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The journalist who first broke the story about President Bush and others being
indicted by the Chicago grand jury stands by his original account, but says a
story he released Sunday about the potential firing of Special Prosecutor Patrick
Fitzgerald was a mistake.
“We apologize for the inaccuracy, however, we stand by our on the record
source Tom Heneghen and our story reporting that the ‘true bill’
indictments have been voted out by the Chicago grand jury against a host of
Bush administration officials and that Vice President Cheney, President Bush
and Secretary of State Condaleeza Rice are aware that boxes of cash left the
Phillipines right after 9/11,” said investigative journalist Tom Flocco,
one of the first to break the indictment story.
Flocco apologized to readers Monday for his in a statement released on his
web site, which had been down for several days for technical reasons. Flocco
added the story was inadvertently put on line due to a controversy with his
web master over file transfers and other matters.
“The rough working draft about the fired prosecutor should never have
ben placed online and was in a batch of files transferred by the new webmaster
and was posted by mistake,” said Flocco.
The wide-range of indictments for perjury and obstruction of justice against
Bush and other top administration officials, was first reported last week by
Flocco, who claimed sources close to the grand jury investigation in Chicago
told him indictments had been handed down but not released to the public due
to the highly sensitive nature of the charges.
Flocco reported last week that Fitzgerald's grand jury voted out "true
bills" or federal criminal indictments against President Bush, Vice-President
Cheney, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, former Attorney General John Ashcroft,
former CIA Director George Tenet, Presidential Senior Advisor Karl Rove, Presidential
Chief of Staff Andrew Card, Vice-Presidential Chief of Staff I. "Scooter"
Libby, imprisoned New York Times reporter Judith Miller and Vice-Presidential
Senior Advisor Mary Matalin.
The U.S. Attorney's office in Chicago, through its media spokesman, Randall
Sanborn, refused comment on any aspect of the grand jury proceedings, but high-level
and credible legal observers claim suppression of grand jury indictments is
not unusual, especially when dealing with matters concerning the national interest
such as the Nixon indictments during Watergate and now Bush.
Although Flocco is taking considerable heat for running the story, long time
Chicago truth-teller and advocate for cleaning up the judicial system, Sherman
Skolnick, agreed with Flocco's reporting.
"I have received credible reports from my high-level government sources
in Canada, the United States and Europe that the grand juries have concluded
their probe and have voted True Bills, Federal Criminal indictments, against
George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, "Scooter" Libby, Condoleeza Rice,
and Theodore B. Olson and several media people not previously mentioned in the
monopoly press as implicated," said Slolnick in a telephone conversation
Saturday from his Chicago home.
Skolnick, who has been fighting judicial indiscretion and criminality for over
40 years since the early 1960's, is one of the few men in America who has developed
credible sources to back-up what he reports, especially concerning judicial
stories taking place right in his own Chicago backyard.
"I expected to be a called a liar on this one for sometime after my story
appeared, but the truth will come out," he said regarding a recent article
he published verifying indictments have been handed down.
And Skolnick is no “average Joe or talking head,” since he is probably
responsible for putting more crooked lawyers and judges behind bars than any
other single American and is still pursuing judicial corruption with vengeance,
as founder of his public interest group called Citizens' Committee to Clean
Up the Courts.
Recently on his website www.skolnicksreport.com and www.cloakanddagger.de he
posted an article titled "Bush and Co. Face Prosecution," where he
gave a detailed look at the recent grand jury proceedings going on in Chicago
and indictments handed down against Bush.
"One or more of the grand juries have concluded their probe and have voted
True Bills, Federal Criminal indictments, against George W. Bush, Richard Cheney,
"Scooter" Libby, Condoleeza Rice, and Theodore B. Olson; and several
media people not previously mentioned in the monopoly press as implicated,"
wrote Skolnick.
"Shown also as unindicted co-conspirators are two Judges on the U.S. Supreme
Court, William Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia, who are among the "Gang of
Five" also in Bush versus Gore. Because of the horrendous consequences
involved, the indictments are suppressed and there may be an extended delay
until they appear on the Chicago Federal Court open records.
"The substance of the details in this story have been confirmed to us
as being true and correct by high government officials, with spotless records,
of the U.S., Canada, and Europe. To distract from the impending release of the
indictments and the naming of the unindicted co-conspirators, the Bush White
House has caused deadly rumors to circulate.
"Such as, that the FBI is tracking in the District of Columbia and elsewhere
that certain supposed "terrorists" have suitcase dirty nukes ready
to set off in D.C. Such as, that Bush will declare Martial Law and suspend Habeas
Corpus, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Such as the U.S. will
be wracked with financial and domestic anarchy as Bush seeks asylum in Brazil,
or Australia, or elsewhere overseas."