My conclusion .. he's in the tank for the democrats .. and this was best he could do in finding anything wrong.
I might change my mind if he doesn't charge Rove, but if he does .. then my conclusion will remain.
Also .. Fitz said Libby did not out a covert operative - but CNN and the other media outlets have completely ignored it.
I'm not watching the media frenzy. I could care less. I just hope Libby has a lawyer willing to go for the juglar and he ends up exposing all the lying reporters.
I bet Russert, Miller and Cooper are all praying that the indictments get dismissed before they get put on the stand and get subject to cross-examination in a criminal case. Fervently praying.
I hope for his own sake Libby hires Dick DeGeurin. I agree that he needs a lawyer who understands how to get results.
I want to see DeGeurin go right for the jugular of this indictment, and expose it for being nothing more than a perjury trap in an investigation where no crime was committed. I want to see DeGeurin come out and say all the things that none of the reporters have or will ever say in a news conference, particularly now that their own - Russert, Cooper and Miller - will all have to avoid perjury snares themselves.
When did this prosecutor realize that the facts he was investigating made him conclude that no crime of outing a covert agent was committed, because Plame was not covert as defined by the law? That's such a core question and it's so powerful without even getting an answer.
If Fitzgerald realized this early on, then did he subsequently set a perjury trap to ensnare Libby? Why should he be permitted to continue to investigate Karl Rove when he admits he cannot now prove that Plame was covert?
If Fitzgerald claims that the conclusions regarding the facts he was investigating did not become clear until the end of the investigation, then he comes off as a liar himself; at best, he comes off as too stupid to realize what has been obvious to many, many others for some time.
Libby needs someone to get out in front of all the cameras and ask the questions that none of the reporters will ask, preferably someone like DeGeurin who has the credibility to make everyone take seriously the threat of exposing the reporters who represent the core of the case against Libby as liars themselves. According to the precedent Fitzgerald is setting, it shouldn't matter whether these reporters are lying about what Libby told them - DeGeurin can legitimately expose them as lying about anything *material* to the entire affair and demand that they be tried for perjury and obstruction.