It was the seriousness of the charge, not the charge its self - Patrick Fitzgerald Retreats From Plame 'Covert' Claim

[CB]

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...

Saturday, Oct. 29, 2005 12:13 p.m. EDT
Patrick Fitzgerald Retreats From Plame 'Covert' Claim

Leakgate Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald dropped a mini-bombshell Friday
afternoon while he was explaining his indictment of Lewis "Scooter" Libby to the
press.

It turns out that the central premise of his investigation - that Valerie Plame
Wilson enjoyed protected "covert" status at the CIA - may not be true.

"Let me say two things," Fitzgerald told reporters. "I am not speaking [in this
indictment] to whether or not Valerie Wilson was covert . . . And we have not
made any allegation that Mr. Libby knowingly or intentionally outed a covert
agent."

Fitzgerald did insist that Mrs. Wilson's "association with the CIA was
classified," which would make leaking her occupation a crime. But he declined to
bring any charges to that effect, casting even more doubt on the claim that her
CIA job was a closely guarded secret.


A Nexis Lexis search shows that since Mrs. Wilson's alleged "outing" in July
2003, the media has erroneously referred to her "covert" status more than 3,100
times.
Surely the press will begin issuing its Leakgate retractions any minute now.


http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/29/122517.shtml

CB

[K***@Hang-up.com]

Post by CB
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

That alone is reason to laugh at your racist ass, Barta.

Post by CB
It turns out that the central premise of his investigation - that Valerie Plame
Wilson enjoyed protected "covert" status at the CIA - may not be true.

You stupid fuck, Barta

The OIC was not charged with finding out if she was an agent or if she
was covert

His entire mission was to find out who LEAKED her name to the media.

[Rich Travsky]

Post by CB
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Saturday, Oct. 29, 2005 12:13 p.m. EDT
Patrick Fitzgerald Retreats From Plame 'Covert' Claim

Newsmax. Snicker. Figures. Fitzgerald, using a baseball analogy, said the
level of lying is so far obscuring this part of the investigation.


http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0510/28/bn.03.html
...
And what we have when someone charges obstruction of justice, the umpire
gets sand thrown in his eyes. He's trying to figure what happened and
somebody blocked their view.

As you sit here now, if you're asking me what his motives were, I can't
tell you; we haven't charged it.

So what you were saying is the harm in an obstruction investigation is
it prevents us from making the fine judgments we want to make.
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