Posted on 10/22/2005 11:30:15 AM PDT by wagglebee
As far as the left is concerned, exposing the Klintoons' crimes deserves retribution.
A better question would be, "So how do you know what Fitzgerald is doing, anyway?"
What it looks like to the objective observer is that some folks in the Bush administration are in a serious amount of trouble--most likely because they broke the law.
That may or may not be relevant to the party loyalists on this site.
What law?
It would have been a lot nicer if Starr could have put one or both of the Klintoons behind bars.
Brian Conley, a former aide to the Iowa Democrat, made a digital recording while attending the meeting at the request of Harkin staff member Rafael Ruthchild, according to the Des Moines Register. Conley then returned the recorder to Ruthchild, who provided a copy of the recording and a transcript to a reporter.
The Ganske campaign immediately cried foul and demanded that Polk County Attorney John Sarcone launch a criminal probe. Patrick Fitzgerald, who headed up the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago, also launched an investigation.
Ummmmmm. OK, I'm confused. Who, exactly, was Fitzgerald going to investigate? And for what? Ganske for being dumb enough to invite a Democrat to attend a Republican strategy meeting??? (Stupidity may be against the law in Iowa, but it's clearly not a Federal offense!)
Please, don't make sense!!!!
Objective, are you....what law??
I think people are over-reacting. First of all NOBODY KNOWS what this SP is going to do next week. Second, Fitzgerald was appointed by John Ashcroft - who probably dragged his feet on this way too long before recusing himself. The CIA itself (not "rogue elements", but the higher-ups), with Medal of Freedom winner George Tenet himself signing off, brought this case to the JD. So the Bush admin. has only itself to blame if it gets in trouble over THIS.
Whether it's Limbaugh, Delay, Frist, Rove, or Libby, sleazball lib lawyers who threaten witnesses and push to embarrass conservatives in the courts rather than fight in the arena of ideas or at the ballot box, we must stand firm.
True, but I'm afraid any Dem would argue back that the whole 24/7 2-year "all-Monica-all-the-time" fest was a more egregious example. In that case I have to somewhat agree - only because an inept Ken Starr fueled that media circus rather than going after real crimes..
A weird side-note: at least in Limbaugh's case, all of the Left is not disagreeing - the ACLU backed the case against Limbaugh's medical records being open to the prosecutors on violation of privacy grounds.
With Earle's assault on DeLay rapidly deteriorating into another Liberal fustercluck, the DNC is counting on Fitzy to come through for them. I expect Martha Stewart style "indictments" to be handed down. "Indictments" charging "crimes" that would not have occurred had the victims not been charged with phony baloney allegations in the first place. It's all the Commie DemocRATS can do.
If Fitzgerald had done that, then there would be cries of "whitewash" and "cover-up"!
I still think there is a pretty good chance that there is going to be an indictment or referral of somebody or something! (The big question is still "who" or "what"!) The Times wouldn't have thrown Miller over the side if they thought she wasn't toxic, and who knows about Libby if he sold his soul to Marc Rich.
And what do you make of Fitzgerald showing classified documents to the grand jury? Geez, if the CIA and the press corps are faxing classified materials to each other all over DC, there's a big, big problem here!
I'd put the chances of anyone being indicted under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 at less than 1%.
Wilson is a demonstrable liar, Miller's claim that she spent 85 days in jail to protect a source whose name she can't remember is laughable, and who knows about Libby.
Can a newspaper be indicted?
I don't think Rove's in danger except for "some BS charge", like forgetting about the Cooper conversation, and it's highly unlikely they can prove that he did that deliberately.
Me too! WHAT LAW!!!
Miller -- perjury. Wilson -- perjury. Libby -- perjury. "Flame" & a baker's dozen unnamed spooks at CIA -- Espionage act of 1917. New York Times --- unindicted co-conspitator.
I'd still put the chances of anyone being indicted under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 at less than 1%.
The Red Star kept this story on the front page for 3 or 4 days. By the end of the first week, it was all over.
Care to expound upon that? Fitzgerald has put more Al Qaeda in jail than any other federal prosecutor. He prosecuted the blind sheik and his crowd for the first WTC attack, he prosecuted two guys for the attack on the US Cole, and he was investigating a national organization based in Chicago that was funding Al Qaeda (until Judith Miller came along and warned them that search warrants were coming the next morning).
Since you cant convict them for being stupid, perhaps perjury, false statements to the FBI, subourning perjury, and the kicker, releasing classified information. It depends on what was said by whom and when. It also depends upon whether knowledge of Plames identity as CIA agent came from classified document or not. Ever hear of Watergate? Most of those who went to jail had nothing to do with the breakin.
Anyone ever bother to find out if its against the law to tape a public meeting that you were invited to in Iowa? If it's not, then no law was broken although a good case could be made that there should be a law. My guess and since Im not familiar with the case it's just a guess, is that there was no law that applied to taping where the person taping was invited to the meeting or the meeting was open to the public.
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