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No Leaks Announcement Today

By Jeralyn, Section Valerie Plame Leak Case
Posted on Thu Oct 27, 2005 at 08:19:28 AM EST
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Patrick Fitzgerald says there will be no leaks announcement today.

Rove's legal team made contingency plans, consulting with former Justice Department official Mark Corallo about what defenses could be mounted in court and in public.

It sounds like today will be the final day for those under the gun to make a deal.

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    No Leaks Announcement Today | 7 comments (7 topical)
    Re: No Leaks Announcement Today (none / 0) (#1)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:26 PM EST
    Would be quite ironic, if Fitzmas was cancelled this year because DC gets shut down by a terror alert tomorrow.

    Re: No Leaks Announcement Today (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:26 PM EST
    The White House has announced it will put forth a replacement for Meirs within a week! Hmmm. Sounds like Rover is setting up a distraction here. I guess he longs to be the grinch that steals Fitzmas!

    Re: No Leaks Announcement Today (none / 0) (#3)
    by nolo on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:26 PM EST
    CNN says that Fitzgerald's looking at perjury charges against Rove. If that happens, I'm taking the day off.

    Re: No Leaks Announcement Today (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:27 PM EST
    And here's what you wrote on the 25th, where "sources" were sure that indictments were in hand and that a press conference was coming today. Bottom line - we don't know anything yet. But it sure is amusing how certain the left is. Another thing you might keep in mind - Republicans were certain that the legal problems of the Clinton's would pay dividends in 1998, and they were very, very wrong.

    Re: No Leaks Announcement Today (none / 0) (#5)
    by Sailor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:27 PM EST
    Republicans were certain that the legal problems of the Clinton's would pay dividends in 1998, and they were very, very wrong.
    Gee, you think maybe the American public can tell the difference between treason and a bj? (Hint from basic training- one is for killing, the other for fun;-)

    Re: No Leaks Announcement Today (none / 0) (#6)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:27 PM EST
    Looks like Fitz has got at least one indictment so far from the grand jury, according to rawstory.

    Re: No Leaks Announcement Today (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:27 PM EST
    sailor - there won't be any indictments under the 1982 or 1917 laws - bank on it. If any come along, they will be for perjury, obstruction (et. al.). Meaning, the way the game is played, it will all look like so much inside baseball wrangling. If the Democrats start yelling long and loud, it will look like partisan inside baseball. I'm not making the claim that such charges are (necessarily) trivial - but I have a basic distrust of a prosecutor with a blank check, which is what the ones in the 80's and 90's had - and what Fitzgerald has as well. Such blank checks tend to lead to endless investigations, long after the point of relevancy. Like, say, the Barret investigation of Cisneros, which started in 1995 and is still going.

    No Leaks Announcement Today | 7 comments (7 topical)