Fitzgerald Investigation of Leak of Identity of CIA Agent

Wow! Okie and MM back to back! The a2k gifts that keep on giving!

Your article is misleading Tico. Fitzgerald told the court he wasn't going to introduce evidence about Plame's status because it has nothing to do with the lies told by Libby. It has no relevance.

I am glad that they filed a lawsuit, I am sure if they didn't think they stood a chance of pulling it off they wouldn't have done it ...

... and this way a lot of stuff that Fitzerold didn't disclose might be revealed in a civil lawsuit.

OLBERMANN: Is winning even the point here? Would not the real victory, perhaps for the Wilson's, come simply in putting the White House on trial ?- quite literally having their day in court at the White House's expense?

O'DONNELL: I think winning better not be the point, because the one quick disagreement I have with John Dean is I think this is a very weak case. I wrote a book about a civil rights case, and I don't recognize any of the applications of civil rights law that they're using in this complaint. Bevins has entirely to do with law enforcement officials ?- guys with badges and guns. That's not what's involved here.

I think they're going to have a lot of trouble keeping this case in court. I think the vice president's side of the case has a very, very strong case in going for dismissal. [...]

It is a political piece of litigation, and you know that by reading the first paragraph of the complaint, Keith. This is not a legalistic document. The first paragraph quotes the first President Bush saying, in 1999, "We need more protection for the methods we use to gather intelligence and more protection for our sources ?- particularly our human sources, people that are risking their lives for their country." That's what Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame want the country to think about. They want the country to think about what the first President Bush was thinking about when he was talking about the urgency and the importance with which we must attach to protecting the secrecy of CIA human resources, and that's really the point that they're trying to get across here.

First of all, the Wilsons are completely dumb if they have a lawyer charging them dime one for handling their case. Are you kidding me? They couldn't find anybody to do it on a contingency fee basis? Even considering it's a weak case, you know lots of firms would jump at the chance to represent them. But sure, help the Wilsons pay for the costs associated with their likely fruitless effort of suing to try and recover millions in monetary damages. What a deal. If Joe didn't make enough money with his book deal, and Valerie doesn't make enough with her book deal, and he doesn't make enough with his speaking engagements, and she doesn't make enough with the speaking engagements you know she's going to get, I guess they can always fall back on the millions brought in by this passing of the collection plate.

Fraud? Probabably not; more like delusional arrogance. Talk about outta touch with reality - no wonder these two are heros to the loony left Bushophobes.

Collecting money for a legal fund and then using that money for personal use would be fraud. Tico has insinuated that the Wilsons are planning to do just that.

parados wrote:

Collecting money for a legal fund and then using that money for personal use would be fraud. Tico has insinuated that the Wilsons are planning to do just that.

I suspect they will turn over any collected monies in excess of the total of all of their legal bills to a 501(c)(3) organization to assist other similarly situated CIA employees. Now, of course that will be after they have paid themselves a hefty fee to compensate them for all the time they had to spend preparing for their testimony, gathering documents, and generally thinking about the Libby trial and their own lawsuit.

Ticomaya wrote:

parados wrote:

Collecting money for a legal fund and then using that money for personal use would be fraud. Tico has insinuated that the Wilsons are planning to do just that.

I suspect they will turn over any collected monies in excess of the total of all of their legal bills to a 501(c)(3) organization to assist other similarly situated CIA employees. Now, of course that will be after they have paid themselves a hefty fee to compensate them for all the time they had to spend preparing for their testimony, gathering documents, and generally thinking about the Libby trial and their own lawsuit.

That is a lot different than your original statement Tico? Now you are claiming it would all be legal related.