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October 24, 2005 08:00 AM UTC

New News in CIA Leak Probe Bad Timing for O'Donnell

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  • by: Colorado Pols

With Vice President Dick Cheney in town tonight and Republican Rick O’Donnell attaching himself to the “V”POTUS, it’s worth noting that the CIA leak probe may take down Cheney’s Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby, as early as this week. From Reuters News Service:

President Bush said Monday the investigation into the outing of a covert CIA operative was “very serious,” even as Republican allies started casting aspersions on the prosecutor and the possibility of perjury charges. The mixed signals came as special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald appeared close to indicting top White House officials in the nearly two-year investigation, lawyers involved in the case said.

Fitzgerald’s investigation has focused largely on Karl Rove, Bush’s top political adviser, and Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, and their conversations with reporters about CIA operative Valerie Plame in June and July of 2003.

After a Cabinet meeting, Bush was asked whether he agreed with Republican suggestions that Fitzgerald may be overzealous and that possible perjury charges would be little more than legal technicalities. “This is a very serious investigation,” Bush said. Rove sat behind the president in the Cabinet room; across the room sat Libby.

Lawyers involved in the case say Fitzgerald has laid the groundwork for indictments this week, and that he was focusing on whether Rove, Libby and others may have tried to conceal their involvement in the leak from investigators.

Indictments against any top officials would be a severe blow to an administration already at a low point in public opinion, and would put a spotlight on aggressive tactics used by the White House to counter critics of its Iraq policy.

Plame’s identity was leaked to the media after her diplomat husband, Joseph Wilson, challenged the Bush administration’s prewar intelligence on Iraq. Lawyers said one possibility was a “split decision” in which Libby is indicted and Rove is spared.

But one lawyer involved in the case said that could be just as damaging to the White House because of the possibility that Cheney himself could be implicated in any resulting trial.

So here’s the burning question: if Cheney is indicted, does that make a picture with him from O’Donnell’s fundraiser tonight more or less cool to have on your mantle?

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18 thoughts on “New News in CIA Leak Probe Bad Timing for O’Donnell”

  1. Get real.
    Scooter Libby and Karl Rove will get thrown under the train if indicted. Might be more in attendance tonight just to hear the latest news.
    My bet is that Libby and Rove skate and they indict that pinheaded reporter Miller for perjury and obstruction of justice.

  2. Rove, Libby, and NSA Hadley are all widely expected to get indictments according to as reliable a set of reports as can be had in Fitzgerald’s leak-proof investigation.

    As to the “thrown under the bus/train”: I’ve already written that I’m seeing signs that some of that going on, but it’s not up to the Administration to determine who gets the blame; if Fitzgerald has the goods on Cheney, I expect that Cheney will at least be named as an unindicted co-conspirator.

  4. The silence is deafening from this administrations supporters. That’s ok. I only hope that we can all get on board to right the ship of this Republic. There are so many challenges to face; so many wrongs to right; so many enemies we need to make friends with. Lets get started.

  5. The modern Republican Party is the party of traitors, thieves, and fundamentalist wackos.  If the Republicans maintain power after the last five years of misrule, they will have stolen another election.

    Do you fly the elephant higher than the Stars and Stripes?

  7. Nicely played ROD. Anyone with half a brain who was following this scandal knew that with the investigation so focused on Libby that Cheney had to be in some jeapordy. Did anyone really believe that Cheney had no idea what Scooter was up to?

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