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Postby eric144 » Fri Oct 28, 2005 3:08 pm

"But even they, i mean, if you experienced the level of pressure here, some people "collaborate", they have to survive, right ? "<br><br>Yes of course. My original statement on this subject was that ordinary Jews are pawns in a very large game of oil chess. They were understandably willing pawns because of the horrific circumstances they found themselves facing in Europe. As for the Zionist campaign leaders, that's a different story.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: "Official A"?

Postby thrulookingglass » Fri Oct 28, 2005 4:08 pm

Not quite as dramatic as "deep throat", but can we infer that "Official A" is DICK Cheney?<br><br>21 <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"On or about July 10th/11th 2003, Libby spoke to a senior White House Official (Official A) who advised Libby of a conversation Official A had ealier that week with columnist Robert Novak in which Wilson's wife was discussed as a CIA employee involved in Wilson's trip. Libby was advised by Official A that Novak would be writing a story about Wilson's wife."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Disappointed again! When will I learn?! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START >: --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/mad.gif ALT=">:"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: CIA

Postby OnoI812 » Fri Oct 28, 2005 4:15 pm

RDR -<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>I think Peter Tosh tried to steer clear of touching it. But he still stayed in the vicinity too long, and one day he got in the line of fire...he should have headed for the hills. Hold those hills.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Mr Tosh was killed from complicity by a childhood friend, he had been previously begun to distance himself from former associates, much at the urging of his live-in amour. There were several witnesses to the execution that survived and fingered Leppo. Leppo(childhood friend) has still denied involvement in the murder even though he was convicted.<br><br>could CIA or Duppy have gotten to Leppo?....only Leppo knows<br><br><br>some prophetic words from Mr Tosh...<br><br>THAT'S WHAT THEY WILL DO<br><br>That's what your friends will do<br>That's what they will do<br>Your best friend<br>That's what they will do<br>That's what they will do<br>They will come with great pretence<br>to gain your confidence<br>say they're you're only friend<br>and fry you in the end<br><br>That's what your friends will do<br>your good, good friend<br>That's what they will do<br>Your best friend<br>hat they will do<br>That's what they will do<br><br>They will look right inna your eyes<br>and tell you the wickened lies<br>make you promises<br>but never accomplishes<br>That's what your friends will do<br>That's what they will do<br>That's what they will do, they will do, they will do<br>That's what they will do<br><br>They will dress up inna your clothes<br>Then punch you inna the nose<br>Dress up inna your shoes<br>and still carry false news ...<br>That's what your friends will do<br>That's what they will do<br><br>I know<br>That's what they will do<br>That's what they will do<br>(instrumental)<br>That's what your friends will do<br>That's what they will do<br>dont trust them<br>That's what they will do<br>That's what they will do<br><br>They will know that you in jail<br>never try to get your bail<br>Know that you'r in trouble<br>and try to make it double<br>That's what your friends will do<br>That's what they will do<br>Your best friend<br>That's what they will do<br>That's what they will do<br>They will steal your only goat<br>and then they'll slit your throat<br>.....<br>That's what your friends will do<br>That's what they will do<br>Your best friend I say<br>That's what they will do<br>You will be surprised to know<br>That's what they will do<br><br>Smile in your face<br>Stab.. you in your back <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.musicoutfitter.com/store/item/724353769321/WantedDreadOrAlive.html">www.musicoutfitter.com/st...Alive.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> hit windows media file #12 <p></p><i></i>
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re: Red X

