Is Leopold about to break a new story on Plame?

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

From a comment left at the Next Hurrah, which has had some great analysis of Plamegate:

Good morning readers of The Next Hurrah
This is my first time commenting here. I feel it necessary to do so today. There will be a new wrinkle in this investigation soon, however, I cannot say whether it will help or hurt. I can tell all of you unequivocally that Jason Leopold, the reporter, has obtained raw copies of Grand Jury testimony that will likely see him having reported accurately on Karl Rove's truly being indicted and the after-the-indictment deal hammered out between the prosecution and Mr. Rove's attorney. I believe the letter to Mr. Luskin Mr. Leopold obtained will confirm that. But more importantly, in my opinion, the grand jury testimony that Mr. Leopold has--and may I add that whoever provided it to him did so illegally--has some very, very interesting information about VP Cheney and a certain individual at the CIA who used to work for John Bolton. If Leopold prints this story and provides copies of the testimony it will add yet another layer to this drama.

I speak about this based on second hand information. I know Mr. Leopold has been in Washington the past two weeks authenticating documents. Perhaps Mr. Leopold does not realize that the Beltway rivals Los Angeles as the gossip mecca of the US. Some of the attorneys and US Congressman he has been speaking with have thus shared his information with others.

I have not seen any of the materials first hand, but if what one of my Democratic aides to a particular Midwest congressman says is true all hell is about to break loose.

http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2006/09/you_could_write_1.html#comment-22486592

Perhaps this is total BS, but perhaps Leopold is on his way to redeeming himself?

[bluestateguy]

1. Oh! Jason Leopold is going to tell us when the Easter Bunny will arrive

I'll be waiting over the next 24 business hours.

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

3. hahahaha

good one :-)

[Proud2BAmurkin]

20. Don't you mean the GREAT PUMPKIN?

:rofl:

[bluestateguy]

24. He's rising up out of the pumpkin patch, with his big bag of toys....

[5X]

2. The former. n/t

[lonestarnot]

4. WOW, if this is true, Mr. Leopold won't be reporting much from

behind bars. Grand Jury testimony is secret! This is crap.

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

9. True

But Jason's source would be the one committing the criminal offense, not Jason (unless Jason broke into the Courthouse and stole the transcript, or something bizarre like that)

[lonestarnot]

13. Yes but Jason can't report secret testimony either.

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

18. Remember the Barry Bonds Steroids book?

That was based almost entirely on secret grand jury testimony. The authors of the book didn't commit any crime, it was the persons who gave them the grand jury testimony that committed a crime.

[lonestarnot]

21. Yes/No. Don't read sports stuff, but was the book written post

wrap up of the investigation?

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

22. Nope

they were still investigating. The final decision not to indict Barry Bonds was announced months after the book was published.

[lonestarnot]

23. No blowback for author of secret grand jury testimony or was

leaker not revealed?

[flyarm]

you are 100% correct!! about the book on bonds!! n/t

[seemslikeadream]

5. I believe in Jason

and I believe Rove was indicted

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. FOR SALE

Do you ever get tired of being shat upon?

[seemslikeadream]

14. Why do you think Rove's attorney has not released the entire

letter he received from Fitzgerald?

[alcibiades_mystery]

26. No, really: That's my bridge...and it can be YOURS, for a modest fee

It's a little pathetic at this point.

[seemslikeadream]

27. That is not an answer to my question

and on edit BTW

This will be exposed




Dick Cheney exposed Valerie Plame to cover up his association with A.Q. Khan's Nuclear Walmart. Read about it here: http://s93118771.onlinehome.us/DU/AMERICANJUDAS.pdf

[DoYouEverWonder]

35. So far that bridge

has outlived you and me and it will probably continue to do so.

[Igel]

30. Perhaps because there's neither an obligation nor common expectation

that he should?

I frequently don't do things I'm not required to do, and unless there's a general expectation that I do something, I don't feel like justifying it.

If you don't like the bridge in Brooklyn, a friend of mine is selling one near Lake Havasu. He's only owned it a few months, just a few crossings on it.

[jazzjunkysue]

28. Why else was Rove removed from his official white house post?

They don't ever do that to their own, unless one is on his way to the courtroom. Period. Rumsfeld is proof of that. Would he keep Rumsfeld after years of demands that he be fired, and demote Rove for no reason at all?

That's why it's not too hard to want to believe the Rove indictment story.

[Marie26]

6. Leopold's probably the poster

He used fake names to comment on that same website before.

