- A familiar scene at the US District Court House in Washington,
DC. We've seen it before in this town -- the media camped out in the courtyard
in front of the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Court House, between the U.S.
Capitol and the White House off Pennsylvania Avenue. The media has been
there before, during the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals, and the more
recent non-scandal of Monica Lewinsky/Whitewater. In the past, the media
anxiously awaited for the arrivals and depatures of people with names like
Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Liddy, North, Poindexter, Secord, McFarlane, Tripp,
Curry, and Hubbell.
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- Now, the media looks for people with names like Miller
and Rove to enter and exit the famous court house. Although the court house
is now ringed with construction barriers, the preponderance of satellite
dishes, microwave "trees," and entrepreneurial hot dog vendors
all point to an impending scandal of Watergate and Iran-Contra proportions.
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- New York Times reporter Judith Miller made her second
appearance before the Grand Jury this morning. She departed the court house
at approximately 10:35 am EDT. Karl Rove is expected to make his fourth
Grand Jury appearance on Friday, October 14. The word is that the criminal
probe is focusing beyond the CIA leak of the identities of Valerie Plame
Wilson and her Brewster Jennings & Associates non-official cover colleagues
and on to the wider role of senior White House officials in a conspiracy
to attack Ambassador Joseph Wilson and lie about the reasons the United
States used to go to war in Iraq.
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- The focus of the probe on the White House Iraq Group
(WHIG) not only would focus on Rove, Scooter Libby, and Ari Fleischer (names
that have already been mentioned by informed sources as likely targets)
but also Vice President Cheney, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley,
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, International Public Diplomacy chief
Karen Hughes, and Chief of Staff Andrew Card. President Bush, himself,
could also be a subject of the criminal probe for conspiracy. The turning
up of the heat on Bush's closest aides has also resulted in a barrage of
criticism for Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald from the typical right wing
noise machines, including propaganda outlets on the web and cable television.
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- The Grand Jury in CIA Leakgate is sitting behind these
doors between the US Capitol and the White House. Hopefully, this will
put to rest uninformed rumors and disinformation that Special Prosecutor
Patrick J. Fitzgerald has involved Federal judges and jurors in Chicago
in his probe of the CIA leak. Those reports are simply not true.
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- There are indications that the CIA's Counter Proliferation
efforts in Iraq prior to the war may have also been compromised by the
outing by the White House of Valerie Plame Wilson and Brewster Jennings
& Associates. Iraqi assets in a position to know about the destruction
of Iraqi WMDs by 1995 may have been executed by remnants of Iraq's security
services and other paramilitaries working for the U.S. in order to silence
them as witnesses to Iraq's WMD disarmament eight years prior to the U.S.
invasion.
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- The media waiting game in CIA Leakgate.
- There is a sense of anticipation in the air.
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