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Anyone really believe this was a mistake?

The federal prosecutor overseeing the indictment of Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, yesterday corrected an assertion in an earlier court filing that Libby had misrepresented the significance placed by the CIA on allegations that Iraq attempted to buy uranium from Niger.

Last week, Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald wrote that, in conversation with former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, Libby described the uranium story as a “key judgment” of the CIA’s 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, a term of art indicating there was consensus within the intelligence community on that issue. In fact, the alleged effort to buy uranium was not among the estimate’s key judgments and was listed further back in the 96-page, classified document.

In a letter to U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton, Fitzgerald wrote yesterday that he wanted to “correct” the sentence that dealt with the issue in a filing he submitted last Wednesday. That sentence said Libby “was to tell Miller, among other things, that a key judgment of the NIE held that Iraq was ‘vigorously trying to procure’ uranium.”

Instead, the sentence should have conveyed that Libby was to tell Miller some of the key judgments of the NIE “and that the NIE stated that Iraq was ‘vigorously trying to procure’ uranium.”

Baloney! He lets this “mistake” brew and fester for a week before he issues a correction? Typical political maneuver by a man who is sinking as fast as the Titanic. He has charged one man over a 2.5 year investigation for PERJURY! That’s it….and it’s doubtful that charge will stick. What a waste.

More comments from Byron York:

An embarrassing move this afternoon from CIA leak prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. In his now-famous court filing in which he said that former Cheney chief of staff Lewis Libby testified that he had been authorized to leak portions of the then-classified National Intelligence Estimate, Fitzgerald wrote, “Defendant understood that he was to tell [New York Times reporter Judith] Miller, among other things, that a key judgment of the NIE held that Iraq was ‘vigorously trying to procure’ uranium.”

That sentence led a number of reporters and commentators to suggest that, beyond the issue of the leak itself, the administration was lying about the NIE, because the African uranium segment was not in fact among the NIE’s key judgments. For example, in a front page story on Sunday, the Washington Post reported:

At Cheney’s instruction, Libby testified, he told Miller that the uranium story was a “key judgment” of the intelligence estimate, a term of art indicating there was consensus on a question of central importance.In fact, the alleged effort to buy uranium was not among the estimate’s key judgments, which were identified by a headline and bold type and set out in bullet form in the first five pages of the 96-page document.

A few hours ago, however, Fitzgerald sent a letter to judge Reggie Walton, asking to correct his filing. The letter reads:

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.”

Never mind.

This pure and utter partisanship. NO ONE can claim this man is not partisan now. If not then he is a completely incompetent lawyer.

I do not believe the latter. He was able to get the MSM to talk about the fact that the Administration told Libby to lie and tell the media that the Niger deal was a “key finding” in the NIE when it was not. The MSM ate it up all weekend long. Now he puts out a woops? Give me a break.

He is a political hack, end story.

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Baloney! He lets this ?mistake? brew and fester for a week before he issues a correction? Typical political maneuver by a man who is sinking as fast as the Titanic. He has charged one man over a 2.5 year investigation for PERJURY! That?s it?.and it?s doubtful that charge will stick. What a waste.