Cowardly Democrats, SEGREGATED AMERICA: Dems cower as Bush-Cheney turn US justice system into a mob enforcement racket.
Cowardly Democrats, in REFUSING to CONFRONT Karl Rove's record of lies, fraud, stolen elections, vote-rigging, censorship, and role in betraying CIA secrets for political "payback" against administration opponents, HAVE UNDERCUT Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation of Rove's role in the "Plame-CIA outing" scandal.
Prosecutors, "Independent Counsel," and "Special Counsel" investigators of executive office wrongdoing do not operate in a vacumn. They are given a limited and focused mandate to examine one particular set of wrongdoings or alleged crimes, and from there take their investigations where they may lead.
In the case of a huge, quasi-govenmental operation like the "IRAN-CONTRA" affair operating out of the Reagan White House, Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh's investigation covered huge swaths of territory, tens of millions of dollars, and dozens of government officials throughout the executive branch.
In the case of the Kenneth Starr "Independent Counsel" ("IC") investigations of the Clinton administration, Starr started his investigation with a very limited mandate to investigate the "Whitewater" real estate flop run by Clinton family associate Jim McDougal, an Arkansas wheeler-dealer who was trying to create a tourist/residential resort getaway destination in the rural Arkansas foothills (hence the "whitewater" of streams rushing down mountainsides). While there was nothing sinister or fraudulent in trying to develop a resort community in rural Arkansas, McDougal did not realize that with free time on their hands, Arkansas' white-collar vacationers would head for gulf beaches or big city lights, not further into backwoods rural Arkansas. McDougal's "Whitewater" flop was a routine real estate failure, a tiny part of America's multi-billion dollar Savings & Loan debacle. But with Republicans and the "major-media" pushing the "Whitewater" investigation relentlessly for months on end, Starr's "Independent Counsel" investigation EXPANDED to cover every financial transaction ever posted by any member of the Clinton administration over the preceding three decades.
In retrospect it is nothing short of FARCICAL that Clinton associate Webster Hubbel, a partner in the law firm that also hired Hillary Clinton, was convicted and sentenced to prison for... "OVERBILLING clients"???
WHY DON'T WE APPLY A SIMILAR STANDARD OF 'justice' TO Vice President Dick Cheney and HALLIBURTON, Halliburton has been found to have OVERCHARGED THE GOVERNMENT in DOZENS of cases, and not one Halliburton official has seen his name hit the front pages of the papers, much less the inside of a courtroom for FRAUD, as Webster Hubbel did!
Eventually, the Starr investigation ran out of material to try to prosecute President Clinton on. That did not matter to Republican Clinton-haters, who had convicted Mr. Clinton of dozens of "crimes", from murder to drug-running to treason (for "selling US nuclear and rocket secrets to China") without any hard evidence.
On the other hand, Republicans are able to create crimes out of whole cloth, the proof of this is in two words, "Lincoln bedroom." By HARPING on the Clinton's overnight guest list staying in the White House, the REPUBLICANS and their media whores (Washington Post, New York Times, 'major media') CREATED AN ATMOSPHERE of "hate-Clinton!" and PRESUMPTION OF GUILT, an atmosphere that allowed Texas Governor George W. Bush to run on his "restore honor and dignity" agenda in the 2000 election campaign.
Thanks to our Democratic "leadership", we now live in a SEGREGATED SOCIETY, where Republicans can create crimes out of whole cloth and destroy Democrats who dare to be outspoken, while Democrats won't even stand behind an ongoing criminal investigation into senior White House officials who ARE KNOWN to have participated in the illegal "outing" of undercover CIA operations, and possibly PERJURY and OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE by withholding details of those activities.
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2006/06/roves_lawyer_sa.html#more
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/
tSince the revelation of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity in the summer of 2003, following her husband's published criticism of the Bush administration's alleged manipulation of pre-war intelligence supporting the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the White House has at first maintained that Rove played no role in helping reporters identify Plame and more recently has refused to comment on any aspect of the investigation.
However, reporters who knew about or wrote of Plame's relationship with former ambassador Joseph Wilson, who traveled to Africa and disputed the administration's claims that Iraq was attempting to seek uranium from Niger, have said that both Rove and Libby served as sources for their reporting. Fitzgerald, in federal court filings, has accused Libby of making false statements to the Grand Jury during an investigation that has run for more than two years. Libby is charged with obstruction of justice.
