Does this guy still write for the times under an AKA?
Posted on 10/18/2005 9:11:09 PM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
The New York Times reports in Wednesday editions that sources familiar with the Leakgate investigation say that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has decided not to issue a final public report - a move that the Times claims heightens the "expectation that he intends to bring indictments."
But according to former Independent Counsel Joseph DiGenova, Fitzgerald's decision not to issue a report is meaningless - because the law forbids him from doing so.
Asked Sunday whether he thought the Leakgate prosecutor would issue a report on his nearly two-year-old probe, DiGenova told ABC's "This Week": "He's not legally entitled to do so. He cannot issue a public report."
Sounding disappointed, "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos insisted: "Well, [he can] if the court says he can."
Once again, DiGenova set the record straight, explaining that Fitzgerald would "have to get a very special court order which is rarely granted."
Even Democratic lawyer Richard Ben-Veniste, who was also on 'This Week," said he agreed with DiGenova that Fitzgerald cannot legally issue a report.
Still, the Times hyperventilates in its Wednesday report:
"By signaling that he had no plans to issue the grand jury's findings in such detail, Mr. Fitzgerald appeared to narrow his options either to indictments or closing his investigation with no public disclosure of his findings, a choice that would set off a political firestorm."
The NYT threatening the SP with smears of his rep if he does not indict.
I hope this is a good thing!
Interesting .. sounds like George was hoping more for a report then anything else
Somebody needs to get this info to Mr. Drudge since it looks like he's buying into the hyperventilation.
The New York Times doesn't even bother to hide its bias anymore. The former "paper of record" is utterly shameless. To those scumbags, NOT indicting "would set off a political firestorm" - - apparently, INDICTING is what they fully EXPECT (and of course, really really hope for).
If Fitzgerald does NOT indict SOMEBODY ANYBODY from the Bush Administration it will set off a political firestorm in the NY Times newsroom, that's for sure.
Do you have a link for the commie accusation, or are you just a newbie troll?
I haven't seen any evidence of Fitz being crazed... a bit over zealous in some cases (linking Islamic charities to terror) but not a hardcore leftist.
Sounds like a comment someone from DUnderground would make if they were trolling the forum.
Welcome to FreeRepublic. Try not to get banned before you break yourself in.
They're getting nervous.
Nice try, though.
My take on it, fwiw, as I've said on another thread: I choose no WH indictments with an even better MSM firestorm and then total meltdown: Fitzgerald should refer a list of co-conspirators such as Joe Wilson, Valerie Pflame, and current and former CIA people around Valerie Pflame's WMD unit to the Dept. of Justice for investigation and indictments on a variety of charges such as mishandling of classified info (for those in government), perjury, etc.
Fitzgerald can, I believe, refer such matters to the DOJ which don't fall specifically under a narrow interpretation of the GJ's task but which are potentially criminal, indictable offenses.
If Fitzgerald has been at all thorough that he has quite a tidy list of evidence showing that Joe Wilson and his pals concocted a fraudulent plot against the WH and crossed several legal lines during and after the execution of this plot..... and if any of them have been properly deposed before the GJ or by internal CIA investigators I'll bet they've committed perjury to boot!
I don't think, in general, the extent of the GJ's witness list in the WH, numbers of junior WH staffers testifying, or the thoroughness of Fitzgerald's questioning of WH witnesses indicates anything at all about whether indictments will be issued against anyone in the WH -- from all we really KNOW so far, Fitzgerald is just doing what any SP would have to do to perform a thorough investigation (although I sure would like to know whether he has had sleazeball people like Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, and David Corn before the GJ!!!). I hope/expect that the GJ closes up shop with no indictments for the WH, and that the SP then makes a referral to the Dept. of Justice to investigate and indict the cabal of current and ex-CIA people around Pflame/Wilson who concocted this whole farcical scandal in the first place!!
Fitzgerald chairs a DOJ task force on terrorism, and I find it hard to believe he'd be less interested in the gross malfeasance of a variety of the Wilson/Pflame/Larry Johnson types in and around CIA/State (both current and former officials) than he'd be interested in pursuing tenuous, perhaps farcical, charges against people in the WH. His thoroughness toward the WH may simply turn out to be covering all his bases and making sure that no one can justly reproach him with whitewashing the WH when he turns the spotlight on the true malfeasance in and around the CIA and State. Perhaps this is just wishful thinking on my part, but that is what SHOULD happen if Fitzgerald is as thorough and objective as his reputation suggests!
Then the MSM firestorm and meltdown can begin....
And you believed an email?
Drudge doesnt care if its true or not, just whether it gets his website hits.
Bingo. And this little opener indicates that the paper is already flicking its Bics, ready to light 'er up regardless of the outcome.
Seriously, you need to really check stuff like that before you post it. We get lots of leftists who try and stir it up here pretending to be conservatives.
Fitzgerald is a Republican working for the Bush Justice Department. What part of stupid dont you understand?
