Posted on 09/09/2006 3:48:25 AM PDT by libstripper
Me too, mware.
Elliot Spitzer.
The MSM wants the Libby case killed. They don't want their reporters called to testify at the Libby trial. It could get very embarassing for folks like Russert who is the key prosecution witness in convicting Libby. It is now readily apparent that a number of reporters knew the identity of Wilson's wife and the source was not Libby. Andrea Mitchell did not make a mistake when she said that her identity was common knowledge.
" Former Republican Sen. Fred Thompson, who has criticized Libby’s prosecution,
said Fitzgerald had a duty to set the record straight yet continued to urge Armitage’s silence. ..."
“The whole world was watching Mr. Fitzgerald,” Thompson said.
“He had an extremely narrow focus and a lot of pressure to come up with something or somebody.
He came up with a pea and tried to hold a press conference and hold it up as an elephant.”
Fred Thompson would make a great addition to the Republican ticket in 08.
Sincerely,
Chris Matthews
co-sign: Sidney Blumenthal
co-sign: Chuckie Schumer
co-sign: Patty Fitzy
The Emily Lettela of the Junk Media. Lie hype and distort then when it bites you on the butt say "Never mind"
Sorry Junk Media. Doesn't work that way anymore. Your credibility is on the line now every day. When you go out and get it so wrong for so long, many of us want to know somethings.
I want to know who the "Source close to the investigation tells us that Friz will be handing down 27 indicmets reaching to the highest levels of the White House" and the other propaganda blast you made up was?
Could it be all that Junk Media reporting before Fritzmus was nothing more then Democrat Campaign propaganda?
Actions have consequences Mr Matthews
Why was he so anxious to "come up with something" when, from the get go of the investigation, he knew the real leaker and knew there was no underlying crime? His professional obligation, right then, was to announce those facts and close the investigation, but he didn't. The only reasonable conclusion is he had and retains deeply corrupt motives for going on with the investigation and prosecution.
Again, we go to his background where we see that he had come to the end of his career trajectory and needed a way to advance. Gerald Nadler didn't just "like" him; Nadler actually suggested he be the Hezbocrats' impeachment counsel. Nadler is long time NYC congressman and Fitz gained his initial reputation throughout the 90's working in the the NYC US Attorney's office under Mary Jo White, a Reno/Clinton appointee. There's a good chance Nadler got to know him reasonably well in that position, at least well enough to recommend him as a potential impeachment counsel. Hence, it's logical to use a little historical novelist's speculation to fill in the dots and conclude that Fitz is pursuing Libby in the corrupt hope of becoming AG in a future Clinton administration.
I want to know when Fitzgerald is going to be disbarred for prosecutorial misconduct. We already know all the rest which was nothing more than a Seinfield "scandal."
" Nadler actually suggested he be the Hezbocrats' impeachment counsel. "
Another thought on the Dems love of Fitz.
By accounts from his friends-Fitzgerald could charitably be described as eccentric .
I bet the Dems felt they could easily manipulate him.
Joe Wilson told Olbermann that he met with Fitz early on in the investigation and laid out the whole scenario for him.
Fitz was either so naive and such a rube, that he bought Wilson's story- hook, line and sinker or he was willingly in the tanks for the Dems.
Fitzgerald's bizarre conduct in this witch hunt should make someone at Justice revisit and scrutinize any of his previous cases.
Wilson said he went to the State Department before he ever went to Niger to see if his trip was OK with them. So if this is correct the State Department knew about this at least Feb. 2002.
What you said.
Now why would they ever feel such a thing? Could it be because Fitz spent his entire early and mid-career in NYC under the direct supervision of Mary Jo White, aka "Mary Jo Whitewash," the Clinton/Reno US Attorney and she and the other NY Hezbocrats got to know him very well and got his number? This certainly explains, better than anything else, his bizarre and unethical conduct, especially going on with the case when he knew there was no underlying crime and concealing the entire Armitage aspect at the press conference where he announced the Libby indictment.
Yes, that is a very interesting question.
I'd assume that the media had something on them and threatened them to keep silent so the attacks on Rove could continue.
Frankly I can think of no other explanantion.
I don't recall reading that, but every USG visitor to a country must obtain country clearance from the Ambassador. The CIA would have to inform State before the fact why Wilson was going. State had to know before Wilson embarked on his trip.
My post of #24 the link is an interview of Joe Wilson done in September 2003, and he says among other things he went to the State Department to get their OK.
He also says that when he went to Langley to brief them (CIA) that State Department people were at the meeting, this was before he went to Niger. So at least CIA and the State Department knew about Joe and his mission, not sure anyone informed the White House.
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