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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (59332)	4/6/2005 3:01:12 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Berger's taking papers is a minor matter. Then why did he plead guilty? Regardless, he got off with a slap on the wrist. You have quite the record when it comes to predictions. You declare Berger to be "innocent" and within two hours a story appears that he is going to enter a guilty plea. I'm still waiting for those lower energy prices that you predicted for last fall, not to mention the landslide victory for Kerry. Where is the traitor in the White House who outed CIA agent Plame? Bush promised the culprit. Traitor? We don't even know that a crime has been committed? Anyway, it seems that the Plame investigation may have already been concluded and that Fitzgerald is merely waiting on Judith Miller and Matt Cooper. newsday.com Probe of spy's outing nearly done BY TOM BRUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU April 6, 2005, 11:54 AM EDT WASHINGTON -- The investigation into the leak of an undercover CIA operative's identity to a columnist was "for all practical purposes" completed in October, according to recent court filings by the special prosecutor. In two motions filed in a Washington appellate court, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said the only thing stalling the probe's conclusion is the refusal to testify by New York Times reporter Judith Miller and Time's Matt Cooper. "By October 2004, the factual investigation - other than the testimony of Miller and Cooper and any further investigation that might result from such testimony - was for all practical purposes complete," Fitzgerald said in a motion filed Thursday. The filing indicates that Fitzgerald is done with all materials he subpoenaed from the White House, all interviews with Bush administration officials, and even with columnist Robert Novak, who first published CIA operative Valerie Plame's name in July 2003, lawyers familiar with the case said. "He's done, except for his claimed need for Judy Miller and Matt Cooper and anyone they lead to," said Floyd Abrams, attorney for Miller and Cooper. "A plain reading [of the filing] is that he is finished with Bob Novak and anybody else." The filing, however, does not tip Fitzgerald's hand on whether he has determined if a Bush administration official or anyone else involved in the case has violated the law. "Either he's got a lot of information and wants to conclude, or he's got nothing and needs this testimony," said Gregg Leslie, the legal defense director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Fitzgerald spokesman Randall Samborn had no comment. Miller and Cooper are fighting subpoenas that Fitzgerald issued in August and September requiring grand jury testimony. "It's hard for me to believe that everything or almost everything is dependent on their testimony," Abrams said. In October, a federal district court in Washington held the two journalists in contempt for refusing to testify, and in February, a three-judge appellate panel upheld the contempt order, which could result in them serving time in jail. Fitzgerald's filing was first reported in an article to appear today by Murray Waas in the American Prospect Online.