Have Some Fitzmas Candy, Just A Little
Oct 27th, 2005 at 9:22 am by Susie
Via TalkLeft:
On February 11, 2004, Newsday (quoted at length here) reported that former White House Press Aide Adam Levine testified before the Plame grand jury for 45 minutes on Friday, February 6. The paper also reported:
In the grand jury sessions, press aides were confronted with internal White House documents, mainly e-mails and telephone logs, between White House aides and reporters and questioned about conversations with reporters, according to sources and reports.
Levine’s lawyer, Dan French, has confirmed for the Washington Post that Levine was interviewed again Tuesday by a member of Fitzgerald’s legal team regarding a July 11 conversation Levine had with Rove. This is the same date that Rove and Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper spoke - in a conversation that Rove apparently didn’t recall during his initial questioning by FBI investigators or before the grand jury. The Rove-Cooper conversation is the one Fitzgerald reportedly is examining in deciding whether to charge Rove with perjury.
Peter Zeidenberg, a Justice Department prosecutor working with Fitzgerald, called Levine that day to discuss a conversation Levine had with Rove on July 11, 2003, the day Rove spoke with Cooper, according to Daniel J. French, Levine’s lawyer.
Levine, part of the White House communications team at the time of the leak, “was contacted as a witness,” French said. Levine told Zeidenberg that he and Rove did not discuss Cooper in that conversation, according to a person familiar with the discussion.
All in Bushco dodging the bullet will not be chastened by their experience. Hubris rules and I can hear the choruses of “I was exonerated of all wrong doing” coming from the White House soon. I predict should the major players walk free, especially Rove, the humility stage will be skipped and they’ll proceed straight to vengeance. No good deed, spoken truth or political slight goes unpunished in Bushworld.
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will, Steve! Fitzgerald is a pro who knows what he’s doing; I doubt he’ll leave them much wiggle room. They’ll certainly try business as usual, but they don’t have things under control like they have had for five years. The wheels are coming off, the fabric is unraveling, etc. It’s not going to be Fitzmas tomorrow, but the start of a long crisis for BushCo. And I’d say their odds are getting longer and longer. Niger forgeries and Cheney, anyone??
Well done Satchmo, now let’s get to the REAL story…the American people were lied to about Iraq’s WMD capability. Every one of them needs to fall, and when they do, right-thinking people will finally be able to go to their congressmen and senators and say convincingly, “Evangelists with eighth-grade educations should NOT be allowed to vote; see why now?”
I’m waiting for them to start undermining Fitz if his investigation goes on any longer.