June 13, 2006
Rove's lawyer says he's safe
The Chicago Tribune's Washington Bureau
Posted by Mark Silva at 6:20 am CDT
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2006/06/roves_lawyer_sa.html#more
Karl Rove, longtime chief political adviser to President Bush and mastermind of campaign strategies for the Republican Party this year, will not face any charges as a result of a special counsel's investigation of the leak of a CIA operative's identity, according to Rove's private attorney.
Although Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has refused to publicly comment about an ongoing investigation which already has resulted in an indictment against I. Lewis "Scooter'' Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, Rove's attorney said early today that Fitzgerald had advised him Monday that he does not expect to seek charges against Rove.
"Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald formally advised us that he does not anticipate seeking charges against Karl Rove,'' attorney Robert Luskin said in a statement issued this morning. “In deference to the pending case, we will not make any further public statements about the subject matter of the investigation. We believe that the special counsel's decision should put an end to the baseless speculation about Mr. Rove’s conduct.”
Since the revelation of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity in the summer of 2003, following her husband's published criticism of the Bush administration's alleged manipulation of pre-war intelligence supporting the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the White House has at first maintained that Rove played no role in helping reporters identify Plame and more recently has refused to comment on any aspect of the investigation.
However, reporters who knew about or wrote of Plame's relationship with former ambassador Joseph Wilson, who traveled to Africa and disputed the administration's claims that Iraq was attempting to seek uranium from Niger, have said that both Rove and Libby served as sources for their reporting. Fitzgerald, in federal court filings, has accused Libby of making false statements to the Grand Jury during an investigation that has run for more than two years. Libby is charged with obstruction of justice.
Rove's attorney has maintained that Rove never identified Plame and has cooperated fully with Fitzgerald's investigation. Rove has made five appearances before two grand juries that Fitzgerald has worked with since the start of the investigation.
Since Libby's indictment and resignation as Cheney's chief of staff last year, Rove has remained largely behind the scenes but has remained an influential figure in the Bush administration and key adviser for Bush.
As deputy chief of staff, Rove had been assigned a day-to-day policy-making role in the administration after the president's reelection in 2004, but recently had been relieved of those duties to concentrate more time on the Republican Party's campaign to maintain control of Congress in the 2006 mid-term elections.
Lately, Rove has hit the campaign trail from Florida to New Hampshire, maintaining that the GOP will prevail – despite polls showing Democrats gaining advantages in many regions and nationally. If his attorney's prediction holds, Rove will be free to assume an aggressive high-profile role in the GOP's campaigns. Rove delivered hard-hitting attacks at the president's Democratic critics at a state GOP function in New Hampshire on Monday night -- boosted, it now appears, by good news from his lawyer.
Prosecutors, "Independent Counsel," and "Special Counsel" investigators of executive office wrongdoing do not operate in a vacumn. They are given a limited and focused mandate to examine one particular set of wrongdoings or alleged crimes, and from there take their investigations where they may lead.
In the case of a huge, quasi-govenmental operation like the "IRAN-CONTRA" affair operating out of the Reagan White House, Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh's investigation covered huge swaths of territory, tens of millions of dollars, and dozens of government officials throughout the executive branch.
In the case of the Kenneth Starr "Independent Counsel" ("IC") investigations of the Clinton administration, Starr started his investigation with a very limited mandate to investigate the "Whitewater" real estate flop run by Clinton family associate Jim McDougal, an Arkansas wheeler-dealer who was trying to create a tourist/residential resort getaway destination in the rural Arkansas foothills (hence the "whitewater" of streams rushing down mountainsides). While there was nothing sinister or fraudulent in trying to develop a resort community in rural Arkansas, McDougal did not realize that with free time on their hands, Arkansas' white-collar vacationers would head for gulf beaches or big city lights, not further into backwoods rural Arkansas. McDougal's "Whitewater" flop was a routine real estate failure, a tiny part of America's multi-billion dollar Savings & Loan debacle. But with Republicans and the "major-media" pushing the "Whitewater" investigation relentlessly for months on end, Starr's "Independent Counsel" investigation EXPANDED to cover every financial transaction ever posted by any member of the Clinton administration over the preceding three decades.
In retrospect it is nothing short of FARCICAL that Clinton associate Webster Hubbel, a partner in the law firm that also hired Hillary Clinton, was convicted and sentenced to prison for... "OVERBILLING clients"???
WHY DON'T WE APPLY A SIMILAR STANDARD OF 'justice' TO Vice President Dick Cheney and HALLIBURTON, Halliburton has been found to have OVERCHARGED THE GOVERNMENT in DOZENS of cases, and not one Halliburton official has seen his name hit the front pages of the papers, much less the inside of a courtroom for FRAUD, as Webster Hubbel did!
