WASHINGTON (CNN) — Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday progress has been made in a highly publicized investigation into who leaked the name of a CIA operative, and he expressed hope the case could eventually be resolved.
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Excellent! We’re making progress! We’ll have those traitors nabbed in no time, I tellya…
Adam, it’s me, the logical part of your brain. Ashcroft is full of crap.
Whaddya mean? We’re gettin’ close to catching the leakers - why would he make that up? Go, Johnny!
Think about it. How does one “get close” in an investigation like this? Either you’ve got incriminating phone records, recordings, confessions, or tips… or you don’t. There is no “close.”
You don’t know that! What if say… um… they got the phone records and, uh, found the calls, and uh, a lot of people use that line - Ha! That’d be “close,” wouldn’t it, logical part of my brain?
Not bad.
Thanks! I’m hungry…
But if what you propose is true, that’s something that they could’ve done on the first day of the investigation. AND they could’ve found out who was in that office at the time. All in a matter of hours.
Yeah, but-
And the investigation was launched THREE WEEKS AGO. If nobody in that hypothetically pinpointed office has confessed, and no further records exist, what could possibly be this “progress” that Ashcroft was citing yesterday?
I could use a soda…
Stay with me here! Look, either they’ve got the names or they haven’t at this point.
Wait, are you suggesting that the internal investigation might just be stalling or prevaricating or not trying really hard in an attempt to forestall an independent investigation and allow the public to lose interest?
Wow. Nicely put.
What was?
Your analysis of the leak probe.
What leak? Hey - that Syria’s lookin’ mighty shifty, ain’t it?
Fanny Roborat
4 comments
Murray
October 17, 2003 at 4:31 pm
1Adam, What do you think was the point(besides getting rid of a popular, twice elected, president) to the over the top, investigate every sneeze, if I look long enough I can find something, somewhere, performance of Ken Star. It was to make the office of independent prosecutor so hideous that congress would have to abolish it. This way Bush and his team would get some one as fair and unbiased as Ashcroft to investigate themselves. And as long as some thing as fair and unbiased as O Riley, Fox, or Limbaugh reports it to America, justice is served.
Next stop, privatize, government auditors
Anonymous
October 17, 2003 at 6:48 pm
2sigh. Who cares about Ashcroft? Something much worse has happened. The Sox were 5 outs away from the Series and they lost. No “fan interference” to blame it on either. Aaaarrrgghh!
tess
October 17, 2003 at 10:42 pm
3hmm, the hungry half of your sounds very much so like ann coulter. scary.
John Isbell
October 18, 2003 at 1:27 pm
4Astute Ashcroft analysis, Adam.