Anonymous ID: b30d4e May 28, 2022, 4:03 p.m. No.16358952   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9026

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Scooter Libby

 

March 10, 2004: While Attorney General John Ashcroft was in a hospital, his wife spoke to James Comey, the deputy attorney general, about White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales going to Ashcroft at the hospital to urge him to renew the program for warrantless wiretapping under the Terrorist Surveillance Program the DOJ had ruled unconstitutional. Ashcroft had refused. Also, Comey urged Ashcroft to recuse himself from the Plame investigation as he had been a Bush appointee. He agreed. An Independent Counsel was to be appointed, but Comey, having feigned concern any relationships might affect the outcome, chose his child's godfather, Patrick Fitzgerald. Comey was now controlling the "investigation", but not to find the guilty ones. It was rather to aid in preventing their revelation. The leak investigation was revealed to be a fraud after Fitzgerald, Mueller, and Comey found early in the investigation the source of the leak came from Richard Armitage. Not good. Armitage had to be covered. Because Armitage had to be protected, they didn't disclose him, but kept "investigating", searching for the scapegoat safe enough to prosecute without risking pointing back at the guilty ones. They were going to have to peg it on someone else while pretending to be gunning for someone bigger, such as Vice President Dick Cheney, or Karl Rove, of whom they had no intention of really investigating. They finally settled on Cheney's Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby, and Cheney sacrificed him. On two occasions, Fitzgerald purportedly offered a deal with Libby if he gave up Cheney. This was likely just a ruse to find out how much of the truth Libby knew in case it could come back to haunt them if he knew anything incriminating. Libby didn't deal, or at least, he didn't know anything, so he was safe to prosecute for "obstruction of justice", perjury, and for a false statement.

 

October 28, 2005: Fitzgerald brought an indictment for 5 counts of false statements, perjury, and obstruction of justice against Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff. Libby resigned to attend to his defense. Fitzgerald held a press conference and was asked about comments by Republicans such as Kay Bailey Hutchison, who said "I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality …" He responded: "That talking point won't fly … The truth is the engine of our judicial system. If you compromise the truth, the whole process is lost … if we were to walk away from this, we might as well hand in our jobs."

 

2007: Libby was tried outing Valerie Plame in a leak, although Armitage had confessed. He was charged for lying about what he had said to three journalists, one of whom was Judith Miller of the NYT. Libby had spoken to her, but it had nothing to do with Plame–in fact, Miller herself had not reported on Plame. She was ordered to hand over her notes. She refused and was sent to prison for three months. After her release, to save her job, Miller agreed to give her redacted notes. Though she hadn't written about Plame, her husband's name "Wilson" was in her notes with a notation "wife works in Bureau?" "Bureau" meant "FBI". This is what they interpreted to mean Libby had outed Plame. She testified Libby had mentioned Plame because of this word "Bureau". It was on this shady testimony, he was convicted. In her memoirs, she said later upon reading Plame's memoir where she said she had worked at State, and not at the Bureau, as her cover for her real job in the CIA, this "left her cold". She realized that the word "Bureau" interpreted to mean "CIA" had been drilled into her head by Fitzgerald.