Bush Knew About Leak of CIA Operative's Name

[SHRED]

From Capitol Hill Blue


Bush Knew About Leak of CIA Operative's Name
By Staff and Wire Reports
Jun 3, 2004, 05:28

Witnesses told a federal grand jury President George W. Bush knew about, and took no action to stop, the release of a covert CIA operative's name to a journalist in an attempt to discredit her husband, a critic of administration policy in Iraq.

Their damning testimony has prompted Bush to contact an outside lawyer for legal advice because evidence increasingly points to his involvement in the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to syndicated columnist Robert Novak.

The move suggests the president anticipates being questioned by prosecutors. Sources say grand jury witnesses have implicated the President and his top advisor, Karl Rove.

White House spokesmen, however, dismiss the hiring of outside counsel as a routine precaution.

>>>>>>>>> http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=32&num=4629

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. impeachment is in the air

And this is just the latest article of impeachment.

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[kliljedahl]

5. "blondes being raped by sasquatches"?

WOW, where was that story? I'm not familiar with that site, maybe for a reason. Should I invest in tinfoil futures?


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[omega minimo]

17. Do you think

rape is funny?


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[SHRED]

6. "Keep hope alive!"

:kick:

[Botany]

8. Really?

bush is the result of a sasquatch raping Bar? Oh baby do tell. :rofl:

He did hire a criminal lawyer last year about this case .......
just one crack in the dam and the flood waters will burst forth washing
the BFEE from office. Of course he knew about rove & libby outing
plame ...... the only question left is was Bolton involved.


:popcorn:

[Jackpine Radical]

10. No, no, now that you remind me, I remember--

Bar raped the sasquatch.

[WhiteTara]

11. the other question

is did Dick get the name during one of his many unprecedented visits to Langley?
:shrug: :popcorn:

[omega minimo]

15. Were you ever

raped?

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[flordehinojos]

3. here's hoping this is true

:toast:

and further hoping that the grand jury won't be all republicans shilling for bush and further cover-ups.

i hope they smash his cojones flat like tortilla cakes.

ouch!

he deserves it.

[Ice4Clark]

4. Do you really think we can bring them to justice?

Will the house finally crumble? Can we get Cheniac too? We certainly wouldn't want him officially left in charge..........

[Larkspur]

9. So John Dean's educated guess looks to be correct about Bush

In his book "Worse than Watergate" and in other op ed's on Findlaw.com, John Dean said that for Bush to consult an independent lawyer indicates that he may have at the very least knowledge of who leaked Plame's role with the CIA, which is a felony. At worse, Bush is the leak, which would be treason and one of the major reasons the US Constitution gives for impeaching a President.

If it's true that Bush knew who leaked Plame's identity or leaked it himself, than Bush is Nixon reincarnated.

[Virginian]

12. Has this memo been mentioned by any other source?

Even though he has a White House counsel, Bush is dependent on outside lawyers for private matters. A memo distributed to the staff last year reminded officials that the counsel's office works solely for the president in his official capacity and is not a private attorney for anyone.

According to what I have heard, if anyone consulted the White House lawyers about this, they don't have attorney/client privilege because the client is the government, not the White House employees.

[demgrrrll]

14. Not that I am aware of, at least not recently. I vaguely remember

Ken Starr going after Clinton's attorney and making the case that because he worked for the government the information was not privileged. Didn't Starr get a favorable ruling on that issue? I think so.

[rasputin1952]

13. Just to play on the irony...Treason is punishable by a maximum penalty

of death. If the above comes to pass, and bush is actually impeached, tried and convicted in the Senate, and sentenced to death...I wonder if Karma would be appeased...:shrug:

The greatest purveyor of the DP, becomes a victim of the DP....strange, sweet irony. Virtually impossible for all of this to come around, but seeing bush strapped to a gurney, begging for his life before the drugs are pumped into his veins, is a stange mental picture to say the least....:)

I just wonder how many nano-seconds it would take for the rabid right to call for an end to the DP?

[Virginian]

18. From what I have read here on DU...

The statute of this law sets the maximum penalty of a fine and 10 years.
Too many people have died already. Stop the killing. Find some other way to neutralize him.