Raw Story: Top Blogger Thinks Cheney is in Fitz's sites

[NewJeffCT]

This would be great news, if true.

This weekend, RAW STORY interviewed Marcy Wheeler, one of the blogosphere’s most tireless observers and analysts of the CIA leak investigation and the I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Trial.

In the interview, she revealed that she believes that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will press forward with his investigation, and that his ultimate target is Vice President Dick Cheney: "I’m not entirely convinced that Fitzgerald’s done. I used to be conservative on that, believing that he was done. But there are little snippets of hints that he’s not."

Wheeler is omnipresent in the new media, most notably at the blog Firedoglake, while also appearing on her own blog, The Next Hurrah, and also at Daily Kos and the Huffington Post. Her book on the CIA leak scandal, Anatomy of Deceit, has been released in paperback. Because of a marathon effort parsing public documents, she managed to beat the traditional media to major stories by months.

“We figured out that Armitage was the Novak/Woodward source in March,” Wheeler said in an implicit critique of mainstream coverage of the Plame story, “and we were able to do that because we were able to do things that journalists wouldn’t do.”

more at link:

http://www.rawstory.com//news/2007/Raw_interviews_chief_Libby_trial_blogger_0220.html

[mitchtv]

1. Fitz's "Sights"

I would think.

[kestrel91316]

2. Yeah. It took me a while to figure that out. Sites?????

[SlowDownFast]

3. OMG! Defense Attorney Wells Cries for Scooter!

Very end of closing arguement from FDL:


I told you that when we chose you, we alread made the most important decision. For some of you this will be the most important decision you will ever make. Trust in the evidence and trust in each other. Be protector, if somebody begins to go off track and have a situation where Libby has to prove innocence, help that person, if someoen says, "he's a Republican, he worked for Cheney, let's just do him," help that person.

Don't sacrifice Scooter LIbby for how you may feel abotu war in Iraq or Bush Administration. Treat him the way he deserves to be treated. He worked every day to be NSA for this country. Analyze it fairly. Fight any temptation for your views if you're Democrat whatever party. This is a man who has a wife kid. He's been under my protection for the last month. Just give him back. Give him back to me, give him back.

Wells gets all choked up, crying.

www.firedoglake.com

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That is so fucking pathetic!

Did they teach him that in law school???

Perhaps he thinks he's up for an Academy Award!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Geoff R. Casavant]

5. That argument works so much better with a poor defendant

Especially if the case isn't so rock solid.

I've heard of the whole "I've protected him until now -- now it's your turn to protect him" argument many times, and it always works best when the defendant isn't wearing a suit that costs more than a lot of honest folks make in a month.

[NewJeffCT]

6. My client has sinned against you...

To paraphrase Jimmy Swaggart

[TNOE]

4. There just went my lunch.

eeekkkkkkkk. Truly sickening. Another soul seller.

[saltpoint]

7. Uncle Dick casts a long, suspicious shadow in the Plame case.

Innocent until proven otherwise, I know. But his truth-telling track record on Iraq generally has been less than noble.

I bet a small secret effort by a very discreet someone-or-other has already produced a short list of replacements in the event a high Cabinet official needs to step down later this year "for health reasons."

[WinkyDink]

10. Cheney isn't a Cabinet member, so I'm not sure whom you mean.

[saltpoint]

11. I believe he is.

From http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/cabinet/html

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President Bush's Cabinet

The tradition of the Cabinet dates back to the beginnings of the Presidency itself. One of the principal purposes of the Cabinet (drawn from Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution) is to advise the President on any subject he may require relating to the duties of their respective offices.

The Cabinet includes the Vice President and the heads of 15 executive departments-the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, and the Attorney General. Under President George W. Bush, Cabinet-level rank also has been accorded to the Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Director, Office of Management and Budget; the Director, National Drug Control Policy; and the U.S. Trade Representative.

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[Vinca]

8. Scooter will get a pardon if convicted and Cheney will complete

his term and ride off into the sunset to count his profits.

[KharmaTrain]

9. Read The Anaylisis

Even if Scooter is pardoned, Cheney isn't in the clear. Scooter can, and will, be compelled to testify (his pardon doesn't cover Cheney) as well as in any subsequent criminal and civil suits that are sure to sprout if Libby is found guilty.

The story is that Cheney wanted a pardon before this thing went to trial, but when Scooter turned on Rove, the pardon went by the wayside...and the Libby trial...which Cheney knew then would throw a lot of questions in his direction, was allowed to proceede.

Take a few moments and read the posts here by H2O Man and Understandinglife...who have been on top of this case, sometimes ahead of Wheeler...who have filled in a lot of the grey spots that will show you how this case is so devestating to this regime.