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AGENDA21 Donating Member (862 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 11:19 AM
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Nixon's John Dean: Grand jury should investigate Bush!!!
Edited on Fri Apr-07-06 11:26 AM by AGENDA21
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has now revealed in court filings bombshell information that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby told the grand jury investigating the leak of Valerie Plame-Wilson's covert CIA identity. According to Fitzgerald's filings, Libby said that he was authorized by the President and Vice President to leak classified information to New York Times reporter Judith Miller.

This revelation has been accompanied by a number of public misstatements, which call for correction. The most blatant of these is the claim that Fitzgerald's filing indicates that the President authorized the release of Valerie Plame's covert status at the CIA. In fact, the document is conspicuously silent on this fact. The filing does indicate that the President authorized the release of classified information, but it was different information - a National Intelligence Estimate that had been classified pursuant to an executive order.

In addition, conventional wisdom - if that label fits the consensus information that is surfacing on radio and television news shows - has it that this information does not reveal that the President or Vice President did anything illegal. But that claim, too, is not necessarily accurate.

At a minimum, the filing indicates that the President and Vice President departed radically, and disturbingly, from long-set procedures with respect to classified documents - and that the Vice President, in particular, exceeded his declassification authority. And it may indicate that they, too, ought to be targets of the grand jury.

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20060407.html
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 11:21 AM
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1. Wouldn't that be great...
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AGENDA21 Donating Member (862 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 11:26 AM
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2. Oh yes it would!
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jojo54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 11:27 AM
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3. I'm torn between two worlds......
the present world of the * cabal doing and saying whatever, whenever they want and not expecting any repercussions.....

or the world that may be if * is forced out of office, which means Dickless or Kindasleezy takes over.

Which is the most horrifying?

We can only keep our chins up for 11/08.
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ChickMagic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 11:43 AM
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4. It wouldn't be Kindasleazy
It would be big ol' Hastert.
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