"Jason Leopold, Sockpuppet Extraordinaire
By DHinMI

I had hoped Jason Leopold would just go away. It's clear from his own statements in various places that he's struggled with some substance abuse and mental illness issues. He has my sympathy for this. But he's now become a bigger story because he's made such grandiose claims about having deep sources all through the government and somewhere among the investigators or investigated in the Valerie Plame outing. So it's time to come forward and give you some evidence with which to assess Jason Leopold's credibility. I'll refrain from making conclusions, but it's worth putting out there for people to assess.

On January 14, 2006 in an excellent post emptywheel closely examined an article by Leopold in which she demonstrated his claims were not supported by his sources. Leopold showed up in the thread, and things got interesting. Leopold called me a pussy. Some guy named Tom Marconi claiming to be former CIA threatened commenter jonnybutter. Andy Gumbel, a writer at the Guardian, vouched for Leopold. And someone named Adam Yorkshire shilled for Leopold's book.

But here's the problem. If all these comments came from different people, they appear to have all spent that evening together, because all those comments came from just two ISP addresses.

All eight comments from Jason Leopold came from the same ISP address. (Typepad allows the administrator of a blog to see the ISP address comments come from, as well as ban by that ISP.) That ISP was also the address from which we recieved all three comments by Adam Yorkshire. And so did the second comment from Tom Marconi, the one where he threatened jonnybutter. But the first comment from Tom Marconi, as well as the comments by Andy Gumbel and Joshua Klein, originated from a different but common ISP address. Thus, one Marconi comment came from the same ISP address as all the Leopold and Yorkshire comments, and those are connected to the Gumbel and Klein comments by the other Marconi comment. One could conclude quite easily that Jason Leopold wrote all those comments himself. It would not be out of character, for on another thread a few months later Leopold admitted to posting comments on TNH under the moniker Harry Shep.

http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2006/05/jason_leopold_s.html

[Tace]

7. I E-Mailed Leopold About This Back In April...

asking him to comment. Never heard back from him.

[Marie26]

17. I'm not surprised

He did seem to change the alias this time, at least! IMO, this is just Leopold hoping to create some "buzz" about how he was right all along. :eyes: He's hoping it gets picked up by other liberal sites, as it was here, so people will re-think their opinion of him. Very sad.

[grytpype]

8. In 24 business hours, all will be revealed.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[treestar]

12. You beat me to it

:rofl:

Poor Jason. I really do believe he got freeped out somehow.

Someday he will reveal all. Hopefully before we are all raptured.

[Snivi Yllom]

39. 24...business weeks?

months?

years?

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. One can only hope...for comedy value

...

[deutsey]

15. I don't know how many more of his exposes we can survive

Skepticism aside, I hope he has the goods, though.

[buddhamama]

16. i knew it !

Armitage was too easy an answer.

[AngryAmish]

19. It's Fitzmas!!!!!!1

[kstewart33]

25. Oh, geez. Here we go again.

Will it be 24, 36, 48 business hours?

Or 'I can't give you the true story because it must come from the truthout publisher'?

I'll pass, thanks.

[jeffuppy]

29. The Truthout Town Meeting blog has been pulled

It looks like Truthout has removed their entire Town Meeting blog from thier site, as of last night.
Does anyone know anything about this?

Could this be related to recent posts regarding Leopold and his documents? Does TO not want this information to out on their site for some reason? Pure speculation here.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

32. Welcome to DU, jeffuppy!

:hi:

[jeffuppy]

33. Thanks!

Looks like I may have to move over here to blog if TO has pulled theirs for good. Glad to be here. :)

[Igel]

31. I don't see why he wouldn't break a new Plame story.

The last one was certainly broken.

[Cameron27]

36. Sometimes it's just too easy

:rofl:

[saltpoint]

34. For my part, I look forward to the discovery of the Northwest Passage.

I just know it's out there someplace.

[flyarm]

37. look ..the rove group have taken down much bigger reporters than Jason!

if people here haven't figured that out yet..when will they??

i.e. Mary Mapes, Dan Rather..and then yesterday little lord pissy pants all but setting up David Gregory..by calling him Beautiful, and after ranting and raving at david Gregory..saying ..Next man..Next man..with a gaggle of male and female reporters sitting there...

did no one pick up on that??


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

beginning of press confer....

BUSH: I must say, having gone through those gyrations, you're looking beautiful today, Dave.

end of Q&A by Gregory..by pissy pants...


BUSH: Next man?

QUESTION: This will not endanger...

BUSH: David, next man please. Thank you.



**Jason is chicken feed to the rove slime machine..

fly

[Snivi Yllom]

38. ba ba ba bullshit

fantasy land