After subscribing to the Times for decades I finally got fed up with its bias and cancelled outright. I think I have plenty of company.
"Drudge doesnt care if its true or not, just whether it gets his website hits."
Agreed
Welcome to FreeRepublic.
You have interesting opinions. What do you think of hyperbole?
Welcome to Free Republic! I'm curious, where do you get the "avowed communist" allegation in regard to Patrick Fitzgerald? That seems more than implausible, let us say ridiculous, and conflicts rather sharply with anything I've ever read about him....
Yup. We aren't exactly ones to rely on emails for our "facts". The Pajamadeen does its own research, thankyouverymuch.
Drudge doesnt care if its true or not, just whether it gets his website hits.
OK, you have no proof. Thanks. Now go away.
Good post.
Oops. He did! IBTZ.
Meanwhile.....some comic relief:
"Here's how you know a story has hit a brick wall. In this case, the Valerie Plame/Judith Miller/Scooter Libby/Karl Rove/Joe Wilson/Matt Cooper story.
The Associated Press ran a piece - this is true - about what is in Karl Rove's garage. It seems that Mrs. Rove, to prove that her husband wasn't hiding from staked out reporters by hunkering down among the lawn care implements, opened the garage door and someone eyeballed the stuff.
That was after someone decided that maybe Vice President Cheney was involved in this whole mess because - well, because the special prosecutor didn't say the Veep wasn't involved.
Yesterday was also full of "Who will replace Rove and Libby if they are indicted and have to leave the White House?"
This, in spite of the fact that the only people who have mentioned that they might be indicted are the people writing leads at the Associated Press and Reuters who have the theory that, they might be indicted because the special prosecutor didn't say they wouldn't be indicted."
Perspective:
Via Rich Galen Meanwhile.....some comic relief:"Here's how you know a story has hit a brick wall. In this case, the Valerie Plame/Judith Miller/Scooter Libby/Karl Rove/Joe Wilson/Matt Cooper story.The Associated Press ran a piece - this is true - about what is in Karl Rove's garage. It seems that Mrs. Rove, to prove that her husband wasn't hiding from staked out reporters by hunkering down among the lawn care implements, opened the garage door and someone eyeballed the stuff.That was after someone decided that maybe Vice President Cheney was involved in this whole mess because - well, because the special prosecutor didn't say the Veep wasn't involved.Yesterday was also full of "Who will replace Rove and Libby if they are indicted and have to leave the White House?"This, in spite of the fact that the only people who have mentioned that they might be indicted are the people writing leads at the Associated Press and Reuters who have the theory that, they might be indicted because the special prosecutor didn't say they wouldn't be indicted."Perspective:Via Rich Galen http://www.mullings.com/.
Everything I've read about Fitzgerald says that he's a notoriously scrupulous, aggressive, and determined prosecutor who is as likely as anyone to get to the core of this issue.
I would not be at all surprised to see this whole affair turn into the Mother of All Blowbacks for the CIA (an organization for whom the term was invented--there's a lesson there).
I've come to the conclusion that the CIA should simply be abolished as a first step in reforming American Intelligence. Perhaps Fitzgerald will help that process along.
What firestorm? The one the left would create out of nothing? LOL! I'd love it...watching a victorious grinning Karl Rove and an equally triumphant Lewis Libby at a press conference saying, "there wasn't anything going on at all ever"...
BUAHAHAHAHHAHAH!
Opps, sorry for the messed up previous post (dumb fingers)...
Anyway, talk about Media Bias? Check out this AP lead:
"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's CIA-leak inquiry is focusing attention on what long has been a tactic of U.S. President George W. Bush's administration: slash-and-burn assaults on its critics, particularly those opposed to the president's Iraq war policies."
Sheesh!
I believe that Starr was operating under a law which has now expired. That law probably mandated a report.
Now that the law expires, Fitzgerald is operating with constraints which probably apply to every prosecutor. He is a "special" prosecutor in that he has a fixed assignment designed to eliminate conflicts of interest with the administration that appointed him.
yes good press for a while. if someone close to the prez goes down and it's chump change , well, bush has nothing to lose . did someone mention blowback earlier . as dundee once said-- no friend ---this is a knife.
Does this guy still write for the times under an AKA?
OK, you have no proof. Thanks. Now go away.
Be pretty hard for Fitzgerald to be involved in student movement in the 60's since he wasnt born until 1961. Apparently MrCapitalism is either very gullible, stupid, or is drinking early this evening.
Brit Hume has reportedly said that Fitzgerald is a Republican.
Where does this idea that he is a commie sympathizer come from?
I missed getting in on the now banned/suspended newbie. :(
Your right... "Special Prosecutor" is not what it used to be. Hope Fitzgerald prosecutes rather than persecutes... as needed.
Banned already?
Oh, shucks!
We could have watched the viking kitties come to feast.
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