Leak probe not seen to end with Rove, lawyers say

Leak probe not seen to end with Rove, lawyers say

about Fitz's investigation progress.

Clean up the Republican-BushCo-NeoCon culture of corruption.

And restore truth, democracy, and high mindedness to America.

May it continue...

:woohoo: Go Fitzy baby!

Where's that old Fitzmas carol thread from last month?

Of course Fitzie won't stop with Rove. There are more sources and more leaks to reveal. His standard M.O. is to build a case, get an indictment, rinse and repeat.Isn't he still indicting people in Chicago for one case? 60+ indictments? The man is just warming up and there is much crime to choose from. Every day is Fitzmas.

thank you....

Leak probe not seen to end with Rove, lawyers say
Jason Leopold

FITZ LEAK PROBE WON'T END WITH ROVE LAWYER'S SAY

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is not expected to shut down his investigation into the leak of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson when he finishes his inquiry of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove's role in the leak, lawyers close to the probe said.

These sources indicated that if a grand jury returns an indictment against Rove it will include -- at the very least -- a charge that he made false statements to Justice Department and FBI investigators when he was first interviewed about his role in the case in October 2003.

Individuals close to the probe say Fitzgerald is still investigating other unnamed White House officials. This part of the investigation, like that of Rove, is focusing on whether these officials committed perjury, obstruction of justice or lied to federal investigators during the early days of the investigation -- as opposed to violating an obscure law which makes it a crime to knowingly leak the name of an undercover CIA operative -- they say.

The investigation is expected to shift back to top officials in the Office of the Vice President, the State Department and the National Security Council, and may even shed some light on the genesis of the Niger forgeries, lawyers close to the case say. The forged documents, cited in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union address, claimed Iraq sought yellowcake uranium from the African country. It may also reveal how key players in the White House decided to expose Plame's undercover status and top secret front company, Brewster Jennings.

Separately, these people said, the FBI's renewed interest in probing the Niger forgeries grew out of Fitzgerald's probe.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Leak_probe_not_seen_to_end_1221.html

So is he going after someone more official or what? I always thought that Fitzgerald was using Rove as a key to who really did it. He didn't have that type of access until after the last "election" this past year. He had to get someone else to get the information. Reporters couldn't have gotten it either so they had to get it from a high official in the White House. Fitzgerald could've indicted Rove a long time ago when he did Libby but he didn't.

what lawyers close to the probe "said" this?

who are "these people said".



Msongs
www.msongs.com/chinamart.htm

Is this new information? From Raw Story:

"One of those individuals may be an unnamed State Department official cited in a Sept. 9, 2003 Washington Post story. The official told the Post that six journalists were called and told about Plame Wilson's undercover status in an attempt to discredit her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a critic of the Bush administration's prewar Iraq intelligence who challenged the veracity of the uranium claim."

They discuss this State Department official a couple times. Have we always known it was someone from State?
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/firedoglake/113517829833351727/

We all know how much their is to all of this. I think Fitzy is not going to stop until he has every last player nailed down. I couldn't think of a better Prosecutor for this as can't wait to see Fitzmas after Fitzmas what presents we'll receive next!

It just keeps going and going....Great news

I'm looking forward to a long Fitzmas season!

I am THRILLED to read this. Hey, Hadley! Merry Christmas!

,...to spying on Americans? I wish he did though I doubt he does. ;(

out of tin foil tinsel!

Perhaps he can somehow tie in the Sibel Edmonds information.. It's all connected at the roots..just like the aspens:)

comes from rawstory in your subject line?
People include "graphic" or "warning dialup users" as a courtesy to others, when they are posting disturbing or obscene images or simply large images.

One would think the unlabelled news parodies of rawstory would merit a similar treatment. As a courtesy. Please.

FITZMAS JUST AIN'T FITZMAS, WITHOUT THE ONE YOU LUUUUVVVVV!

:-)

"Mr. Fitzgerald has secured the cooperation of certain individuals who faced the possibility of being prosecuted," one attorney close to the case said. "That's all I'm going to say."

One of those individuals may be an unnamed State Department official cited in a Sept. 9, 2003 Washington Post story. The official told the Post that six journalists were called and told about Plame Wilson's undercover status in an attempt to discredit her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a critic of the Bush administration's prewar Iraq intelligence who challenged the veracity of the uranium claim. Wilson debunked the administration's claims after being sent to Niger a year earlier to investigate the allegations.

The unnamed State Department official cited in the Post story appears to have intimate knowledge of the campaign to discredit Wilson. He also appears to have been sympathetic to the former ambassador.

The Associated Press also quoted an unnamed retired State Department official who told
them of a Department memo describing Plame's alleged role in sending her husband to Africa and disputed the legitimacy of administration claims that Iraq sought to acquire uranium.

I would say the most likely candidates are Powell or Armitage. Then again, I'm not sure if either faced the possibility of being prosecuted. Any other people come to mind?

Carl Ford. Not sure if he would have faced prosecution, though if I recall, he may have been responsible for having the Grossman memo brought on board Air Force One in July 2003.

I think he would definitely have been sympathetic to the Wilsons after reading what he has to say about Bolton:

Testimony last Tuesday by former State Department intelligence chief Carl W. Ford Jr. had left several of them shaken after he described Bolton as a "serial abuser" who picked on junior officers who dared to challenge him. Chafee had said that Ford's testimony was strong but that it did not show a pattern.

snip

Ford, who ran the State Department's intelligence bureau before Fingar, also said that Bolton had sought the removal of Christian Westermann, the bureau analyst who had also challenged the ambiguous intelligence Bolton wanted to make public about Cuba.

When Westermann shared his dissenting view about the intelligence, he was ordered to Bolton's office and berated, Ford and Westermann said. Ford and Silver said Bolton wanted Westermann removed from his job at the intelligence bureau. Bolton denied that he tried to have anyone fired but said that the national intelligence officer and Westermann had acted inappropriately.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61304-2005Apr17.html

Too many ups and downs lately. Breathe deeply and focus... Impeachment lies close, Impeachment, HMMMMMmmm! Impeachment!:woohoo: