Sep 19 2006
Feldman Batters Fitzgerald
Clarice Feldman has made good on her promise to demand an investigation into Patrick Fitzgerald’s professional conduct (lack therein) regarding his misleading and misguided antics to grasp for some fault at the WH for what is clearly been a leak by CIA and State Department officials regarding Valerie Plame’s classified and covert activities at the CIA. I add my voice to hers and specifically:
(1) Fitzgerald should explain why he did not investigate all the people who learned of Valerie Plame from Richard Armitage first hand (e.g., Woodward) and second hand (e.g., Pincus via Woodward) to fully understand the scope of the leaking at State.
(2) Fitzgerald should explain who leaked Valerie’s covert activities at the CIA to David Corn (who exposed many more critical and classified details than Novak ever did).
(3) Fitzgerald should explain why he did not investigate all the leaks that came from Joe and Valerie Wilson to the media and the public (e.g., the EPIC convention on June 14th, before Scooter Libby ever met with Judith Miller).
(4) Fitzgerald needs to expain why he is bringing perjury charges against Libby for testifying he spoke (i.e., leaked information) to Tim Russert when Russert and Fitzgerald assume this never happened. In other words how can somebody be committing perjury to cover a possible crime by admitting to something possibly criminal that never happened?
(5) Fitzgerald needs to be investigated for misleading the US Court of Appeals and US Supreme Court in filings (and presumably oral arguments) regarding the status of his investigation when it was clear he knew who leaked the information about Plame to Novak.
The probable negligence, prosecutorial misuse of power and downright lies form Fitzgerald over the years is one for the history books. If the DoJ wants to retain professional credibility with the people of this country, then an investigation is warranted. He may have reasonable excuses for his actions, but they pale in comparison to what we have learned about the Plame Non-Scandal.
More Fitzgerald bashing here.
Thanks, honey. I do not want to discourage anyone from writing in to the OPR.
I say keep the heat on Fitzgerald !!
Can hardly wait for the Libby trial to begin to expose Fitzgerald’s incompetence and to really blow the lid off this whole charade !!
Let the parade of witnesses begin …..Armitage, Wilson, Plame, Russert, Woodward, Novak, Miller, Mitchell, Pincus, Corn, Kristoff, Grossman …….lets hear the TRUTH for a change !!
No pardon for Libby ……..he deserves to be acquitted !!
Clarice
You hit it running on all cylinders! Great submission.
Picture me bowing to the waist to the lady, in appreciation.
One thing to me about this whole situation from the start is that even if you conceeded that Val was a protected covert agent or a NOC, the CIA would have been having heart attacks as to the impact of Joe going out running his game. I don’t think you would be seeing her and Joe being so smiley and huggy kissy if this were the case.
Thanks. If anyone leaked “classified”info it wasn’t Libby. Perhaps someone should ask Pincus and Kristof and Corn etc where they got all that detailed info about a classified trip, aluminum tubes, etc etc.
Clarice
We all have been working with one hand tied behind our back from the beginning. We have been feed so much wheat and chaff info that it is a blur. To shake anything out of all that has to be considered an accomplishment.
I have been just for fun reading the SSCI II report to observe the pitch.
Like many others , I consider it a foul ball.
If this can get out of the Senate as an approved document of factual content from the committee that is most briefed on our security efforts and concerns, it should not be greated as a revelation of oppinion more than a scarry effort of clouding the issue.
I understand politics, but even that can’t justify this effort.
To me , the only competent investigations we have had in our country over the recent past are Space Shuttle Tragedy investigations that really searched out the answers to the causes and contributing factors.
If only we could meet the same standards on all investigations. But sadly that does not seem to be in the cards.
Clarice,
This is GREAT!! I cannot, in any way, imagine what is keeping the DOJ from proceeding with this investigation and so many others which we have been told are in the works.
Any way, thank you.
Carol
Home run, Clarice!
Thank you all.
Clarice is always great I have enjoyed all her articles.
I do not expect anything valuable from the senate. This body is an exclusive club where you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. The republicans in the senate say they can’t get anything done without help from the dems. This is hogwash. For the last five years at least the senate have been nothing but obstructive. They have the attitude that they are vastly more important than the house. The senate might possibly take up this Fitzgerald matter, but it will be so mealy-mouthed it will accomplish nothing and will be so ambiguous that everything (like everything else they put out) will not be clear.
We need to go back to the states selecting the senators and make the states pay for the senate’s royal entourages. That might cut out the idea that they are so important.
Well, if the question is what did the Dems on the Senate Judiciary Committee know and when did they know it, they’d seem to have a conflict on this investigation. Maybe they ought to appoint a special prosecutor to invetigate themselves. LOL
Clarice
They won’t do that. The press is not demanding it .
See the Anchoress today–she says they have been trying to kill the story since it collapsed in their hands.