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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (10156)	2/21/2007 10:22:49 AM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 224729

LOL!

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (10156)	2/21/2007 12:10:14 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

i guess that jeff gannon guy had a real effect on gw "I will screw him in the ass!" -- President Bush on what he would do to Osama bin Laden if he caught him, as recounted by Ariel Sharon to biographer Uri Dan in Ariel Sharon: An Intimate Portrait.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (10156)	2/22/2007 12:02:00 AM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

merry fitzmas! "While rebutting the closing argument by the defense at I. Lewis Libby's trial, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spoke of a "dark cloud over the White House," due to the alleged obstruction of justice by the former White House aide. At the Washington Post's website, columnist Dan Froomkin points out that for the first time, as many have speculated, the prosecutor wasn't just accusing Libby, he was also referring to "them." According to Froomkin, Fitzgerald "at long last made it quite clear that the depth of Vice President Cheney's role in the leaking of the identity of a CIA operative is one of the central mysteries that Libby's alleged lies prevented investigators from resolving." "There is a cloud over the vice president . . . And that cloud remains because this defendant obstructed justice," Fitzgerald said. "There is a cloud over the White House. Don't you think the FBI and the grand jury and the American people are entitled to straight answers?" Froomkin continues, "After literally years of keeping his public pronouncements about the case to an absolute minimum, Fitzgerald yesterday finally let slip a bit of the speculation that many of us have long suspected has lurked just beneath the surface of his investigation. Suddenly it wasn't just the defendant alone, it was 'they' who decided to tell reporters about Wilson's wife working for the CIA. 'To them,' Fitzgerald said, 'she wasn't a person, she was an argument.'" "And it was pretty clear who 'they' was: Libby and his boss, Cheney," Froomkin writes. At the New York Sun, Josh Gerstein wrote on Wednesday that Bush had been "chided" by Fitzgerald. "Broadening his attack on the White House, Mr. Fitzgerald took a shot at President Bush, indirectly criticizing him for not firing officials implicated in the leaks about the CIA officer, Valerie Plame," Gerstein wrote. "The prosecutor noted that in 2003 the White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, said Mr. Bush would immediately dismiss anyone involved in leaking Ms. Plame's identity." Froomkin called attention to Gerstein's article in his column. "Josh Gerstein of the New York Sun, who was sitting right next to me in court yesterday, was possibly the only print reporter to lead with the big news: 'The special prosecutor in the CIA leak case, Patrick Fitzgerald, is suggesting in his strongest terms yet that Vice President Cheney was involved in an effort to unmask a CIA operative married to an administration critic,'" Froomkin wrote.