Fitzgerald is back in front of a Grand Jury:
Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald appeared this morning to present information to a new grand jury in the CIA leak investigation.
Fitzgerald has been probing for two years what role senior Bush administration officials have played in leaking a CIA operative name to the media in 2003.
Today’s appearance was the first time that Fitzgerald has gone back to a grand jury since the Oct. 28 indictment of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff.
At that time, the original grand jury probing the case expired.
With the new grand jury, Fitzgerald continues to consider charges against Karl Rove, White House deputy chief of staff, who failed to reveal to the FBI and the grand jury in the early days of the investigation that he had provided information about CIA analyst Valerie Plame to Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper.
What does it all mean?
Beats the hell out of me. But I thought you all would be interested.
docG
This is boring. How about some more Sheehan? Its been 24 hours since the last Sheehrection.
John Cole
OoooOooOOo!
Sheehrection™.
Daddy Like!
Steve S
Clearly this is because the Bushies are innocent and he just wants to apologize to the Grand Jury for wasting their time.
ppGaz
I can’t decide if this is worth my time until Stormy checks in with the tv listings for tonight.
Steve
This new development clearly establishes that the cases against Scooter Libby and Tom DeLay are groundless, just like every other development does.
Otto Man
Some people just have other priorities.
Krista
Icky. That was icky, John. No woman likes to think of an aroused Daddy.
Ric Locke
Poor fellow. Fitz needs to take a break. A couple of weeks, at least. He could go to Texas — Austin is much nicer than Dirty Laundry on the Potomac this time of year — and confer with his fellow prosecutor on tactics, e.g. how to get a grand jury entirely composed of Democrats with IQs of 80 or less when you don’t have the rosters already drawn up by the Chicago Machine.
Regards,
Ric
Lynn Hayes
Patrick Fitzgerald is such a serious guy, and he knows the implications of this thing are serious. Why would he keep hammering at these indictments if there was nothing behind them?
CaseyL
He wouldn’t. But my take is he wants an indictment that will lead to a conviction. Standards of proof are higher for a conviction than for an indictment. That’s why he wants to nail this one down, rather than go to the GJ with only circumstantial evidence against Rove.
Sojourner
I want to know what she’s drinking for dinner.
Sojourner
Absolutely. Only a moron would go after a fine, upstanding person like Tom Delay.
Randolph Fritz
“What does it all mean?”
I assume he wants to indict someone else. We can only hope.
Stormy70
Ok, you got it!
America’s Next Top Model , one episode of 24, topped off the evening with 2 hours of Project Runway.
Water. But I did spike my hot chocolate with some liqueur.
I have a full life, people.
Bob In Pacifica
It’s got something to do with Cindy Sheehan and White Phosphorus.
Waters, Bo
Does the Grand Jury know Fitz has to report to Director of the CIA everything he does domestically as well as globally due due Congressional changes?
CIA is unique in that it is one of two agencies that reports directly to Congress.
All the CIA Prisons leak is that DOJ can no longer indict anyone at CIA because DOJ and Pentagon now report to the Director of CIA. Congress apparently wants it made clear that Plame is protected due to this change(last month) and other countries should’nt complain about their relationships to CIA. We’re telling to **** off.
Jon H
Bo, come back when you’re lucid.