Postby proldic » Fri Oct 28, 2005 4:35 pm

"There was a teacher from Ghana in the West Indies, his name was Walter Rodney. He was a Marxist and a rebel in the 60s. He was hero...and when it came time for the fall semester in '68 in Kingston the conservative government wouldn't let him into the country. There were riots in Kingston over this. Peter stole a truck and drove it through the main display window of the biggest department store in downtown Kingston and this mob ran in and looted the place to the ground," <br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>United Nations bullshit! (furious). Me no wanna hear that argument there. Who are them who take counsel against I&I, to see that I&I are separated from I&I culture? He who created the earth created herb for the use of man, seen? If herb was growing in the blood-clot United Nations, you think Jamaica could go tell United Nations what to do? So how come the bumba ras clot United Nations dare to come and tell us what to do? Fuck the United Nations! My Father grow herb, and if my Father know what is right would have made herb growing in the United blood-clot Nations, not just in Jamaica for I&I who praise him continually.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>From One Love Peace Concert April 22, 1978:<br><br>Yu have all some little pirate now they just come from America...with them camera and them TV business, to go do what? To get rich off of I and I. <br><br>...Every time me go inna jail it's pure poor people me see in there...This concert here, well them say it's a <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>peace</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> concert. <br><br>I man never love coming up [I never wanted to come here]<br>Ya know why? <br>Because what? -- 'cause it's a <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>peace</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> concert<br><br>And I wonder if many people realize what the word <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>peace</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> means, eh?<br><br>Ya see, most intellectual people in society think the word peace means "coming together". <br><br>"Peace" is a diploma you get in the cemetery, seen?<br>On top of your grave, that is marked: <br>'Here lies the body of John Strokes' -- 'rest in peace'.<br><br>And I know many of you little brothers wouldn't like to hear your daughter say she's going to give away a little <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>piece</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->...<br><br>So you can imagine how defective <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>peace</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> is.<br><br>This is an integration concert, when black people come together and figure out the destructive element between I & I,<br>that segregate I & I, <br><br>which was a force laid down by lucifer<br><br>But now that I know that lucifer's hand and foot will soon be bound and I shall cast him into outer darkness<br><br>and bring LOVE and JUSTICE to black people once more<br><br>That we long to hear a gun fire, we long to see one die<br><br>'cause learn this, man:<br><br>White man teach I to say I & I have to die to have to go to heaven. Why? So the white man can come to Jamaica and take away the whole sun? And inherit the earth? And we've gone away to heaven to drink milk and honey <br><br>Cause they have a <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>fool</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->. They tell we the cow jump over moon and dish run away with spoon, you ever check that? That is to make our cares not of the earth.<br><br>Learn this, man. It's just some games that Christopher Columbus, and Henry Morgan and Sir Francis Drake, and Bartholomew de las Casas, who was the first guy to come with the cross round his neck and come to trick black people...<br><br>Right now black people is Israel, and they think "we want to hold them and the only way we can hold them is to say 'see the cross here' and to follow Jesus and he'll soon come back" <br><br>Look how <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>bloodbath</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> long we wait for Jesus.<br><br>All the bloodbath, all the war on the earth, Jesus can't do a thing about it, he's a grass-cat (do-nothing).<br><br>So who's going to do that?<br><br>It's I and I that have to come together...<br>with love, seen? <br><br>-- Heartical love -- and respect for each other.<br><br>'Cause them little (devil) we're done with, ya know what I mean? We can't let the little pirates that come here --- and I'm glad the prime minister and the minister of opposition is here and members of parliment is here --- we can't let the little pirates that come here rob the resources of the country.<br><br>'Cause that's what they've been doing a long long <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>bloodbath</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> time.<br><br>And poor people have nothing but blood clot and a bag of shit...<br><br>Things have to be done, seen!<br><br>Cause the earth shakes now, and Jamaica is one of the richest west indian countries in the world.<br><br>Jamaica could feed the world...I see thousands of acres of land lying about htere, where we could plant herb, and make shipments of herb...<br><br>we don't want none of this business here, we want equal rights and --- what?<br><br>Justice.<br><br><br>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<br><br>Steven Davis:<br>What about your political speech at the Peace Concert?