Posted on 10/30/2005 10:38:01 AM PST by Only Waxing
As the CIA leak investigation comes to a conclusion, America’s media have started to sell the public the man in the middle of the maelstrom, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. Tonight, CBS News jumped on the bandwagon in a report filed by Jim Axelrod for “The Evening News” (video link to follow).
Like many such reports in the past week, Axelrod began by trying to dispel the notion that politics are in any way involved in this episode: “44-year-old Pat Fitzgerald, an intense and, by all accounts, apolitical prosecutor who's pursued mob bosses, crooked politicians, and Osama bin Laden like a pit bull with lockjaw.”
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The freepers ranting about how much a "partisan zealot" Fitzgerald is because he went after George Ryan (RINO-Hell) are no better than the Dims who came up with the same baseless smears against Ken Starr. Fitzgerald may be many things, but he certainly wasn't being "partisan" for going after criminal RINO scumbag George Ryan.
If they feel so badly for George Ryan and Scott Fawell, they can call up the local lefty anti-death penalty activists in Illinois and volunteer for the George Ryan defense team.
The House Committee On Un-American Activities goes back to 1938.
That is over a DECADE before Sen. McCarthy.
I have been unsuccessful in finding the inteview I read a couple years back where Arthur Miller first got the idea in the 1940s.
I'm not sure, but I'm pretty certain that divulging classified information, if done knowingly, is illegal. Are you saying it's not?
Or he could be a prosecutor who was lied to under oath.
And what of Fitzcaraldo's assessment that what Libby did endangered the security of this nation?
How classified was Ms. Plame?
And why aren't we pursuing the Rat congressment who have leaked names of agents AND gotten men killed?
The author of legislation has said that this case does not meet the criteria of her law. But let's leave that to the courts to decide. Oh wait, the prosecutor decided not to pursue THAT charge.
I know I'm in the minority here, but I think Fitzgerald does seem like a genuinely competent and nonpartisan guy.
You have to excuse me for not joining in the bash-Fitzgerald party, but one of the reasons I'm a conservative is because I believe in the rule of law, and Fitz's indictment makes a plausible case that Libby broke the law by lying to the grand jury. Perjury was wrong for Clinton, and it would be wrong for Libby too.
THANK YOU. Now THAT's a true and consistent conservative talking. Reading all these posts that minimize perjury, I thought I was at a liberal website cir. 1998 - with a bunch of Clinton-defenders bashing Ken Starr.
Russert asks "Is this true"? "That's what I heard"
Who was Russert's source? He had already heard to ask such a question.
Libby's NOT the source. He only gave support to what was already known.
You have to throw out ALL discussion of Ms. Plame being classified since that is not part of the indictment.
It is strictly whether he forgot he had already been informed of her relation or not. Ever have a family member tell you the name of who your cousin is dating and then when you get together at the holidays don't know the name of your cousin's significant other? You were told. You should remember these things.
This whole case is sort of like making a felony charge of conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor.
I don't alledge that Fiztcaraldo is doing this for "partisan" reasons but he is definitely blowing this out of proportion (and he made such statements that Ms. Plame's so called "secret" WAS vital to the security of this nation). I WILL alledge that there are those within the CIA who have an agenda counter to the current administration and whether it is CYA for not preventing the 9-11 attacks or some other reason, they don't like to have their authority questioned.
Have Rove or Libby or Bush or Cheney bribed anyone to make false statements as Bill Clinton's team did?
There was more than one lie told in the Clinton investigation and while it may not have resulted in successful prosecution of der Schlickmister, it did show the way they operated. If no one talks or people lie, the truth is harder to bring to light.
You sure like hyperbole.
Drudge is reporting that Fitzgarulous is planning on calling Cheney as a prosecution witness... Executive Privilege battle looms says Drudge!
How can Fitzgarulous be so stupid. This IS a political show trial and if he proceeds this way, his career as a prosecuror will be over. Bald politics never plays well in a perjury and obstruction trial. They will have to arrest Cheny to get him on the witness stand.
