Strategy To Protect Rove
The defense team of I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby is planning to subpoena a number of reporters, which will have the additional side-benefit of distracting prosecutors who are trying to decide on possible charges against Karl Rove.
The plan for defending I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is likely to substantially delay his trial and create another round of tense First Amendment battles over whether a court can compel reporters to turn over information about the confidential sources in Libby's criminal case...
The court filings also make clear what several sources close to the case have been saying for weeks: that Fitzgerald has been occupied with the Libby case and has not had much time to focus on a decision regarding possible charges against the other administration official embroiled in the investigation: White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove.
For the past two months, the special counsel's office has been busy providing classified and declassified documents to Libby's defense attorneys and trying to iron out pretrial disputes over whether the prosecutor is holding back information to which the defense is entitled.
Why the fuck hasn't Fitzgerald gone back to Justice to request more Assistant U.S. Attorneys? If this were a routine (say, drug smuggling) case, I can guarantee that he would have asked for more help.
(D)efense attorneys are expected to delve into whether other administration officials mentioned Plame to reporters before Libby did, which would allow them to cast doubt on the prosecutor's assertions. Defense lawyers have said that Bob Woodward, a reporter and assistant managing editor at The Washington Post, helped their case when he revealed in November that another administration source, not Libby, told him about Plame's CIA role before Libby is believed to have first mentioned her to a reporter.
The dictionary definition of the word "irrelevent" needs to be expanded to include the logic behind this previous paragraph.
A quite thinly-veiled quote from Rove's lawyer follows:
But a person close to Rove said Fitzgerald so far this year has not indicated any change in Rove's status. Rove expects to hear a final decision from Fitzgerald soon and has told friends he is optimistic that he will be cleared.
Now we hear from "turdblossom" himself:
Still, another person close to Rove said it was not a good sign that Fitzgerald has not already cleared President Bush's chief political adviser. Rove, this person said, has worked under the assumption that Fitzgerald is largely finished with his investigation and, because the prosecutor is sensitive to the political liability of a possible indictment hanging over the head of Rove, would publicly clear him quickly if he did not have enough evidence to charge him.
The dead giveaway that the anonymous informant knows squat about the legal system is the hopefulness of "publicly clear him." No one is ever cleared publicly of anything in our system of "justice."
The whole strategy of delaying Fitzgerald could work out in the long run.
Bush may no longer be in office when the time comes to give the life-saving presidential pardons.
The plan for defending I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is likely to substantially delay his trial and create another round of tense First Amendment battles over whether a court can compel reporters to turn over information about the confidential sources in Libby's criminal case...
The court filings also make clear what several sources close to the case have been saying for weeks: that Fitzgerald has been occupied with the Libby case and has not had much time to focus on a decision regarding possible charges against the other administration official embroiled in the investigation: White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove.
For the past two months, the special counsel's office has been busy providing classified and declassified documents to Libby's defense attorneys and trying to iron out pretrial disputes over whether the prosecutor is holding back information to which the defense is entitled.
Why the fuck hasn't Fitzgerald gone back to Justice to request more Assistant U.S. Attorneys? If this were a routine (say, drug smuggling) case, I can guarantee that he would have asked for more help.
(D)efense attorneys are expected to delve into whether other administration officials mentioned Plame to reporters before Libby did, which would allow them to cast doubt on the prosecutor's assertions. Defense lawyers have said that Bob Woodward, a reporter and assistant managing editor at The Washington Post, helped their case when he revealed in November that another administration source, not Libby, told him about Plame's CIA role before Libby is believed to have first mentioned her to a reporter.
The dictionary definition of the word "irrelevent" needs to be expanded to include the logic behind this previous paragraph.
A quite thinly-veiled quote from Rove's lawyer follows:
But a person close to Rove said Fitzgerald so far this year has not indicated any change in Rove's status. Rove expects to hear a final decision from Fitzgerald soon and has told friends he is optimistic that he will be cleared.
Now we hear from "turdblossom" himself:
Still, another person close to Rove said it was not a good sign that Fitzgerald has not already cleared President Bush's chief political adviser. Rove, this person said, has worked under the assumption that Fitzgerald is largely finished with his investigation and, because the prosecutor is sensitive to the political liability of a possible indictment hanging over the head of Rove, would publicly clear him quickly if he did not have enough evidence to charge him.
The dead giveaway that the anonymous informant knows squat about the legal system is the hopefulness of "publicly clear him." No one is ever cleared publicly of anything in our system of "justice."
The whole strategy of delaying Fitzgerald could work out in the long run.
Bush may no longer be in office when the time comes to give the life-saving presidential pardons.
posted by Effwit at 11:20 AM
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