The Unjust and Unconstitutional Trial of Rod Blagojevich

“One more question about Patrick Fitzgerald. As far as weeding out the corruption in IL, is he one of the good guys?”

Actually, Patrick Fitzgerald is the same guy who as a special prosecutor appointed by Prez Bush (the fool) went after and prosecuted Scooter Libby for allegedly lying about his part in the Valerie Plame case that ended up with Scooter in jail until Bush gave him a partial pardon (commutation of sentence). I frankly don’t like Patrick Fitzgerald. He is overly ambitious and out to make a name for himself. He prosecuted Libby with little to no evidence of perjury on a crime that never took place (the alleged outing of Valerie Plame as an FBI agent supposedly by higher ups in the Bush Admin, even though Fitzgerald already knew who outed her, Richard Armitage, not Cheney or Karl Rove or Libby).

But I digress. Fitzgerald has stalled off his indictment of Gov Rod Blagojevich for 3 months, which leads me to believe he might not have the complete goods on Blago yet, or others are now singing to him with more info, or who knows why for sure. Suspicious though. But the tapes from phone tapping do exist, and Fitzgerald has them. Also, 4 of the tapes will be played at the IL State Senate impeachment trial starting today. However, the State legislature has a pattern of corruption to impeach Blago on that does not rely solely on what Fitzgerald is going after Blago for. There is plenty more.

I was just a little while ago listening to the televised on a local channel impeachment proceedings where the House Prosecutor was listing the various parts of the pattern of corruption that the House impeached Blago on, and he was reporting these charges to the IL Senate that is now holding the impeachment trial. There are many elements of corruption on Blago’s part to impeach him on, not reliant upon what Fitzgerald is up to.

Bottom line, I don’t like Fitzgerald as I think he is a grand stander and that he went after Scooter Libby on trivia that should never have been brought to trial. He really wanted Cheney or Karl Rove, but went after the low hanging fruit and that happened to be poor Scooter Libby, just so Fitz could justify all the money he was being paid as Special Prosecutor. After all that money and time spent, he didn’t want to come up empty handed. To me he is just another shade of crook. As to his case against Blago, that remains to be seen as he hasn’t gotten the indictment yet. However, Blago is a scum bum Gov in his own right who has done plenty of other bad things in this State and deserves to be impeached by our State Congress. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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