EDMONDS,PLAME/LIBBY - Same judge(Walton) hiding $ records

[whyzayker]

Judge Reggie Walton was the original judge who granted gov motion on several gags on Sibel Edmonds. He is now assigned, again, to her FTC case.

He happens to be the judge 'randomly' assigned to Valerie Plame/Libby case.

You can get financial records of federal judges on the Judicial Watch Web site as you might know.
http://www.thememoryblog.org/archives/000343.html

Interestingly, Walton's filing from 2003 is completely redacted.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/cgi-bin/search/exec/search.cgi?search=reggie+walton&perform_search=Search&skin=&categories=2&format=result_title




Judge in Scooter Libby, Sibel Edmonds cases is redacted in action

By Bill Conroy,
Posted on Sat Dec 17th, 2005 at 06:14:22 PM EST

What do two of the biggest national-security news stories of the century — the Valerie Plame leak scandal and the legal case of FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds — have in common?
They both are being presided over by the same federal judge in the District of Colombia, Reggie Walton, a Bush appointee to the federal court and a man who appears to have a few well-kept secrets of his own.

All federal judges are required under ethics rules to file what is known as “financial disclosure reports.”

The disclosure statement filed by Walton, which was obtained through the dogged efforts of a conservative watchdog group called Judicial Watch, is curious in what it does not reveal. Remember, this judge is arguably handling two of the most sensitive and potentially far-reaching challenges to the free press and the public’s right to know of our times.


http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/12/17/181422/49

[Time for change]

1. How did he get assigned to the Plame case? n/t

[whyzayker]

4. Walton was "randomly assigned"

Just as he was in the Libby case. I wanna know what the hell was on his 2003 financial records that was so "sensitive" that the entire document was redacted.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Isn't there an appeal that she can present to ask for a new judge?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. He doesn't seem to be hampering Fitzgerald, does he? Maybe it's....

...because Fitz has a great deal more power than the attorneys for Edmonds.

[0007]

5. 'Tis time for Sibel Edmonds to write a book with the names

changed and passed on as fiction. Much like Richard A. Carke's book, "The Scorpion's Gate"

[Gregorian]

6. I was in a panic until I saw this Daily Kos diary.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/29/14622/773

My heart sank when I saw this thread. But the diary from last October might shed some light on what kind of a judge this man is.

This might be our last chance, in the short term, to stop Hitler Bush's rampage against the people of this country.

[whyzayker]

8. Let's just say...

That there are folks involved who are "concerned" with Walton.

[Al-CIAda]

7. Ex-FBI translator's case may reveal Plame's crucial CIA role

Ex-FBI translator's case may reveal Plame's crucial CIA role
By Mike Mejia
Online Journal Contributing Writer

Dec 16, 2005, 00:52

For over a year, speculation has run rampant in the U.S. media and in the blogosphere about the CIA leak investigation being conducted by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.

The thought-provoking questions asked by journalists and bloggers alike are many and varied: Who, in addition to Scooter Libby and Karl Rove, was involved in leaking the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to the media in order to punish her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, for his refutation of President Bush's Niger uranium claim? What was the role of the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) in peddling Plame's name to the media? Who forged the Niger uranium documents? What secrets lay inside the eight redacted pages of material in Circuit Judge David Tatel's decision to overide his finding of a reporters' federal shield privilege "ere the leak at issue in this case less harmful to national security"? Was Plame's role at the CIA as a weapons of mass destruction expert critical, as old CIA hands like Larry Johnson contend, or was she just a paper pusher, as the pro-Bush crowd proclaims?

Although many of these questions about the Fitzgerald investigation have yet to be answered, a pair of little noticed but explosive articles authored by Christopher Deliso of antiwar.com, "Plame, Pakistan a Nuclear Turkey and the Necons" and "Lesser Neocons of L'Affaire Plame", go a long way to solving the mystery of Valerie Plame's mission at the agency and may henceforth reveal what likely lies in those mysterious eight redacted pages of Tatel's.

According to Deliso's two sources, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet and former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, the outing of Valerie Plame may have severely damaged a CIA operation to monitor a nuclear black market faciliated by the shadowy but well-connected Washington lobby group, the American Turkish Council (ATC). (Those familiar with the Sibel Edmonds case will know the ATC is the very same organization that the former FBI translator heard on wiretaps in connection with various alleged illegal activities, some connected to 9/11.) From Edmonds, Deliso obtained the following admission: "Plame's undercover job involved the organizations , the ATC (American-Turkish Council) and the ATA (American-Turkish Association) . . . the Brewster Jennings network was very active in Turkey and with the Turkish community in the U.S. during the late 1990s, 2000, and 2001 . . . in places like Chicago, Boston, and Paterson, N.J."

Such a stunning statement by the former FBI contract linguist could be dismissed by those not familiar with the whistleblower's well-established credibility were it not for the fact that Edmonds is, at least in part, corroborated by Ambassador Joseph Wilson himself. In his book the Politics of Truth, Wilson recounts on page 240 that he first met Valerie Plame in 1997, at a reception at the home of the Turkish ambassador which Wilson attended to receive an award from -- you guessed it -- the American Turkish Council. Wilson, of course, never explains in his book what brought Valerie Plame to attend this ATC-sponsored event, but since it is public information that Plame was an undercover CIA operative at the time, the simplest explanation is the most likely one: she was there as part of her Brewster Jennings & Associates cover. Although U.S. law prohibits the CIA from conducting espionage operations against U.S. citizens on American soil, nothing would have prohibited Plame from attending such an event in Washington.

Con't-
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/printer_340.shtml

[lovuian]

9. Bingo and I think Fitzgerald should ask Edmonds to testify to

the grand jury but that might be later on as a surprise...
He may know already...

[Al-CIAda]

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[cyberpj]

11. Yes. I've said that for a while now. Hope you're right on this. nt.kick

[OregonBlue]

12. I contacted every Dem on the Judiciary Committee yesterday

and asked them how this judge got "randomly appointed" to both of these cases and WHY IS HIS FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE REDACTED?

http://www.judicialwatch.org/judges/5260.shtml

http://judiciary.senate.gov/members.cfm

[Al-CIAda]

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