House Democratic leaders privately planning 'indictment strategy'
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10/24/2005
Anticipating that indictments could come down against senior White House officials this week, House Democratic leaders have spent recent days devising a Caucus-wide plan to further highlight GOP ethical missteps and national security compromises, ROLL CALL will report in Tuesday editions, RAW STORY has learned. Excerpts:
Sources say House Democratic leaders have held several private meetings to shape their Members’ message if federal indictments are issued against senior White House adviser Karl Rove and Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
Depending on the nature and extent of the indictments, Democrats plan to argue that senior White House officers put America’s safety in jeopardy by leaking the name of the covert CIA operative. They will further argue that Republicans broke all ethical boundaries to try to convince the public that the Iraqi conflict was in their best interest.
“We are going to talk about the culture of corruption, and tie it back to the president,” the leadership aide said. “It’s all part of them manipulating the facts to make their case for the war.
“It gets right back to the president.”
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