Posted on 07/08/2007 10:36:02 PM PDT by FreedomCalls
Fitzy? You got some 'splainin' to do.
So Armitage wanted it out in public. Fritz you got some explaining to do.
From the man who cost the tax payers millions, made the Wilsons rich and mayhave cost the Republicans votes in 2006. No thanks Novak.
This sanctimonious blather is just one more aspect of this over-the-hill- putrid piece of dung covering his six, and, of course, distancing himself from harm’s way!
How I despise these political hacks. Novak would sell his mother for a thin dime — and not blink an eye in the transaction.
Senator Leahy is hinting that the may call him to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Fitzgerald May Testify on Prosecution of Libby Case, Leahy Says
By John Hughes
July 8 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald may be called to testify about his prosecution of former vice presidential aide Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said.Leahy and Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on the panel, indicated they want to ... quiz Fitzgerald on his handling of the case.
``I still haven't figured out what that case is all about,'' Specter said. ``There are a lot of ramifications that I think we ought to go into. Why were they pursuing the matter long after there was no underlying crime on the outing of the CIA agent? Why were they pursuing it after we knew who the leaker was?''
Always saw Novak as a joke-pushed on us by CNN who wanted a Thurston Howell the 3rd type to push the “out of touch” rich country club republican stereotype. It went well with the “golly gee willikers” bow tie whitebread boy. What a combo.
ONG--you mean me and Arlen Specter agree on something? And he's NOT attacking a Republican?
(grasping chest) This is the big one, 'Lizabeth! I'm comin' ta join ya, honey!
Yep, Novak is scum, and so is Armitage.
Amen. Novack could barely get a sentence out that didn’t sound like the blathering of a rich country club Republican, and Carlson was a spineless jellyfish whose voice cracked when he managed to say anything with any kind of substance. The audience was usually laughing at them.
The Republicans blew their chance to subpoena Valerie and Joe to appear before a congressional committee and explain, under OATH, their various roles in the Niger affair.
If Plame were indeed a ‘covert agent’ of the CIA, her testimony would have been limited to her role in getting her husband, Joe Wilson, the job nomination to go to Niger.
(The CIA would have requested that no questions about her covert position be raised or mentioned, and the committee would probably have agreed to it). Apparently they didn’t.
However, no one knows WHEN Plame was a ‘cover operative’ or “agent”, and there is a great deal of significance in the difference betweent them.
Joe Wilson would have lied under OATH about who suggested him for his trip for the CIA, etc., and he would have gone to jail, but the Republicans, trying to be gentlemen in a whorehouse fight, missed their best chance to explode the lies that the Wilsons perpetrated, aided and abetted by the Democrats. Stupid is as stupid does.
Fitzgerald might be found guilty of malicious prosecution because he knew that Armitage, not Libby, revealed Plame’s name as a CIA employee, and failed to tell the grand jury about it (the grand jury would probably NOT have indicted Libby if they had known this). This is a crime by Fitz and he should pay for it (i.e. Nifong did the same thing in the Duke case, and see what was done to him).
Armitage should have had the guts to stand up like a man and say that he was the one who mentioned Plame’s name, not Libby. He is a coward!
If any congressional republicans have any remaining guts, they will raise the Fitzgerald and Plame/Wilson issues in upcoming congressional hearings and DEMAND that they be put under OATH to answer for their actions.
Gee, lunatic secrets leaker Sen. Leahy is doing that to White House staff right now, so why not demand the same rights of hearings and questioning of the Wilson crew and Fittzy?)
If you want to play in the big leagues, you’ve got to play to win. The Republicans have lost their desire to win, only to survive. Whimps, whusses, and losers.
I hope that Fred Thompson has the guts to raise the Plame/Wilson and Fitzgerald acts of misconduct and lying in his presidential campaign, and the COVERUP by the Democrats in their congressional hearings and press conferences.
Take no prisoners!!
Spector is actually having a moment of clarity and sanity? Say it’s true. I don’t know if I can stand “the big one” (a la Red Foxx).
Did this wimpy Republican senator get a cochanes transplant over the weekend?
As far as I know, Novak has always been a Democrat.
Fitzgerald = Nifong. Malicious prosecution.
Indeed, during the primary season, if Thompson brings up this issue, with his background, it can solidify party support. Libby is so obviously a victim here, not only of Fitzy but from jurors who openly admitted they really wanted to see Cheney or Bush prosecuted.
I wish i knew why the Republicans didn't call Plame and Wilson. That the Democrats didn't shows they know they're not all the media have made them out to be, and would hurt rather than help their 'Bush lied" cause.
The fact that Armitage was not prosecuted pretty much proves that she was NOT a covert op.
That's right. "Republican" Tom Davis, who was Chairman of the House Oversight Committee before the Dems took over, couldn't be bothered to compel the Wilsons to tell the truth under oath. He also couldn't be bothered to get around to why Sandy Berger was able to walk around free until he was a lame duck. The lazy bum didn't even stick around in April to counter current chairpig Henry Waxman when he accused Victoria Toensing of lying under oath.
Wilson’s report admits that the Iraqi’s had contact the Africans to try to obtain additional yellow cake. {They had obtained a lot of yellow cake from them previously. Now was that yellow cake obtained via legal means?}
Wilson’s main thrust of his report was to emphasize that there was no CONTRACT made between the two governments. Perhaps they used some other word for it, or had a cut out agent so that each dealt with a third party - Wilson for example.
Did Wilson ever try to contact the White House - or did he just instead complain in the press.
And isn’t that unusual for the press to give him that much space for an unproven claim on his part?
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