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With One Filing, Prosecutor Puts Bush
in Spotlight
By David E. Sanger and David
Johnston
The New York Times
Tuesday 11 March
2006
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Washington - From the early days of the C.I.A. leak investigation in 2003, the Bush White House has insisted there was no effort to discredit Joseph C. Wilson IV, the man who emerged as the most damaging critic of the administration's case that Saddam Hussein was seeking to build nuclear weapons.
But now White House officials, and specifically President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, have been pitched back into the center of the nearly three-year controversy, this time because of a prosecutor's court filing in the case that asserts there was "a strong desire by many, including multiple people in the White House," to undermine Mr. Wilson.
The new assertions by the special prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, have put administration officials on the spot in a way they have not been for months, as attention in the leak case seems to be shifting away from the White House to the pretrial procedural skirmishing in the perjury and obstruction charges against Mr. Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr.
Mr. Fitzgerald's filing talks not of an effort to level with Americans but of "a plan to discredit, punish or seek revenge against Mr. Wilson." It concludes, "It is hard to conceive of what evidence there could be that would disprove the existence of White House efforts to 'punish Wilson.' "
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Jim Lobe | Mind Games Over
Iran
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041106A.shtml
Three
years after the fall of Baghdad to US forces, Washington is
abuzz
about new reports that the administration of
President George W. Bush is
preparing to attack Iran,
possibly with nuclear
weapons.
"Once
you review this material there should be no doubt that
President Bush is a bald-faced liar and used his office to
attack Joe Wilson for trying to ensure the American people
were told the truth about Iraq and its alleged efforts to
buy uranium in West
Africa." ENDS Scoop Independent News Scoop is NZ's largest independent news source; respected widely in media, political, business and academic circles for being the place on the internet for publishing "what was really said", and for the quality of its analysis of issues. Larry Johnson | An Updated Plamegate
Timeline
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