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Tom Flocco:
BUSH AND CHENEY INDICTED! A Chicago grand jury has indicted the President and Vice-President of the United States along with multiple high officials in the Bush administration.For what it is worth. I think this is probably bogus, since I didn't even know he had a Chicago grand jury-- I thought his grand jury was in Washington DC. BUT.... I suppose it is not out of the realm of possibility and obviously this would be sweet news if true.
Chicago -- August 2, 2005 -- TomFlocco.com -- U.S. federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's Chicago grand jury has issued perjury and obstruction of justice indictments to the following members of the Bush Administration: President George W. Bush, Vice-President Richard Cheney, Bush Chief of Staff Andrew Card, Cheney Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, former Attorney General John Ashcroft, imprisoned New York Times reporter Judith Miller and former Senior Cheney advisor Mary Matalin.
There were no indications given as to whether the President and his top staff members would appear publicly before the secret grand jury proceedings.
posted by spooked at 7:29 AM
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Hi.
Agree that this sounds far-fetched, but a google-search reveals that there seems to be a Chicago grand jury?
"A Chicago grand jury is investigating the leak of information about a planned FBI raid on the Global Relief Foundation, an Islamic charity suspected of funding terrorism. Representatives of the charity have said they were tipped off the day before the Dec. 14, 2001 raid by reporters calling for comment. U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who is also acting as the special prosecutor in the Valerie Plame investigation, was denied permission in 2003 by the Department of Justice to subpoena reporters’ telephone records. DOJ regulations require that "[a]ll reasonable attempts should be made to obtain information from alternative sources before considering issuing a subpoena to a member of the news media," or for "telephone toll records of any member of the news media." In early Sept. 2004, Fitzgerald subpoenaed the telephone records of two reporters, Judith Miller and Phillip Shenon of The New York Times, from the Times telephone company. It is unknown whether Fitzgerald has obtained the records. The Times filed a lawsuit Sept. 28 to block the subpoena."
http://www.rcfp.org/shields_and_subpoenas.html
Looking forward to updates
Thanks for that good find. Certainly there could be another grand jury in Chicago that could indict the Bushies, and Fitzgerald is of course based in Chicago. But I had figured the primary jury that would indict Bush administration people would the Plame grand Jury in WashDC.
I will just keep my fingers crossed here.
The story is bullshit. Fitzgerald's Plame leak grand jury is in Washington. Fitzgerald has had numerous grand juries empaneled in Chicago, but not this one.
Also, the relevent charges applicable to Bush and Cheney would be conspiracy, if they knew about the leak and did nothing to stop it.
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