Article

2005-11-16 Home Front: Politix

Woodward Was Told of Plame More Than Two Years Ago

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by danking70 2005-11-16 01:10|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 1) Libby is not off the hook by this because he was charged with lying, not leaking.
2) Whoever was Woodward's source could be in deep trouble if he has previously testified or made public denials (e.g. Chaney?)
3) Even if Plame was not covert (as seems to be the case, unless her 'cover' was as an overt analyst) her identity may still have been 'classified', and thus leaking of it a crime - even if it was still classified only because of bureaucratic error.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2005-11-16 08:30|| 2005-11-16 08:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Libby may not be off the hook, but the prosecutors case may end up resting on very thin ice. The use of investigations that are unable to, after years of disrupting lives and spending millions of dollars, establish that any crime has occurred but that some individuals may have not bee fully straight with the investigators is virtual entrapment. The Martha Stewart case was bogus and the Libby case is looking to be bogus.

In the unlikely event that an officer of the government ever asks me a question I know that I'll divulge nothing except my name. If these mf's want to play cute little games of finding the one mistake or internal inconsistance or lie in everything you say, then the best bet is to say nothing.

OOJ is a legitimate charge if a crime was committed and someone sought to obstruct justice. But if it can't be proven that the crime was committed, OOJ should not be a consolation prize for all the hard work the prosecutor put in or to give him a way to prosecute someone he suspects is guilty but can't prove. At some point prosecutorial abuse of OOJ may result in its repeal.

Posted by Ulerese Shineting1601 2005-11-16 09:08|| 2005-11-16 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 The Plame case is getting shopworn it has be peddled so much. The Plame case was hatched and peddled by the left wing dimis in an attempt to try to make something stick prior to election 2006 and 2008.

Posted by HubertThumperyerdink3867 2005-11-16 14:16|| 2005-11-16 14:16|| Front Page Top

00:14 JosephMendiola
23:52 JosephMendiola
23:52 Frank G
23:49 JosephMendiola
23:46 JosephMendiola
23:36 Scott R.
23:34 rjschwarz
23:16 Zenster
23:07 C-Low
22:57 Zenster
22:53 Zenster
22:50 Frank G
22:45 trailing wife
22:38 Zenster
22:37 Spurt Shereter8116
22:32 Frank G
22:30 trailing wife
22:27 Zenster
22:27 2b
22:26 Alaska Paul
22:11 Zenster
22:07 Zenster
22:00 Witt
21:59 Whutch Threth6418