Posted on 06/21/2007 9:19:50 PM PDT by gpapa
Mike Nifong is punished, but Patrick Fitzgerald isn't.
This week the Duke-Nifong drama oozed to its finale, with a payout to the victims, a confidentiality agreement, the usual salutes to the healing process, and plans on the part of the principals to begin putting the case behind them. Missing from these declamations was the core reality that had brought this day to pass. No one expected participants in this peace-and-resolution ceremony to find a moment to recall the rightful fury and amazement this case engendered across the nation and outside of it--but such a moment would not have been out of place.
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George Bush is standing there bleeding in front of sharks. If he doesn’t pardon Libby and soon, he’s gonna get impeached, and republicans are going to sit there and laugh.
If it happens, I won't laugh...
...but I will not lift a finger, or raise my voice, to protest, either.
One of the VW-driving moonbats here has a 01-19-09 ( I *think*-- whatever the date he leaves office is, anyway... ) bumper sticker, and God help me, I find myself agreeing with her...
George Bush is standing there bleeding in front of sharks. If he doesn’t pardon Libby and soon, he’s gonna get impeached, and republicans are going to sit there and laugh.
jorge bush no longer gets any support from this conservative....let him get his support from his illegal mexican constituency/fat ted kennedy/the no cajone republicans...he supports them and not the voters who put him there or the taxpayers footing the bills!!!!
Democrats are outraged at this? Who knew?
Me too. His full-court unprincipled base-defying support of shamnesty was the last straw.
“George Bush is standing there bleeding in front of sharks.”
This is getting embarrassing. If Libby is so innocent, which I believe he is, he will win his appeal and be found “not guilty”. He should have his record cleared totally and you people demanding Bush pardon the guy are oblivious to the process which will set this whole matter right. sheesh!
What happened in the Nifong case is the way this will go also, if people would just be patient and allow the process.
Justice will prevail.
But, but, they want the President to do what THEY want him to do RIGHT NOW, or he’ll NEVER get their vote again, dad gummit!
It is no less hard to avoid the memory of Mr. Fitzgerald's own dubious relation to truth and honesty--as, for example, in his failure to disclose that he had known all along the identity of the person who had leaked the Valerie Plame story. That person, he knew, was Richard Armitage, deputy to Colin Powell. Not only had he concealed this knowledge--in what was, supposedly all that time, a quest to discover the criminals responsible for the leak of a covert agent's name--he had instructed both Mr. Armitage and his superior, Colin Powell, in whom Mr. Armitage had confided, not to reveal the truth.Were Fitzgerald and Nifong separated at birth?Special prosecutor Fitzgerald did, of course, have a duty to keep his investigation secret during grand jury proceedings, according to the rules. He did not have the power to order witnesses at those proceedings not to disclose their testimony or tell what they knew. Instead, Mr. Fitzgerald requested Messrs. Armitage and Powell to keep quiet about the leaker's identity--a request they understandably treated as an order. Why the prosecutor sought this secrecy can be no mystery--it was the way to keep the grand jury proceedings going, on a fishing expedition, that could yield witnesses who stumbled, or were entrapped, into "obstruction" or "lying" violations. It was its own testament to the nature of this prosecution--and the prosecutor.
Scooter ~~ PING !
This is a great article!
Hi Bah .. it is. Dorothy Rabinowitz is a brilliant thinker and writer.
Yes, she is. She caught my attention during the insane child care facility cases. She is excellent.
I know the case well .. Grant Snowden. My son was babysat by the wife who falsely accused him .. sick case .. ruined life, and thank you, Janet “Swampwoman” Reno.
The other potentially powerful issue relates to Mr. Fitzgerald. The Special Prosecutor was given, on his appointment (by his long-time friend, acting Attorney General James Comey) a remarkable freedom from accountability to any higher authority or Justice Department standards.
This unique freedom was made explicit in his appointment letter. Such unparalleled lack of control, the appeal will argue, is a violation of the principle of checks and balances."
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