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........Here, the prosecutor violated his duties by investigating the facts before determining whether there was a law that could have been violated even if the facts were true. He then set perjury traps for administration people, while being surrounded by liars who should have been charged with perjury--Miller, Wilson, Plame, Cooper and the whole lot of them.
Fitzgerald revealed himself as a partisan hack and this will stick with him for life. I can only hope that he gets creamed in court, and becomes a Ronnie Earle. Had he been a no-nonsense prosecutor, he would have never gotten to this, and then issued a report that simply said that no crime was committed. Had he been a milquetoast like Ken Starr, he would have released a report that simply said that one witness was incorrect on the facts, but he would never have charged him. What happened was that Fitzy went WAAAAY out of his way to get administration officials, even when there was no underlying crime, and NEVER COULD HAVE BEEN.

235 posted on 10/28/2005 by Defiant...10:14:44 AM PDT

worth repeating..

It looks like Fitzy anticipated this attack on his investigation, and took pains at his press conference to address it, claiming that they gather the facts then determine whether a crime has been committed. According to what I have read, prosecutors have an ethical obligation to determine whether there has been a potential crime before they pursue it.

He's falling back on a claim that Plame's status as a CIA employee was "classified". I pray that he goes to court with that theory. That will open up Libby's attorney to attack the Wilsons and the CIA on all the examples where they themselves made her status as a CIA employee known. It allows the defense to make known liars the issue.

I also wonder whether this lamebrain prosecutor is concerned about all the leaks of classified information that go on every day in every article printed by the WaPo and the NYT or only this particular piece of allegedly classified info. If only this one, you have to wonder why.

I know why. This is a federal Ronnie Earle prosecutor, and he laid low until he could inflict the most damage possible. Now, he's been outed as a dem operative.

Andrew McCarthy, you should be ashamed of yourself for sticking up for this guy.