Posted on 10/28/2005 2:34:41 PM PDT by MikeA
Finally, we agree on something. No hard feelings huh????
When you think about it....Fitz indicted a politician for his lying ......about like indicting a used car salesman for selling used cars.........
"I think you can count on that. Fitzgerald said this would have been wrapped up a year ago had Scooter not lied and let Judy Miller sit in jail for him."
I really don't think it took a year for Fitzgerald to wrap this up simply because Libby wasn't truthful about where he heard the leak from, especially since there was no indictment here related to the Identities Act. Besides, Libby didn't testify until this summer.
I've said this from day 1. Why are the Republicans even talking to the NYT and the WaPo and all the other liberal MSM rags.
Effective immediately, all offline meetings with the liberal press should stop. The only information given to these slimebags liberals should be by press releases and news conferences. No more phone calls, no more breakfast meetings.
They wont need to hide their sources because they wont have any. LOL
You make a really good point. It's not as if the MSM will ever report the administration's side of anything anyway. It's not like anything other than Joe Wilson is a god who exposed the lying Bushies to the world was ever reported about Joe Wilson in the MSM. So what did all this back channel communication do for the administration? We certainly never heard much about the lies Clowny Boy Wilson told about who he was working for or even the Senate Intelligence Committee's findings of the lies he told about his trip to Niger.
No hard feelings.
The fact is Fitzgerald had a job to do, it's not an easy job. As conservatives we should respect an officer of the court and respect the process. I see no reason to think that Fitzgerald did not do a workman like job. And the indictment seems to have a reasonably sound basis. I've never heard yet, of a Special Pro sector whose investigation did not drag out and cost a lot of money. It is the nature of the beast.
I won't be too impressed if the conservative media starts beating up on the special prosecutor. And I doubt very seriously that the White House will. We are conservatives WE respect the law.
Did you read my post mentioning that a former federal prosecutor on Wolf Blizer's show, very familiar with the applicable laws, stated that Rove going back to the grand jury to update them on what he knew, in effect expunged whatever may have been the former crime of lying, and that Libby's lawyer missed the boat? Apparently, while the same grand jury is in session, one can revise and extend one's remarks. Now, apparently, Fitzgerald to bag Rove, will have to nab him on the underlying merits of outing Plame. He may try to get Libby to finger Rove in a plea bargain, if Libby has any info on that.
Ya, unless Libby recounted his conversation to someone about his conversation with Cheney after he testified, or near when he testified, that he first learned about Plame from Russert.
After he made his initial statement he should have cut it off after 10 or 15 minutes of questions by the media. Fitzgerald began to lose credibility, even with his allies in the liberal MSM, after that point. He overstated his case and came across as someone who was too caught in the moment.
This Indictment where no crime has been commited needs changing. Under these conditions, 90% of Texans, and 100% of fishermen will go to jail!
Don't HATE.
Don't fall prey to their brand of poison. Just KNOW that they, as hate-filled as THEY are, will fall victim, ultimately and in the end, to their OWN poison....and rightly so (pun intended).
Mega-dittos!
I couldn't believe how unprofessional this guy Fitzgerald handled himself. He had these weird ticks and anger in his voice. He also sounded like he was acting a part rather than being a normal prosecutor.
What pissed me off the most was when he talked about "showing the world" something or other -- that's not his job at all.
Yes, he did say today that he is not registered in either party, and has been accused from both ends of being in effect on the payroll of the other side. I am willing to believe he is a good prosecutor, but listening to this lengthy "interview/statement" made me a little queasy, since for all its high-mindedness and breathless self-importance and contrived " gravity" it is really a big empty bag of nothing. And to think that all programming literally stopped cold so that we could hear this momentous drivel. I simply can't believe adults are eager and willing to involve themselves in such pathetically vacuous enterprises.
Exactly ! See my #59. which I typed before i saw yours.
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