but we are taking every step available to us."

If the appeal is heard, there is a widespread assumption among close observers that it will result in a unanimous opinion upholding the lower court. (And virtually no lawyer involved thinks the Supreme Court would later consider the case on appeal.) But no one knows how long it will take for the eight judges to decide. In the meantime, should the grand jury expire, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald can renew it.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A55560-2005Feb1?language=printer

If Osama bin Laden ever stands trial, there's a prosecutor in Chicago waiting to face him down. As a driven young lawyer in the 1990s, Patrick J. Fitzgerald built the first criminal indictment against the man who would become the world's most hunted terrorist. Both men have moved on, you might say, but Fitzgerald still imagines that fantasy date before a judge.

"If you're a prosecutor, you'd be insane if you didn't want to go do that," Fitzgerald says in the well-appointed conference room of the U.S. attorney's office here. "If there was a courtroom and they said someone has to stand up and try him, would I hesitate to volunteer? No. I'm not saying I'd be the best person to try him at that point, but I'd be lying if I told you I wouldn't be interested."

"If you're not zealous, you shouldn't have the job," says U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald, whose subpoenas of reporters have prompted complaints. (John Gress For The Washington Post)

A solidly built former rugby player who enjoyed getting muddy and bloody well into his twenties, Fitzgerald is nothing but confident in his own skin. Just as he does not fear bin Laden, he seems to fret little that he is now tangling simultaneously with the Bush White House and the New York Times, two of the nation's most powerful and privileged institutions.

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with Terri Schiavo or Michael Jackson or Jebbie or Chimpie? If not, forget about hearing about it. Everything else has taken a back seat to the above people. An asteroid could hit the earth and they would continue to keep talking about Terri Schiavo while the rest of us lay writhing in the dust.

not reporting that they knew a potential crime was being committed while the one who committed the crime is appearing on Crossfire and writing Right wing editorials.

Speculation ranges from Novak taking the fifth with the Special Prosecutor gathering evidence to hang him to Novak being protected by the Administration.

.... just like Ohio 2004, the shooting of the Italian reporter, halliburton,
global warming, WMDs, the missing money in Iraq, *'s guard record, *'s
year in community service, Jeff Gannon/White house connections, repug
and fox news ties, the number of black ministers who are getting $ under
*'s faith based programs, the number of industry insiders now running the EPA,
what happened in Falluja, 9-11 and *'s actions before during and after, the
death of wild run salmon on America's west coast, acid rain & mercury from
coal, Armstrong Williams, Florida 2000, cheney's energy task force, enron,
*'s insider trades, the real cost of the Iraqi war, why the media does not report
any more, the raw vote and exit poll data from 2004, ..........

:puke:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62963-2005Mar24.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61388-2005Mar23.html


But I think a form of justice will be done, heads will roll and the administration will be damned and doomed by the crux of this, the forged yellowcake docs and possibly the AIPAC spies. Admittedly just a hunch though.