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.
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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...