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To: carranza2 who wrote (4677)	10/27/2005 3:42:35 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 541684

Apparently the rules don't allow for an extension, they'll have to convene a new Grand Jury if he doesn't finish tomorrow. I am sort of out of it right now, discovered a trojan on an old machine so everything is being scanned.

To: carranza2 who wrote (4677)	10/27/2005 11:08:27 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 541684

Very interesting rumors about Plamegate from blogger Richard Sale. turcopolier.typepad.com

To: carranza2 who wrote (4677)	10/29/2005 2:42:56 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541684

I take a little bit of satisfaction in figuring out that Miller was protecting Libby back in July, although it didn't take a rocket scientist, it was in the pleadings that Fitzgerald filed when asking that she be incarcerated for contempt. He said that the witness she was protecting had already testified before the Grand Jury, and had already given her a waiver, which turned out to be true. Could have been Rove or Libby, and I said Libby because my perception was that Miller was in contact with the Office of the Vice President often on her WMD beat. WMD wasn't Rove's thing. There's been a lot of nasty speculation in this case, and there will continue to be, of course, that's politics. I guess the silliest one I've read so far is the speculation that Miller (NYTimes) and Plame (CIA) got together to bring down the White House, which would actually make a great movie. And the snarkiest is that Miller and Libby are lovers, so she was protecting her sweetheart. And the meanest is that Miller was involved in the leak, so she was protecting herself. But the truth was also the simplest -- she really was protecting her source. According to Wonkette, my favorite source of unsubstantiated rumors, Miller is on the outs with the NYTimes. I wonder if now she will be forgiven? My own unsubstantiated speculation -- if Libby had told the truth to the Grand Jury, would that have tipped the balance in the election? We'll never know. Final thought -- I keep reading that the trial will be a show trial over the entire WMD thing. I can't see how. Fitzgerald doesn't seem like the show trial sort. I know you don't do criminal law but even so -- in what way could the basis for the war in Iraq possibly be relevant to whether Libby told the Grand Jury the truth about telling Miller Plame's identity?