Fitzgerald Sees New Grand Jury Proceedings
Just when you thought that Patrick Fitzgerald had been embarassed enough to go back to Chicago, you read a Reuters headline that reports the exact opposite.
In filings obtained by Reuters on Friday, Fitzgerald said “the investigation is continuing” and that “the investigation will involve proceedings before a different grand jury than the grand jury which returned the indictment” against Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
You’d think that he would’ve learned from his national embarassment that this isn’t the place for inept investigators and sloppy prosecutors. But he didn’t so here we go again.
In a related Reuters story, John Solomon reports (H/T Drudge) that “Vice President Dick Cheney is not the unidentified source who told Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward about the CIA status of the wife of Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson, a person familiar with the investigation said Thursday.
The vice president did not talk with Woodward on the day in question, did not provide the information that’s been reported in Woodward’s notes and has not had any conversations over the past several weeks about any release for allowing Woodward to testify, said the person, speaking on condition of anonymity.
This is looking more and more like a political witch hunt than an impartial investigation. Way back when, Fitzgerald was put in charge with investigating whether the Bush administration had outed Valerie Plame-Wilson. It’s been clearly established that that didn’t happen. If it had, he would’ve indicted someone for doing that.
Further, let’s remember that no less an authority in government cover-ups than Bob Woodward has essentially said that this is much ado about nothing. Let it go, Mr. Fitzgerald. Drop the charges on Mr. Libby and go home already.
Cross-posted at ConfirmationWhoppers
November 19th, 2005 at 10:46 am
Woodward apologizes on leak
Washington Post editor Bob Woodward on Wednesday apologized to his executive editor at the paper for