Fitzgerald's Cover-up

Wall Street Journal ^ | 4-4-07 | Editorial

[woofie]

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[Wolfstar]

Congress also has an interest now that it is contemplating a "shield law" to protect media sources

Congress should not pass such a law. The media already has way too much power and way too little accountability.

[AndyTheBear]

Is Fitzgerald throwing sand in our eyes?

[marron]

Since Fitzgerald knew the answer to the question he was supposed to investigate on the first day of his investigation, you have to wonder what he was doing at public expense for 3 years.

What was he investigating?

I think he should be held accountable.

[pawdoggie]

Since I’m confident that Fitzy will be running as a (D) for some high elective office in the near future (largely based on his “courageous” prosecution of Libby), this is probably as good a time as any to expose his “prosecutorial philosophy” in the Libby case.

[napscoordinator]

I think President Bush picked him so I believe he is a Republican. Although I guess you could be right because when President Clinton was investigated that Ken Starr was Republican for a democratic investigation so anything is possible. Both of them did not do a great job and I think they should do away with special prosecutors.

[hosepipe]

Fitzgerald should be disbarred for NOT calling a mistrial for no crime was committed and he knew it.. from the beginning..

[tubebender]

Bump for later...

[CutePuppy]

Fitgerald is not a Republican and President Bush did not “pick him”. He was “picked” and given extension of “broad discretion” of power by his pal James Comey (D) who after only 3 weeks as Deputy AG asked John Ashcroft to recuse himself from Plamegate. Fitzgerald is a godfather to Comey’s son. Comey also refused to certify key parts of NSA’s anti-terrorism “phone-listening” program, and was a possible “leaker” of the program - he resigned from DoJ shortly after the election of 2004 to become Lockheed-Martin General Counsel.

Starr was grilled incessantly on the Hill to account for the time he spent during all Clintons’ crimes he was investigating. No such oversight from then-GOP Congress was done about Fitzgerald entrapment expedition.

[CutePuppy]

I have absolutely no problem what Fitz did with reporters, which is why courts decided that they do not have the privilege of keeping the names of the "sources" secret in certain investigations (particularly concerning national security).

I do believe that Fitz is trying to keep these documents secret because he lied to the courts about the reasons for necessity of their testimonies, and misinforming and misleading the court about the "classification" of one Valerie Plame, sine qua non of his "investigation".

[Bernard]

The Libby trial was a distraction from his full-time job of prosecuting political corruption in the Chicago area. I think he got tangled up in the "crime fighter" mode of being a special prosecutor. And when he found out so soon what actually happened, he must have thought it was too easy, so he better keep looking.

Patrick Fitzgerald will go into the history books as a symptom of what is wrong with American government during this era; the ability to print money to cover real debt, mingled with the ability to convince ourselves that more government is good, regardless of the cost; the kids can pay off the debt.

[GATOR NAVY]

Agreed.

[unsycophant]

I did not know about the personal relationship of the Fitzgerald-Comey connection. Thanks!

[PA-RIVER]

Ken Starr did a fine job. He put many of Mr and Mrs Clintons criminal partners in jail. Ask Guy Tucker. Ask Jim McDougal. Ask Web Hubbel.....

But then he had the unfortunate luck of having Mr and Mrs Clintons abused women drop Rape and Sexual harassment charges, and witness tampering in his lap.

Team Clinton made sure it wasnt just the Blue dress that got smeared.

[patj]

I have absolutely no problem what Fitz did with reporters,

I have no proablem with reporters having to testify. But I find it interesting that Congress wants to protect reporters while not giving the President the same protection. They want everyone he talks to be under oath.

[Laverne]

FREE SCOOTER Ping

[kellynla]

“what he was doing at public expense for 3 years?”

“Goldbricking” while laughing all the way to the bank!

And if anyone expects a ‘Rat controlled Congress to make Fitzgerald accountable; I have some beachfront property in AZ for sale.

[sauropod]

Agree. Fitzgerald is Mike Nifong in a different suit.

[smoothsailing]

Agreed. Reporters should be treated no differently than anyone else in the eyes of the law. To grant them special status mocks America's committment to equal justice.