<br><br>Peter Tosh: <br>I devoted my time and my energy to making a speech, because sitting before me I saw the prime minister and the whole establishment approximately. So it seemed the right time to say what I had to say as a representative of the people, because irrespective of the way I would like to live, I still must live within the shitstem. I've become a victim of the shitstem so many times.<br><br>Stephen Davis: <br>What happened to you after the speech?<br><br> Peter Tosh: <br>Three months later, yes, yes, yes! I was waiting for a rehearsal outside Aquarius Studio on Half Way Tree [a main Kingston avenue], waiting for two of my musicians, and I had a little piece of roach in my hand. A guy come up to me in plain clothes and grab the roach out of my hand. So I say him, wha' happen? He didn't say nothing, so I grab the roach back from him and he start to punch me up. I say again, wha' happen, and he say I must go dung so ["downtown" in police jargon]. I say, dung so? Which way you call dung so? That's when I realized this was a police attitude, so I opened the roach and blew out the contents. Well, him didn't like that and start to grab at me aggressively now - my waist, my shoulder, grabbing me and tearing off my clothes and things. Then other police come and pust their guns in my face and try brute force on me.<br><br>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Long time a prisoner. Long time they wanted. Long time they accused. Long time they condemn. Long time them killin. Long time them crucifyin'. But this is the dispensation...<br><br> Little did you know, I art here. It has been a long, long, long time - historically long time I've been accused, many times con- demned, incriminated and discriminated illegally and unlawfully without no righteous cause. Only jah know. Who feels it knows it. Seen? <br><br>I and I step to this planet they call Jamaica, not to be condemned by men, but because of the illegal shitstem designed by the slave drivers. (Tosh pauses while the audience laughs) Sounds like a joke, but the facts are what is joke to you is death to him. When you laugh I am condemned, and I see you laugh everyday and die everyday. Sounds like a joke, but it seems as if all of you have crossed your heart and hoped to die. I'd like to know why, seen? Well, now is the time when Israel must arise, irrespective of the illegal condemnation by men, irrespective of how men may feel in this dispensation of time. Jah live. Rastafari lives - mighty and thunderable Rastafari. Only in this valley of Jehoshaphat is the name, Rastafari, illegal. You pay four dollars in courthouse to say raas. Sounds like a joke, seen? <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>But I and I don't intend to live upon this little piece of the planet as an insignificant alien.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Excuse my vocabulary. 'Cause many people take Rasta for the baggage of the earth. As my brother said - serious 'ting. Is long time I and I been accused and been looked over the shoulder like a piece of dirty rag, seen? I want this society to begin to respect and recognize what the prefix Ras means, irrespective of the laws of Babylon. I and I did not come to subordinate to the laws of Babylon. We are in Babylon. but make sure you are doing not the works of Babylon. Col' I toe, oh ye man of Babylon. <br><br>This reggae music is a music that in Jamaica it's not insignificant music. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Everytime I turn on the FM, I have to hear funky, get down, shake your booty. And I don't waan' none of that, for the music that I sing is a wakening unto the slumbering mentality of them that sleep, seen? And the music that I sing is always condemned and banned in some diplomatic ways, that sometimes when I play my music and people hear it and the way they accept it, I have to wonder why - Rastafari. But I want the rulers of the earth to recognize the people of the earth, and to love the people of the earth, 'cause they are the resources of the earth.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br><br>When I speak, I don't speak like a politician, because my Father come to waken those who sleep and to bring people closer to light, because they are in darkness, seen? I was in the same darkness too, heading for destruction. Lost into fantasy, seeking for reality. But this little society. and not only this one, the world universal society launches an attack diplomatically and psychologically to defamate, and to incriminate and to discriminate the concept of Rastafari - to make it look insignificant within their society. And what are the works of their society to prove I to be insignificant? I and I deal with righteousness, irrespective of what men call righteousness. 'Cause most people think say, is when you go in a church on Sunday, with your clean clothes and your jacket and tie, you're holy, seen? But I don't wann' to take my Father's business for no joke business, and when I speak, I speak of those who intend to look like I and defamate the characters of I, because I see the determinations of the society is to praise the dead and incriminate the livin', seen? From I born, I never think of discriminatin' no one or incriminatin' no one. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>All I think is live and make sweet music and relieve the depressed minds of people who are so frustrated because of economical pressure.