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Patrick Fitzgerald Does a Star Tour as Captain Queeg
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| 28 October 2005
| John Armor (Congressman Billybob)
Posted on 10/28/2005 1:05:49 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob
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My take. Do those of you who forced yourself to watch this end to end, have a similar reaction?
John / Billybob
To: Congressman Billybob
I listened to it on the radio, and you seem right on with your interpretation. CAPT Queeg...HA!
Excellent take on this.
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posted on
10/28/2005 1:09:13 PM PDT
by
tongue-tied
(stands alone)
To: Congressman Billybob
Fitzgerald showed one thing he is a primadonna. Waiting after two years to the last day to issue a weak indictment, knowing the press was all over it. Libby last testified I think over a month ago, he could have indicted him on perjury then. He strung this out and now wants to continue the investigation. I think Fitzs likes the spotlight
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posted on
10/28/2005 1:11:39 PM PDT
by
jbwbubba
To: Congressman Billybob
After all the puff pieces no Fitzgerald over the past few weeks I expected much more than was delievered during the press conference today.
This guy sounded like a moron.
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posted on
10/28/2005 1:11:39 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(What, me worry?)
To: Congressman Billybob
If the quality of Fitzgerald's investigative skills is as poor as his ability to articulate his rationale for issuing this indictment, Scooter and his counsel should have little difficulty putting forth a successful defense.
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posted on
10/28/2005 1:11:52 PM PDT
by
Jim Hill
To: Congressman Billybob
I just listened to him on the radio and I have a similar take on this. It seems this guy does not get the big picture at all. He is the kind of person who sees trees, but has no concept of the forest. I can't make any sense out of the contradiction between disclosing Plame's "classified" employment status and yet having no indictment for violation of the statute that makes crime of outing a covert agent.
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posted on
10/28/2005 1:11:54 PM PDT
by
TSchmereL
("Rust but terrify.")
To: Congressman Billybob
Fitzgerald had everything except the strawberries, and the ball bearingsNo marbles, either, he seems to have lost his as well.
I think there is some Captain Ahab in this story as well - Fitz has fixated on minutiae about what Libby said about what Libby had said in the past, while downplaying what this story was all about in the first place. I sure hope no judge will give him another grand jury. Any guesses on that, from what you have seen so far with the indictment and Fitz's ramblings?
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posted on
10/28/2005 1:12:23 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Drool overflowed my buffer...)
To: Congressman Billybob
Again and again, Mr. Fitzgerald said that it was vital that he and his Grand Jury should get to the end of the process with a clear understanding of all of the facts. Yet, again and again, he replied to reporters questions by saying that he had not reached a conclusion about central facts of the matter concerning either Valerie Plame or Joe Wilson. The prosecution's talking points are that the obstruction was so serious, and the lies so pervasive, that he spent 2 years just trying to establish where the lies were coming from.
Anyway, expect those arguments, or some such, to be reported through the blogosphere.
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posted on
10/28/2005 1:12:30 PM PDT
by
podkane
To: Congressman Billybob
Obviously there is something wrong.
Fitzgerald is tasked with finding out who exposed the
CIA Agent. Now he is off in cloud cuckoo land.
At the rate he is dithering around in Chicago we will
all be dead before he finishing studying the truckloads
of material he carted out of Chicago City Hall.
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posted on
10/28/2005 1:13:34 PM PDT
by
Hans
Comment #10 Removed by Moderator
To: maica
Fitzgerald seems to be a similar person. He is wound far too tight. He is obsessing about a few conversations with reporters (where it might be the reporters, not Scooter Libby, who are either lying or maybe just poorly remembering what happened years ago). At the same time, Fitzgerald is deliberately ignoring the larger fact that a war is going on, and must be won. It was just like Captain Queeg.
Captain Queeg is an apt analogy.
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posted on
10/28/2005 1:14:08 PM PDT
by
maica
(We are fighting the War for the Free World --Frank Gaffney)
To: jbwbubba
"prima donna"
That condescending crap about the importance of his own mission was nauseating.
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posted on
10/28/2005 1:14:11 PM PDT
by
TSchmereL
("Rust but terrify.")
To: Congressman Billybob
I liked the part when Fitzgerald said that Libby was trying to poison his precious bodily fluids...
To: Congressman Billybob
He was definitely stressed. I was wondering if that was a cyst between his eyebrows or if he has had skin breakouts due to all the tension.
The fact that I was musing about his skin condition may indicate that he was repetitive, defensive and confusing.
Frankly, I think he just had to indict someone and lying to the FBI and the GJ was all he had. Libby may have just screwed up. It appears the fibbies asked questions to which they already had answers (how Libby discovered Plame's status). For a bright man like Libby who has long been a political player, this is beyond dumb, IMO.
That said, I believe any good defense attorney can get this reduced, if not dismissed. It sure seems quite thin.
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posted on
10/28/2005 1:15:09 PM PDT
by
reformedliberal
(Bless our troops and pray for our nation.)
To: Jim Hill
Scooter and his counsel should have little difficulty putting forth a successful defense. Fitz claims early on that it wasn't common knowledge outside the intel community that Plame was CIA.
If this goes to trial (and I doubt it will), Fitz's lawyers will have a field day putting people on the stand who can say otherwise.
And, in the process, could well take questioning where Fitz was unwilling to take it. Imagine a laywer putting Miller or Cooper or Russert on the stand, asking whether they knew about Plame's CIA status beforehand, and then asking them how they knew.
Goldmine. Fitz really screwed up putting that in the indictment - but if he hadn't, his false statement and perjury charges would have unravelled.
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posted on
10/28/2005 1:15:18 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Drool overflowed my buffer...)
To: Congressman Billybob
Did anyone ask him who first leaked to Novak?
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posted on
10/28/2005 1:16:09 PM PDT
by
Shermy
To: Congressman Billybob
Fitzgerald seemed honest enough, if he is correct, Libby lied to a grand jury. Duh....prosecute. This is a whole lot of zero. In two weeks this will have as much impact as that b@tch in the ditch in Texas.......yawn. Two years of tax payer money.....for nothing.
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posted on
10/28/2005 1:17:06 PM PDT
by
Decepticon
(The sheep pretend the wolf will never come, but the sheepdog lives for that day (NRA)
To: Congressman Billybob
How much taxpayer money is this Fitzgerald guy willing to
waste on this bul$$$it??
To: Congressman Billybob
My reaction is that I wish Fitzgerald would do the same rectal exam on everyone in Washington.
Then I think we might get the smaller govt. we need as 80% of people there would have to resign their jobs.
I want Fitz to keep on going except that the targets should be drawn out of a hat instead of targeting the Bush admin.
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posted on
10/28/2005 1:17:45 PM PDT
by
staytrue
To: Congressman Billybob
I totally agree with your analysis. I thought he sounded simple throughout the press conference. His baseball analogy was silly and rambling. He also said,"..no one would have had to went to jail..." Unbelievable! and from someone who is being held up as this brilliant prosecutor!
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posted on
10/28/2005 1:18:21 PM PDT
by
luv2ski
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