Patrick Fitzgerald
Date: Tuesday, October
25
D.C. Appellate Court throws out Bush suit against DOJ to block
Fitzgerald indictments
by Tom Flocco
Washington, DC—October 25, 2005—www.TomFlocco.com—Earlier
today the District of Columbia Appellate Court threw out a Bush
administration suit against its own Justice Department, attempting
to block the issuance of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s
indictments against White House officials.
The White House’s initial attempt to obstruct justice and
have the indictments quashed and sealed was dismissed by the D.C.
District Court late Friday afternoon, according to a sequence of
events based on information in the form of data from intelligence
field reports.
On Friday,
Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez refused to sign for and issue the
indictments against himself and his colleagues, which
would have made them immediately public.
Fitzgerald reportedly appeared with Miers and Rice that same day
before the D.C. District Court.
The indictments included both President Bush and Vice President
Cheney, confirming
our exclusive August 2, 2005 Bush-Cheney indictment story at
TomFlocco.com.
According to intelligence
field reports, the appellate court judges reportedly laughed at
Bush’s White House counsel and former personal attorney Harriet
Miers and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, saying “you can’t do
this.”
The last ditch attempts by the White House to prevent the
release of the indictments and their criminal contents were led by
Miers and Rice, since Gonzalez has reportedly been indicted in an
additional count for refusing to issue the original indictments as
Bush’s attorney general.
This, also according to intelligence sources with intimate
knowledge of the facts and the events who spoke with national
security expert Thomas Heneghan (www.stewwebb.com).
Importantly, the dismissals by both the district and
appellate courts will likely preclude an additional appeal by the
Bush administration to the United States Supreme Court, since two
consecutive reversals ordinarily prevent the high court from
granting relief.
This would avoid another 5-4 Supreme Court split decision similar
to the controversial Bush-Gore 2000 election recount litigation
which has divided the country for five years.
Miers and Rice also
reportedly attempted to have the courts place a gag order on
Fitzgerald and the grand jury in another attempt to obstruct
justice and prevent the criminal and far-reaching contents of the
indictments from becoming public.
According to the intelligence sources, there are now
28 indictments to be issued in
Fitzgerald’s first round—not 22—a fact that was not previously
known up to the present time.
The number may have changed as a result of new information coming
to light in recent days or a decision to add additional indicted
officials to the first round for other reasons.
An indication of the far-reaching and expanded nature of
Fitzgerald’s probes of White House crime families and his
independent authority to do so is found in the December 30, 2003
letter from Acting Attorney General James Comey to Fitzgerald in
which Comey said “I hereby delegate to you
all the authority of the Attorney General with respect to the
Department’s investigation into the alleged unauthorized disclosure
of a CIA employee’s identity; and I direct you to exercise that
authority as Special Counsel independent of the supervision or
control of any officer of the Department.”
Comey was even more specific in another letter to Fitzgerald on
February 6, 2004 when he said the Fitzgerald’s authority
“is plenary and includes the authority to
investigate and prosecute violation of any federal criminal laws
related to the underlying alleged unauthorized disclosure, as well
as federal crimes committed in the course of, and with intent to
interfere with, your investigation, such as perjury, obstruction of
justice, destruction of evidence, and intimidation of witnesses; to
conduct appeals arising out of the matter being investigation
and/or prosecuted…”
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