Fitzgerald's job not done yet - From a Chicago reporter who knows

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http://www.suntimes.com/output/sweet/cst-nws-sweet29.html

<snip>Fitzgerald's job not done yet


Fitzgerald said Friday his job is not quite done. President Bush's top strategist, Karl Rove, escaped charges, but it is very premature to infer that he is in the clear.

The term of the grand jury Fitzgerald has been working with expired Friday -- he spent part of the morning saying goodbye to the jurors. Fitzgerald said it will be a routine matter for him to present evidence to another grand jury.

As much as he would like to wake up each day in Chicago, Fitzgerald said: "I will not end the investigation until I can look anyone in the eye and tell them that we have carried out our responsibility sufficiently to be sure that we've done what we could to make intelligent decisions about when to end the investigation."

The usually press-shy Fitzgerald was loquacious Friday partly because the question-and-answer session at the Justice Department headquarters was a one-time special.

Before the session, Fitzgerald spokesman Randall Samborn said whatever will be said will have to serve as the final word, since his boss did not intend further comments on the indictments.

What actually does Fitzgerald know? Obviously more than he is letting on.

When will he be finished?

"All I can tell you is as soon as we can get it done, we will."

[ray of light]

1. a must read!

Fitz’s Knuckle Ball
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2005/10/29/20254/872

[converted_democrat]

7. Wow. I pray that guy knows what he is talking about......n/t

[peacebird]

8. thanks ray of light - that was a great read!

Keeping the faith, Fitzmas day will be worth the wait!

[Garbo 2004]

12. Yes, the indictment contained some very interesting information spotted by

others as well. Cheney and Libby knew that Wilson worked in CIA Operations where the spooks are, not Intelligence where the analysts are.

Libby mentions disclosure would result in problems with the CIA. Well that could just be the release of classified info. But would that alone cause him to mention the potential problems resulting from disclosure? Maybe, maybe not.

Libby later goes on to tell Miller that Wilson worked in WINPAC which is in the Directorate of Intelligence when he already knew that she worked in CPD in the Directorate of Operations.

Faulty memory, confusion? Or just creating the "I didn't know she was a spy, I thought she was an analyst" cover for himself?

One would construe that Libby was creating an alibi to cover the fact he knew what he was doing was not merely talking about a CIA analyst or even releasing classified info, but revealing the identity of a CIA agent in Operations where the spies are. Is this alone enough to prove that he knew she was on the books as a NOC? I don't know and just on the basis of what is in the indictment, perhaps not. I would assume Fitz has looked into that.

[madrchsod]

2. anyone who follows what is going on in Illinois

on a daily basis know just actually what fitzgerald can do. he`s destroying the ryan machine and he`ll start on daley next...so many criminals, so little time.....

[stop the bleeding]

5. One good apple in a bushel of rotten ones. n/t

[Land Shark]

3. Perhaps Scooter will want to talk a little more now, problem is

he'll have to point to documents, records and emails to be believed. Though, if he wants to finger Cheney or Rove, it would be useful to see the interplay of fratricide.

[Hieronymus]

4. Thanks for this piece....

it gives me hope that I'll see Rove indicted.
Fitzgerald, :yourock:

[frogmarch]

6. Thanks

for your post. I hear some TV pundits say Fitz is probably just finishing up paperwork, but articles like this suggest otherwise. If he were doing that, I don't think he'd have said, "It's not over."

I look for something more to happen in the case. Hope it's Rove and Cheney going down!

[msongs]

9. competence times 10....hope to get more from him :-) nt

[clydefrand]

10. So how does he go about getting the truth? From the statement below

he's saying he can't determine if treason has occured because Libby is lying. Maybe Cheney should authorize "torture" to get the truth from his man. :sarcasm:




And without the "truth" from Libby, Fitzgerald, investigating who outed a CIA agent -- the wife of an Iraq war critic -- said he is not in a position to know if a "serious national security crime" has been committed.

[Dancing_Dave]

11. Bizarro World....

Fitzgerald seems not to see the forest for the trees...

And yet that might be part of his strategy...

Libby's immediate resignation seems to show that he did hit some nail right on the head. But it's taken all this time to achieve just this?

Why did he go after Libby and Miller when Miller didn't even actually publish one of the pieces which blew Valerie Plame's cover?

Is Karl Rove or Dick Cheney "Official A"?

Fitzgerald believes that he's established that Dick Cheney actually informed Scooter about Plame and Wilson. And that Plame was in the COUNTER PROLIFFERATION department of the CIA. That is, professionally interested in the Iraqi nukes issue. He's gone a bit out of his way to establish this...he must think it's important.

Very mysterious indeed...

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

13. Maybe Friday was a little Halloween treat...with more presents to come!!

Stay tuned! I, for one, can't wait?!

[ray of light]

14. Frankly the long lingering stink of these crimes needs to permeate

the air.

And in the meantime our economy is tanked.

Let a few of these "Repubiclans" lose their jobs and homes like the democrats and be 'squashed' by the Republican job ethics and lack of help, and a few will get smart stop voting Republicans.

Funny thing I've noticed is the more they make, the less inclined they are to be democratic. I wonder why...