Eventually, the Starr investigation ran out of material to try to prosecute President Clinton on. That did not matter to Republican Clinton-haters, who had convicted Mr. Clinton of dozens of "crimes", from murder to drug-running to treason (for "selling US nuclear and rocket secrets to China") without any hard evidence.
On the other hand, Republicans are able to create crimes out of whole cloth, the proof of this is in two words, "Lincoln bedroom." By HARPING on the Clinton's overnight guest list staying in the White House, the REPUBLICANS and their media whores (Washington Post, New York Times, 'major media') CREATED AN ATMOSPHERE of "hate-Clinton!" and PRESUMPTION OF GUILT, an atmosphere that allowed Texas Governor George W. Bush to run on his "restore honor and dignity" agenda in the 2000 election campaign.
Thanks to our Democratic "leadership", we now live in a SEGREGATED SOCIETY, where Republicans can create crimes out of whole cloth and destroy Democrats who dare to be outspoken, while Democrats won't even stand behind an ongoing criminal investigation into senior White House officials who ARE KNOWN to have participated in the illegal "outing" of undercover CIA operations, and possibly PERJURY and OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE by withholding details of those activities.
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2006/06/roves_lawyer_sa.html#more
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/
tSince the revelation of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity in the summer of 2003, following her husband's published criticism of the Bush administration's alleged manipulation of pre-war intelligence supporting the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the White House has at first maintained that Rove played no role in helping reporters identify Plame and more recently has refused to comment on any aspect of the investigation.
However, reporters who knew about or wrote of Plame's relationship with former ambassador Joseph Wilson, who traveled to Africa and disputed the administration's claims that Iraq was attempting to seek uranium from Niger, have said that both Rove and Libby served as sources for their reporting. Fitzgerald, in federal court filings, has accused Libby of making false statements to the Grand Jury during an investigation that has run for more than two years. Libby is charged with obstruction of justice.
June 13, 2006
Rove's lawyer says he's safe
The Chicago Tribune's Washington Bureau
Posted by Mark Silva at 6:20 am CDT
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2006/06/roves_lawyer_sa.html#more
Karl Rove, longtime chief political adviser to President Bush and mastermind of campaign strategies for the Republican Party this year, will not face any charges as a result of a special counsel's investigation of the leak of a CIA operative's identity, according to Rove's private attorney.
Although Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has refused to publicly comment about an ongoing investigation which already has resulted in an indictment against I. Lewis "Scooter'' Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, Rove's attorney said early today that Fitzgerald had advised him Monday that he does not expect to seek charges against Rove.
"Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald formally advised us that he does not anticipate seeking charges against Karl Rove,'' attorney Robert Luskin said in a statement issued this morning. “In deference to the pending case, we will not make any further public statements about the subject matter of the investigation. We believe that the special counsel's decision should put an end to the baseless speculation about Mr. Rove’s conduct.”
Since the revelation of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity in the summer of 2003, following her husband's published criticism of the Bush administration's alleged manipulation of pre-war intelligence supporting the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the White House has at first maintained that Rove played no role in helping reporters identify Plame and more recently has refused to comment on any aspect of the investigation.
However, reporters who knew about or wrote of Plame's relationship with former ambassador Joseph Wilson, who traveled to Africa and disputed the administration's claims that Iraq was attempting to seek uranium from Niger, have said that both Rove and Libby served as sources for their reporting. Fitzgerald, in federal court filings, has accused Libby of making false statements to the Grand Jury during an investigation that has run for more than two years. Libby is charged with obstruction of justice.
Rove's attorney has maintained that Rove never identified Plame and has cooperated fully with Fitzgerald's investigation. Rove has made five appearances before two grand juries that Fitzgerald has worked with since the start of the investigation.
Since Libby's indictment and resignation as Cheney's chief of staff last year, Rove has remained largely behind the scenes but has remained an influential figure in the Bush administration and key adviser for Bush.
As deputy chief of staff, Rove had been assigned a day-to-day policy-making role in the administration after the president's reelection in 2004, but recently had been relieved of those duties to concentrate more time on the Republican Party's campaign to maintain control of Congress in the 2006 mid-term elections.
Lately, Rove has hit the campaign trail from Florida to New Hampshire, maintaining that the GOP will prevail – despite polls showing Democrats gaining advantages in many regions and nationally. If his attorney's prediction holds, Rove will be free to assume an aggressive high-profile role in the GOP's campaigns. Rove delivered hard-hitting attacks at the president's Democratic critics at a state GOP function in New Hampshire on Monday night -- boosted, it now appears, by good news from his lawyer.
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