May 21st, 2006 at 4:58 pm
Let’s not forget that John Hannah and David Wurmser have cooperated with Fitzgerald’s investigation.

Hannah is a neocon and he was Cheney’s principal deputy national security adviser in July, 2003. He pled guilty last year to passing classified information to two members of AIPAC who now are charged with passing the information on to Israeli agents. Hannah was sentenced to 12 years in prison and, I imagine, is desperate to earn a reduction in his sentence. What better way than to tell all that he knows about Plamegate.

Wrong! You’ve identified the wrong person. John Hannah was an aide to John Bolton and now works as a national security aide to Cheney.

LARRY FRANKLIN is the former Defense Department employee who was sentenced in January ‘06 to almost 13 years in prison in the AIPAC espionage affair.

I’m not certain about Sibel Edmons, but I do recall that he stated three or four weeks ago that an underlying crime was committed in the Plame case, which is another reason for doubting that he would dismiss an indictment against Rove that was filed under seal and not yet public.

I’m not sure what you’re suggesting, but I only intended to say that prosecutors have enormous influence over the indictment process. I did not accuse and did not intend to accuse Fitzgerald of abusing the grand jury by ramming a phony case down their throats. Fitzgerald seems to be everything I would want a prosecutor to be: intelligent, honest, and fair. I apologize if I wasn’t clear.

Those Aspens are still turning together…

This is EPU territory…

This has only been true primairly since the end of WWII while before that many grand juries offered “presentments” w/o the direction of a prosecutor (indictment)

both paths are constitutional (5th Amendment) :

“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger…“

“…I have reason to know, as do many of you, that when the evidence on a controversial subject is fairly and calmly presented, the public recognizes it for what it is–an effort to illuminate rather than to agitate…” – Edward R. Murrow

Correct me if I’m wrong, but was Judge Reggie Walton the one who sided with the government in the Sibel Edmons “State Secrets” issue?

I realize that Libby says he hadn’t seen them until the FBI showed him – but if there is someone that says that Libby referred to them, wouldn’t that impeach Libby without having to authenticate Cheney’s handwriting?

Then he looked at the 24 8×10 color glossy photo with the circles and the arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one telling how it would be used as evidence against me

and he looked at the seeing eye dog

he relised that it was a typical case of american blind justice and that the judge would not be looking at his 24 8×10 color glossy photo with the circles and the arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one telling how it would be used as evidence against me