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Aides to Be Indicted, Probe to Continue
By Richard Sale
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Wednesday 26 October 2005

Richard Sale, a long-time Intelligence correspondent, was the first to tip me last year to the developing Larry Franklin spy scandal, which proved to be right. I've found Richard to always be on target in my experience.
-Larry C. Johnson

Two top White House aides are expected to be indicted today on various charges related to the probe of CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose classified identity was publicly breached in retaliation after her husband, Joe Wilson, challenged the administration's claim that Saddam Hussein had sought to buy enriched uranium from Niger, according to federal law enforcement and senior US intelligence officials.

If no action is taken today, it will take place on Friday, according to these sources.

I. Scooter Libby, the chief of staff of Vice President Richard Cheney, and chief presidential advisor Karl Rove are expected to be named in indictments this morning by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.

Others are to be named as well, these sources said. According to US officials close to the case, a bill of indictment that named five people has been in existence since before October 17. Various names have surfaced, such as National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, yet only one source would confirm that Hadley was on the list. Hadley could not be reached for comment.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102605Y.shtml

[WiseButAngrySara]

1. This morning has sadly already passed. Does this mean we have to

wait til Friday? I can't take much more of this suspense!

[Casandra]

2. Lots of secrets going on

Been reading this morning.... the Target letters were delivered last week (Thursday I believe) We've not heard anything about that either, who receive them and what was on them, so it's not a huge leap to consider the 'Indictments' are sealed AND delivered to the 'players' in this drama... and we are all left to wonder what's going on. As we see it, nothing has happened, but how can we really know? One would think there will be some kind of leak before day's end, if this is the case. Seems to be being handled as covertly as possible.

[HereSince1628]

4. As they say still waters run deep.

I am still hopeful that the defense attorneys will leak something interesting late this afternoon or early evening.

I mean what are they gonna do? Watch the south-siders play baseball?

[WiseButAngrySara]

5. But a 'target letter' is not the same thing as a sealed indictment from

what I've read. Right? I hope there's some inkling of what's to come, or what's been done, by days end! I didn't realize that I'ld be so affected by all of this, but 'hope springs eternal in the human breast' and especially when that hope is linked to injustice! I want to see these lying murderous thugs punished for their selfishness. They should never have been in control of a Democratic form of government, because everything they represent is just the opposite, even though they have completely perverted the meaning of key democratic words, like 'freedom' and 'equality.'

[peacetalksforall]

3. Take advantage of the time to study the issues, if you have the time.

[WiseButAngrySara]

6. I am trying! Thank God for DU. God is a Democrat. ...n/t