Supremes: White House evacuating for Hurricane Patrick?

[longship]

From The Blotter Blog, City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul.

White House evacuating for Hurricane Patrick?

Meanwhile no one, the major pro-Dem bloggers included, is paying attention to what may prove to be the biggest elephant in the room: the looming conclusion of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's year-and-a-half-long investigation of the Plame/CIA leak. On Sunday, the WashPost's CIA love slave, Walter Pincus--who has been a steady and reliable source of stories damaging to Bush--reiterated in the WashPost that Fitzgerald is trying to establish a conspiracy involving Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, the president's and vice-president's right hand men. On ABC's This Week, George Stephanopoulos dropped this teaser: "A source close to this told me this week that President Bush and Vice President Cheney were actually involved in some of these discussions."

Blog poster: Steve Perry

Well, Mr. Perry, we are paying attention to it here at DU.


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[yellowcanine]

1. Bring back the "unindicted coconspirator!" It was a tipping point in

Watergate and I believe it may have triggered the "I am not a crook" statement by Nixon, though I could be wrong about that last part.

[electropop]

2. If you work in the White House right now

it sucks to be you. I have been avidly following Fitzgerald since he began, and this is looking very promising.

If Bush and Cheney can be charged, it will really suck to be them.

:popcorn:

[northzax]

4. the people it really sucks for

the people getting damaged by the political crimes up above, are the mid level staffers in the White House. These are people making 60-70 grand a year, hardly poor, but hardly rich. Rove is loaded, and has rich friends, he'll be fine, but his admins have been called to the Grand Jury as well, and that is not cheap. White House employees are forbidden by law from receiving free or discounted legal counsel, for good reason, so they have to hire white shoe lawyers on their own. An appearance before a grand jury, even the simplest one, will cost you 25-50 grand in legal fees in DC (and you want a lawyer, you don't want Rove playing with your life anymore than he already is) If you are even tangentally involved, even if you had nothing to do with the planning or execution of a crime, you are looking at 100-200 grand in legal bills. that hurts.

no, I'm not feeling sorry for them, but remember there are white house staffers from the Clinton years (travel office, Rose Law Firm, Watergate, Monica, etc) who will be paying legal bills for the rest of their lives. One more example of how the powerful don't care about the impact of their actions on those farther down the food chain.

[speedoo]

5. They deserve no sympathy whatsoever.

They chose to work in this corrupt WH. If they had any brains at all, they should have been able to see how bad things were.

But instead of getting out, they chose to stay and continue working on behalf of these evil people.

Screw them.

[northzax]

6. do you have a boss?

when s/he gets investigated for tax fraud, and you get called before a grand jury and run up six digit legal bills, I should say screw you? was every single employee of Enron liable for the fraud that occured at the top? should every employee of WorldCom be punished because they worked for a shady company?

There are, at the least, fifteen Clinton white house employees, including secretaries carrying six digit legal bills. and those aren't cabinet secretaries, I'm talking answering the phone and taking memos secretaries. It sucks for anyone, sorry. have some freaking compassion.

[texpatriot2004]

3. How cool is that. Hurricane Patrick. n/t

[RedCloud]

7. watergate, watergate...

Will Arlo Gurthie coin us a new song?