FBI Suspected Rove and Libby Pre-Fitzgerald (Jason Leopold)

[kpete]

kpete: again this comes with my usual appeal: You decide whether to chew it up or spit it out
And, if you care - my opinion about Leopold - Haven't made my mind up yet - takes me a LONG time to process things...



FBI Suspected Rove and Libby Pre-Fitzgerald
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report

Wednesday 06 September 2006

A couple of months before Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed special prosecutor to find out who told journalists that Valerie Plame was an undercover CIA operative, Justice Department officials working under then-Attorney General John Ashcroft told Ashcroft that two senior White House officials may have lied to FBI investigators - a felony - when they were first questioned about their role in the leak in October 2003, according to numerous published reports and court documents.

FBI investigators first suspected that Scooter Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, and White House political adviser Karl Rove lied when they were asked about how they came to learn that Plame worked for the CIA and whether they shared her affiliation with the agency with reporters.

"The suspicion that someone may have lied to investigators is based on contradictions between statements by various witnesses in FBI interviews," according to an April 2, 2004, report in the New York Times. "The conflicts are said to be buttressed by documents, including memos, e-mail messages and phone records turned over by the White House."

The notion that Rove and Libby may have lied to the FBI has been widely reported at least a dozen times during the course of the three-year-old investigation.

more at:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090606J.shtml


Edit to include:
Also today:
From Raw Story:
Book: Rove withheld crucial CIA leak email for nearly a year
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Rove_withheld_crucial_CIA_leak_email_0906.html

and
September 06, 2006
HUBRIS: The Press Release
http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2006/09/hubris_the_pres.php

[T_i_B]

1. GET YER POPCORN HERE!

:popcorn:

[CabalPowered]

2. I'm a little sick of buttered popcorn.. any carmel available?

[T_i_B]

5. I thought bullshit flavour...

...was the preferred option on Leopold threads!

:hide:

[DancingBear]

4. Nah, it really isn't any fun anymore

It's just sad that people still actually believe him.

And them.

Fool me once and all that shit...

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Let us recall that Leopold has not been definitively discredited

on the Rove indctment story--and even if he was wrong, he wasn't egregiously wrong.

I find this story entirely credible, and, if true, thoroughly damning of Ashcroft.

[lyonn]

7. Let's keep options open

Leo's story vs. Rove's story? With this new media blather about Armitage being the "real" culprit, it is good to have views from the other side, such as Leo. After all, Armitage saw a memo from Libby, is that right?) and that is why he mention Plame to Novak. soooo, Libby and bush's buddies wanted the story out and Armitage "may" be the scape goat (set-up)??

[Jacobin]

9. Huh?

"even if he was wrong, he wasn't egregiously wrong"

Either the guy was indicted or he was not. It does not appear that he was.

Apparently, Jason was as wrong as one can be.

[jumpoffdaplanet]

6. A blind wombat would know it was Rove and Libby...

and Cheney. Don't forget Cheney.

[Jackpine Radical]

8. And Poland.

Don't forget Poland.

[Spazito]

10. Thanks, kpete, for posting

Given all the recent articles, op-ed pieces, etc, it seems something is up, imo, so I appreciate any posted articles on this issue.

[Sonnabend]

11. What....

No vegemite sandwiches?

Who catered this show anyway? :toast:

[DemReadingDU]

12. Thanks for posting!