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> I don't waan' to go on like I no suffer under the pressure, 'cause I know it, seen? I know it. Due to unfavorable financial condition, I am unable to cope with this financial shituation. But it no joke business. Don't waan' hear vou talk 'bout, well just stop talk and sing. No more o' that, 'cause in the beginning was the word and the word was with Jah. But in this time Jah say: "I call upon the singers and the players of instruments. All my springs are in thee." <br><br>Do men know what the springs of Jah is, or are, according to your English grammatical bullshit. If I did follow the English grammar, I know I would be speaking present tense and past tense and those. But I know many oonoo look 'pon Rasta as a chump...ganja smoker ...mad. I don't smoke ganja, and the only thing one can be discriminated or incriminated for is the possession of ganja, seen? Them take out the "g" to make you don't realize is "gang" in ganja. All that is in the darkness has come to light, seen? And don't blame the Rastaman for exposing the darkness into light, because by your works we shall know you. So I don't waan' to talk - too much talkin' business and promises. Fools dance to comfortable promises. Well, my Father say, fell oonoo say 'nough 'nough baddie, go and lie dung, seen? <br><br>Irrespective of who you waan' be, or who you waan look like, or what your denomination or organization, you see, if oonoo don't respect and accept Jah Rastafari. You think is a joke business? I see the whole world praising God and Jesus, seen? And all they are headed for is destruction - financially. physically, spiritually and morally. Truth I deal with. The truth creates offense in a one heart. Make guys talk all kind 'tings - 'tink wha' dem waan 'tink. But when Jah speak, earth crumble. So, marvel not and talk 'bout what kind of man that, seen? There are many say they come in the name of God to do the work of God, but when I check 'pon the work of God, it is destructive to I and I. Everyday I in jail. Charge fe what? Ganja. Who made the laws? God. Laugh, think it is a joke business? True, dem don't know what is God or who is God. There are so much gods that exist. The 12 gods of Babylon - Sagittarius, Aquarius, Pisces and Leo. Check it out, 'cause all a bwoy hear them say, "Wha' you is? Wha' sign you is?" Leo? How can you be leo? Leo is a Pope. Rastafari is thunderable. I don't waan' to take Him for no joke business. Don't care fe try and hide 'im name. Cyaan hide. Don't care to try to make 'im name insignificant and illegal in the society. The works of man exist. Don't care to try to incriminate or discriminate. Jah live. <br><br>Rasta got nothing within the society, but we multiply the little nothing with a little nothing, and we got something, seen? Grudgeful men who went to school and got their education did not know how to multiply naught with naught to get one. Same man with divine inspiration, knowing how creation has been created from it was until now. It is still unfathomable to the modern scientists, or what them waan' call themselves. <br><br>Well, don't care what's going on - the shitstem. You waan' go home? G'wan home. The last man tell I say 'im waan' go home, and I don't see 'im yet. And I no go a funeral. What I speak is wisman, knowledge and overstanding - not understanding, seen? And I sing the same thing. You have fe feel it and know it and just go say well. All in a Buckingham Palace, the queen dance. You think is a joke business because you know say - God save the queen. The queen dance to reggae music, because reggae music is the only music that has that spiritual ingredient that can heal a sick nation. Seen. Chuk it me bredda... <br><br>Once upon a time, when I first came to this planet earth, I was told, taught and brainwashed that herb, otherwise known as ganja, is the most dangerous drug and poison. And the I was taught to be afraid of it. And it is a good thing I am in permanent contact with Jah, for I say, Jah, I do not take influence from men, it is you that show I what is right and what is wrong. ..<br><br>Don't take this thing here for joke. And gawan like uno dep coke and uno just done eat a whole piece of pork. <br><br>Do you know what is happening? All sheep of the fold has scattered, and everyone is suffering from this great thing called "ego." Everybody is busy involved in himself. The respect for humanity has been lost. Seen? No man respects his fellow man again. Every man loves big bumba money in him back pocket. Every man loves material things more than his brother, but learn this, if you don't learn to be your brother's keeper... <br><br>Long time, I don't perform here. Performing on stage at seven o'clock in the morning. Sun rise to greet I, but not only I, the sun rise to greet everyone who have the heart to stay until this morning from last night. <br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>What else can create an incident like this one? <br><br>Only reggae music.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br><br>The music that is not respected in its own country. No joke business, when I talk, heart shook up, curl up. <br><br>And I want it to look like reggae music is an insignificant music, a music that has no relevance, just the music of a cult. This is no music of no cult. It is ancientcy 185 billion years and more from whence I cometh. <br><br>Don't take this thing for joke business. All of us who love reggae stand accused, abused and disrespected and condemned. Seen? <br><br>Every time I try ten yards Babylon try stop you! What kind ting is dat? And I in this twenty-first century they lock you up for a spliff. <br><br>Can you imagine that after these degradations and humiliations, I've been condemned to hell and here am I standing in the name of Jah! <br><br>But I am not here to exalt myself, I am here to exalt the name of Jah Rastafari, and the music that has been given to I from Jah that will take cover the whole world. The whole world shall be covered with reggae music...We want the truth.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <br><br> <br> <p></p><i></i>
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More charges?

