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multiple counts of lying and misleading. Indictment says Cheney told Libby Plame's identity. So very likely that's where Fitzgerald is going with the new grand jury. Libby may "take the fall" for Cheney (and/or others)--that's what his "aspens" letter to Miller seems to suggest (if I'm reading it correctly--big if); and plead guilty to some of it, to avoid a trial (at which Cheney would have to testify), but he would have to give Fitzgerald something big in return. If Fitzgerald actually gets Cheney on the stand, in the Libby case, Cheney is probably cooked. (He will have to lie, and Fitzgerald will probably catch him at it.) And then there's the second grand jury. This definitely means that Cheney and Rove are still in big trouble (and also Bolton? and others? maybe even Rumsfeld?). The indictment of Libby is very suggestive of a conspiracy.
Also, I thought it was very interesting that the NYT went out of its way, the other day, to quote unidentified "law enforcement officials" saying that the Plame case and the AIPAC/Franklin case are unrelated, and are being pursued "separately." I think this is typical of the planted trash we've been getting from the NYT starting with Miller and the war. (They've become as bad as Newsweek!). The Niger forgeries are central to both cases. Someone on another thread said he thought Fitzgerald may have been warned off AIPAC/Franklin (for Nat'l Security reasons). But we'll see. He DID request the Italian report on it.
The purpose of all of these people is to continue and to widen the Mideast war--mainly because it's so profitable. Rice, Bolton and Bush are still out there saber-rattling at Syria (anybody share my suspicions about who may have assassinated the Jordanian official that they're using as amunition against Syria?), and now at Iran (which has gone fearful and paranoid, with some cause, and is now saying wild things like "wipe Israel off the map")--an extremely volatile situation that could end in nuclear war and the death of our planet (read Carl Sagan's "The Cold and the Dark," about impacts from even a limited nuclear exchange). I dont see anything so far to stop these people (the war profiteers, all of them--the puppetmasters). They don't even care about a 37% approval rating. They'll jettison Cheney (and maybe already have) to keep their best looting opportunity on track. I think these are the deeply rooted "aspens" that Libby is taking the fall for. And whether Fitzgerald can expose it, in a way that empowers the American people to take back their government (--getting rid of Diebold and ES&S election theft machines, for one thing) is an open question, but I think he's going to try.
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