Just The Facts...
United States of America
vs.
Lewis Libby
Motion Hearing - May 5, 2006
vs.
Lewis Libby
Motion Hearing - May 5, 2006
"It wasn’t just him [Libby]. He was involved in what was a multi-agency response. It was [sic] office of the vice president. It was the office of the president." (Trans. p. 5)
posted by Patrick J. Fitzgerald at 5/12/2006
50 Comments:
Sorry about the length, I will try to .pdf it or something - I am all thumbs.
How about Cliff Notes? Whew!!!
How interesting! Some key notes:
The Court: “I conclude that it is an interest of justice, if I didn’t previously do so, to permit Mr. Libby to waive his right to a speedy trial so that counsel can be in position to adequately provide representation to him.”
So now, the little soldier waives his right for a speedy trial? This tells me that he knows that he has a uphill battle in this case. And I like the exchange with the little soldier's attorney, Wells, and the court:
Now, Wells says that "With this entire case is about is how Libby and others in the government responded to the controversy that erupted after Mr. Christoph writes this article of May 6 and then Mr. Wilson writes his article about what took place on the trip. What the testimony will show is that it was Mr. Libby position and a position of the Bush Administration." Sorry, Mr. Wells! But, this case is whether the little soldier lied to FBI investigators, made false statements, and passed classified information of a CIA active covert to reporters....
And I like this conversation with Wells and the Court:
Wells: "We have 400 pages of grand jury transcript and much of the transcript involves Mr. Fitzgerald questioning Mr. Libby about the administration's response. But it all revolves around the trip and what started this controversy. The state of the union given back in January---
The Court: "How does this have anything to do with whether Mr. Libby made statements to these various people about the relationship of Ms. Plame and Ambassador Wilson?" Folks, The little soldier and his attorney are riding a dead horse!!!
Hmmm...I feel like I am watching the pot for the water to boil! LOL!
*sigh* No pork yet?
Here are highlight of Tony Snow job's press confernce with media:
From Thinkprogress:
New White House Press Secretary Tony Snow held his first gaggle this morning. Here are some highlights:
“Can’t comment on national security issues.”
“You’ll forgive me, but I’ll do the talking points on this as the new kid on the block. I’m not fully briefed into everything. I hate to read from a sheet of paper.”
“For today, I am not going to handle international issues or currency issues. I do not wish to set off global tempests. I frankly just don’t know enough on those.”
“I thought this would be nice and congenial and it is obviously just a mess.”
After his performance, ABC’s Chief White House correspondent, Martha Raddatz, described Snow as “a smoothie.”
No comment he says. Well, Gerbil, Snowie is doing a heckva good job is he???
While everyone is waiting, some FBI folks are cleaning Foggo's house for him. ;-)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/12/cia.foggo/index.html
Yes, Jackie, I am female. This blog has the BEST pictures. The one with The Man holding the bowling ball is priceless.
I try to look only at the gas pump and not the gas prices when I fill up. There is only about 10% corn mix in the gas in the Midwest.
P.S. So when are they going to pass the hat around at GOP HQ to get sleepy Cheney some Red Bull?
That is so appropriate, on so many levels. . .
http://www.freespeech.com/
May 12, 2006
Police hiring hit men, the FBI obstructing justice, and excuses for
abuse, 3
Expose one Connecticut Murder for hire plot, cops hire thugs to kill
you. They fail when you are stabbed 13 times, you wake up in the
hospital, only to be arrested for having been stabbed. Does this sound
like the Twilight Zone? No, it gets better, cops and the FBI now can
state they have the right to confiscate the evidence of police and FBI
misconduct and illegal behavior in that they commit in the process of
violating a citizens rights, saying they have "Homeland Security"
authorization to do as they please and complain and you can be arrested
with no hearing, release date, and no way out.
I talk with one of the Undercover Murzins, here.
http://actionlyme.org/051106_Murzin_Homeland_interview.wma
Sounds like Ms. Jackie is mother hen to Fitzgerald. A mother hen protects her nest. Better watch out, Night Owl! Ms. Jackie is a tough cookie. You have to go through Ms. Jackie! I guess you better cherish that handshake exchange you had with Mr. Fitzgerald!! My motto: you are on your own and best of luck!