Postby Peachtree Pam » Fri Oct 28, 2005 4:53 pm

From Raw Story:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://webmail.pt.lu/index.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwebmail.pt.lu%2F">webmail.pt.lu/index.php?u...l.pt.lu%2F</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br>Fitzgerald expands probe, believes he can get Rove on more serious charges, lawyers say<br>Jason Leopold<br><br>In one of the boldest moves yet in the 22-month investigation into the outing of a covert CIA agent to a handful of top reporters covering the White House, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is extending his probe and pursuing much more serious charges against senior White House officials, specifically President Bush’s Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, lawyers directly involved in the case told RAW STORY Friday.<br><br>While many people were left confused by news reports that said Rove wouldn't be indicted Friday, the lawyers said that Rove remains under intense scrutiny and added that Fitzgerald is betting on the fact that he can secure an indictment against Rove on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice, the misuse of classified information, and possibly other charges, as early as next week. <br><br>“This investigation is not yet over,” one of the lawyers in the case said. “You must keep in mind that people like Mr. Rove are still under investigation. Rather than securing an indictment on perjury charges against Mr. Rove Mr. Fitzgerald strongly believes he can convince the grand jury that he broke other laws.”<br><br>The lawyers said that in the past month Fitzgerald has obtained explosive information in the case that has enabled him to pursue broader charges such as conspiracy, and civil rights violations against targets like Rove. Specifically, the lawyers said Fitzgerald is focusing on phony intelligence documents that led to the outing of Valerie Plame Wilson’s identity: the documents that claimed Iraq was attempting to purchase yellow-cake uranium from Niger. <br><br>A court filing posted on Fitzgerald’s website last week was the first such confirmation that the prosecutor has in fact decided to pursue the broader claims that intelligence the Bush administration used to build support for the Iraq war was flawed and, as a result, the reason many officials inside and outside of the White House went out of their way to out Plame, whose husband was a vocal critic of the Iraq war who was sent on a mission to Niger to investigate allegations that Iraq had attempted to buy Niger from the African country.<br><br>"On August 12 and August 20, 2004, grand jury subpoenas were issued to reporter Judith Miller and her employer, the New York Times, seeking documents and testimony related to “conversations between Miller and a specified government official occurring between on or about July 6, 2003 and on or about July 13, 2003, concerning Valerie Plame Wilson (whether referred to by name or by description) or concerning Iraqi efforts to obtain uranium.” the filing made by Fitzgerald last year states.<br><br>NATO sources told United Press International Monday that Fitzgerald's team of investigators has sought and obtained documentation on the forgeries from the Italian government.<br><br>This claim, which made its way into President Bush's State of the Union address in January, 2003, was based on falsified documents from Niger and was later withdrawn by the White House."<br><br>Fitzgerald will draw on another grand jury that is already empaneled. Federal law says that a grand jury’s term cannot be extended more than once, which is the case with the grand jury that has been hearing testimony in the case. <br><br>MORE INFORMATION FORTHCOMING THIS EVENING<br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: More charges?

