WHO IS FITZGERALD? WHO APPOINTED HIM? Sean Hannity does some research

Sean Hannity | 10.24.05 | Mia T

[Mia T]

WHO IS FITZGERALD? WHO APPOINTED HIM? Sean Hannity does some research....

 

by Mia T, 10.24.05

 

Fitzgerald was appointed by his pal of 14 years, Deputy Attorney General James Comey (who was, himself, appointed by Bush, of course).

Reported today by Sean Hannity:

• Fitzgerald & Comey are a duo, according to various reports.

• What is interesting is that when Comey was United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, he refused to indict assorted rodhams and clintons for pardongate crimes, including the Rich deal and the New Square statistical miracle.

• But he was not averse to indicting Martha Stewart. And Fitzgerald went on the Today show to defend his friend's decision to indict for matters other than the underlying crime....

Bush really must steer clear of political enemies when making appointments; and that includes roving tsunami and hurricane ambassadors.

PRESIDENTIAL FAILURE, 9/11 + KATRINA
by Mia T, 9.26.05

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thanx to jla and Wolverine for the audio

Sen. KnowNothing Victim Clinton Holds News Conference

EFFECTIVELY PLEADS 5^TH BY INVOKING SPOUSAL PRIVILEGE

by Mia T, February 23, 2001

 

ASHINGTON- February 22. Sen. KnowNothing Victim Clinton held her premiere press conference today on Capitol Hill, ostensibly to answer questions about the peddling of White House pardons by her brother and her campaign treasurer. Notably absent among the press queries were any about her own involvement not only in those pardons, but in the larger universe of sold pardons--the incipient clinton scandal du jour--Pardongate.

KnowNothing's brother, Hugh Rodham, secured two of the 141 clinton midnight pardons, one for a cocaine kingpin and the other for a snake-oil swindler. Rodham netted a quick $400,000 for his "work" according to various rodhams and clintons and their assorted lawyers. KnowNothing's campaign treasurer, William Cunningham III, himself a law partner of longtime KnowNothing adviser Harold Ickes, helped obtain last-minute pardons for two convicted felons.

LA FAMIGLIA

Displaying a willingness to throw her brother (along with her husband) to the wolves, Sen. Victim Clinton was quick to make a distinction between her big, bad brother's pardon "work" and that of her campaign treasurer, "a fine lawyer and a fine man." The "family" connection of brother Rodham to Clinton rendered Rodham's "work" offensive, whereas the campaign treasurer Cunningham's connection to the senator and her campaign coffers made his securing of two pardons in record time a sterling example of highminded, effective public service.

KnowNothing is apparently not the best of thinkers. If the "family" connection makes lobbying for cocaine-kingpin and snake-oil-swindler pardons unsavory for brother Rodham, then the "family" connection makes lobbying for the Hasidim 4 (see Keating 5) pardons even more distasteful for the wife, First Lady and senator-elect. Moreover, pardons for votes is arguably a greater offense than pardons for cash.

EFFECTIVELY PLEADS 5^TH BY INVOKING SPOUSAL PRIVILEGE

KnowNothing specifically declined to answer when asked whether she discussed the pardons with her husband, effectively pleading the 5^th. Turning aside questions about the pardon decisions her husband had made, she told reporters they should address those issues with him and his staff. She refused to say whether he should agree to appear voluntarily before congressional committees investigating the pardons. Interestingly, no one asked her whether she would agree to appear voluntarily before those same congressional committees.

I DIDN'T HAVE SEX WITH THAT PARDON

"I did not have any involvement in the pardons that were granted or not granted," insisted Sen. KnowNothing, seeming to forget her presence at the New-Square/Oval-Office schmooze that secured pardons for the four Hasidic felons who set up a phony school in Brooklyn to swindle the government out of millions intended for the poor.

RESURRECTING RUFF

KnowNothing noted that her"best memory" was that she never spoke to her brother or to Mr. Cunningham about the pardons. With variations of "I don't have a memory" and "my best memory, and avoiding the more obvious "I don't recall" and "my best recollection," KnowNothing reprised the Ruffian standard used during the clinton years to commit perjury without penalty.

I GET LETTERS

...or more precisely, envelopes. During her denials of involvement in any of the pardons, KnowNothing made the curious claim: "People handed me envelopes, I passed them on [and never opened a single one. Honest.]"

 

 

I AM VICTIM

Reprising the role of victim that enabled her to win a senate seat in spite of low poll numbers, high personal negatives and consistent public failures, the senator peppered her answers about big, bad Hugh (understanding that the subtext was big, bad Bill) with "saddened" and "disappointed" and "heartbroken" and "shocked."

UTTER CONTEMPT FOR THE PEOPLE

This session today was cut short by a staffer when reporters appeared dissatisfied by Senator KnowNothing's lack of candor.

In the end, this press conference full of poses, poll-tested phrases and prevarication was just another display of the clintons' utter contempt for the people. Bill Clinton committed the same error last Sunday in his shameless, lie-filled New York Times Pardongate Apologia.

The clintons' fundamental error: They are too arrogant and dim-witted to understand that the demagogic process in this fiberoptic age isn't about counting spun heads; it's about not discounting circumambient brains.

 

[Christian4Bush]

bttt

[patriciaruth]

Fitzgerald was appointed to be special prosecutor of the "CIA leak" case by the Deputy Attorney General when John Ashcroft recused himself.

He wasn't appointed by President Bush.

[Mia T]

ping

[Mia T]

You misread my statement. Bush appoint Comey who appointed his pal, Ffitzgerald.

