Breaking News: "Scooter" Libby Found Guilty

Whatever.

Fitzgerald was brought in to ivestigate the alleged leaking of Plame's identity - specifically if the identity protection act had been violated.

In 3.5 years, he could find no such crime had been committed.

So he went chasing after another crime, any crime.

Pro-Wal Mart

Give it up, Bah.

no crime had been committed

Tell that to the jury.

Here is a link to the friend of the court brief filed by the 36 news organizations...

media.washingtonpost.com/wp-sr...

As Andy McCarthy wrote in July 2005:

"The thrust of the brief was that reporters should not be held in contempt or forced to reveal their sources in the Plame investigation. Why? Because, the media organizations confidently asserted, no crime had been committed."

He continues...

"As the media alleged to the judges (in Footnote 7, page 8, of their brief), Plame's identity as an undercover CIA officer was first disclosed to Russia in the mid-1990s by a spy in Moscow. Of course, the press and its attorneys were smart enough not to argue that such a disclosure would trigger the defense prescribed in Section 422 because it was evidently made by a foreign-intelligence operative, not by a U.S. agency as the statute literally requires."

So perhaps she had, at one time, been covert. However, that status had been compromised for years, and she was definitely not covert when Novak published his column.

Says who? The Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, etc., etc.

Here's one for you...

At the same time their reporters were claiming that Plame was "covert", news organizations like the Washington Post, etc. were going to court and saying that Plame was not covert in an effort to keep said reporters from having to testify under oath.

And another...

If she was "covert", how come after three and a half years of investigating, Fitzergerald could not show that she was?

Pro-Wal Mart

No she was not! She never worked in field ops. Undercover is hard to do when you at Langley ever single day. Try again.

No, she was not an analyst -- her official title was undercover operations officer. Her cover was as an analyst, specifically a private energy expert.

uh... Pro-Queso

HA! "Pro-Wal Mart". I love it. :D

Pro-Free Porn

CIA operative? Plame was no CIA operative. She was an analyst.

All this trial did was to make a mockery of the judicial system and the freedom of the press.

Pro-Wal Mart

does anyone know how many surgeries Lord Dick has under his belt?

If only the Dark Lord would have thought ahead and simply crushed Libby's trachea once he had made his first slip-up, this never would have happened.

Cheney must be (legally) removed from office.

let's see if this gives cheney his, er, 5th heart attack?

that man has energizer bunny organs. seriously.