Patrick Fitzgerald Press Conference Transcript

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | 28 October 2005 | Patrick Fitzgerald

[syriacus]

I watched the conference and couldn't figure out what bothered me about Fizgerald.

This morning I realized he kept sticking his tongue to the front of his mouth as he was talking. George Felos kept sticking out his tongue (much more obviously) when he spoke to the press right after Terri died.

I want to trust Fitzgerald is a straight shooter, but this similarity has me worried.

[syriacus]

What kind of idiots do we have at the CIA?

• Plame told Wilson on her 4th date that she was CIA.
• Even though foreign intelligence might already have known who she was, the CIA kept her on.
• The CIA took her advice and sent her lying, anti-administration husband to Africa

[maggief]

Also reminiscent of Kerry.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Saw it on CSPAN last night, it was even worse on TV than it was on radio.

[BigSkyFreeper]

He looked like a deer in the headlights and/or a third grader, who has to give a speech to an audience of adults, in the theory of relativity or quantum physics.

Yeah, and he spent 2 years on this investigation.

[txrangerette]

Could be wrong, as there is so much we don't know.

But my feeling right now is that there's something happening here, beyond the known, behind the scenes, under the surface...use whatever cliche' you please. What's the song lyric? "There's somethin' happenin' here, but what it is ain't exactly clear, you better stop, children, what's that sound, ever'body look what's goin' down"?

Part of it is the unusual meeting between Fitz and Rove's attorney. Something more than just, hey, here's more proof of Karl's veracity, better not indict him, could well have gone down. Part of it is the incomprehensible case against Scooter Libby for lying. I mean incomprehensible that Scooter would have - accidentally OR purposely - done what he is accused of doing. It makes no sense. None. The third thing is Fitz's demeanor. The man appeared very, very nervous.

Does he know something that unsettles him about the CIA being against the administration, and about the media aka Russert et al being against the administration, and about the State Dept. being against the administration, yet he is relying on all these people to nail Scooter Libby for lying? My word, he treated the CIA and the State Dept. and the reporters like some kind of angelic icons, in his statements yesterday, against the wicked administration guy, Libby.

But is he as confident as all that? Is he scared of them (the anti-administration forces)... afraid to get on their bad side? Or is he worried that they will not hold up well BECAUSE he knows how anti-administration they are and will appear?

Does he suspect, or has he been given a heads up by someone at the WH, that the CIA has a vendetta against the administration, not the other way around, and he's worried about his case being ill-affected by it, so he has to make the CIA sound victimized even when they weren't, for PR purposes of his own case?

Will Libby take this to trial and bring out the real goings on? Is Fitz worried about THAT? Who knows?

Libby said in a statement that he will be totally vindicated. What is that? If Libby pleads out, no way would he ever be "totally vindicated"?

This could be...COULD BE...totally fascinating...

[Miss Marple]

I admit I can't quite figure out what's going on, and share some of your feelings.

The only explaanation I can come up with for Libby is that he did it deliberately, to force an indictment and trial. Perhaps the administration thought that Fitzgerald would have enough sense to follow the trails of CIA and State treachery, and when he didin't, Libby decided to do an obvious lie so that the trial could use discovery to bring all of this out.

Pretty slim reasoning, so I do't know that what I am hoping is simply wishful thinking.

The other explanation for Libby's mess is that he got confused listening to Fitzgerald's questioning. I know it would have confused me!

[demlosers]

You are most likely correct about Fitzgerald playing head games. And yeah, who knows what's going on.

I wondered if he's playing both sides here. By indicting Libby, he throws the moonbats a bone, even though his case against Libby is flimsy at best. He doesn't care if he loses the trial...and may wish for it.

Both sides come away satisfied up to a point. Fitzgerald believes the press won't turn on him and politicos in government won't try to hurt his career.

All speculation at this point.

[A Citizen Reporter]

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