Posted on 11/04/2005 4:16:03 AM PST by Hadean
As to whether he should have been given the reigns to pursue this non-issue, that is another story entirely. If this weren't such a political hot potato, some uppity up in justice would have said, "down, boy!, we are not wasting Justice's time and money on this." As it is, that was not politically possible, as everyone would have wondered if there was a coverup.
The fact that there was an ELECTION in October 2004 does not imply that Fitzgerald wished he could influence it. It just meant that he wished all the facts were in earlier so he could do what he does, which is prosecute for a living.
Don't make more of this than it is.
I doubt somehow that the elder President Bush could have won under any circumstance in 1992. Even if Weinberger had not been indicted, I think Clinton would have won. Mr Bush might have carried a couple more states but he needed more time to turn that around. With Perot in the race, Bush just seemed doomed.
The dems are always out in front of us on these things.
They will,if given a chance pack the CIA with leftists to have the ability to run a shadow governments without at all times.
Remember back in the 1920s when they realized public education was the perfect vehicle for indoctrination of lib/communist viewpoints.
Only if we all learn to spell it "Divine".
I have asked myself the question, "what would Fitz have done if Bush had not been reelected? Would Libby be indicted? Would this whole case have just been dumped?" My answer is most of the country would not even know who Libby is.
"Remember back in the 1920s when they realized public education was the perfect vehicle for indoctrination of lib/communist viewpoints."
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The self appointed Elites in both the Dem and GOP party seem to think they will be exempt from the pogrom when all the communist ploting finally gives us a country where the constitution has been fully overturned and becomes a tool to promote the agenda as a (living breathing document of modern times) History has shown that all ELITES in a society become victims of the " Socialist STATE" most recent example is cambodia.
You miss the point entirely. Fitzpatrick was unable to complete the investigation in an expeditious manner because his investigation was obstructed by the alleged perjury of Libby. Fitzpatrick said that this is the reason his is still unable to name (indict) the person(s) who revealed the status of Valerie Plame Wilson. But even if there was no crime, even if the politically-motivated disclosure of her status was not technically a crime, we still have the alleged deliberate perjury to the grand jury by Libby, a perjury that occurred during an investigation concerning a national security matter (the disclosure of classified information possibly endangering CIA agents and methods).
This is not a trivial matter; the most charitable thing that can be said about this affair is that it appears to be a mistake of career-destroying proportions by key people (Libby, at least) in the Bush-Cheney administration.
That's the key, IMHO. The MSM would have jumped on the opportunity to torpedo the President.
There should be a special prosecutor to investigate why Fitzgerald ignored investigating #1 liar, Joe Wilson and his scheming CIA wife.
Gee, I'm happy to learn that Fitzgerald isn't really politically motivated! </sarcasm>
Do Chrissie and his ilk realize how foolish they look on tv getting so worked up over this? They look like they're in the throes of orgasmic rapture, or barely suppressing it. If I was them and I caught myself on tv looking like that, I'd die of embarassment.
Fitzpatrick did not need Libby's testimony to determine that no crime had been committed. All he needed to do was to determine Plame's status at the time of the supposed leak. As far as I can tell, he deliberately avoided making that determination in order to stretch out the investigation. After all, once he determined that Plame did not meet the strict definition of a "Covert" agent under the law, there would have been no more need of an investigation.
Who are you... Jimmy Carter?
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It seems to me that either the prosecutor is a Democrat, or else he's too politically naive to be running this investigation.
FITZGERALD: I would have wished nothing better that, when the subpoenas were issued in August 2004, witnesses testified then, and we would have been here in October 2004 instead of October 2005.
Gads! What an effing naif! Anybody that knows anything about politics knows that this sort of thing is set up months and sometimes YEARS in advance. Uh, Patrick - anything about that SPECIFIC month [October 2004] ring a bell for you? Hmmmmmmmmmm?
The ham sandwich.
How about an investigation into the Kerry campaigns use of the Niger story to try to defeat Bush? There's a Pulitzer there for somebody. Yeah, I know, today's "journalists" are only interested in screwing Republicans.
But, consider. If a Republican campaign persuaded someone to write a substantially phoney op-ed in the New York Times, to make a Democrat administration look like they were lying, wouldn't that be big news?
Isn't it odd that none of the "journalists" asked this very obvious question of yours? This is why we need the Internet.
"If true, this would have been a violation of the Justice Department's long standing policy of NOT indicting on teh eve of an election."
I guess that policy wasn't in existence in 1992. Or is that a policy that only applies to indictments of Democrats?
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