Posted on 10/28/2005 6:35:34 PM PDT by demlosers
Hey Fritz, she wasn't on the NOC list. She worked a desk job and was not undercover.
FITZGERALD: That's the way this investigation was conducted. It was known that a CIA officer's identity was blown, it was known that there was a leak. We needed to figure out how that happened, who did it, why, whether a crime was committed, whether we could prove it, whether we should prove it.
And given that national security was at stake, it was especially important that we find out accurate facts.
More BS from a guy who knows better. Your an hero to Chrissy Matthews and Moonbats by perpetuating a lying myth.
FITZGERALD: I will say this: Mr. Libby is presumed innocent. He would not be guilty unless and until a jury of 12 people came back and returned a verdict saying so.
I bet you really don't think he's guilty.
But if what we allege in the indictment is true, then what is charged is a very, very serious crime that will vindicate the public interest in finding out what happened here.
And "very very" not a crime against National Security.
QUESTION: Mr. Fitzgerald, you've said that there was damage done to all of us, damage to the entire nation. Can you be any more specific about what kind of damage you're talking about?
FITZGERALD: The short answer is no. But I can just say this: I'm not going to comment on things beyond what's said in the indictment.
After all you said during your press conference -- You don't know?!
Here's the Fitz transcript.
Good luck everybody.
I hope it reads better than it sounded today.
I was lost. :)
Arrg!
Your = You're
This, after two years of investigation? Give Libby a medal!
I doubt it ... Fitz was that bad
Ping a Ling
I give up for tonight.
I've had my fill for one day.
It was bad. At times, it almost seemed as though Libby's worst crime was lying to reporters. I had a hard time with my eyes glazing over, he's not a good speaker at all.
"I hope it reads better than it sounded today.
I was lost."
Surprisingly, I think it actually reads worse than it sounded! Convoluted, confusing and more implication of wrongdoing than fact.
Thank you for posting this - will take time over the weekend to do a Clinton parsing of the transcript.
If you saw a baseball game and you saw a pitcher wind up and throw a fastball and hit a batter right smack in the head, and it really, really hurt them, you'd want to know why the pitcher did that. And you'd wonder whether or not the person just reared back and decided, "I've got bad blood with this batter. He hit two home runs off me. I'm just going to hit him in the head as hard as I can."And to use yet another baseball analogy, "Fitzgerald really struck out on that one."
You also might wonder whether or not the pitcher just let go of the ball or his foot slipped, and he had no idea to throw the ball anywhere near the batter's head. And there's lots of shades of gray in between.
You might learn that you wanted to hit the batter in the back and it hit him in the head because he moved. You might want to throw it under his chin, but it ended up hitting him on the head.
FITZGERALD: And what you'd want to do is have as much information as you could. You'd want to know: What happened in the dugout? Was this guy complaining about the person he threw at? Did he talk to anyone else? What was he thinking? How does he react? All those things you'd want to know.
And then you'd make a decision as to whether this person should be banned from baseball, whether they should be suspended, whether you should do nothing at all and just say, "Hey, the person threw a bad pitch. Get over it."
In this case, it's a lot more serious than baseball. And the damage wasn't to one person. It wasn't just Valerie Wilson. It was done to all of us.
I told all you Freepers at the outset of this farce that Karl Rove did nothing wrong. No matter what the MSM says or believes, Karl Rove is off the hook for good!!! As for Fitzgerald, he better bask in his fifteen minutes of fame, because within two years he will be a nobody, plus he has opened wound among conservatives that will unleash a roaring lion. The President will bury Mr. Fitzgerald and the Democrat "Traitor" Party next week when he names his choice for the Supreme Court. The battle is joined. The results, the POYUS will get his choice for SCOTUS and the Pubbies will pickup seats in 2006 and keep the White House in 2008. Fitzpatrick has helped kill himself and the Democrat Party. The fools are just too ego driven and stupid to see it!!! The "Fitzpatrick" impact on the POTUS, NONE!!!
I will spend some time tomorrow trying to figure this out, but there are enough holes in this thing as I scan it to make me believe a good defense atorney will have no problem beating Fitzgerald.
Did anyone ask Mr. Fitz why there was so much illegal leaking from HIS grand jury, and whether he plans to investigate that.
Also, since Ms. Miller, Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Novak have named their source, why was there no indictment for that?
Yeah, a lame analogy and a over-the-top conclusion
That means less than 50% of the world's population knew that she worked for the CIA.
Those 12 people figured this all out, right? Geez, the media couldn't even follow it.
>>In July 2003, the fact that Valerie Wilson was a CIA officer was classified. Not only was it classified, but it was not widely known outside the intelligence community.
Does anyone have a good link that summarizes all the ways this is wrong, with footnotes?
Can a prosecuter do what FITZMAS did today? The way I heard it, He was accusing Scooter of crimes as though he was already proven guilty that he wasn't even indicted for. If so; what can Scooter do about it?
TIA, Will
And an obvious hypocrite too.
Has anyone ever SEEN the CIA request for an investigation? I have said several times today that I read the request was not made by usual routine.
There has been confusion regarding covert vs classified because Fitz would not use the word covert.
Is it possible we have been wrong about the request? We are assuming the investigation all along has been about the deliberate outing of a COVERT agent.
What if the CIA, knowing she was not covert, didn't waste time, so they used CLASSIFIED knowing they might have a better chance to get the WH.. A means to an end. Any means to a specific end.
Have we been hoodwinked by the dark side again? All this we have discussed about how this is not a crime; she was not covert. Was the investigation the leaking of classified info from the very start?
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