My treason-gate/Plame predictions.....

tableturner

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Sat Oct-01-05 09:28 AM
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My treason-gate/Plame predictions.....

It's hard to be patient, especially with the term of the grand jury soon ending (which could be extended), but for now, while waiting with baited breath, here are my predictions. I'd love to read what you think.

1) Bush and Cheney un-indicted co-conspirators for being in on the plot from the beginning (cannot indict a sitting president or VP, but it signifies that the grand jury would have indicted if they were not in those two positions).

2) Indictments: Rove, Libby, Rice, Ari Fleischer, Gonzales, Judith Miller, Novak, two or three other of the White House Iraqi Group (Hadley, Matalin, others maybe, but considering who her husband is, Matalin may have flipped ).

3) Charges:
a) Bush, Cheney, Rice, Gonzales, Libby, WHIG people:
1) Intelligence Identities Protection act, the original and specific law about outing an agent.
2) Espionage act (releasing any classified info to someone who is not cleared to see it) .
3) Conspiracy relative to all of the above.
4) Perjury
5) Obstruction of Justice
6) Knowingly lying to Congress
7) Being complicit in the forging of the fake Niger papers
8) You can bet the farm that Fitzgerald, like all prosecutors, can find a slew of technical law violations, plus more major ones.
b) Assorted charges for all the others involved.

4) Notice I left out charges for Fleischer. A year ago, a major media source, I can't remember which, had a small blurb stating that someone had flipped and was telling the prosecutors that Bush and Cheney knew everything right from the beginning. I think it's Ari (but it may be Matalin, additionally, or instead of). He quit right after this thing blew up, has been almost totally out of public view, was an underling who most likely had no planning role, but he lied to Fitzgerald, the press and the public (which is not nearly as bad as what the top guys did). Key point: you may remember that it was reported that he had testified that he had no prior knowledge of the Plame situation, nor of her identity. You also may remember the recent revelation that witnesses told Fitz that Ari, on the now famous presidential trip to Africa, was seen with the memo describing Plame's identity and the fact that the info was top secret. They have him nailed. What else can he do? Go to jail for 10 years, and be cast as a traitor, even though he was much less complicit than those above him who might get off scot free were Ari not to flip?

Results:

1) Bush and Cheney resign.

2) Bush pardons all his crew including Cheney (which may not stick because pardons related to crimes covered under impeachment proceedings are not valid under the constitution, although this is a bit murky).

3) Bush makes deal with Hastert, the incoming president, that he will spare the country an impeachment and trial if he will give Bush a pardon, which also may not stick.

4) GOP pigs lose Congress.