Evidentially you agree two liberal machine politicians and think Fitzgerald record indicting dozens of corrupt, criminal RINOs in Illinois smacks of "partisanship"
The only one being a "partisan zealot" here is you, because you don't like that ONE of the people Fitzgerald indicted HAPPENS to work for a guy you voted for. Perjury, smerjury, right? You've got the liberal talking points about Ken Starr down pat. Maybe you can consult Ken Starr Smears 101 nand start calling Fitzgerald a "pornographer" and say "it's all about sex", just for the icing on the cake.
I never heard of Scooter Libby until yesterday anyway. Chiefs of staff come and go. Dick Cheney will simply get a new one. Sorry to disappoint.
Well said..
This is a political show case trial. Fitzgarulous is betting on a Dem win in 2008 and if so, he advaces past GO, collects 200 dollars and gets a plush appointment with the new administration, or so he thinks.
This is a kangaroo prosecutor in a kangaroo court, regardless of what his appointment history is.
Wilson went to Niger as a loose cannon after our president
had proceeded to place the US on a war footing.He filed no written report. In Niger he met with Intelligence agents from France ( and of course France was against US invasion of Iraq)who were ready to inform him that there was no such proposal of purchasing yellow cake from Niger by Saddam's agents. Of courseBritish intelligence and Israeli intelligence were folled when they said such negotiations had occurred? Wilson's subsequent conduct is not valid political speech, it is espionage. Thats the real crime here, a liberal 5th column within the CIA traducing presidential policy?
Thats why its a kangaroo court and Fitzgarulous is a kangaroo prosecutor in a political show trial we used to think only happened in the Soviet Union or China.
Using the courts for political ends means only one thing. The Dems can't beat Republicans at the ballot box, and are willing to stoop to judicial tyranny to forward their agenda. The ripening of Liberal civil servants is happening now, and if they do not put the country's interests ahead of their own bald personal agendas, Plame, Wilson, Fitzgerald, all of them, belong on the mounting scrap heap of unpatriotic civil servant mandarins.Our nation is run by elected officials, not civil servants, as these wingnuts will discover over the next few months.
What Fitzgarulous's indictment has done is put the USA one step closer to bannan republichood.It is all he will accomplish.
Wait until the defense subpoena's those who sent Wilson to Niger and then the whole espionage story comes out.Libbys conduct would then be vindicated in speaking of Plame as a party to espionage, hardly proper conduct for an employee of the CIA. Any outing she recieved was deserved
as one who was acting in consort with her espionaging husband.
Okay, your post left political reality for la-la land in the very first paragraph. First off, Fitzgerald OWES his job to a REPUBLICAN President and a REPUBLICAN Senator's recommendation. If a Democrat had won the U.S. Senate race in Illinois in 1998, Fitzgerald would be back in New York as a lowly no name prosecutor, NOT serving as U.S. Attorney. ALL the Democrats were AGAINST an "Illinois outsider" named Patrick Fitzgerald being tapped for the post.
Secondly, obviously you are not from Illinois, because the biggest concern regarding a Democrat win (namely Obama) is that they would NOT reappoint Fitzgerald as U.S. Attorney. Obama had to flip-flop and pledge to keep the REPUBLICAN appointee around just to neutralize the issue in that campaign. You assessment that Fitzgerald's is betting on a "Dem win in 2008" to get more power is as ludicrous as Michael Moore claiming the KKK got their start from the NRA, when the OPPOSITE is true.
Third, the "60 Republicans" in Illinois who Fitzgerald indicted all worked for George Ryan, the Illinois equivilent of Jim Jeffords or Michael Bloomberg. George Ryan is a Democrat in all but name. 60 George Ryan cronies + 2 Daley cronies = 62 LIBERALS indicted in Illnois.
George Ryan, (the criminal RINO scumbag who's soon going to prison) thanks you for your support -- since you think Patrick Fitzgerald indicts ALL Republicans for "partisan" reasons. You can't seem to make any argument without screaming "kangaroo court" about 50 times each post, so those anti-Ken Starr talking points you have are in serious need of some new synonym's. What's next, Patrick Fitzgerald has "no controlling legal authority" for his indictment?
They are being exposed little by little but are fighting tooth and nail to save their grip on power and information.
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This is the byproduct of far too many years in a symbiotic relationship with the socialists.
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