Frank Probst says:

July 17th, 2006 at 8:41 am

ppirt says:
July 17th, 2006 at 7:24 am
53 – Greg says
July 17th, 2006 at 7:14 am

The left blogosphere has put way too much faith in Fitgerald from the start. The good news is everyone can stop using “Fitz” to start each thread.

i agree w/ greg . . . IMO : fitz = good gop actor. hit his mark, said his lines and now will cash the checks! sad!

i would, of course, love to be proved wrong . . .
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I disagree. I don’t necessarily think Fitz is going to save the world, but if you think he’s a Republican actor, you need to go back and look at the timeline. Remember, his investigation has been going on since well before the 2004 election. A Republican actor would have investigated for six months and then held a press conference to say that reporters weren’t co-operating with him, so he had to shut his investigation down. There would have been a big stink about how the First Amendment was protecting leakers who were damaging our national security. Rove would have made it a rallying cry right before the election. “The ACLU and The New York Times just want to protect the rights of terrorists!”

But that isn’t what happened. JudyJudyJudy spent 2 1/2 months in the clink. We now know that Rove and Libby were leakers. Cheney looks even more evil than before. And a high-level White House aide has been indicted on five felony charges. That’s not a Rove-approved storyline.

There’s more. Fitz said that he was just about wrapped up back in October 2004, but needed Judy and Cooper’s testimony to make his charging decision.

It was Judy who pushed it back past the election. Fitz then OUTED HIMSELF by saying that he would have been able to wrap up, but for Judy’s stupid lawsuit. Fitz put the Admin on notice that he was not playing ball.

The thing that has always confused me though is this, Floyd Abrams is supposed to be this lefty 1st Ammendment guy, right? You’d think he would want Kerry to win.

Yet, Abrams brings a suit on a theory, which even if the court bought it, still would not have exempted Judy from testifying. The only thing that would have gotten Judy off the hook was the court finding that reporters enjoy an absolute privledge with no exceptions, which even in his wildest dreams Abrams did not have a reason to think would happen.

He knew he was just wasting time. And not doing his client one bit of good, so why did he do it? I have been a Floyd Abrams fan since law school, I just don’t understand what happened there

Fitz can’t write a report in his own name, but there is a thing called a “Grand Jury Report” that the GJ votes on just like they vote on an indictment.

he was making a distiction with the kind of report Starr wrote, which Fitz is clearly not empowered to do

>>The left blogosphere has put way too much faith in Fitgerald from the start. The good news is everyone can stop using “Fitz” to start each thread.

I also can’t seem to shake the religious aspect, especially with Newty popping out with his apocalyptic mutterings so quickly – which also would explain the US’s apparent lack of interest; are they all just waiting for the call home?

Just thinking these things makes me feel as crazy as I think these clowns are…

The left blogosphere has put way too much faith in Fitgerald from the start. The good news is everyone can stop using “Fitz” to start each thread.

i agree w/ greg . . . IMO : fitz = good gop actor. hit his mark, said his lines and now will cash the checks! sad!

i would, of course, love to be proved wrong . . .
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I disagree. I don’t necessarily think Fitz is going to save the world, but if you think he’s a Republican actor, you need to go back and look at the timeline. Remember, his investigation has been going on since well before the 2004 election. A Republican actor would have investigated for six months and then held a press conference to say that reporters weren’t co-operating with him, so he had to shut his investigation down. There would have been a big stink about how the First Amendment was protecting leakers who were damaging our national security. Rove would have made it a rallying cry right before the election. “The ACLU and The New York Times just want to protect the rights of terrorists!”

But that isn’t what happened. JudyJudyJudy spent 2 1/2 months in the clink. We now know that Rove and Libby were leakers. Cheney looks even more evil than before. And a high-level White House aide has been indicted on five felony charges. That’s not a Rove-approved storyline.

19 year old moving from Haifa to Jerusalem. Why?