Postby antiaristo » Fri Oct 28, 2005 5:03 pm

I don't understand that, Pam.<br>Rove has been before THIS jury four times. He has obviously been extremely slimy and probably contrdicted himself more than once.<br>Nobody likes being lied to. <br>Why wait for a new jury? <p></p><i></i>
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Go for it

Postby robertdreed » Fri Oct 28, 2005 5:04 pm

I think I'll be disappointed with anything less than Fitzgerald dragging in Gelli and Berlusconi and Ledeen and Dewey Clarridge and George W. Bush and his old man and just kicking their whole house of cards to the curb. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=robertdreed>robertdreed</A> at: 10/28/05 3:05 pm<br></i>
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Investigation not over

Postby sunny » Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:37 pm

I've been at work all day and out of the loop. From what I was told, I was getting the impression that the Libby indictments were the end of the road. I came home, the refrain "say it aint so, say it aint so" running through my mind over and over, and desperately searched the 'net for anything to disprove this notion. Whew, here it is, courtesy of Editor and Publisher-<br>Patrick Fitzgerald:"I can tell you," he said, "that no one wants this thing to be over quicker than I do. I would like to wake up in my bed in Chicago. But I will not end the investigation until feel we have done everything we can. Everyone should take a deep breath and allow us to do what we need to do."<br>YaaaaaaaaaaY!<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rollin --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>
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What is Fitzgerald's strategy?

Postby Peachtree Pam » Sat Oct 29, 2005 5:06 am

<br>Here is an analysis from Billmon:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://billmon.org/archives/002308.html">billmon.org/archives/002308.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: What is Fitzgerald's strategy?

Postby antiaristo » Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:47 am

Pam,<br>Here's something I was in the act of drafting for the WaPo thread<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Fitzgerald indicated he had considered the possibility of charging leakers with violating the Espionage Act, which makes it a crime for government officials to disseminate classified information--to unauthorized individuals. Using the Espionage Act in this manner, some media and legal experts have claimed, would lead to an Official Secrets Act, but Fitzgerald said he didn't accept that analysis. Still, he called this act "a difficult statue to interpret." And he chose not to indict anyone--yet--for violating it.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-corn/a-grave-indictment-but-g_b_9737.html">www.huffingtonpost.com/da..._9737.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>This looks like the key to Fitzgerald’s approach. The spectre of an Official Secrets Act.<br><br>What THAT means is that ANY leak of classified information becomes a crime. And that’s not good – for all sorts of constitutional reasons. It would also serve to unite the press against him.<br><br>That explains the need for MOTIVE. To distinguish between a low-level whistleblower acting for what they believe are patriotic reasons on one hand, and a high level assassin acting for selfish reasons on the other.<br><br>And that explains why he has singled out Libby, and why he was so damning of his actions. Libby was trying to hide the MOTIVE for his actions (“throwing sand in the umpire’s eyes”).<br><br>And once we get the MOTIVE, we will get the substantive charges under the Espionage Act..<br><br>Postscript<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Fitzgerald did not share much beyond the information he had to disclose in order to indict Libby. He did declare that "the fact that Valerie Wilson was a CIA officer was classified...but it was not widely known outside the intelligence community" and that "her cover was blown" by the Novak column. (So much for the goofy rightwing conspiracy theory that I colluded with Joseph Wilson after the Novak column to out Valerie Wilson as an undercover CIA operative. If you don't know about that, don't ask.)<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Methinks he doth protest too much, and too soon.<br>There is nothing yet about MOTIVE, David.<br>That’s when we will know the truth about the “goofy rightwing conspiracy theory”.<br>That’s when we will KNOW the conspiracy and the conspirators.<br>As you say, Fitzgerald did not address the conspiracy.<br><br>But read the October 4 WaPo and look at the lies therein. And THEN say there was no conspiracy.<br><br>Is not Rove the key? What information might Rove have offered that “gave pause” to Fitzgerald? Was he the second of the "two Bush administration officials" that told Pincus and Allen all about Brewster-Jennings?<br><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=antiaristo>antiaristo</A> at: 10/29/05 8:50 am<br></i>
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Re: What is Fitzgerald's strategy?

