Fitzgerald Again Points to Cheney

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Washington Post

Special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald has made it clearer than ever that he was hot on the trail of a coordinated campaign to out CIA agent Valerie Plame until that line of investigation was cut off by the repeated lies from Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

Libby was convicted in February of perjury and obstruction of justice. Fitzgerald filed a memo on Friday asking U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton, who will sentence Libby next week, to put him in prison for at least two and a half years.

Despite all the public interest in the case, Fitzgerald has repeatedly asserted that grand-jury secrecy rules prohibit him from being more forthcoming about either the course of his investigation or any findings beyond those he disclosed to make the case against Libby. But when his motives have been attacked during court proceedings, Fitzgerald has occasionally shown flashes of anger -- and has hinted that he and his investigative team suspected more malfeasance at higher levels of government than they were able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.

In Friday's eminently readable court filing, Fitzgerald quotes the Libby defense calling his prosecution "unwarranted, unjust, and motivated by politics." In responding to that charge, the special counsel evidently felt obliged to put Libby's crime in context. And that context is Dick Cheney.



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[RevCheesehead]

1. Some day, Patrick...

you'll get your chance to nail him but good. :grr:

[Grandrose]

2. K&R

:kick: and recommend.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King Jr.

[durtee librul]

3. 2 and a half years?

I think not, lil boots will pardon him and they will all ride happily into the sunset in Paraguay.

[Kikosexy2]

5. May their plane load of...

Bushies and Cheneys and their evil minions explode on the way to Paraguay...such evil Mofos need to meet their maker...Satan!

[lovuian]

4. I wonder if the emails will be brought up in Libby's Appeal

I hope he is put in jail but others should have gone with him

Fitz isn't done yet

[NastyRiffraff]

6. It'll be interesting to see how this unfolds

Fitz hinted early and often of his belief that Cheney was behind all this. Given Libby's lies, it was impossible to prove at the level of a jury verdict. But it's not unusual in big cases like this to revisit; often it was done in mob cases. I have a feeling we're in for quite a ride.