Contributed by: filbert Wednesday, April 12 2006 @ 06:46 AM CST
This just in from the extra-legal Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald: “Never Mind!”[*1]
We are writing to correct a sentence from the Government’s Response to Defendant’s Third Motion to Compel Discovery, filed on April 5, 2006. The sentence, which is the second sentence of the second paragraph on page 23, reads, ‘Defendant understood that he was to tell Miller, among other things, that a key judgment of the NIE held that Iraq was ‘vigorously trying to procure’ uranium.” That sentence should read, “Defendant understood that he was to tell Miller, among other things, some of the key judgments of the NIE, and that the NIE stated that Iraq was ‘vigorously trying to procure’ uranium.”
Even if you’re the most determined Bush-Hater, you have to see that this puts things in a completely different light. Instead of focusing on one specific fact to “leak” to reporters, we now see that Libby’s instructions were to convey “some of the key judgments” of the National Intelligence Estimate, one of which is to debunk discredited Ambassador Joe Wilson’s rogue report on Niger.
(Actually no, you don’t have to see it that way. I’m pretty sure you won’t. You’re so wrapped around the axle that you think the Sun rising in the east is somehow Bush’s Fault. Get a grip. Go play with your dog or something for a while.)
Meanwhile, if Fitzgerald is this sloppy in this court filing, what else has he misconstrued or mis-stated in his zeal to get someone, anyone to justify his existence?