thunder wrote:
On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 20:54:07 +0000, Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:23:56 -0400, thunder
wrote:

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:30:32 +0000, NOYB wrote:

What is there to spin? As the article points out, it doesn't appear
that there was any violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection
Act. So, instead, the article goes on to *speculate* that Fitzgerald
may be considering charges of perjury or criminal conspiracy.

At this point, it's nothing more speculation and wishing on the part of
whichever left-wing conspiracy site you lifted this from.

I don't know if any charges will come from the Plame investigation, but I
will point out, it wasn't the Watergate burglary that brought Nixon down,
it was the cover-up. If anyone in the Bush administration is charged, it
will be another nail in this lame duck's coffin. Bush is already
wounded, additional bleeding will put his numbers in the Carter area.
Can you say failed Presidency?

http://uspolitics.about.com/library/...l_approval.htm

What was there to cover up? According to what I've read, everybody in the
known universe knew that Valerie Palme was Wilson's wife and she worked at
the CIA.

Everyone seems to be concentrating on the IIPA. There are quite a few
more laws that could apply and may have been broken. Try the Espionage
Act, perjury, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy, all could apply.

I would also point out, that the IIPA may indeed apply. The CIA initially
filed the complaint, with the Justice Dept., that started this
investigation. I'm just guessing here, because we know how frivolous the
CIA can be, but perhaps, their lawyers felt a law may have been broken.

The IIPA is the only thing anybody is talking about. You have brought
up the Espionage Act, perjury, obstruction and conspiracy before. All
of the elements of a crime must be met for there to even be a crime -
which is what will probably send anything under the IIPA out the
window. What elements do you think have been met under the EA?

Perjury would be applicable if anyone lied under oath - I don't know
that anyone has. Obstruction may be in order if anyone stiffled the
investigation - however refusing to incriminate ones self is not
obstruction, nor would it necessarily be obstruction to fail to
volunteer information.

Jesus - doesn't take a freakin' intelligence genius to put two and two
together and come up with four.

That's truly fortunate, because we are not talking intelligence geniuses,
we are talking the Bush administration.