Wish someone would clean these houses Night Owl
Verizon is partly owned by Bush Sr.'s fav The Carlyle Group.Comcast is also tied to Carlyle group through a company called Insights Communications. (Now called New Insight LLC)
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Background:
NEW YORK, March 7
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is representing
The Carlyle Group in its proposal with Insight Communications Company, Inc.'s
(Nasdaq: ICCI) co-founders Sydney R. Knafel and Michael S. Willner to acquire
the outstanding publicly held shares of Insight for $10.70 per share in cash.
The acquiring entity will be called New Insight LLC.
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Insight Communications, through a 50/50 partnership with Comcast, is the 9th largest cable operator in the United States, managing approximately 1.26 million basic customers (of whom half are attributable to Insight's equity) in the four contiguous states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. Insight specializes in offering bundled, state-of-the-art services in mid-sized communities, delivering analog and digital video, high-speed Internet, and voice telephony in selected markets to its customers.
And more:
Please note that MCI and Verizon "merged" (Verizon bought MCI) in January and is now a business unit named Verizon Business, though some service is still branded as MCI, for the time being, anyway.
Words don't discribe how weary I am of all this deceit.
P".S. So when are they going to pass the hat around at GOP HQ to get sleepy Cheney some Red Bull?"
Night Owl!
I heard that Red Bull gives Cheney gas! He's on borrowed time. You don't want him to have the big one and leave this earth with just 18% job approval rate!
http://actionlyme.org/051206_Dickson_on_Masterson.wma
The harassment.
Red Bull Hell..take out his pacemaker, insert an RFID chip and maybe someone can track where his missing heart went .
Did anyone post about the ships headed toward Iran? Bush is nuts.
Maybe Cheney needs to see the Wizard on the yellow brick road to locate his heart.... Cheney never had a heart for anyone but Cheney...
People may scoff at this site like they probably do at others but I must say....there are some very enlightening info that seems to usually add up in the end, such as "Cloak and Dagger".....(when you have to go back so many years to connect so many dots to understand it all.)
Didn't Michael Powell Colin's son head up the FCC? Hmm. Communications huh.
Hi SPB,
Thanks for sending the pdf...
I think Libby now wan'ts a Speed Trial because he figures if he want's a Presidential Pardon he better get's his trial done and over with before NOVEMBER ;-)
Maybe he's already been promised one in return for not cutting a deal!
And you know thatthe Gerbil won't give the little soldier a pardon! Now that Porkrinds is next for indictment, who is going to choose... Let's not forget all of the crooks that are under indictment in the Abramoff/DeLay/Cunningham/
Hookergate scandal. We also have the Enron case that will come to a close next week. Is the Gerbil going to pardon his friends Kenneth Lay and Jeff Skilling??? The Gerbil is in hot water himself. We don't know if he lied to Fitz in that 70 minute interview in June 2004!
Doesn't seem very recreational. Some pretty heavy topics if it is. Researchers aren't whistleblowers usually. Just good at connecting the dots.
More news:
From Americablog:
Verizon now invoking "secret agent man" excuse for violating their customers' privacy
by John in DC - 5/12/2006 02:35:00 PM
"The email response Verizon is now sending their customers to justify their huge violation of their customers' privacy.
Mr. xxxxx
Verizon appreciates that the media reports about the possibility that the NSA is able to analyze local call data records is causing concern. Please be assured that Verizon places the highest value on protecting the privacy of our customers.
Anything to do with the NSA is highly classified, so I can't comment on whether or not the news article causing concern is even accurate. But I can say that, to the extent that we cooperate with government authorities, we are confident that we are complying with all applicable statutes.
Bob Varettoni
Verizon Media Relations
No problem, Bob. Your customers can move to another carrier that doesn't have a problem saying whether or not they just massively violated their privacy."
2. My fsvorite:
STEVE ALMOND
Condoleezza Rice at Boston College? I quit
By Steve Almond | May 12, 2006
An open letter to William P. Leahy, SJ, president of Boston College.
"I am writing to resign my post as an adjunct professor of English at Boston College.
I am doing so -- after five years at BC, and with tremendous regret -- as a direct result of your decision to invite Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to be the commencement speaker at this year's graduation.
But I am not writing this letter simply because of an objection to the war against Iraq. My concern is more fundamental. Simply put, Rice is a liar.
She has lied to the American people knowingly, repeatedly, often extravagantly over the past five years, in an effort to justify a pathologically misguided foreign policy.
The public record of her deceits is extensive. During the ramp-up to the Iraq war, she made 29 false or misleading public statements concerning Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and links to Al Qaeda, according to a congressional investigation by the House Committee on Government Reform."