Postby chiggerbit » Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:39 am

I watched NBC news this morning, and they are thinking that this Libby indictment is all that is going to come out of the investigation. <br><br>Basically, from what I can see, Fitzy said that he was unable to conclude his investigation because Libby impeded it with his lies. Job unfinished. Fitzy does not like "unfinished business", and is very patient. We shall see. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 10/29/05 9:26 am<br></i>
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hmm...

Postby dqueue » Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:26 am

I think we just have to wait and see. Libby's high-up in the PNAC cabal. He's well connected. Fitz said, "we are not done yet."<br><br>I believe Rove flipped, but he's trying to play it by HIS rules, not Fitz's. I think Rove's toast, or Rove's turning on Cheney.<br><br>Read some of Fitz's history. His cases are long, methodical. He hit Cheney's firewall, and he's attacking that firewall to break on through...<br><br>Wait and see... Libby is no minor player. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: hmm...

Postby chiggerbit » Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:34 am

The question may become whether Cheney will let Libby fall on the sword for him. Also, whether Cheney will even live to watch Libbey fall on the sword. Just imagine, Libby goes to trial, is convicted, sentenced to 10 or 15 years, and shortly after he enters prison, Cheney dies. All for nothing. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 10/29/05 1:15 pm<br></i>
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Re: hmm...

Postby dbeach » Sat Oct 29, 2005 12:05 pm

MM is gonna spin,lie and minimize the severity and relevance of these crimes cuz theyare complicite and the MM will only do thier pile on i.e. feeding frenzy when its left no other choice <p></p><i></i>
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Plame to retire

