The American people were told three years ago that an investigation was being set up to do one thing, find out the names of the 2 Bush administration officials who were the sources for a newspaper article by Bob Novak that revealed the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative.
We now know that Rove was one of the sources - end of story. He should have been charged.
Does the Bush administration really think that the public will not remember what they were told when this investigation was set up?
How Rove got Fitzgerald to fold and let him off is anybody's guess. Maybe Rove used his usual dirty tricks and dug deep enough to find some intimidating tale in the special prosecutor's lily-white past.
Few among us are without any skeletons and what better thug to find them than Karl Rove. That's his well-documented specialty.
I heard some talking head on TV say Democrats should apologize to Rove. For what? He was the guy we knew did it when the investigation began and he was the guy fingered in the investigation as a Novak source.
Bush should be apologizing to the CIA, to Ms Plame, and to the American taxpayers.
John Dean said this White House is worse than Nixon and Watergate and he is right. This White House is worse than Nixon not only because they play dirtier than Nixon, but because no matter what it does no one will hold it accountable. This administration makes Nixon look like a saint.
As a taxpayer, I want my money back. Not only for this charade of an investigation but also I want my share of the money spent on supporting Valerie Plame's cover for 18 years in the CIA that was flushed down the toilet by top administration officials including the 2 worst thugs at the top.
The special prosecutor has not named the second source for Novak's column. I predict that in the end, we will find out that it was Bush or Cheney.
Since Bush took office, just because he has never had to balance a check book in his life, he throws around our tax dollars like a drunken sailor, without drawing a peep about his spending habits from the mainstream press.
Bush knew it was Rove all the long while he allowed this costly cat and mouse game to continue. Bush knew he and Cheney were involved from the get-go.
To think that tens of millions of dollars have gone up in smoke is not acceptable and the media needs to start reporting on how the hard earned money of working Americans is being wasted.
The Karl Rove case is just the latest example of six years of investigations that do nothing more than prove what we knew to begin with, while the crooks walk away unscathed in plain sight.
How much money has been wasted investigating Halliburton since the war began, only to find that the company got the contracts illegally through Cheney, ripped us off left right and center in Iraq, and was guilty as charged every single time and then let off the hook?
How much money was spent investigating the lies by Bush administration officials to Congress about the cost of the prescription drug bill only to determine the parties were guilty as sin, at a cost to tax payers of $130 billion more than expected, and then let off the hook because the lead crook had already went out the revolving door of the White House to work for the drug companies?
Talked to a favorite tout at Chicago's Maywood Park Harness Track last year about the odds on Karl Rove being indicted by "local" US Attorney Pat Fitzgerald. He gave me a rather Runyonesque answer: "The biggest scumbags get old Chicago prosecutors to be their defense attorneys" he said. "Crooks around here know their best defense is that "it takes one to know one." All I could do was shake my head and move the conversation toward the next race.
There's been not a breath of life in the Rove/Plame/Wilson "Affair" since day last October, if then. When Bob Woodward came forword to anoint obstruction of justice as "journalism," I knew the fix was in.
Dems also knew that the "fix" has been in since the Justice Dept. "gamed" the system by appointing Pat Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald -- after all -- made a reputation by helping to put Wise Guys like John Gotti and "The Dog's Hind Leg" of The Land of Lincoln -- George "Horse's Ass" Ryan -- in Federal prison. Ryan was racketeering so brazenly he was literally "selling" transplant organs by the time the Feds dropped the hammer on him.
Still...what makes people think Fitzgerald is not what his past says he should be? He's been a loyal Republican who got the job as US Attorney for Northern Illinois after being nominated by a Republican in the Illinois Senate. He was chosen by the Bush White House precisely because the GOP was in such shit shape in Illinois that the Repugnicans needed a man they could trust.
Impeccibly.
I.E., A man who wasn't from Chicagoland -- or even Illinois. A US Attorney who'd come into the job with a few degrees of separation. That was the advantage the GOP needed once the Feds wrapped up the case against Ryan and his cronies. No outright appearance of partisanship on the GOP's part was necessary; besides, "Fitzy" would know when to stop. The guy worked for Rudy Guiliani for Christ's sake! Fitzgerald worked for a great teacher with the know-how to stop Federal probes of various insundry GOP money changers on a thin dime -- well before a litany of massive corruption cases could bring down the entire GOP.
Fitzgerald is your "rainy day Republican." I don't doubt that he has integrity and has a justified reputation for doing excellent prosecutatory work. But he's also had ties to The Federalist Society -- and that tobacco, auto, insurance and anti-environmental lobby conglomerate known as the Heartland Society. These folks are agents provacateur with convoluted "junk science" reasoning, ideological appointments, and setting up bogus "greenbelt" organizations as fronts to neutralize the EPA. It's one big lobby where "the enemy is regulation."
I'm not cynical enough to claim that Fitzgerald may be a "mole" in the Federal justice system -- anointed by Federalists who make sure judgeships and Federal prosecutors stay right-wing by occasionally fronting an honest man. But many things DO point in that direction. Certainly it's not unethical to be someone who earned the public's trust by going after "bad guys." And giving the appearance of non-patisanship by making sure that Republicans the party could no longer afford were put away. Fitzgerald could be counted on to do the dirty work with the least amount of fallout or political "blowback." He's just a guy doing his -- albeit slightly partisan -- job. "Partisan" -- as in -- he could even be a Democrat!
That's why I think Fitzgerald was legally "sheep-dipped" for use in the Plame leak investigation. The investigation may still be "on-going" BUT it will never get past the perjury and obstruction of justice stage. If it does, the Busheviks and the rest of the GOP have a loyalist in place they know won't be opening damning sealed indictments until after the November elections.
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lindbergh (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 20 comments)
on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 5:30:44 PM
Evelyn Pringle...Don`t be so Quick to Throw in the Towel". The Fight is not over yet. Have you heard Fitzgerald Make any sort of announcement to that effect ? I haven`t. I too, am Quite Dismayed to learn Rove has not been indicted. I was sure he would have been indicted Long ago..because he is Guiltier than " Homemade Sin," And we all Know this...Just as The good Prosecutor does. BUT I prefer to believe J. F. has bigger fish to fry than Rove. And That Rove has "Rolled over'. He would do Anything ( Maybe sell his GrandMother down the River ( If she`s still around ) and If it would Keep his Pudgy little Butt out of Prison with all the other BAD-Boys just like him ! It is a While now until After the November Primaries ...And when that is behind us, we can better plan ahead.. Didn't John Fitzgerald make it pretty clear 2 months back...that He was not planning on Moving ahead on his Prosecutional Actions until After the First OF January ??? I expect he will be keeping an even 'lower profile' than he has been doing all of these months in the interim. Don`t you know he is a very Smart Strategist Prosecutor ? As for whether he is a true Republican or a Devoted Democrat, What difference does it make ? From all that has been coming out of the Congress and the White House ... There isn`t much discernable difference between the TWo parties..After all, hasn`t there been Quite a lot of Switcheroos going on between the Parties ? THAT is something we Must FIX , come November ! Vote Mostly All new Candidates...Those who haven`t become "GrandFathered in !( Now wouldn`t that be refreshing ??) So, Hang in there, Evelyn...There is HOPE yet..that This Rat Rove has Jumped Ship Big Time... And J.F. will get them all in one big fell swoop !! Let`s work harder and Pray more fervently. Most Sincerely, VedagFlick
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VGFlick (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 76 comments)
on Thursday, June 15, 2006 at 1:26:08 AM
