Fitzgerald Shows His Hand

January 24, 2007

Patrick Fitzgerald is showing the cards up his sleeve -- and he's got a pretty strong hand.

A high-ranking former CIA official testified today that he told I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in June 2003 that the wife of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV worked for the CIA, after an "aggrieved" Libby called seeking information about Wilson's CIA-sponsored trip to Africa.

Robert L. Grenier, a former CIA associate deputy director, became the second prosecution witness at Libby's perjury trial to say he had disclosed information about CIA officer Valerie Plame to Libby weeks before Libby claims he learned her identity from a journalist.

From the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/24/AR2007012400944.html

And Ari Fleischer, that irritating Robotron of prevarication, took the Fifth before he was granted immunity in exchange for his testimony in TraitorGate.

[As] the two legal teams began their courtroom battle, new information was disclosed about the leak affair, including the revelation that Ari Fleischer, White House press secretary at the time of the leak, had identified Valerie Wilson as a CIA officer to NBC News reporter David Gregory a week before the leak appeared in Robert Novak’s July 14, 2003 column, and that Fleischer, during the subsequent criminal investigation, took the Fifth Amendment and demanded (and received) immunity before testifying to Fitzgerald’s grand jury.

From the Pensito Review:

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/01/24/cia-leak-ari-fleischer-took-the-fifth/

This is a web of corruption and betrayal that is not getting the mainstream media coverage that it deserves.

For ongoing updates on the PlameGate investigation, please read http://www.buzzflash.com.