Postby Peachtree Pam » Sat Oct 29, 2005 3:26 pm

From WaPo:<br><br>Valerie Plame, the Spy Who Got Shoved Out Into the Cold<br><br>By Richard Leiby<br>Washington Post Staff Writer<br>Saturday, October 29, 2005; C01<br><br><br><br>What's ahead for Valerie Plame?<br><br>Lost in the din of the leak scandal that has consumed Washington is the very personal impact on the willowy blond CIA operative at its center. Plame, 42, wife of former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson, has become the most famous spy in the world, but her career has been derailed. It appears likely she will leave the CIA, some acquaintances say, but she hasn't publicly signaled her plans.<br><br>Plame, the mother of 5-year-old twins, recently told a friend, Jane Honikman, that she intends to retire from the agency where she has worked for 20 years. "She really wants to be with her kids -- that's her plan, to be that mom," said Honikman, founder of a postpartum depression support network in which Plame has been active.<br><br>Although Plame has been under "tremendous stress" as the subject of global publicity and political spin, Honikman added, "she has a good sense of humor still and a wonderful, charming ability to look on the bright side." Several friends say she was devastated by the disclosure of her name in July 2003, but she went on with her life: She and Wilson circulated socially, took weekend walks along the C&O Canal and went to church. At events where media were present, Plame unfailingly smiled and exchanged pleasantries.<br><br>She has never granted an interview, effectively gagged by the CIA, whose guidelines require employees to clear media contacts and publications. But she hasn't been totally averse to publicity. She once posed for a Vanity Fair photograph in her husband's Jaguar, ala Grace Kelly, wearing sunglasses and a headscarf. For many critics of her media-savvy husband, that offered proof enough that she was out to capitalize on her notoriety -- further fodder in an affair that has become as highly politicized as any other White House scandal.<br><br>Wilson, whose credibility and qualifications have come under withering Republican fire ever since he went public about his CIA-sponsored trip to Niger and criticisms of the Iraq war, said yesterday in a statement: "While I may engage in public discourse, my wife and my family are private people. They did not choose to be brought into the public square, and they do not wish to be under the glare of cameras. . . . This case is not about me or my family, no matter how others might try to make it so."<br><br>Plame, the daughter of an Air Force colonel and an elementary school teacher, was recruited by the CIA at 22, shortly after graduation from Pennsylvania State University. She was in the 1985-86 class of CIA officers trained at "The Farm" near Williamsburg, where the curriculum included learning to drive under fire, blowing up cars and handling an AK-47.<br><br>Her career postings are classified, but she was one of the elite clandestine spies -- an officer with nonofficial cover who works overseas in business or other jobs and has no diplomatic protection if detected or arrested.<br><br>In 2006, she will have 20 years with the agency. As such she qualifies for retirement but would not receive full benefits unless she stays with the agency until age 50.<br><br>After she was named in a syndicated column by Robert Novak, Plame had no chance of working again in her chosen field, her friends say, and the strain of remaining at the agency has taken its toll.<br><br>"For all intents and purposes out at the CIA, she's like a leper . . . she's radioactive," said Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst and acquaintance of Plame's who was in her officer training class. "There are instances where some people at headquarters have shunned her. In other cases they don't know what to say. It's like someone whose child has died: What do you say to them?<br><br>"There are a variety of things she could have done at the agency. She could have become a station chief overseas and run espionage operations. It has destroyed her life on that front. What is she supposed to do now, wear a button saying, " 'Hi, I work for the CIA'?"<br><br>Wilson and his lawyer, Christopher Wolf, would not comment on Plame's plans. But Wolf -- who has also been the couple's next-door neighbor for seven years -- said: "She was absolutely devastated by this on lots of levels. . . . Valerie was by definition the ultimate private person. She didn't seek any publicity or any acclaim or any thanks for her work."<br><br>After the outing, said Wolf, "her career was over, she knew it was over, and certainly her contacts were put in jeopardy . . . and her family was put at risk."<br><br>Last winter, Plame drafted an op-ed article to explain her role in her husband's Niger trip, but the agency would not permit her to submit it for publication. "While I would love to share Valerie's article with readers, so long as her agency refuses to allow her to defend herself, there is nothing she or I can do," Wilson wrote in the recently issued paperback edition of his bestseller "The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity."<br><br>In the book he quoted a CIA response to Plame telling her "publication of your article has the potential to affect your ability to perform your official duties and the agency's ability to perform its mission." As long as she remains in the CIA -- and even beyond retirement -- national security restrictions would typically apply if she wrote, say, a memoir.<br><br>Wilson and Plame, who were married in 1998, live in the District's Palisades neighborhood in a spacious home with a back-deck view of the Washington Monument. Their son and daughter are in kindergarten. (Wilson has another grown set of twins from an earlier marriage.) Before Novak's column, neighbors and friends had no clue she was a spy -- they knew her as a "consultant" in the energy business.<br><br>"She's going to be a huge asset no matter what she does," said Plame's friend Honikman, founder of Postpartum Support International, a group the CIA officer contacted for help in overcoming her own severe bout with postpartum depression. "She's too smart a woman . . . and would maximize whatever opportunities lie ahead."<br><br>Plame served as executive director of a local postpartum support chapter but had to resign because "it was too much stress" after she was outed, Honikman said. "She had to stay focused on herself and her family." Honikman added, "I admire her for the incredible strength she has shown to endure this."<br><br>There is no indication that yesterday's indictment of vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby will end Plame's time in the public firestorm. By late afternoon, Republicans were on television trying to reopen debate on just what Plame did at the CIA and how covert the woman really was.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/28/AR2005102801172_pf.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...72_pf.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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