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/05/12/condoleezza_rice_at_boston_college_i_quit/?p1=MEWell_Pos5
And this person is right on about Girl Friday!
SPB
If he lied we'll find out eventually. But I think he has the impertinence to Pardon his buddies.
When I see him on the TV (he just gave an interview to a famous German presenter) he acts as if he had no clue why everybody is on his heels.
I'm sure he still thinks he's God's gift to America and the rest of the world so why not sign some littel Pardon Favours? Brrr
A couple weeks ago I received a legal notice informing me I was eligible to be part of a class action suit against Verizon for blocking mine and others e-mails.
Waterflake,
Yes, the Gerbil can pardon anyone. But, in his case, he is pretty differcult since he leaked classified information. He violated National security. There is n=so much going on with scandals that leads back to the Gerbil. Now, a NSA whistleblower is testifying in Congress about the wiretapping. And last night, I found another article of a another whistleblower about the wiretapping... Now that Tom DeLay resigned and he was the GOP party backbone, the GOP is now weakening andwill change the nature of the GOP in November... I sent you a link of Jason Leopold's interview about the leak case. It iwll be enlighteningto you!
Roger: I was a whistleblower.. regarding Promis Software. And as a result,look over my shoulder still.
Roger,
Well, I know that the Gerbil and company are changing the rules on protecting whistleblowers. It does take a lot of guts and risk to come forward to speak the truth. Until we remove the Gerbil from office, I know that it is a uphill battle for the whistleblower. I know the ex-CIA officer, John Doe, is having differculties defending his rights, since the CIA and Porter Goss have tempted to have his case dismissed serval times because he had information about the WMD. When Rove beocmes indicted, this will be a good sign of the house of card falling... But, I understand that you have to do whatyou have to do to protect you.. But, hopefully, sooner of later (once the key corrupted people are removed) we will hear your findings....I will check my email!
SPB thanks for the link,
I know Bush is under a lot of heat but he acts like everybody else is in the wrong.
Getting late over here, signing off. Good Weekend to everybody
Does this have do with that so called 'drug rehab' place in Florida, Straight, Inc. (or something like that?) with the kids and making them into computer hacks for voting systems? Eh, Gov.?
http://www.markfiore.com
/animation/decider.html
Grandmanuk and all,
I haven't heard anything at all from GJ.. Stay tight!
Roger: I read the email. I am sure that Special Counsel will look into the matter. There is alot on the plate with cases... We ask for you patience... There is alot going on with a lot of cases.. Thank you!!
Speaking of investigation. This came on Raw Story:
More than 50 in Congress write Bush demanding special counsel to investigate NSA surveillance
"Over 50 in Congress have signed a letter demanding that President Bush appoint a special counsel to investigate reports of domestic surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency, RAW STORY has learned."
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/More_than_50_in_Congress_write_0512.html
Looks like there will be a possible Special Counsel on the wiretapping issue!
http://www.zmag.org/content/
showarticle.cfm?ItemID=10254
Anonymous said...
Roger: I was a whistleblower.. regarding Promis Software. And as a result,look over my shoulder still.
4:30 PM
MOSSAD HOMELAND STUPIDITY
Listen to what they do:
http://actionlyme.org/051106_Murzin_Homeland_interview.wma
West Point Graduates Against The War: Now Is The Time
by James Ryan
http://www.zmag.org/content/
showarticle.cfm?ItemID=10254
May 12, 2006
West Point Graduates Against the War
Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
Julius Caesar
Why?
We members of West Point Graduates Against The War stand appalled at the deceitful behavior of the government of the United States and, in particular, its widely known malefactors. Their lying, cheating, stealing, and rendition of evasive statements not only has demeaned these deceivers and our country, but they have placed vast numbers of innocent people in deadly peril as a direct result of their deceptions. We will not serve these lies, that is, we will not work for, be a servant to, provide for, assist, or promote the interests of this dishonorable administration. By remaining silent we tacitly serve; we are no longer silent.
The illegal assault and occupation in Iraq has killed tens of thousands of innocents, both American, Iraqi, and others, causing incalculable damage to Iraq and the Iraqi people, as well as the reputation and honor of the United States of America.
YES!!! ROVE WILL BE INDICTED!!
