Fitzgerald vs Cheney

* jason leopold:

" The White House turned over last week 250 pages of emails from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office. Senior aides had sent the emails in the spring of 2003 related to the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald revealed during a federal court hearing Friday.

The emails are said to be explosive, and may prove that Cheney played an active role in the effort to discredit Plame Wilson’s husband...

lying to Feds is illegal whether you are under oath or no.

Sources close to the probe said the White House “discovered” the emails two weeks ago and turned them over to Fitzgerald last week. The sources added that the emails could prove that Cheney lied to FBI investigators when he was interviewed about the leak in early 2004...

2 weeks ago? that would be about 2 weeks after Fitz announced that he knew they were hiding stuff. Bwhahahah. Fitz will be pissed. This is like the third time or something that they've turned over something 'new', trying to save their asses.

However, the emails ... will show that the vice president spearheaded an effort in March 2003 to attack Wilson’s credibility and used the CIA to dig up information on the former ambassador that could be used against him, sources said.

Maybe that's why wilson is pissed at the CIA.

Some of the emails that were turned over to Fitzgerald contained references to Plame Wilson's identity and CIA status, and developments related to the inability of ground forces to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after the start of the war in March 2003.

hmmm - has leopold finally left the GetWilson reservation?

According to sources, the emails also contained suggestions by senior officials in Cheney’s office, and at the National Security Council, on how the White House should respond to what it believed were increasingly destructive comments Wilson had been making about the administration's pre-war Iraq intelligence.

Hadley is so toast. I hope Fitz gets Condi as well. That would deserve a week-long Krystal and Blow bender.

Sources close to the case said that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales withheld numerous emails from Fitzgerald’s probe citing “executive privilege” and “national security” concerns. These sources said that as of Friday there are still some emails that have not been turned over to Fitzgerald because they contain classified information in addition to references about the Wilsons.

If they've turned over 'explosive' emails that implicate the Veep, imagine what is in the emails that they wanna keep hiding... Let's hope that Fitz reminds them that they can redact the NatSec stuff, and hand over everything else.

In another development in the leak case Friday, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said another administration official, who does not work at the White House, also spoke to reporters about Plame Wilson. This individual, according to sources close to the case, works at the National Security Council.

Walton said that Libby’s defense team was not entitled to be told of the individual’s identity because the person is not charged with a crime in the leak. However, the person is said to be one of several people in the administration who is cooperating with the probe."

I wonder who that is... Joseph or Hannah?

If Fitz has the paper-trail, he'll know exactly why they outed Plame. I suspect that nothing in his history - not the OBL trials, not the Chicago corruption trials, and not the Hollinger trials - could possibly prepare him for the corruption that he is immersing himself in these days.