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Posted on 10/27/2005 3:53:24 AM PDT by beyond the sea
The former deputy assistant attorney general who helped draft the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act blasted Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald on Wednesday, saying he may be getting "creative with law" in order to justify questionable indictments.
"If you don't have a clear violation, you should not become what's called 'creative with the law,'" Toensing told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity, after noting that the statute she co-authored was never intended to apply to cases like Leakgate.
Toensing said she based her concern on a February report in the Chicago Tribune, which noted, "Probably Fitzgerald's greatest talent was finding creative ways to interpret the law."
The paper went on to quote U.S. attorney David Kelley, who the Tribune called "a close friend of Fitzgerald":
"When you'd looked at a case from every angle," Kelley said, "and you were sure you didn't have what was needed to take it forward, you could show it to Pat and he'd say, 'Have you thought about charging this?' "
Toensing said that she didn't think Kelley's comments were a compliment, telling Hannity, "I don't think you're supposed to be creative with the criminal law. I call it fitting the stepsister's foot into Cinderella's shoe."
The man has a very grim face, and he looks like his face had been pummeled as a younger man, the result of some fighting. I don't know, his face seems to betray something of an obsessed, disturbed "madman". He looks eternally angry, uncomfortable, and somewhat unstable as he hurries from building to building. Maybe it's just the face of a very determined fellow, but he looks a little crazed to me.
I'm aware that most reports on him are of a "straight shooter", but to me instead of a "straight shooter", he looks like he belongs in a straitjacket.
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Here's hoping he indicts a few CIA folks.......... and Wilson.
I will not have any impression of him until after I find out whether or not he tries to apply a law to this case which: A)Is not valid. B)Snipe hunting.
We know he CAN NOT indict based on the leaking of Plame's name according to the law, so what's more likely he would base his indictments on if any? Can anyone justify him indicting based on a leak because that's all you hear from the complete idiots in the MSM/dems who are frothing at the mouth to get Rove, the mastermind of all that's wrong and evil in this world!
No doubt Toensing will be invited on the Today Show....any minute now!
I heard that Hannity broadcast yesterday and the comments about Fitzgerald getting 'creative' with the law in the past and his feeleings about the Martha Stewart case.
Disturbing is right. 2 years for an investigation is one thing, 2 years on a fishing expedition is quite another.
I do think that is too much to hope for (but wouldn't it be great?). However, I really do think someone needs to investigate the actions of the CIA and the State Department in undermining the legal authority of duly elected officials in the executive branch. I don't care if they did it to Republican or Democratic administrations - this practice needs to be exposed. These organizations are NOT responsible for setting the foreign policy of our country, this comes from elected Presidents. Long time Washington bureoucrats should not be allowed to hide behind civil servant laws while they undermine the fuctions of the exectutive branch.
When I finally lose it and chainsaw some liberal in the middle of Washington, D.C. at noon, after assembling the crowd and hiring the band, I want these two to get me off with littering.
They could probably do it in an afternoon.
I agree with your thoughts on the CIA and think it applies to the State Department as well. However President Bush could have done better when he came to office if he had cleaned out the leadership of both with firings and forced retirements.
Agreed. He made the mistake of being "too much" a Christian. He turned the other cheek on the Democrats, trying to put the scandals behind us ("A uniter not a divider"). Then of course we were attacked - first by the Chinese (most forget that) and then by Al Qaeda and he needed Democrats onboard for the war on terror. However, in retrospect it's easy to say a purge should have happened. Why ever did he give Tenet a medal?
LOL! Chances are you would too, if your every step outdoors were dogged by a passel of reporters and cameramen!
Yeah, he must be crazy. He prosecutes Republicans (Ryan) and Democrats (Daley Machine), as well as mobsters (Gotti) and terrorists (93 WTC bombing).
Unlike Toensing, de Genova, Walsh, Starr, etc, he does not play the political game.
He long ago figured out that corruption runs rampant in BOTH parties, probably while investigating heroin trafficking.
The only man the plutocrats fear is one who cannot be bought or blackmailed.
I pray for the future of this nation is that Fitzgerald is that man.
He has learned from the Martha Stewart case. Even though there was no violation of the law in question, find a way to charge a person for their actions during the investigation.
ROFL!
Fitzgerald is known by many for setting up perjury traps ........calling individuals into a Grand Jury and then asking them loaded questions.
I worry that this man isn't the honest gem that some have suggested!
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Check out this. It is very excellent and concise.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1508146/posts
Is Valerie Plame the new Deep Throat?
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JFK, Nixon, G.W. next?
Guess we are all in for a good comedy act and song and dance from the dummies.
LOL.
Great post......... I'll bring the chainsaw and be your accesory.
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Sweet!
I'd give up my Rolling Rock (beer) if that happened!
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