:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 10.21.2005 ::
:: "WHITE HOUSE KNOWS ABOUT INDICTMENTS" ::
Free Market News Network, FL
by staff reports
The Wayne Madsen Report states that the White House is now fully informed about the nature and scope of the indictments handed down by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald this week. He cited a report of Attorney General Albert Gonzalez holding a meeting with Fitzgerald on Wednesday, at which the AG was briefed on the prosecutor's findings, and the Grand Jury was released after brief questions.
Madsen quotes "informed sources in Washington," as saying that Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, is expected to resign after his indictment, for his role in outing a covert CIA agent, Valerie Plame Wilson, wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson. He points to the phony terrorist threats in New York City and Baltimore as examples of how "the Bush White House is hopelessly diverting the public's attention away from the inevitability of a major October political scandal involving high level resignations following indictments of key administration officials."
He also notes the successful manipulation of the beginning of Saddam Hussein's trial in Iraq, as one more effort "to divert attention from Leakgate," with the postponement of those sessions to the end of November, leaving, as he puts it, "a story waiting on the shelf to be pulled off again when pre-trial hearings may begin in Leakgate." - ST
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