{"id":104,"date":"2005-11-03T06:41:56","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T12:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=104"},"modified":"2005-11-02T14:42:14","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T20:42:14","slug":"has-anyone-noticed-that-the-coverup-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/has-anyone-noticed-that-the-coverup-worked\/","title":{"rendered":"Has anyone noticed that the \r\n\r\ncoverup worked?"},"content":{"rendered":"

NOW. Transcript. October 28, 2005 | PBS<\/a><\/p>\n

BRANCACCIO: Former <\/p>\n

House Majority Leader Tom Delay wrote a letter yesterday to supporters. And he said it’s all linked, the allegations of financial <\/p>\n

impropriety involving Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and the Fitzgerald investigation. His quote to his constituents, “We are <\/p>\n

witnessing the criminalization of conservative politics.”<\/strong> What do you make of that?<\/p>\n

CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN: I would <\/p>\n

respectfully disagree. I think we’re looking at when you do something illegal you get caught.<\/strong> And this is what’s <\/p>\n

happened with Scooter Libby, at least, the allegation.<\/p>\n

There’s enough there that the prosecutor feels that he can make a case and <\/p>\n

from all that we’ve seen in the notes that– that Scooter Libby took that tell one thing whereas his– testimony at the grand jury was <\/p>\n

something different which is kind of mind-boggling in the first place. That tells you that there’s something real here. And that’s <\/p>\n

about illegal activity. …<\/p>\n

I can’t imagine a thought process that said to Scooter Libby, “Go ahead and say to the grand jury <\/p>\n

that you heard about Valerie Plame first from the press when you have your own notes that you know are being turned over under discovery <\/p>\n

that show that you heard it from the Vice-President.” I don’t understand the thinking the went into that. It’s going to be very <\/p>\n

interesting to see how they handle this and what the Vice-President does. Because this is his right hand person. And clearly he didn’t <\/p>\n

act without– the Vice-President being very involved in whatever he did.<\/p>\n

What the ‘Shield’ Covered Up<\/a> By E. J. Dionne Jr.<\/p>\n

Has anyone <\/p>\n

noticed that the coverup worked?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In his impressive presentation of the indictment of Lewis “Scooter” Libby last week, <\/p>\n

Patrick Fitzgerald expressed the wish that witnesses had testified when subpoenas were issued in August 2004, and “we would have been <\/p>\n

here in October 2004 instead of October 2005.”<\/p>\n

Note the significance of the two dates: October 2004, before President Bush was <\/p>\n

reelected, and October 2005, after the president was reelected. Those dates make clear why Libby threw sand in the eyes of prosecutors, <\/p>\n

in the special counsel’s apt metaphor, and helped drag out the investigation.<\/p>\n

As long as Bush still faced the voters, the White <\/p>\n

House wanted Americans to think that officials such as Libby, Karl Rove and Vice President Cheney had nothing to do with the leak <\/p>\n

campaign to discredit its arch-critic on Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson.<\/p>\n

And Libby, the good soldier, pursued a brilliant <\/p>\n

strategy to slow the inquiry down. …<\/p>\n

Bush and his disciples would like everyone to assume that Libby was some kind of lone <\/p>\n

operator who, for this one time in his life, abandoned his usual caution. …<\/p>\n

What exactly transpired in the meetings between <\/p>\n

Libby and Cheney on the Wilson case? It is inconceivable that an aide as careful and loyal as Libby was a rogue official. Did Cheney set <\/p>\n

these events in motion? This is a question about good government at least as much as it is a legal matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NOW. Transcript. October 28, 2005 | PBS BRANCACCIO: Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay wrote a letter yesterday to supporters. And he said it’s all linked, the allegations of financial impropriety involving Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and the Fitzgerald investigation. His quote to his constituents, “We are witnessing the criminalization of conservative politics.” What … Continue reading Has anyone noticed that the <\/p>\n

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