The indictments are coming

[seemslikeadream]

Watching McLaughlin Group tonight it was really nice to hear Eleanor Clift, Tony Blankley and Pat Buchanan all say that there are indictments coming from the Plame leak but none of them would say who. Reading Josh Marshall has let us all in on their little secret hasn't it?

[lancdem]

1. Did they say when it will happen?

[Redbear]

2. What was their take?

How high up could it go?

How much damage to Bush?

[eaprez]

3. Two Cheney

aides are the names I heard. I think one was his chief of staff.

[Unforgiven]

4. Think they will

roll and implicate Cheney?

[seemslikeadream]

5. They were all tight lipped

wouldn't say any more, none of them but they were sure sure of themselves. :evilgrin:

[Poiuyt]

6. I doubt that no one big will be named

I heard Scooter Libby was one that was being investigated

(Don't you think he's a little old for that nickname?)

[Catholic Sensation]

7. maybe if this administration wasn't obviously run by a child

but since Bush hasn't matured since he turned six, eh, scooter seems pretty appropriate for this administration

[seemslikeadream]

8. Ya can't get to the big guy

until the little ones get squeezed. And I wouldn't necessarily call Scooter tiny, God he's the dick's Chief of Staff.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. I remember '73 when I thought Watergate might go as high as

Ehrlichman & Haldeman. Nixon just seemed too much to hope for.

[diamond14]

11. the Iraq war "NO WMD" might help collapse the whole cabal

right up to and including bush*....I too remember when Watergate was going on...and it seemed like just rumbling in the background...but when it all collapsed...it happened very quickly...suddenly nixon was waving and leaving DC....it was wonderful....

bush* crimes are way beyond nixon...way beyond a third-rate breaking and entering....bush* is absolutely guilty right now of major war crimes....and IMO, that adds some urgency to the matters in front of courts....

[UTUSN]

10. Scooter & John HANNAH Won't Rat on CHEENEE

This bunch is tighter than (fill in the blank). Members of the BFEE know the rules of the game: The ones who become liabilities are dumped. Who mentions Ken LAY with regards to Shrub----it's like Shrub never knew him.

[diamond14]

12. as in Watergate....going to PRISON really helps get the rats to finger

each other....

scooter and hannah may LOVE cheney, but are they ready to serve LONG prison terms for cheney?...doubt it...that was made all the rats turn on nixon....even the Attorney General Mitchell went to Federal Prison...rats started lining up to plea-bargain their way out and finger each other FIRST...it was truly a spectacle....and bush* cabal will be the same, or likely, WORSE....IMO, they'll fall hard and fast...sort of like enron...one day, we'll wake up and these criminals will all be going to jail...

[UTUSN]

13. From Your Lips to Zeus's Ear n/t

[JohnyCanuck]

14. Retired CIA officer talked about this on Guy James this afternoon.

David McMichael the retired CIA officer Guy James was interviewing on his show ( www.theguyjamesshow.com ) this afternoon, Saturday Feb 7, said that the scuttlebutt around Washington was that in return for Tenant not overtly spilling the beans on the Shrub administration for the WMD screwup, the CIA would in return get two of Cheney's staffers held responsible and presumably punished for the Plame outing. He mentioned Libby's name and I can't remember the other name he mentioned as being the prime candidates. He also said he strongly suspected that Cheney would make an excuse about his health and give up the VP candidacy in the 2004 elections. Remember he did say this was just the rumours he had picked up around Washington.

The show is supposed to be archived at www.whiterosesociety.org but I noticed that although they've got links up to the archive for today's show it doesn't appear to be working and neither are the previous couple of shows from January either. However if you check in later and the link is working, the interview with McMichael starts around one hour into the 3hr show.

[ngGale]

15. Plame is one case that had to have ticked off the...

CIA enough to put pressure on the Bush. Two can play at that game, but the CIA doesn't like dead ops. Over the top leak.

[FreakinDJ]

16. It is about time

Now maybe the media can get their narrow little minds to see how the Plame case and faulty intel is one in the same.

[scottxyz]

17. UPI wire story has been out for several days now

Here's the UPI wire story by Richard Sale (which NO major news organization has run with yet):

http://www.insightmag.com/news/2004/02/17/National/Cheneys.Staff.Focus.Of.Probe-598606.shtml

Federal law-enforcement officials said that they have developed hard evidence of possible criminal misconduct by two employees of Vice President Dick Cheney's office related to the unlawful exposure of a CIA officer's identity last year. The investigation, which is continuing, could lead to indictments, a Justice Department official said.

According to these sources, John Hannah and Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, were the two Cheney employees. "We believe that Hannah was the major player in this," one federal law-enforcement officer said. Calls to the vice president's office were not returned, nor did Hannah and Libby return calls.

The strategy of the FBI is to make clear to Hannah "that he faces a real possibility of doing jail time" as a way to pressure him to name superiors, one federal law-enforcement official said.

More at:
http://www.insightmag.com/news/2004/02/17/National/Cheneys.Staff.Focus.Of.Probe-598606.shtml

The weird thing is... WHY hasn't anyone in the media picked up this story yet??

[LibertyorDeath]

18. Kick