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Pete Yost / Associated Press:
'Official A' Stands Out in Indictment — WASHINGTON — In a sign of the trouble lingering for the Bush administration, the indictment handed up Friday in the CIA leak probe refers to someone at the White House known as "Official A." — The unidentified official could become a courtroom witness …
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New York Times:
Fitzgerald News Conference — FITZGERALD: Good afternoon. I'm Pat Fitzgerald. I'm the United States attorney in Chicago, but I'm appearing before you today as the Department of Justice special counsel in the CIA leak investigation. — Joining me, to my left, is Jack Eckenrode …
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Byron York / The Corner on National Review Online:
THE WORD ON LIBBY — AND THE BIG PICTURE — A number of observations tonight from people who know and follow the CIA leak case: — The first is that they view the indictment against Lewis Libby as very strong. One source called it "as clear-cut an indictment" as one would ever see …
rawstory.com:
Rove is 'Official A,' Novak's 'indirect' source, lawyers say — Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove was the mysterious 'Official A' named in the indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff, lawyers close to the case have told RAW STORY.
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Billmon:
Fitzgerald Pulls His Punch — The lawyer blogger types no doubt can answer this (or at least offer more informed speculation than I can) but reading Libby's indictment, I have to wonder why Fitzgerald didn't hit him with the 1917 Espionage Act — or even the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (a.k.a. The Big Enchilada.)
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The Corner on National Review Online:
THE INDICTMENT DOES NOT ALLEGE ALL COVER-UP AND NO CRIME — There are several crimes laid out in the espionage act, but the one that applies most closely on these facts requires the government to prove that a person (a) obtained classified information lawfully (e.g., in his official capacity) …
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:WAS EXPOSING VALERIE PLAME A CRIME?....Was Scooter Libby guilty …
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Andrew / www.AndrewSullivan.com:A READER NAILS IT: — This blog's greatest resource is you.
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rawstory.com:
Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff Libby indicted — Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been indicted for five counts by the federal grand jury investigating the outing of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame for perjury, obstruction of justice …
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Scott Shields / MyDD:David Addington: Meet Cheney's New Chief of Staff
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New York Times:
Novel Strategy Pits Journalists Against Source — In pressing his indictment of I. Lewis Libby Jr., the special prosecutor is pitting three prominent journalists against their former source, a strategy that experts in law and journalism say has rarely been used or tested.
Todd S. Purdum / New York Times:
A Prosecutor's Focus Shifted to a Cover-Up — WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 - The capital stopped in its tracks on Friday to watch a trim, plain, soft-spoken prosecutor whose voice it had barely heard in two years call the most important aide to the most powerful vice president in American history a liar.
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Michael Fumento / fumento.com:
FILL 'ER UP WITH OIL SANDS! — It was a tenet of the late great economist Julian Simon that we'll never run out of any commodity. That's because before we do the increasing scarcity of that resource will drive up the price and force us to adopt alternatives.
Washington Post:
No More Special Counsels — Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby should be the final proof that the system of "special prosecutors" is bankrupt and ought to be abandoned. — Fitzgerald, a highly respected federal prosecutor from Chicago …
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Kevin Aylward / Wizbang:
WORST WEEK EVER/BEST WEEK EVER — Earlier this week the mainstream press was awash with stories of this being President Bush's "worst week ever." We'll forgive them their hyperbole since their evidence was pretty strong: looming indictments in the Plame case; the faltering Miers nomination; and the 2000th military death in Iraq.
CBS News:
Leak Prosecutor: 'It's Not Over' — (CBS/AP) Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said the CIA leak investigation is substantially complete, though "it's not over." — Fitzgerald spoke to reporters at the Justice Department, following the indictment of Vice President Cheney's chief of staff …
