Good riddance. Fitzgerald deserves to do time ....his persecution of Scooter Libby was disgusting.
Fitzpatrick KNEW who inadvertently leaked Valarie Plame’s name before he started the investigation ....and when there was a fairly trivial difference between Libby’s recollection and a newsman’s recollection, he claimed it was perjury and sought big fines and big time. Absolutely horrible actions by an extremely UNETHICAL JERK!!! I would love to see him suffer in a manner like Libby suffered!!
True ... he’s very quirky, eccentric and stubbornly willful once HIS perception of the crime takes hold in his brain, regardless of any other information. He’s undeterrable. I’d be surprised if he suffers professionally. The rest: in God’s hands.
God bless Scooter and his family. They got it handed to them in spades and shamefully. I’ll never be convinced otherwise. Armitage and Powell should rot somewhere very hot.
And Blago? I’ll always believe the investigation was stopped just short of the really big fish being revealed for their complicity with the Blago arrest.
Fizzy persecuted Scooter because he couldn't get to Rove, so he went for a neo-con from Cheney's cadre. Scooter copped the charge because (a) he had lousy lawyers and (b) he wanted the Judith Miller affair out of the news.
On August 28, 2006, Christopher Hitchens asserted that Richard Armitage was the primary source of the Valerie Plame leak and that Fitzgerald knew this at the beginning of his investigation.[131] This was supported a month later by Armitage himself, who stated that Fitzgerald had instructed him not to go public with this information.[132] Investor's Business Daily questioned Fitzgerald's truthfulness in an editorial, stating "From top to bottom, this has been one of the most disgraceful abuses of prosecutorial power in this country's history...The Plame case proves [Fitzgerald] can bend the truth with the proficiency of the slickest of pols."[133]