How do you read this? Was he hung out to dry by the WH? It troubles me that Bill Kristol is vouching for his honor.
The MSM LOVE Fitzgerald; in their eyes he is the knight in shining armor.
What does that tell you?
This is what I read:
Most of the reproduction of Aspen is by root-sprouting, many trees in a grove being connected together by a common root system in what are referred to as "clones." Because the trees are in clones, they are genetically identical.
Anything else is simply reading your own interpretaion into it!