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W pals bushwhack CIA leak prosecutor
New York Dailiy News ^ | Oct 24 05 | THOMAS M. DeFRANK and MICHAEL McAULIFF

Posted on 10/24/2005 1:16:10 PM PDT by churchillbuff

As the White House and Republicans brace for possible indictments in the CIA leak probe, defenders have launched a not-so-subtle campaign against the prosecutor handling the case. "He's a vile, detestable, moralistic person with no heart and no conscience who believes he's been tapped by God to do very important things," one White House ally said, referring to special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald.

Fitzgerald was tapped nearly two years ago to find out whether anyone in the White House broke a federal law by blowing the cover of CIA operative Valerie Plame after her husband, Joseph Wilson, debunked administration claims about Saddam Hussein's nuclear activities.

President Bush recently praised Fitzgerald on NBC's "Today" show, saying: "The special prosecutor is conducting a very serious investigation. He's doing it in a very dignified way, by the way, and we'll see what he says."

But now friends of the White House have started whispering that the Brooklyn-raised prosecutor is overzealous after it became clear that Bush political mastermind Karl Rove and Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, are in Fitzgerald's cross hairs.

Such hints surfaced publicly for the first time yesterday when Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.), armed with comments that sources said were "shaped" by the White House, suggested Fitzgerald might nail someone on a "technicality" because they forgot something or misspoke.

"I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment ... it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn't indict on the crime, and so they go to something just to show that their two years of investigation was not a waste," Hutchison said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Fitzgerald was first tasked with finding the Plame leaker, but his mandate expanded to include counts of perjury, obstruction of justice, intimidation of witnesses or destruction of evidence, should anyone undermine his probe.

There were several reports yesterday that Fitzgerald could warn people they've been indicted as soon as today, and that the grand jury could be called in for an unusual session tomorrow, but his office declined to comment.


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: chamberlainbuff; churchilltroll; cialeak; longestlastingtroll; lyingjoewilson; neville; valerieplame; wardchurchillbuff; zotmeb4itrollagain
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To: new yorker 77

Care to explain yourself, or are you just throwing stuff against the wall, hoping something will stick.


121 posted on 10/24/2005 2:27:20 PM PDT by Redleg Duke (9/11 - "WE WILL NEVER FORGET!")
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To: LibertySF

I'll expand "hypocrite" to include any member of the MSM who has ever relied upon or praised the leaking of classified information for any purpose whatsoever, and who now suddenly professes to be appalled that anyone would leak classified information.


122 posted on 10/24/2005 2:27:57 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: bigsigh
I thought I was the senior troll

Here's the difference; you're honest; churchillbluff is not.

And I don't remember you actively smearing anybody; this one does that.

123 posted on 10/24/2005 2:28:19 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: va4me
I said it before, I'll say it again, whether he realizes it or not, Fitzgerald is doing Al Qaeda's bidding by going after the individuals that have architected a policy that has made us all safer, and has liberated 40 million people.

Say it as many times as you want. That doesn't make it any more sensible. If someone on the WH staff committed indictable crimes and there is sufficient evidence to prove it, they should be thrown overboard. What their role may have been in anything else is irrelevant. As far as the President pardoning any such individual, the idea is absurd.

124 posted on 10/24/2005 2:30:05 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: churchillbuff
>"He's a vile, detestable, moralistic person with no heart and no conscience who believes he's been tapped by God to do very important things,"

I see no source....again. Rumor, innuendo, speculation, guesses. Great reporting. I hope if there was a crime committed there will be indictments. I just don't see the crime. And apparently the MSM doesn't either. They've gotten completely away from the original reason the counsel was called precisely because there was no crime and they've finally realized it.
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125 posted on 10/24/2005 2:30:18 PM PDT by saleman
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To: churchillbuff

I think the turning point was when JR started coming down hard on people who disagreed with Bush in any major point. I remembger that. Now look at the daily zot fest and troll calling. Anyway, hang in there and best wishes.<


126 posted on 10/24/2005 2:31:23 PM PDT by bigsigh
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To: Howlin
Thank you. I think I have always been honest and straight forward to the best of my ability. However, I smeared many in my day. Now I'm afraid to really cut loose because I'm on the "list."

Always nice to get a post from you, even if we disagree at times.

127 posted on 10/24/2005 2:33:12 PM PDT by bigsigh
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To: churchillbuff
"He's a vile, detestable, moralistic person with no heart and no conscience who believes he's been tapped by God to do very important things"

Simply an editorial mix-up at the Daily News.

This was actually a quote by Congresswoman Pelosi about President Bush and was supposed to be included in a story discussing the crackdown on child pornography by the Bush administration.

Just an honest mistake by a newspaper editor!

128 posted on 10/24/2005 2:33:48 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: churchillbuff

Sounds like the authors are making up stories, trying to "tick off" Fitzgerald.


129 posted on 10/24/2005 2:34:30 PM PDT by syriacus (Bush hasn't done a bad job, all things (WOT, vagaries of Nature, Lib lies + obstruction) considered)
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To: churchillbuff

Hillary wasn't indicted on perjury charges, genius.


130 posted on 10/24/2005 2:34:31 PM PDT by Chunga (Mock The Left)
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To: bigsigh

Aren't we lucky that we're getting old and we forget it when we do disagree? :-)


131 posted on 10/24/2005 2:34:52 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Howlin

: )


132 posted on 10/24/2005 2:35:40 PM PDT by bigsigh
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To: The Phantom FReeper

Many of the posters here would consider themselves allies of the White House. I don't know that means they speak for the White House.


133 posted on 10/24/2005 2:36:09 PM PDT by gogeo (Often wrong but seldom in doubt.)
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To: Chunga
Hillary wasn't indicted on perjury charges, genius."""

A lot of freepers, myself included, wondered why not.

134 posted on 10/24/2005 2:36:18 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: bigsigh
JR started coming down hard on people who disagreed with Bush in any major point. """

Actually, JR has been very indulgent toward me -- except when I've broken the rule against vanities (which seems to be enforced against me more consistently than against others).

135 posted on 10/24/2005 2:37:57 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: Sir Gawain

It would be interesting to hear the dems cry for a perjury conviction in a case with no underlying crime.


136 posted on 10/24/2005 2:39:11 PM PDT by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: XJarhead

Pretty much sums it up for me.


137 posted on 10/24/2005 2:39:17 PM PDT by gogeo (Often wrong but seldom in doubt.)
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To: churchillbuff
I have one problem with Fitzgerald. Someone, months ago, started leaking to leftist reporter Murray Waas. People who are familiar with this case think the information is so good it is coming from the Prosecutor's Office.

Now the investigation is leaking like crazy and leaking to all left outlets. Someone on his staff has an agenda and someone on his staff is very happy.
138 posted on 10/24/2005 2:41:10 PM PDT by Patriot from Philly
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To: churchillbuff

good


140 posted on 10/24/2005 2:43:00 PM PDT by bigsigh
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