Scooter's Indictment

[Rainmaker]

The Washington Post asks this morning "Did a Bush loyalist, trying to protect the case for war in Iraq, obstruct an investigation into who blew the cover of a covert CIA operative?"

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Facing 30 + years in prison if convicted, do you think Scooter Libby will approach the situation like Watergate's John Dean and spill his guts, or will he keep his mouth shut and go to jail for 10 plus years like G. Gordon Liddy?

And if he keeps his mouth shut, who do you think he will be protecting, just himself, or others higher up?

[mrbowler]

Source rules out Cheney in leak case:
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Woodward will be on Larry King Tonight:
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[mrbowler]

If the President knows the leaker..

Bob Novak Says President Knows Leak Source:

``You have repeatedly suggested that you would like to get to the bottom of this affair,'' Schumer reminded Bush. ``At one point, in 2004, you suggested that anyone who was involved in leaking the name of the covert CIA operative would be fired.''


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[Rainmaker]

Originally Posted by mrbowler

Source rules out Cheney in leak case:
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Woodward will be on Larry King Tonight:
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It is now coming to light that higher ups, together with Cheney, "authorized" the leak. Who are the others: W, Rove, Harriet Meyers?

[mrbowler]

I wonder if we will ever find out the person who leaked the CIA identity?

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"Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, charged with perjury in the CIA leak case, cannot be told the identity of another government official who is said to have divulged a CIA operative's identity to reporters, a federal judge ruled Friday."


The judge put off deciding whether Libby can have access to highly classified presidential daily briefs, summaries of intelligence on threats against the United States that Libby and Cheney received six days a week from a CIA official.

Walton said he is concerned that Libby's request could "sabotage" the case because President Bush probably will invoke executive privilege and refuse to turn over the classified reports.

"The vice president — his boss — said these are the family jewels," the judge said, referring to Cheney's past description of the daily briefings. "If the executive branch says, 'This is too important to the welfare of the nation and we're not going to comply,' the criminal prosecution goes away."