Yesterday, Christy Harden Smith responded to a comment by one of her readers familiar with this blog as follows;

“You don’t talk about proceedings while they are ongoing before the grand jury. In the presser after the Libby indictment, the new G/J had not yet been sworn in and informed about the investigation. They have now, and we just have to sit back and let the process take its normal course. There will be no comment from Fitz, I would bet, unless and until there are more proceedings or he folds up shop. Not while the grand jury proceeds with an investigation anyway. “

This comment contains two misleading statements:

1: A direct false assertion that no new grand jury had been impaneled.

2. A blatant false implication based on the false assertion: since no new grand jury had been impaneled Samborn and Fitzgerald had a small window of opportunity to legally comment that the investigation would continue and that once a new grand jury had been impaneled they would not be able to say “the investigation will continue”.

Both the assertion and the implication are patently false.

The false assertion is that the new grand jury had not been sworn in. FDL knows that’s a false assertion because FDL reported back on October 29, 2005 — in response to a New York Times article — that the new Grand Jury had already been impaneled. Here’s what Jane Hamsher wrote:

Hamsher: Looks like everyone’s struggling to keep up with Patrick Fitzgerald. NYT:

With the term of his grand jury at an end, Mr. Fitzgerald said he could present any new evidence to an already impaneled grand jury if needed.

Hamsher: Already impaneled? That’s new.

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cross posted at DU in CS thread

If Carville starts acting with the Republicans in an egregiously awful way, then pulverize him. Until then, let people love each other in freedom–isn’t that one of our progressive goals?

But he is a coward as he has demonstrated so many times before by his unwillingness to accept responsibility for anything…..He’ll take the cowards way out!

I like the theorey that he is being given a message that he will be pardonned if he doesn’t drag too many others down with him.

But how can you stop a trial or drop charges with a pardon. How would Bush have the authority to do that?

Sort of the antithesis of the horse head in the bed scenario, if you get my meaning.

DiGenova is passing along the message for the WH~but the interesting thing about it is, I always thought that Judy Miller’s note in her “stenographer’s” notebook that said “Victoria” was a reference to a source named Victoria Toensing.

Think about it.