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Patrick Fitzgerald: The steely-eyed sleuth
Washington Post ^
| Updated: 3:43 p.m. ET Oct. 24, 2005
| Peter Slevin and Carol D. Leonnig
Posted on 10/24/2005 2:18:05 PM PDT by irons_player
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Press puff piece on Fitzgerald which means bad news for the administration.
To: irons_player
You sound excited about that prospect.
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posted on
10/24/2005 2:20:12 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: irons_player
I don't think it means anything other than the press expects indictments (we already knew that)and they want to protect their new hero from attack. The reverse of the Starr treatment.
To: irons_player
Don't worry, Rove is in the clear. Any other indictments are meaningless. The lefties only care about Rove. The best part will be the investigation into the CIA roll after this.
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posted on
10/24/2005 2:22:54 PM PDT
by
frankjr
To: irons_player
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posted on
10/24/2005 2:24:36 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: irons_player
If he decides not to indict anyone, I am going to laugh my head off at the lamestream media.
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posted on
10/24/2005 2:24:48 PM PDT
by
kesg
To: irons_player; Howlin; Congressman Billybob
"Patrick Fitzgerald: The steely-eyed sleuth "
As long as he continues to support the liberal's agenda, and play their game by (potentially) prosecuting a republican, he will continue to get the liberal media's (and the democrat's/Washington insider's - but I repeat myself) loving support.
Remember how the same loving media turned oh-so-vicious and ruthless against Ken Starr for prosecuting a "democrat" who DID commit crimes in office.
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posted on
10/24/2005 2:25:12 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
To: irons_player
"He drafted a letter that nudged the witness and needled I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's chief of staff."
More like he got tired of Miller's waiver games and asked Libby too play along with her "personal" waiver gambit.
She copied Cooper's gameplan to excuse her conduct. At least with Cooper, he might have believed Rove's words "double super secret", or whatever, deserved a "special" waiver.
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posted on
10/24/2005 2:25:24 PM PDT
by
Shermy
To: irons_player
The RATS are really sucking up to this guy. I hope he disappoints them badly.
To: don'tbedenied
I don't think it means anything other than the press expects indictmentsI think two things are going on here:
1 - in the absense of leaks, the press has to write nonsense like this to keep the story going, and
2 - make all kinds of unsubstantiated allegations based on anonymous sources that damage Bush and Rove, just in case no indictments against Rove are handed down.
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posted on
10/24/2005 2:27:19 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Drool overflowed my buffer...)
To: irons_player
This article begins with a lie. Libby gave Miller a waiver so she could testify, a year before she went to jail. It was Miller's choice to ignore that waiver and refuse to testify. The bottom line is that Miller is a weird duck, as recent nasty reporting in the
New York Times has demonstrated.
It is clear that the elements to prove violation of the "protect the covert operative" statute are not present. No one is going to get indicted for that, because the crime itself never occurred. It would be like charging bank robbery against a customer who walked in, and then walked out, without taking a single penny.
The only question is whether Fitzgerald will bring charges of perjury or obstruction against anyone -- including anyone in the press, Miller not excepted. And after that question comes the one whether anyone will ever be convicted of anything.
I'm willing to wager that NO ONE will be convicted of ANYTHING. However, the way the American press works, the story is the indictment, and the trial. Guilt is absolutely irrelevant.
Congressman Billybob
Latest column: "Reporting on the 2,000th American Death in Iraq"
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posted on
10/24/2005 2:28:28 PM PDT
by
Congressman Billybob
(Quoted by Rush, again, this Thursday. Hoohah.)
To: irons_player
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posted on
10/24/2005 2:28:51 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
To: Howlin; Mo1
Chris Matthews is giddy tonight...it is sickening to watch.
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posted on
10/24/2005 2:29:12 PM PDT
by
Dog
To: Dog
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posted on
10/24/2005 2:29:55 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Congressman Billybob
What do you make of the media attacks on Judith Miller?
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posted on
10/24/2005 2:30:37 PM PDT
by
Dog
To: ozzymandus
The RATS are really sucking up to this guy.This is exactly what I thought when I read this; and I wonder why.
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posted on
10/24/2005 2:30:39 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Dog
I wonder what the MSM will say when Fitzgerald makers it clear that, as defined by the statute, Plame was never outted? Ooops, never mind?
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posted on
10/24/2005 2:31:36 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: Howlin
How the coming indictments will hurt Bush....the normal stuff....they finally think they have Bush on the ropes.
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posted on
10/24/2005 2:31:50 PM PDT
by
Dog
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
It's almost like the press is BEGGING Fitzgerald through words and columns to deliver to them what they believe they so richly deserve.
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posted on
10/24/2005 2:31:54 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Dog
Thanks for the warning; now I don't have to watch at 7.
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posted on
10/24/2005 2:32:41 PM PDT
by
Howlin
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