[Mia T]

sorry about the typos ;)

[Digger]

Bush really must steer clear of political enemies when making appointments; and that includes roving tsunami and hurricane ambassadors

Luv that line. Is he still doing On-The-job training? Just fess up FReepers. This man is no conservative. He is another bad (RINO) cog in this totally corrupted "Two-Party Cartel" that everyone can't wait to vote in every election & get the same results each time.

[patriciaruth]

I understood that, but was amplifying in case anyone thought Bush had appointed Fitzgerald to the Special Prosecutor position.

Fitzgerald was appointed U.S. Attorney of the Northern District (Chicago) of Illinois by Bush on the recommendation of Senator Fitzgerald (R) of Illinois (no relation).

I believe his appointments to the Southern District of New York were all before the time of Bush 43.

[Mia T]

ping

[speedy]

I've thought all along that if Fitzgerald was on the right side of things, we would have been getting plenty of media hit pieces by now. The fact that we haven't tells me he will do the politically correct thing and indict Rove and Libby on charges that have nothing to do with the original charge of the investigation. In any event, we don't have long to wait now.

[johnmecainrino]

Larry Thompson left in early 03. Comey was then nominated by Bush to be deputy attorney general the number 2 position.

Comey was praised by Chuck Schumer. That should send warning sirens everywhere. Comey made several key calls. First of all Comey could have chosen an outside counsel that had to report to him. Comey also could have kept the case in the Justice Department. If the justice department had been investigating this they already said the reporters wouldn't have been thrown in jail. That has given this story some legs until now.

Comey decided to give the case to a special counsel with the powers of an attorney general where he makes all the calls. Comey also let Fitzgerald have the power to pursue other charges not related to the crime. Comey picked his good friend that has been known in Chicago to twist the law for charges.


The real culprit in this is George Tenet. If Goss had been at the CIA at the time he would have been aware of Joe Wilson being sent on the trip and probably nixed it right then and there. Tenet was asleep at the switch. I doubt Goss would have been able to stop the CIA from pursuing charges because it was the career beurocracy that decided that and it would have been leaked if Goss tried to stop it.

[patriciaruth]

I'm tired of all you dark side conservatives dumping on our President.

It's getting boring.

[patriciaruth]

Thanks for the info.

I think Fitz has been working over time to get an indictment, but the facts don't support a charge that the law was broken.

4 more days to go...

[Mia T]

I say the culprit is Bush. He didn't do the requisite housekeeping.


HILLARY'S TRIPLE PLAY
the clinton putsch + filegate + the gorelick wall

[patriciaruth]

My husband told me that anyone who had worked with Mary Jo White (is that the right name?) in New York during the Clinton administration was not to be trusted..


NYTIMES ^ | 10/21/05 | DAVID JOHNSTON


Posted on 10/20/2005 7:14:44 PM PDT by Pikamax


Cover-Up Issue Is Seen as Focus in Leak Inquiry By DAVID JOHNSTON

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 - As he weighs whether to bring criminal charges in the C.I.A. leak case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special counsel, is focusing on whether Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, and I. Lewis Libby Jr., chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, sought to conceal their actions and mislead prosecutors, lawyers involved in the case said Thursday.

Among the charges that Mr. Fitzgerald is considering are perjury, obstruction of justice and false statement - counts that suggest the prosecutor may believe the evidence presented in a 22-month grand jury inquiry shows that the two White House aides sought to cover up their actions, the lawyers said.

Mr. Rove and Mr. Libby have been advised that they may be in serious legal jeopardy, the lawyers said, but only this week has Mr. Fitzgerald begun to narrow the possible charges. The prosecutor has said he will not make up his mind about any charges until next week, government officials say.

With the term of the grand jury expiring in one week, though, some lawyers in the case said they were persuaded that Mr. Fitzgerald had all but made up his mind to seek indictments. None of the lawyers would speak on the record, citing the prosecutor's requests not to talk about the case.

[peyton randolph]

The only positive spin I've seen on Fitzgerald comes from his pal Andy McCarthy at National Review Online. Despite NRO's talent problems (including Canuck pro-abort David Frum), McCarthy seems to have some credibility given his background. Let's hope he is right and that Fitzgerald isn't on a GOP witch hunt.

[Mia T]

If Fitzgerald was an honest broker, he would have looked at the underlying law, concluded that, given the facts, there could be no crime, and he would have closed up shop.

In fact, the Bush administration could have short-circuited this whole thing by explaining to the public the inapplicability of underlying law to the facts of the case.

[smoothsailing]

So what's this Mia, the "It's Bush' fault" thread? ;)

Check this out..Is Valerie Plame the real Deep Throat?

[cwb]

While an indictment would be an obvious blow to the Bush administration, I'm not convinced it would signal the knock-out blow the Dems hope for. Even with an indictment, unlike a Grand Jury, Rove or Libby will get a chance to defend themselves at trial (if it gets there).

Being the optomist, this could bring up an interesting oppurtunity for them and their attorneys to call witnesses (hello Joe and Val) and possibly get to the bottom of this fraud and expose some of these duplicitous activities. Even with an indictment, this could still be something to come back and bite the democrats...especially if all Rove and Libby are dealing with are failed memories. The Dems better be careful of what they wish for.

[podkane]

I'm tired of all you dark side conservatives dumping on our President.

It's getting boring.

We're trying to warn the admin. that not everything is well out here. Bush needs to start listening to those who are genuinely concerned about his legacy, instead of lackeys..

...unless you're happy with his poll numbers in the 30s..