Truthout
Rove Informs White House He Will Be Indicted
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report
Friday 12 May 2006
Karl Rove told President Bush and Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, as well as a few other high level administration officials, within the last week that he will be indicted in the CIA leak case and will immediately resign his White House job when the special counsel publicly announces the charges against him, according to people knowledgeable about these discussions.
Well this was like waiting to have a baby. Now that Rove as told the Gerbil he will resign and knows he lied and will be indicted. I'm waiting with a chilled bottle of apple cider ( I don't drink ) when Fitz gives his press conference. Fitz wear the red tie with a big smile and Randell take pictures for me. This is a merry Fitzmas after all.
It is a Merry Fitzmas..it is it is it is....
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/12/more-unlawful-activity/
Calling SPB ck this out..
Great scoop, S-Q!
Not only will the tubby creep get what he deserves but he won't have time to "orchestrate" the November elections. Great news for everyone who cares about our country.
Jackie has her cider, I have my popcorn. Potluck, anyone?
Merry Fitzmas to all!
Has anyone written Fitzmas carols yet?
So is the press conference going to be on Monday?
Want to know so I can have a batch of Strawberry Margaritas ready!
Roger: His name is Robert not Richard. And I think we are going to be hearing about Promis or its modifications for a very long time. It is my belief (and many others) that it is directly tied to the death of hundreds of scientists and microbiologists that have come up dead worldwide in a short space of time.
Promis has the capability to sequence DNA and can create Race specific diseases among its many capibilities other than vote tampering. It is a worse nightmare than
anything devised by mankind ever and capable of wiping out a good portion of mankind. I know Bill Hamilton must be in deep sorrow that his contribution to society has gone so terribly wrong, he is a decent man in my opinion.
Okay, All, here is my Fitzmas Carol and it's called:
"Porkrinds Roasting on an Open Fire"
Porkrinds roasting on an open fire,
Fitzgerald nipping at your nose,
Fitzmas carols being sung by a choir,
And folks dressed all in orange clothes.
Everybody knows a Grand Jury and some mistletoe,
Helps to make the season bright.
Fitz’s bloggers with their eyes all aglow,
Will find it hard to sleep tonight.
They know that Fitz is on his way;
He's loaded lots of indictments on his sleigh.
And every CIA Agent is going to spy,
To see if Turdblossom really knows how to fly.
And so I'm offering this simple phrase,
To bloggers from one to ninety-two,
Although its been said many times, many ways,
A very Merry Fitzmas to you!
bravo S-Q...
it's great
Roger,
Sorry I'm late getting on the blog. I got busy today!
Yes, Fitz abd the FBI can interrogate Rove and other activities. and believe ne, Rove is definitely involved in other activities... Keep your eyes on rove's ties with Abramoff. Go do your homework!!!
Roger:
I can say with a certain degree of confidence that Bill Hamilton had nothing to do with vote tampering.My experience with him led me to believe he is a man of honor and integrity.
First Impressions
I really enjoyed the full transcript!
The only qualifications I bring to comment on the transcript is my IQ. ( It's over 150, but I'm not saying how much, tho. Sometimes it's a blessing, sometimes it's a curse - depends on how I feel and what I'm doing)
There's alot of "show-me-yours and I'll show you mine" - but with lots and lots of rules!
(Guess nobody wants to see something they secretly want to see by surprise - tho, it's more fun that way, depending on who you are)
"23 MR. WELLS: I couched the request as Brady, and Brady trumps Jencks."
(Almost sounded like poker there!)
My favorite part:
MR. WELLS: "Just so the record is clear what the grand jury testimony is. He said that the disclosure of the material was a go, then it was a stop and then it was a go."
(I didn't know the WH Administration played that game!! I NEVER saw them on the white house lawn playing the "Red Light! Green Light!" game! It's alot of fun, tho, till you get caught - I never reach the light!)
Sometimes Mr. Wells sounds hungry, but I'm sure he's speaking figuratively again....
"6 MR. WELLS: What I'm saying is you can't slice it that thin because what was going on in reality were discussions about the trip of which the wife was this piece and what the
government is arguing is that I can't show the jury the whole picture. That's what you are depriving me of, being able --
Well, thank you all! I learned really alot! (PJF's primers - explanations imbedded in his blogs really helps, too)
Rule 16, Brady, Rule 17, Giglio, Jencks, 302s', Section 4, CIPA, and on and on...
...and I know all this is beyond serious, it's a life/death struggle for democrarcy...I needed to humour myself for one second - it helps from going bonkers.
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