Three pertinent points
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Three pertinent points:
A. A federal perjury charge against Rove or any other "senior administration officials" requires corroboration by two people, which I assume would be Miller and Cooper (and/or Novak if he sang like the scum pond bird he is). Their notes are not sufficient, nor are the waivers by Rove and Libby. Fitzgerald needs actual testimony to make out perjury and/or obstruction of justice charges against the leakers and cover-up-ers.
B. Miller and/or Cooper may themselves be "subjects" of the Fitzgeral investigation, and of course needs them to testify, should they choose to do so, to get their side of the story.
C. As to why Miller and Cooper might continue to refuse to testify in spite of the sources' waivers of confidentiality, it has nothing to do with upholding journalistic standards, and EVERYTHING to do with their criminal culpability in (1) facilitating the outing of Plame; (2) facilitating the cover-up of whomever outed Plame; and/or (3) they have a lot of "relevant skeletons" in their closets that would be fair game to the prosecutor when Miller and Cooper get sworn in. And IF they choose to answer even one question before the grand jury, they waive their 5th Amendment rights against self-incrimination as to ALL questions — which would open them up to all sorts of legal do-do that they likely want to be left in the dark.
I suspect that, when all is said and done, at least Miller and Novak, and likely Cooper, too, will be indicted along with some "officials" inside the White House. Rove and Libby offering their waivers of confidentiality are empty gestures, since they know that Miller and Cooper can only place themselves in more jeopardy by testifying than they do by maintaining their silence.
Comment by Analytical Liberal — 7/6/2005 @ 1:04 pm |
