Rib Fracturing Funny!!!!!!!
Posted on 10/21/2005 8:17:14 PM PDT by churchillbuff
It is difficult to envision Patrick Fitzgerald prosecuting anyone, particularly Vice President Dick Cheney, who believed they were acting for reasons of national security. While hindsight may find their judgment was wrong, and there is no question their tactics were very heavy-handed and dangerous, I am not certain that they were acting from other than what they believed to be reasons of national security. They were selling a war they felt needed to be undertaken.
In short, I cannot imagine any of them being indicted, unless they were acting for reasons other than national security. Because national security is such a gray area of the law, come next week, I can see this entire investigation coming to a remarkable anti-climax, as Fitzgerald closes down his Washington Office and returns to Chicago.
In short, I think the frenzy is about to end -- and it will not go any further. Unless, of course, these folks were foolish enough to give false statements, perjure themselves or suborn perjury, or commit obstruction of justice. If they were so stupid, Patrick Fitzgerald must stay and clean house.
(Excerpt) Read more at writ.news.findlaw.com ...
Particularly since the Constitution doesn't allow for Fitzgerald to prosecute Dick Cheney.
Read the whole column. A vice president can be indicted. Agnew is Exhibit A (he pleaded out)
Rib Fracturing Funny!!!!!!!
Jed Babbin, who I normally respect a great deal, went off the deep end today while subbing for Hugh.
I thought he was semi-hysterical.
Oh, hell...we're doomed.
How? I misssed it because of work.
I only heard a little bit of the show but Babbin proved himself terribly uninformed about the investigation. I have very high regard for his columns on military and national security issues, but he said a couple of things that showed he is at best minimally conversant with the Wilson/Plame/WH/GJ matter.
In general, I'd agree with that.
This case, though, has taken so many twists and turns and been so turned upside down and inside out that what one guy thought he was answering might have been based on a certain understanding that might appear in a different context to be disingenuous.
Article II, Section 4: The President, Vice-President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
He started off the first hour with dire predictions as to how Fitz had gone way beyond his mandate.
He cited a lot of circumstantial evidence (such as the fact that Fitz now had a website which is indicative of the fact that he doesn't expect to be gone anytime soon) and it was generally fairly non-professional and based his analysis in large part on the NYT artical this AM.
Jed was lacking, I thought, in the usual objective analysis that Hugh is capable of, and sounded a lot like Chicken Little.
I agree completely. See my other post.
JB was in way over his head.
Maybe Gordon can help.
John Dean outed Earl Butz over the loose shoes story - any body remrember that. LOL
Who's next?
How frustrating must it be to be a Dem. You can't beat them at the ballot box, you can't beat them in the courtroom. What's next, physical violence?
The NYT has discovered, from an anon. source, doncha know, that one Aldrich Ames sits in Fed. City for outing Plame et al.
Yep, something loose, something tight and somewhere warm....
If I said anymore I'd lose my job as Secretary of Agriculture.
And be covicted of tax evasion.
No kidding.
If John Dean told me I was in the clear, I would expect to be arrested at any time.
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