Letters to the Editor
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I get your point but
with 31 sealed indictments on the docket, couldn't one just as easily say that it increases (not decreases) the chances that Rove has already been indicted?
I'm just saying.
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Leopold should
STFU.
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Can someone indict Leopold?
... and just make him stop? Wasn't he going to "out" the "sources" that burned him last month on this?
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Why are you so hot on this?
If you are focused on discrediting Leopold and Truthout isn't that just beating the proverbial dead horse by this point? Unless you have some personal score why not just ignore Leopold and Truthout as 99.99999 of the world has been doing for weeks? Obviously that story is worth no more than what they originally posted and they're wrong not only about the frequency of "Sealed v. Sealed" (reminds me of spy v. spy from Mad Magazine of my youth) but also makes the leap to Rove is coooperating with nothing beyond another anonymous source's supposed speculation. Atleast this time they're only claiming one and don't try to pretend he actually KNOWS anything but if he's totally off base about the sealed v. sealed being common he obviously isn't much of an expert and i can see why he choosed to remain anonymous. Just kidding because I don't believe there is anyone behind the curtain but Leopold and his co-conspirators at Truthout.
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Request to Salon
I'd be interested to know if 1 out of 5 is normal over, say, the last 20 years. Also, historically, what do Sealed v. Sealed indictments usually turn out to be?
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Question
Is Ash just the most gullible nut on the planet or does he really still believe anything Mr. Leopold has to say or is simply a lying cretin? It almost defies belief that he'd put his head on the chopping block again for this serial dissembler Leopold after having it handed to him last time. What gives?
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I think Leopold means well.
I really do think that Leopold has the best of intentions where his reporting concerned but he is perhaps so eager to get the scoop that he discards what should be a reporter's natural skepticism.
As I mentioned before, I've had previous correspondence with Leopold going back to my offer to help him authenticate emails that were the basis for an Enron story that, if I recall correctly, he wrote for Salon. Unfortunately, he didn't have the email headers which were necessary to trace the printed copies back to their origin. That meant that there was no possible way to verify the authenticity of the foundation of his story. Sloppy work.
So anyway, I think he has the best of intent but as they say, the road to ruin is paved with goodintentions.
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OK I stopped laughing
How about the priceless supposed quote from this "expert" who said not he or anyone he consulted knew whether a prosecutor could seal the "left side" (meaning the part that says USA) of an indictment on his own?
Out of all those experts you'd think at least one of them know that a prosecutor can't seal ANYTHING on his own because that requires a court order. these clowns hust keep digging the hole deeper. I agree; let's bury them aleasy and forget about them. By now even reporting what they say to discredit them is just giving them attention they don't deserve.
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Rove
If Rove has been indicted under seal (and presumably he would know it) it is unbelievable that he has not resigned. When the indictment is eventually unsealed and the public learns that Rove has been serving in the White House, with security clearance, while under indictment, the uproar should be deafening.
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that's just the funny stuff from Leopold
Gget this from Marc Ash in a follow upo in Truthout's "Town Meeting" (That's one statisitically improbable town unless it houses a large psychiatric hospital). Ash says"
"We believe that if any of the key facts that we have reported were materially false or inaccurate some statement to that effect would be forthcoming from Fitzgerald's staff. That is based on the same single credible source."
I want some of their drugs, because I can't see how that would be a priority for anyone on Fitzgerald's staff even if it wouldn't be a violation of grand jury secrecy rules.
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I don't care if it's dead, this horse still needs a beat down
Am I the only one who found it odd a former federal criminal attorney refers to "left and right sides" of indictment case styles? Who talks like that? No one I ever met and just looking at federal court documents you see the it's not printed as "left and right" but top and bottom. I have a feeling this former ferderal criminal attorney is eithr completely full of it or the figment of someone's imagination.
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Number of sealed cases...
A more interesting statistic would show the number of U.S. v Sealed and Sealed v. Sealed cases in the three administrations prior to this one. I think that might be more revealing than Leopold's speculation about one case. The comparison might be along the lines of presidential signing statements. Yes, I would like to see that.
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while we're on the subject....
It could take while, a long while, to exhaust all of the things about Leopold's stories that don't pass the smell test, but here's another. What about the reference to the week of May 10th? The 10th was a Wednesday and no one ever talks about the week by referring to its Wednesday so you ask why would that be done. Maybe because as was remarked upon weeks ago on Patrickfitzgeraldbogspot (It's a spoof), 06-cr-128 would not have been filed the week Leopold wrote his story claiming Rove had already been indicted. Someone took a look at the docket and noticed 06-cr-127 was filed on May 16, 2006 and 06-cr-129 was filed on the 18th. Sequentially, 06-cr-128 would come between those two so it makes no sense that it was actually filed on the May 12, 2006 or earlier as claimed by Leopoled in his first reporting. Friday the 12th would be the last day of the "week of the 10th" the court was open and anything could be filed but by uniquely and curiously referring to the "week of the 10th" Leopold leaves open the claim that since the 16th and 17th are within 7 days of the 10th that is what he meant by "week of the 10th." Hey, it makes as much sense as 24 hours meaning 24 business hours, starting of course the following Monday, and only encompassing 9-5. This whole thing is such a patently obvious fabrication it is simply amazing Leopold has the cojones (or complete lack of self-awareness) to keep up the charade. My only question is why does this Ash character keep standing by him when it seems suicidal.