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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (58342)	10/29/2005 2:18:44 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 173976

British MP George Galloway Faces More Charges in Oil-for-Food Scandal MichNews.com ^ \| Oct 28, 2005 \| Jim Kouri, CPP While British left-wing politician George Galloway throws his trademark verbal jabs at US senators, such as Senator Norm Coleman who alleges Galloway took part in the far-reaching oil-for-food scandal, the United Nations released a report in New York City that alleges he received millions of barrels of oil from Saddam Hussein. The UN investigation headed by American national Paul Volcker claims that Galloway received a voucher for up to18 million barrels of crude oil from Saddam's regime. In addition, the report alleges that $120,000 from oil sales was paid into the bank account of Galloway's wife. This is separate from the $150,000 put into his wife's account that Senator Norm Coleman alleges as a result of the US senate subcommittee investigation. Galloway's and his wife, Amineh Abu Zayyad, are currently in the midst of divorce proceedings. As soon as the Volcker report was released yesterday, a growing number of British officials began demanding a Parliament investigation into allegations against Galloway by the United States and by the United Nations. One official even compared Galloway to a wartime traitor and Nazi propagandist. Mr. Volcker refused to speak to reporters about the alleged transactions detailed in his report, but sources in New York say there may be several more charges leveled at George Galloway. (Excerpt) Read more at michnews.com ...

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (58342)	10/29/2005 2:21:51 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Patrick Fitzgerald Retreats From Plame 'Covert' Claim NewsMax.com ^ \| 10/29/05 \| Carl Limbacher Leakgate Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald dropped a mini-bombshell Friday afternoon while he was explaining his indictment of Lewis "Scooter" Libby to the press. It turns out that the central premise of his investigation - that Valerie Plame Wilson enjoyed protected "covert" status at the CIA - may not be true. "Let me say two things," Fitzgerald told reporters. "I am not speaking [in this indictment] to whether or not Valerie Wilson was covert . . . And we have not made any allegation that Mr. Libby knowingly or intentionally outed a covert agent." Fitzgerald did insist that Mrs. Wilson's "association with the CIA was classified," which would make leaking her occupation a crime. But he declined to bring any charges to that effect, casting even more doubt on the claim that her CIA job was a closely guarded secret. A Nexis Lexis search shows that since Mrs. Wilson's alleged "outing" in July 2003, the media has erroneously referred to her "covert" status more than 3,100 times. Surely the press will begin issuing its Leakgate retractions any minute now